<story><title>Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now</title><url>https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/9/8/home-studio-recording-costs-compared-1980s-and-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it.&lt;p&gt;I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got Scream Tracker on with its included samples plus whatever I could rip from a few .MODs I could get my hands on had to do. There were four tracks. There were a hundred samples, half of which was obscure crap (and even those found their use).&lt;p&gt;Building with it and making them sound awesome, plus discovering the amazing tricks the OGs of tracker &amp;amp; demo culture did with their editors (sliding and bending notes! dead stops in the middle of the sample!) was endless fun.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&amp;#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&amp;#x27;s still better than the one I&amp;#x27;m using right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&amp;gt; Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&amp;#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&amp;#x27;s still better than the one I&amp;#x27;m using right now.&lt;p&gt;It may be you&amp;#x27;re accidentally veering away from &amp;quot;music&amp;quot; into the realm of &amp;quot;sound effects.&amp;quot; Many audio software environments too easily lets you drift in that direction. (Although I&amp;#x27;d argue that&amp;#x27;s still better than drifting into the direction of becoming an audio software environment programmer. :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now</title><url>https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/9/8/home-studio-recording-costs-compared-1980s-and-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it.&lt;p&gt;I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got Scream Tracker on with its included samples plus whatever I could rip from a few .MODs I could get my hands on had to do. There were four tracks. There were a hundred samples, half of which was obscure crap (and even those found their use).&lt;p&gt;Building with it and making them sound awesome, plus discovering the amazing tricks the OGs of tracker &amp;amp; demo culture did with their editors (sliding and bending notes! dead stops in the middle of the sample!) was endless fun.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&amp;#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&amp;#x27;s still better than the one I&amp;#x27;m using right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rorykoehler</author><text>&amp;gt;Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&amp;#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&amp;#x27;s still better than the one I&amp;#x27;m using right now.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why I never start a track without a finished idea in my head. I used to noodle and would get lost in the rabbit warren.</text></comment>