As another commenter alluded to , and as dumb as this sounds when you have a bunch of gear , I think you have to find a way to fall back in love with the process . If you come home every day thinking not this again , this is a lot of unrewarding work then you won ' t find the time to do it . A big revelation for me recently was to abandon the idea that what I was recording or writing in the computer had to be relevant to song I was currently writing . I ' m moving away from having a purpose , to having absolutely no purpose and just jammingtwisting knobsdoing random shit just to get an interesting noise or phrase out of the things I have and I ' m always recording it all . That way I can simply go back and sample or edit the parts I find interesting and find a purpose for them later . This moves you away from working with expectations which you ' ll eventually be let down by because few people are ever 100 % happy with their music , and it let ' s you create without judgement , which is really freeing . You might be in another stage of your music making experience , but that is a big step for me recently .