I’m a dad, so I have no time and all my gear is old. I want to start making music again, but I think I need to more or less start over in terms of gear and software.
I’d like to hear a bit just about what you all are using to make music.
Are we all using Macs and commercial software like Logic or Abelton? Anyone bravely trying to work things with Linux? Anyone kicking it old school and recording to tape? Anyone using light weight set ups like iPads or tiny Zoom recorders?
I used to use FL studio but moved to Ableton due to better live/midi capabilities. With that, I got guitars, plenty of synth plugins, phase plant being a favorite, and a kemper amp. I use Ztar (guitar like midi controller) to sketch my melodies, and I also aim to use it for live performances in the future. For vocals I use good old shure SM58.
I am into open source stuff, I use gimp for my image editing needs, have played around with blender and use linux both in some work applications and on my laptops, but music production open source alternatives always seemed really crappy to me tbh, I could never do what I do on LMMS or whatever.
I’m intrigued by guitar midi controllers. I’ve never tried one. Would you recommend it?