
From the very outset, if you feel you want to work more with your ears over your eyes, and work more with your tools than your wallet, you’ll already find something that speaks to you here.

As our own journey has taught us, the forced scenario of restricting your options can help you focus on making actual paintings instead of over-preparing with regard to how many colours you have and making sure you have brushes for every occasion. Imposing constraints on yourself as an artist is a topic stressed by many great thinkers and it’s a real seed towards a more creative state of mind. Not only is there a wealth of music software options but you also have to be disciplined enough to steer yourself away from other computer-based distractions while working.

Visually, you can be presented with too much information when using a computer. This is worthy of note as the discipline of not using your laptop keys or screen and focusing on a hardware workflow has become more widely popular now – and with good reason. This was before the easier navigation of that came with colour LCD screens had arrived on the scene but creating a full song from an empty sketch pad was still possible on the earlier-generation monochrome displays. This writer first joined the Maschine platform at about software version 2.0, attracted by the potential for a 98 per cent hardware workflow, a workflow that was also unique to what we’d already established with the Ableton Push set-up.
