Work with DT alone, and maybe feed it come things from Ableton Live Lite and YouTube and your FM radio. Try something like making all the sounds of track from a single sample copied across all 8 tracks. Little challenges like that. Keep it fun, and hold off from spending - you’ll give yourself too many options and not be any better off. Come back here once you’ve written 5 different patterns over the next week or two. Good luck!
(Also, @ everyone else, come on, it’s not very nice to take the piss out of someone imo)
I recently purchased a bunch of gear (2 items which are immediately going back on sale for a loss :(…) -however, I got an Audiothingies P6 at a great price… this is a GREAT synth. Very easy to program despite its size. If you’re looking for something cheap I would go for the MicroMonsta 2 without hesitation.
Nah, stick with Lite. Seriously, when times are tough, keep money for the most important things. Getting more gear / soft is not one of them. And as said before, DT is already plenty fun.
I was working with Ableton Live Lite 4 years. It is enough. There is 100 times more possibilities than on any gear that people used to write greatest hits 30 years back, including contemporary gear.
Over last 5 years I had bought Korg Electribe ea1, Moog Mother 32, Digitakt…
Then I sold everything and bought Octatrack and since then, during only this year I’ve made even more music then last 5 years altogether. But please don’t buy Octatrack, you won’t master it, not in one evening, not in one week, not in one month, only one year.