How much power do you really use from your software as a who

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:16 pm

If this is not too much asking, I would like you to answer this question with a clear numeric percentage first, and then with any comments you many want to do, about it.

How much of your software do you use if you were to measure it in percentage? Put in other words, if you take your software as a large mesure of 100%, how much of it do you really know and use fully?

I personally come to the conclusion that I use a maximum of 10% of the full potential of my software.

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kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:49 pm

for me, it's as close to 100% as I can make it. But that's through years and years of trial and error though. What's left, I definitely use.

I've been very focused on keeping only what I use, and buying only what I use recently because of my tighter financial status with being married and also moving my primary habitat to the US. (moving can be costly) But because I've been trying to streamline my workflow and software anyway, it was like perfecting on what was already been worked on.

Now, my policy is that the only time I will get software is if the production I'm working for at the time pays for the package. That's how I got Kontakt, and I'm quite happy with it. Whatever money I have, or make, I'm going to happily spend for my family and for myself. Not on my work equipment.

So, whatever is redundant, it seems to have died away from the years of "battle for survival" I've created within my workflow. As far as "knowing" about the software, I try to know them in full and understand their sonic characteristics. Frankly, I'd say I'm quite knowledgable about my software. But the bottom line is, how much do you know about what you know, eh?

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Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:46 am

I love this quote, and it seems applicable here:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:50 pm

On 2005-10-07 22:49, kensuguro wrote:
for me, it's as close to 100% as I can make it.
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This is very impressive Ken, I would have never expected for anybody to answer that!

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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:16 pm

Cubase and Wavelab are the only softwares I can say I know almost completely, but then comes the Synth, the Samplers, the Modular II that I have never gone into completely, and some other complementary but important software I have not had the opportunity to know.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:18 pm

I don't think about the "power" of the software or computer. By using multiple software applications and by bouncing tracks, there is no limit.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:25 pm

That's true Brain, bouncing is a great tool that opens up the infinite, and is rather simple. Perhaps I was reffering most of all to the hidden sides of software, like recording at different sample rates, and managing all sort of parameters to create, what I don't do. I work in a rather convensional way, except with the sounds themselves.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:09 pm

Most of the apps are catering to a diverse audience so are filled with features that it's unlikely would all be used by a single person.

I don't feel bad that I know so little. It's more relavent to me that whenever I do want to do something extra or more advanced, I can look in the manual and move up.

There's a lot I know I don't know...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:22 pm

On 2005-10-08 20:09, Spirit wrote:
Most of the apps are catering to a diverse audience so are filled with features that it's unlikely would all be used by a single person.

Definitely Spirit, good point there; I guess my question rises up because now and then, I can read people complaining about not having something new, when they actually have lots and lots of new things and ways to discover sounds and creation.

It seems that our society has got accustomed to constantly creating the false need for new things, but not because we are actually using and discovering what we already have. It is sort of a buying vice, like a soft illness. I am referring also to the problem of today excessive consumerism, well known to all of us.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:03 pm

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:51 am

Nestor wrote:

How much of your software do you use if you were to measure it in percentage? Put in other words, if you take your software as a large mesure of 100%, how much of it do you really know and use fully?

Less that 1%! My guitar doesn't need software

Neither does my brain, although I'm not sure what percentage that's operating at - about 90% is dedicated to dealing with Gravity isn't it? Bloody dolphins have it easy...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:55 pm

Wow ...

So different answers...