Addicted to buying plugins/add ons

try to justify the purchase whether it be $1 or $1000.
 
you will find you double up on things also, that should help cut a few things out.
 
wait for sales. I HATE how some vendors play marketing poker with us...

Double posted.

Another option...
 
Let yourself get old like me. Benefit is your memory goes and you forget what you already bought.
 
I think it's safe to say that many of us scarf up the latest to die for plugin. Use the crap out of it for less than a week and then it naturally recedes into the digital hoard pile.
 
I resist buying anything new and when the temptation gets too strong, I look into my carefully cataloged arsenal of effects and synths. Always find something I have no clue about how it got there. It's the same as getting something new.
 
Figure the more amnesia sets in over time, I can probably recycle the same plugin several times. Only risk associated with this is that I found myself trying to buy a spendy echo unit and got the message back that I'd already purchased it a year earlier.
 
Proud to proclaim that I haven't purchased a damnable thing since the GTR-3 sale wrenched the security chip out of my credit card. How many of you mortals can claim a sober spree for that long. Am I cool or what?
 
John

May Allah grace you with the health and all good things to do so. Like someone said, getting old ain't for wimps.
 
Not to worry though. All reading this will either get there or not, sooner than expected.
 
Sworn off new purchases out of principle, but the next time GTR-3 goes on sale...

Eggster
How do I cure it? I'll be bankrupt before long....

It's a serious question isn't it. I find I get drawn to 'sales' like some do to poker machines. So for my music stuff, I have a huge whiteboard in my studio. It has a 'want' and a 'need' list. For me to buy anything now, it has to make it onto both lists. To make it onto the list, it has to pass a 'research' stage. It has stopped my impulse buying. The stuff I've bought, and money I've spent  All the best to you.
 

I while back on this forum I said something about wanting a piano and some asked how many I had. After listing something like a dozen I decided I didn't need a new piano so badly. Maybe making a list of how many of the exact same type of plugin you already have will help you over the desire.

Zo
Guyz , with time , i have found that creative people like we are , are more aware of the hell of consumerism world we re living in , but for a strange reason , tend to think audio bizness is out of it ....

My advice to friends , is treat the thought like if it was real physical goods ...you see in Walmart near the exit .... With a marketed "buy me , you need me ..." On it .....

One thing that let me have zero remorse after purchase .... Is even if i have an equivalent , is it faster , or / and more inspiring ....

Usually i m more stressed about fx , i have way less remorse about sound generator since new inspirations is a must for producers ....

Thank you, I like your comment a lot because it makes sense. I was watching on you tube where Eddie Van Halen was being interviewed on this video, and some of the things he said just hit home to me where being creative goes and what you use to play, he talks about how a lot of his guitar style come out of necessity because he needed to fill holes in music because there were no other musicians to play when he started playing in his first band, NO EXTRA FX like now days to juice up things, just play guitar and learn how to fill things in musically rather than FX. Anyway, I hope I explained that the way I meant to. But I think most will get what I am saying here. It's not the FX that makes you, it's your own creativity and the song in my opinion. But I mentioned this because I thought it might be relevant to the use of FX in this thread, sorry, don't mean to change the subject.
 
Here's the Youtube interview I am referring to -  https://youtu.be/Sl59RPs7PiI
 
 

Vastman
I own a zillion synths and Kontakt libraries and can quite honestly say I could be quite fine with Omnisphere (due to Skippy's awesome expansions) and Kontakt (with a smattering of sound libraries I love) alone.  The beauty of something like Omnisphere is it can do almost everything and is supported by some of the BEST sound designers in the buis...Thus, once you own it, you can just buy soundpacks and are supporting creative small developers/artists  like US!  
 
Of course, whatever floats ur boat!  

Agree 100%, though I dont have a zillion synths, I have put off getting Komplete, because I dont actually need it, except for Kontakt for some specific sound libraries, and are wishing I was buying omnisphere 2 instead for reasons you outlined.
 
Even with the limited library I have, it would take years to fully explore and utilise all the tools and samples I already have!

And window shopping is nearly impossible so stay away from the Software and Deals forums

Ah, that was my solution - hardware (tho none of mine have died like your car). 
 
1.  Good hardware going in (or rerecorded with same) means I don't need so much software.  Saturation/distortion/tone?  It is better with hardware than replicated in software, in my opinion.  I seldom need more or different than what I recorded.  So digital can do what it does best - control levels and subtractive eq (yes, Virginia, I still use soft comps and digital EQ) - nice clean control.
 
2.  I still pick up software for things hardware is ill suited.  I just picked up a granular effects for like $50.
 
3.  Hardware is so expensive I run out of money quicker, which means I don't torture myself (too much!) over sales.  I simply can't afford it.
 
hope this helps.
 
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Reminds me many years ago living in Denver Colorado.
 
Had a music studio on the south side and often haunted the north side of the city where all the bars, whore houses and pawn shops were. Looking for music gems in the pawn shops, would often have to pass over dead bodies in the street. Was said that some of these were the 20 yo sports stars, if you could recognize them. Burned themselves out life in the fast lane. Squandered millions, end of their career and fame. Never planned for the future and ended up a nameless drug OD or suicide.
 
Back in the time, applied for a drivers job with the county morgue since there was an opening.
 
In south Denver, a common sight was the Happy Farms Ice Cream Truck and they needed a new driver. Had a freckled girl painted on the outside holding balloons and dancing through a grassy meadow with happy cows. Never stopped to sell ice cream though.
 
Sports stars and not sport stars were common casualties for various reasons on the north side. The state collected the unclaimed bodies and kept them in a freezer. When the freezer was full, they had to transport the bodies to the cremation site on the south side of Denver.
 
Only way to get from the north to the south side was through downtown Denver proper.
 
The state had a decoy truck, Happy Farms Ice Cream with the girl and balloons.
 
It would load up the frozen bodies and drive them through downtown to the cremation site.
Seems the former driver loaded up the ice cream truck with bodies and forgot to close the back door.
He drove through downtown Denver dumping frozen corpses into the street from the Happy Farms Ice Cream truck. Cover was blown and the guy fired.
 
I was all excited to drive the ice cream truck, but my driving record was so bad I didn’t get the job.
 
Back in the studio then, had a Ross compressor. Went into an MXR distortion box. Depending on the need, a Ross flanger or Ross delay was followed by a floor hardware MXR noise gate. That was it.
 
Cranked out music with hard on dedication and inspiration.
 
Have a thousand times the arsenal now with potential I could have never dreamed of in the analog era.
I’m not doing much creative these last years however other than playing along with somebody else’s mp3 for practice. Spending a whole lot of dedicated time crafting the right sound, even if nothing ultimately creative happens beyond a new preset or fx chain.
 
End result is in the mind and spirit of the inspiration and physical connection with our hands and feet..
 
If you got one decent reverb plug and can’t create, a second reverb, much less 10 or 20 reverbs will only lead to greater darkness.
 
John