Funny thing, I haven't even tested 100% of the legit software I own.

 

Maybe Olymoon should open a new section named ''Vacuous Questions and Others''. Sorry.

 

~0,5%

 

And even from AZ one won't downoad anything. AFAIK they don't operate an OCH.

... and most of our answers will have the same quality btw.

 

smartass, you're right.

(your second remark was a bit naughty, though)

 

Tried out maybe 70% and actually used maybe 10%. I'm a collector

 

Naughty? Not at all

Look, if I assume that AZ has at least 2000 pages of content linked to OCHs in the last 5 years.
Every page has 15 positions, what sums up to 30.000 different software-, tutorial or sample downloads.
If I further assEditume that there are at least 2 tutorials on every page with a median 2 hours of length that would be 8.000 hours of tutorials. Installing and checking out a software will take another two hours per title (5 per page), is 20.000 hours. To check a sample lib I will need 2 hours to check every single wav, midi .... At least. 8 per page gives another 32000 hours.
If you add it all togehter you'll have 60.000 hours to work to only have a very superficial overwiew.
Given this, a person who works on this incredible amount of information will be able to look over about 2,93% (8 hours @ 220 workdays a year = 1760 workhours per year).
But Only if one does AZ a his/her main job

I would say, demanding a seriuos answer needs a seriuosly thought about question. Asking superficial questions will result in asnwers of the same quality.

q.e.d.

 

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I try to buy anything or create it my self.

 

Tough job mate. Your day must have 40 hours.

I'm a bit of a collector myself. But not only do I collect audio apps and music, I collect books in hardware and as ebooks. My (hardware) book collection @home is around 5.000. I will never be able to read all those books in my whole life, because I collect more books in a given time, than I'm able to read.
I need around 8 hours to read a book (~500 pages). But I need time for buying and earning the money to buy the book as well. If I read one book every day (what I'm not able to) and buy one every second day I will, from now on, need at least 20 years to read all books I own (what will not be the case). I hope I will live long enough to read most

What characterizes a colletor? A collector doesn't collect things to use them. He/she collects to own them (and touch, look at, hug ...). In most cases he/she would not even know, what's inside the item.

 

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lol

 

same question to you and everyone, how do you find the time to download and keep testing, do you have an hour per night that you do this...do you keep downloading and then whenever start testing?

I just find this very time consuming, no idea I need to just get started i guess, just seeing how other people do this

 

I have a miniPC running all day round (in the basement). I use it for tasks in the background, e.g. downloading via JDownloader, packing/unpacking... With JD you could start a download tasks on any of your PCs with a right klick (Firefox only).Edit
When I have spare time I do the sorting and testing. Most are updates. I don't DL too much new things because I have anything I need.

Most time consuming is the task to sort things out on my disks (to make diks space available) I won't ever need.
My rule is: Things I didn't use the last 3 years I most likely won't use them in the future. Delete.

 

Wait, there's another site?

 

You're right, I read 'most of your answers' not 'most of our answers', I'm sorry.

BTW, nice summarization.

 

Should have tried to make it clearer, really.
There's no point in downloading endlessly until you establish some good stuff to work with.
Pick a DAW. They all have pros and cons, but pick one {e.g ableton} and learn about all the built in stuff.
Read reviews from Music Radar and Sound on Sound and work out what to try [b4 u maybe buy, just don't sell them!]: eg synths- sylenth, serum, surge, dune, spire, ana, discovery -all have enough features to keep u going for years- pick 3 and learn them well, then you might need more for a specific sound or just inspiration. FX -fabfilter bundle , effectrix, valhalla verbs, unfiltered audio bundle...loads to work with there...As for samples-learn to process them well and make them your own and you wont need so many.

 

Most of my downloads are updates to software I already use regularly. Quick downloads, quick installs. For the rest I’m not sure if there’s much of a pattern. If the software doesn’t grab me within the first 30 minutes or so, I’ll take a look at the manual and see basically what’s possible. Maybe watch a YouTube. I dunno. I probably try most programs that aren’t based around Trap music or Bounce House or whatever (nothing against the Trap sound— I still like it, and it’s genuinely an epoch-making approach to Rap music that injected a lot of freshness for a while).

It’s just so easy to indulge my curiosity about new software. It’s like I get to tracelessly break into the greatest music store in the world every night. How can I resist???