Another of the reasons why I think GAS and creativity is a season thing is because gear should enable you to do something new with your creativity. And it does! For instance I recently bought an RME Fireface 800 audio interface, a Mackie 1604VLZ-PRO analog mixer and an Edirol UM-880 MIDI interface and this means really a lot for me as a musician since it enables me to setup a home studio and start doing high quality stuff! Without this I would not be able to record anything and my creativity would not rise as fast.

But there are certain points when you have lived with the possibilities that the gear gives you and you feel empty inside with technical babble. You have focused on the tech stuff for a while and realise you haven't produced a single good peace of music for a long time! Sometimes I find myself in such a situation and then I usually start with these work shops I usually do. I do something new. For instance I started working with some attack parameters on some of the electric pianos in the Tyros and found out that by raising the attack time you could get a really sweet edge on several electric pianos in the Tyros, that was much better than the original sounds. And I started experimenting with layring electric pianos. I had this song I thought sounded good, but I wanted to be more creative with it. Do you know what I did? I added 1, only 1 note in a chord (low a in the chord of f) on a single track and mixed that single note separately! I was completely overwhelmed with what I had achieved, because I had learned how to make a fat sounding electric piano! These small things makes it for me. I can experiment, I can enjoy it, then I take something, do something ridiculous with it and I feel great!