There’s a common theme in all my hobbies — I consume something (lots of it), then switch over and think how can I produce this? I learn new territories, explore, create a few things, then move on to the next thing but carry over the knowledge of the previous ones.
All of these belong in the same space if you think about it that way — but for me they are quite distinct fields. You can also observe the trend of interests coming in cycles.
So the music era begins again. I wanted to make music and just jamming around on my trusted keyboard, I got a tune I liked. I tried out a few DAWs — free trial of FL Studio, Reaper, following my earlier explorations with Chrome Music Lab. I had a groovy tune but FL Studio told me exporting requires premium. Dam. Plan foiled.
I tried out Cakewalk by BandLab, made a jazz lofi track and showed it to a few close people — and they kinda liked it! Wow. Maybe I can also explore music. So I started making music whenever I had free time — to take a break from academics and to keep the creative side going.
(There are a lot of overlaps between these eras — I’d used Bosca Ceoil for game music way back, Chrome Music Lab before that. The boundaries are blurry. Always were.)