Oh yea music is fairly restricted as well. The restrictions are there to protect me from things that I spend way too much time on, and the two biggest things with music are:
- noodling around with the instrument synth for hours
- noodling around with effects to make the instrument synth sound less shit for hours
So the restrictions I put in place are to protect me from doing that:
- I’m only allowed to use soundfonts to generate sound. No straight up samples or 3xosc either.
- I have like 6 plugins that I’m allowed to use for effects, that covers 90% of what I need and everything else I’ll just have to not be bothered about.
I don’t have any restrictions on voicings or otherwise, there I can go as ham as I want. Bonus thing but I try to to use hardware to put in notes. Either my launchpad or dx7, it’s a lot more intuitive and you can improvise it out fast let than with just clicking in notes.