Reply to A story for the OCD like myself

When I started getting into/learning about production a few months ago I would start trying to make a track by raw synthesis and didn't want to do what I felt was cheating (using premade plugins). I thought I would sound generic someday if I did this. However I have realized that I spent so much time focused on having my sound perfect that I would spend hours tweaking a single instrument, only to get frustrated and start again another day.

I was lacking the musicality (if that is a word), or a sense of rhythm, because I was shooting to make my tracks technically perfect (ala sound design). I have come to realize that sometimes it is smarter to use plugins to quickly get the general sound that you want and then go back and redo/tweak the track to make it sound more professional.

This came to me after a friend who produces soul influenced hip hop and is a computational media major told me that he was taught to make 15 rough sketches for a design and then select the best one. This method seems to work much better for me, so if you have this problem I hope it helps.