really the whole concept of using a program like BIAB or RB is to fill in the blanks where we lack ability. (at least that's one of the ways *I* use the program)

I want to write songs that require a LOT of instruments I don't have time to learn. MIDI solves some of that, by letting me play a passage on an instrument controller I know how to play, then assigning a patch for the instrument I will never know how to play.

In my mind, the voice is just another instrument. Unlike the others, I do have some proficiency with the voice... but just as we send direct input of an instrument to Amplitube to achieve the effects we hear on our favorite songs, a vocal processor does approximately the same thing.

I know a guy who wouldn't play or record or let anyone hear him until he felt like he had practiced enough to be "good enough" . Now he has cancer and a few months to live. He never used the time he had to make music because he was afraid somebody would criticize his technique.

I'm not doing that. Even if I suck at singing or playing certain instruments, I intend to use every tool available to actualize the ideas in my head before I forget the ideas or before my time on the planet runs out.

and regarding METH... the same musician mentioned above is now taking highly addictive pain killers. He mentioned to his doctor that they are addictive, and the doctor replied "you don't have time to get addicted."

At age 59, that's how I feel about getting addicted to the musical technologies that ease my pain.

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