Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
Really, if you could get it down to a one-click Google-based operation, how would you regard the recordings you were producing? Would the experience of clicking one up be anything like the experience of actually composing it? Would you really feel you just created a new song? But it will be SO tempting, won't it? Record a new album in the time it takes to put together a playlist! Get the optional CrimeLord module and the generator will avoid training on tunes with a history of copyright litigation.

I do have mixed feelings about that scenario.

But it's not about "fear", it's about where we want to go, collectively and individually. And exactly how much we choose to value efficiency, convenience, and automation, and why, and over what other values.

Everyone gets to choose their own standard when it comes to tools. There are a very wide range of options,

- do everything virtually including all virtual instruments, using MIDI patterns or prerecorded topline beats and maybe even using virtual vocals

- use BIAB to do all instrumentation

- use BIAB to provide basic instrumental backing while singing and playing your primary instrument

- use only real instruments and live musicians in the studio

- grow your own maple, spruce and walnut and learn to handcraft your guitars; raise and slaughter your own goats to handcraft your own banjos, drums and tambourines

So which is best? It doesn't matter! The end result is what matters!