Every hour you spend messing around with software is one hour you did not spend with your instrument in your hand. I think several of us are more interested in playing music than recording music. We record it because we need to, not because we like to.

The issue is more complex than it may appear on the surface. We live in a much more isolated world for many reasons. Covid, being just the latest. We tend more and more to live our lives vicariously through TV and computers. There is a tendency to make friends that you never meet in person. So, people get replaced with software.

There is an altogether different experience posting something on a forum than playing with a few people live.

This new world of software gives people with no musical background or no ability to play any instrument a way to create music. In some cases, the music that gets created is excellent. In all too many cases, it is illogical and disorganized noise at best.

You would probably be surprised what does not get posted on forums. Many musicians are prevented from posting their creations due to copyright issues and restrictions placed on them by their record companies. This also happens live. Their management often dictates where and what they can play live.

So...software is excellent to have and use, but it can also become an impediment and a hindrance to creating music.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”