Enjoying this thread, lot's of good views and thoughts to ponder! As for "photoshopping" music, scary time IMO. Take what has always been an endeavor which is hard to make a living at (music) and add automation being able to do it faster and better than many, well you can see the future. Real music (i.e. composed and played by musicians) will become a cottage industry I predict, with corporations using all automated stuff based on algorithms that sell the most product. I HATE cutting and pasting in my music creation process, and I would say of the 60 or so songs I have released, less than 10% have any such action in them. I always want to create a take for any track that is good from beginning to end. I literally spent days (718 takes) to get my first ever slide guitar solo right. Granted, I was trying to learn how to play slide as well as compose the solo simultaneously, but I could have cut and pasted my way to what may have been perceived as a "better" solo after take 50 or so. Can't do it! Just not in my playbook. I feel like if I can not play it "good enough" from beginning to end, maybe I should think twice about even using it. I am by no means on some high horse about this, to each his own. For me though, I want the satisfaction of full takes in my work, it just tastes better to me ;~)) Trying to get a new song released tonight/tomorrow morning in honor of the full moon (as well as in memory of a personal event related to this date), let's see if I make the deadline!
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