Let’s say you’ve got 4 good hours of time set aside tonight to work on music. You’ve been daydreaming all day with visions of automated faders dancing in your head. The pizza is ordered and the beer (or bottled water) is cold. You’re all set.
The first thing you do is grab an acoustic while you wait for your computer to wake up. Then, you smell that weird metallic funk on your fingers and realize it’s time to change the strings, but you still don’t bother to. Finally, that blasted computer is up and ready. You launch the software and you see the splash screen for your favorite DAW telling you that soon you will be immersed in a sea of plug-ins, instruments and waveforms.
Fast-forward one hour ahead. Nothing. Nada. The big goose egg. The bagel. You’re getting nowhere. Everything you do with a virtual instrument is uninspiring. Soon, …
