It doesn’t mean it isn’t difficult, it’s just continuous. This is the state where you’re creating without distraction or obstacles, and everything is easy and flows from your most creative place. When you’re writing a song, you want to maximize your flow state. So, running with this metaphor, imagine the EZ line from Toontrack as your new midwife or doula. But if you’re an artist of any kind, you know that it’s the exhaustion of satisfaction, and it’s an effort like giving birth – it’s hard as hell, but when you’re done you’ve created something brand new that has never existed and cannot be exactly replicated. That means conceiving a song, recording the idea, tweaking for several hours, programming drums, re-recording, writing a solo in pieces, learning the solo in whole, then re-tracking the whole thing once I’ve practiced it, and playing the whole thing through several times while I shoot video. In fact, I generally write a new, original song (however short) for every demo that I do. If you’re on this site often, you know that I like to try new stuff, you know, to stay on the cutting edge of bedroom production so I don’t get passed up by tiny Japanese kids on the internet (we all know that’s a Sisyphusyean nightmare that will never end). I got a chance to spend some quality time with those two products, and of course I jumped on it.
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