I'm young enough to challenge convention & old enough to know better. ;-D
Had recorder and tabla lessons at school. Brought a yamaha pss780 back in 1991, and tried to use the built- in "recorder"..not much luck there! The only thing great about it was the simplified form of vector synthesis it had.
I cut my synth programming teeth on a juno 60..which didn't help when I had an arp2600, a beautiful instrument, but unreliable and too expensive to maintain (and to think, I had my eye on a roland system 700 too!..aargh!). Virtual analogs CAN sound punchy..just tweak away 'till your stomach rumbles :-)
I believe music should evoke a trigger, a feeling, a mood in YOU when composing. You've then just gotta let the gods flow thru and finish the job. Writing for visuals, for example, involves using a different skillset altogether, and is about syncopation of feeling so it doesn't distract, but enhances the visual experience, be that a film. play, game or website. I've been continously enconsced (or is that embroilled?) in the world of soundtrack work for the last xxx years as a result.
Producing and collaborating with another artist is an entirely different ballgame altogether...that's all about listening, being cool, calm and collected, and finding a point where all contributors can fuse their aural ingredients into a casserole that everyone is happy with :-D
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may your god (or whatever you believe in) always be with you.
