Why do you like music production?

I think my biggest reasons are being able to FINALLY spew the sounds in my head onto a tangible, real thing that everyone can understand. I also love being able to see people's reactions to my stuff. Finally, I like to make music that I like to hear- it's awesome to be able to create, finalize, and output a product of perfection that I would go out and listen to on a normal basis.

For me it's the marriage of my two greatest interests: computers and music. 

 I don't always enjoy music production.  Playing music. Getting my music chops together(or trying ),playing music with others and writing music are all enjoyable to me.

 The production part can be fun but it can also be a royal pain... Those songs don't just magically sound great once you record them. Even well played and tracked parts need some decent mixing and engineer skill to make them sound half decent and I'm not completely there yet. Using the right things in the right places with the right techniques is a whole lot more complicated than simply buying Sonar and a few plug-ins.

 It can be satisfying to see the end result if it went well....or it can be aggravating to see that changes need to be made, parts need to be re-tracked or the mixing isn't up to par. Welcome to reality.

 

Nothing else really manages to engage the infantesibly (This is word seems to have crippled the translator's matrix) small amount of enthusiasm I have.

 Its the dimbulbs who make the world go around....

As soon as I started playing electric guitar, I found ways to layer tracks and build arrangements - using two tape decks and bouncing in real time back and forth while I was recording. Then later w/ an open reel machine that made it easier. Or when I could, using a little 4 tracks that I'd rent or borrow.

So the minute I realized that you could record music on a computer, it was just normal progression from tape.

And as the tools got better, the attention to detail unfolded. When I was recording on my open reel machine, beside some very basic EQ, there wasn't much I could do. The final product could only be a rough demo version.

When I moved to Cakewalk software, it gave me 8 and then unlimited audio tracks, that is w/o the need to bounce, so w/ control over the volume and pan of each of those track PLUS the option to edit those tracks PLUS DSP processing. W/ some TLC, it was potentially possible to record and produce something that sounded like a record.

And those tools got better and better, to a point where I feel it'd be a shame for me not to try and make the best out of them.