Rant well taken and appreciated dede.. I like a good rant, rants are invigorating and inspiring as long as the rants aren't confused with, or conflated to mere paltry whining...
I shall be hoping and wishing to jam and collaborate with you on Bandlab, perhaps in the very near future?
I too have a deeply embedded respect for all musical instruments. Even cheap poorly tuned banjos played by drunken rednecks who make me angry, and who never even come close to saying or playing anything I want to hear.
Muzak I can only sit quietly and respectfully through and "think" to myself while listening, OMG, than God Pete Seeger can't heard this, he'd probably claw his way out of his grave and stab this nasty fool in the eye with a boney skeletal digit.
And I sit patiently, smiling while the images dance through the canyons of my inner brainpan and wait until it's over, and try my best to keep in mind........... It's NOT the banjo's fault.
I actually teared up at a Who concert when they smashed their equipment up at the end of a live concert in the mid 60's. Grrrrr, hard to find the right words to describe how I felt... But 40+ years later I remember it vividly.
I was only a kid working 2 paper routes, The Newark Star Ledger in the morning before school and the Perth Amboy Evening News in the afternoon after school to pay off my first good guitar held for ransom at the local music store on a lay away plan.. It was a Fender Stratocaster that was so shiny it sparkled like the Milky Way...:-P
I only had it 1/2 paid off when I sat at the concert and watched Pete Townsend beat both Keith Moon's Ludwig drum set and his Strat into tinder wood with an exactly clone of the guitar I had on layway.. The very guitar of my dreams that I could only touch and play for a few minutes at a time once a week when I went to the music store and handed all the money I made from delivering news print through rain, sleet, or snow, and nice days too..
Six months later that Strat was mine..
And even though I can certainly appreciate the contributions and achievements the Who made to rock music, I was never a fan after that concert, and I never spent one red cent for their records or even Juke Box plays.
And THAT'S spoken from a TRUE AMERICAN musician who unfortunately is no longer a very proud American in light of the current ummm, conditions(?). We'll all be OK.. A bit more broken into pieces, but we'll be back.... Eventually............ If we all pull together as a teammm.....
Anyway, there's nothing I can do about all that, but I just found a cool quadcore ACER 15" touch screen Chromebook on Creig's List for $150. 4 gigs of RAM, 32 GB storage, might just be the missing link to run smoothly on Bandlab... What with it being a chrome book and all, it's gotsta have a bit more Ummmph than my Samsung Galaxy, which believe it or not isn't too shabby running Audio Evolution DAW for Androids when I hook my Scarlett 18i20 up to it, it makes great multi track recordings @ 24/48.. Not so much with the smartphone's built in mic, OK recording for Foley sounds and noises, but you can forget about multi tracking. It's more like overdubbing with the built in mic.