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.