That's easy myolpal...
I'm of the same mindset as when I first started computer recording.
I wanted the DAW to help inspire me to play my guitar by giving me backing instruments that I no
longer cared to get with live musicians.
Less hassles with no limitations due to others. Time is a great example of that...I can make music when I want.
 
Being that there is no concern of the "outside" world the only issues to deal with are maintaining the best DAW as for my desires. "In the box" has worked out very well for me.
 
 

I do it for the same reason that people paint pictures or make drawings that sit in a book/attic and are never shown to anyone else...
 
If you can work out why that is then please tell me.

**looped**

Just to try and get as near as I can to the music I imagine in my head. So far I'm still falling short, but that's OK, I think that's maybe the point of it.

Hi,
 
I think I'm done with music. At least with the current folks that I tend to discuss these things with.
 
As much as I want to create my own "ambience" and will do so eventually, you can't stop me!, that will in due course accompany a lot of the film visuals that I will end up putting together.
 
Music and visual are getting apart, and people think that "lyrics" are important, when they might not necessarily have a direct line to the music at all in a psychic way. I'm wanting to explore that area even more, and needed some help with the electronic side of things, but it was not happening and getting someone to come over to this old man's place and go wow, over all those records, CD's and movies is too much for them!
 
I just have to figure it all out on my own, and thanks for nothing to the rest.
 
I still can not make Miroslav work right, and I still can not hear something and record another track over it properly. But the know it all's here ... that's OK. Don't need or want them anymore and they will regret their hospitality when the time comes!
 
Sharing your knowledge, IS, learning. But not the way that most musicians look at their life when it comes to music and the art of it all!

I had a bunch of songs in my head and had to let them out.
Apparently, I have no more songs in there.

 

I do it for the same reason that people paint pictures or make drawings that sit in a book/attic and are never shown to anyone else...

 
 
 
I have always had the need to create, whether it be painting, drawings, music or what ever.  I can't tell you why, its just a part of who I am.  I would make music and write songs whether or not anyone ever heard them.  That's kind of what had happened to me before this recording revolution came along.
 
Coincidentally, Ol'Pal, Lately, I have had this exact question floating around in my head.  What do I want to do with all of this stuff, where am I going with this...do I have a goal?  Or, do I just want to continue doing this as a hobby...a pass time...just for the fun of it.  Maybe a bigger question, am I just throwing a bunch of money at something that is just a fun hobby, for the shear enjoyment of just playing music for myself?
 
I hope that I am getting a little better at my craft.  The songs I have been writing seem to be getting a little better and my recording techniques are starting to come along a little bit as well.  Do I want to try to do something with the songs I have written.  I am not sure?  I am not sure what I would do with them.  I took great interest in Timidi's post about making a little money on Spotify.  I don't think my skills have come far along enough for that.
 
I guess the ultimate for me would be to actually hear a song I wrote on TV or on the radio...hear another band playing it. It's not so much about making money for me, as it is about a feeling of accomplishment.  
 
The engineering side of music is the hardest part for me.  It seems like I am always second guessing all my levels.  I will adjust one track and think that's it...perfect.  Listen a couple of days later, oh no, now this other track isn't set right.  It's starting to seem like a job at times and less enjoyment.  I struggle big time with getting the Bass right.  It just never seems right.  It goes from too loud, to now I can't hear it well enough.  This morning I thought to myself, after I finish the song I am working on, I might just take a break for a while and just play guitar for the fun of it.  

Karyn
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I do it for the same reason that people paint pictures or make drawings that sit in a book/attic and are never shown to anyone else...
 ...

This is not as bad as we think. For my experience, hearing Ernest swear at his American publishers, and say he didn't need them, was valuable. Hearing Jorge Amado swear at the Brazilian publishers that were robbing him, and then the Military Government that robbed everyone, was sadder, still!
 
I think it depends on your constitution and what you have inside. To some of us, what we see is very sacred, and important, despite you and everyone else thinking that we're a bunch of stuck up idealists and screwed up fudge-tards, because you can not make any sense of what we see. So why would I even bother showing you anything that I have?
 
I'm not out to pick up the prettiest girl, or to get the biggest cock around, or to score the biggest million there is out there, so, if 500 foreign film reviews, and 50 album reviews and 50 book reviews, and then short stories, a couple of novels, and the interest? Only insults by people that don't care, and in fact are often more jealous of the ability to write non-stop than otherwise. I don't need that from anyone.
 
Helps being alone. I never got married, as I was afraid to share my own inner hell and visions with someone that might not appreciate it, and finally gave up on it. But I have given up sharing my inner vision and self, since there are way too many cynics that simply don't care. But along the way I learned one thing. You can't take your _______ ____ or ______ with you to your grave, so if being selfish is what you think makes you a star or better than anyone else, then ... good luck.
 
See you in the afterlife for a drink at the end of the world. But my legacy will always be to share, but no one will read any of my fiction, EVER!

Aren't we reading it right now, Mosh?? ;-)

Same, self indulgent creativity :-)