Think I'm bit late to the party but I must say, I find this quite a mischaracterization at least compared to my past. Back when I started, I obviously had the average dreams and hopes of becoming like one of the "big names" on EDM. But it wasn't ever really "I'm going to produce some beats" type of thing at least for me, I just wanted to make something impactful (while I still thought that the sort of EDM mainstream music was in some sense "impactful").jancivil wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:17 pm The technology can't make you be any certain way if you want to be literal. I don't know what it encourages in a person other than apparently being able to import loops in place of laying down tracks yourself has created the "I'm going to produce some beats" monster.
Nevertheless, sooner or later a realization came that it just wasn't me, but at that point I had already a little experience at least (like a year or two?) and I got far more interested in doing other kind of things that still weren't about importing loops. Up until this point where what I have fairly clear and somewhat realistic vision of what I want to do in future which still doesn't involve "producing some beats" and merely importing some loops into a DAW. And even in terms of career, I want to become a mixing engineer in future (although still a long way from it unfortunately, tough enough to find an internship already because no sane person wants interns around expensive equipment)
Technology plays pretty important role in here because I don't think I would have ever really got to my path if it wasn't for DAW's. I would have never become interested in DSP, learned my mathematics out of it, learned at least some basic music theory, made any songs at all et cetera. I mean none of this is probably ideal as far as pedagogy goes, but I'd like to think its certainly of some importance