I have never said that "someone who earns a living penciling in notes in a DAW" cannot be a professional.Passing Bye wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:05 pmI'm not, you seem out of touch with context of conversation I had with another member, so really have no desire to get into meaningless debate with you on that sole premise, as pointed out, check out dictionary.
Maybe start a new thread with that notion, can someone who earns living penciling in notes in a DAW be called professional, but that's not even slightly connected to snipped of conversation I had with another member, you are so off I'm seriously not gonna bother getting into semantics of it with you, probably someone will if you open new thread.
In fact that pretty much sums up all the great composers throughout history who did just that but used a pen and score paper instead. Beethoven was deaf at the end of his career but could still hear the notes in his head and was therefore able to write them down. If he was alive today he might well use a mouse to input notes into a DAW.
My point was that the default on this forum seems to be that everyone uses a DAW to write EDM with a mouse and therefore all conversations revolve around that false premise.
It also seems to assume that everyone uses "synths" in their compositions instead of rompler type sounds that emulate real instruments.
And again that musicians like myself who largely use a DAW like a glorified tape machine need a gazillion new features before they can do anything constructive.