But recently I was really pleased with something I've nearly finished (and it'll be nearly finished probably for the next 3 weeks
). Started off dubby, but ended up being more of a lounge lizard groove thang 
But I spent ages on a synth guitar part. I don't play guitar, but I use guitar-ish sounding chords alot in my dub stuff. I can get nice synth patches that sound great with guitar FX on them, but usually I just play in the chords with a keyboard and do some midi editing, copying, pasting etc. But they never really sound too realistic It usually seems like to much hassle to get it right. But this track was going well, so I put the time in by editing notes so that they weren't just obvious 3 or 4-note chords.I edited them so that they were far enough apart that it played like a guitar...adjusted the timing of every chord so that the notes played with incremental delays like you were strumming slowly - I even adjusted some so that chords next to each other were played with an upwards and downwards strum...and each and every chord was done differently. Even down to editing every individual note velocity and length. Bloody time-consuming, for sure....but it worked really well....especially when I took off the overdrive and distortion FX. Then I spent maybe 4 hours just on the synth parameter tweaking to get the envelope and metallicness as close as I could get it - tried out about 7 different synth until one did it properly (and surprisingly it was the Waldorf A1 with a bit of ring mod that sounded the best - I thought some of my fancier synths would be better at it, but they weren't.)
Does anyone else go to that sort of depth of detail, or is it just me getting obsessed? ( I might actually get tracks done quicker in the long run if I just learn to play the bloody guitar
).I used to do 3 or 4 tracks every month - now it takes me forever with one, but I find that type of detail really pleasing. What other types of obsessions of detail do you get into?
