“The real turtle soup or merely the mock?”

Technology makes it easier to write a song ..true or false?
In the opening entry, my goal was to bring forward my appreciation of the American Standard, and the Brazilian Bossa Nova. How much time went into the creation of these wonderful songs?

“Is it the real turtle soup or merely the mock?” - lyrics by Cole Porter indicate something..but what? Are techno updates and improvements real turtle soup? Well, yes... because they are here to stay! Modern computing technology has revolutionized the production of music. With a little research I learned that a laptop running a software digital audio workstation can now achieve things that even a multi-million dollar studio couldn’t do twenty years ago. But it has always been my impression that musicians want to create without going through endless software "how to's"..The range of features on a sequencer can be truly daunting, and sometimes this is actually a disadvantage when all you want to do is sit down and write a song…

Yes, It’s a new age... we can officially declare this “The Age of High-Tech Songwriting.”

And movie making....

And recording ....

and photography..