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Hi! I'm David Jackel on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to talk to you about why you
should use digital tools for your songwriting. Now digital tools often get a bad rap among
songwriters because they are considered artificial and people will say that it robs you of your
creativity. Everything is automatic. That couldn't be further from the truth. Digital
tools are a fantastic way to go about songwriting because so many more opportunities for how
you can write different approaches and they give you the ability to plan out ideas. To
plan out layers which is something that you couldn't do previously unless you were actually
writing down sheet music and you could hear everything playing along in your head. Anoither
wonderful thing about digital songwriting is you have a really small investment in terms
of what you need to do it. Whether you are using the tools specifically just to write
songs and not to do a final recording or you are working on something you want to put out
as a release, really with just a home computer, some speakers, some audio interface and a
few other things, you have a real working studio. Now there is some debate over whether
or not digital tools are as good as the original analog tools for recording. So people often
talk about tape as being superior. If you speak to older engineers, they are going to
tell you that there is a wonderful sound that you can get on analog tape recording that
digital cannot replicate. Now if I had invested 10's of thousands of dollars into recording
equipment, I would probably said the same thing. But that is simply not the case. The
truth is that it is easier to be an amateur and use digital recording so I think that
is where that idea comes from but if you know what you are doing, you have so many opportunities
with digital than you ever would with analog and I am sure you can replicate the sounds
you would get with analog if there was actually a sound test done, people really wouldn't
know the difference. One last reason why you really should be using digital tools if you
are a songwriter is that they are a way of the future. There are going to be so many
more possibilities out there if you are willing to explore the new technology that is out
there and you are going to have the ability to communicate with other songwriters. Over
the internet you have the ability to chop up your songs. There are so many things that
you can do now that you couldn't do even 3 years ago and that is why it is good to learn
the new technology so that you can stay ahead of the game and have sophisticated songwriting.