[adrianallan]

Thanks for listening. Although we all benefit from this technology, the implication is that to have any success as a composer you now have to not only be a good musician, but also have ICT skills to match. I'm still learning both, but my priority is always for the music, not the ICT.

I some ways I envy the days when real musicians were hired for recording projects, but now you're expected to do it all; so it's actually a harder slog.

Most TV themes (apart from the very well financed) are done partly if not completely on sample libraries - the very best of which you'd be hard pressed to know it wasn't a real orchestra !

I'll keep my writing aimed at real musicians, but until anyone agrees to perform my pieces (that's a challenge in itself), it's nice to have an idea how they might sound.