The advice about treating it like an instrument is good, IMO I play a bunch of instruments and have been on quite a few recording, but I had to spend the last

The advice about treating it like an instrument is good, IMO I play a bunch of instruments and have been on quite a few recording, but I had to spend the last couple of months learning a novation circuit and an electron octatrack for a project I am working on. TBH, it took me about a week with abelton and a DVD course to learn enough to be fairly productive with it... that was back when there wasn't much on YTube. These things are instruments and require just as much work to learn.