Yeah, I'm a fourth generation musician and a second generation singer-songwriter. I've always done it guerrilla style with basic Firewire/USB interfaces and mos

Yeah, I'm a fourth generation musician and a second generation singer-songwriter. I've always done it guerrilla style with basic Firewire/USB interfaces and mostly free or cheap apps. The only interesting thing about what I do, probably, is that I use a fair bit of algorithmic composition even with rock songs - I'll use a chain of Ableton randomizers to generate arpeggios or pads, or chord changes or bass lines, and then find bits I like and use those. Occasionally I'll write some JS to generate pieces, but rarely. I'm a second generation digital musician as well - my mom was a Nashville country singer, but she used synths and Cakewalk for DOS to demo stuff back when nobody was really doing that at home, and I was her mini-engineer as a kid. In the early 90s I started doing sampling stuff with Sound Recorder in Windows 3.1, and then later with trackers and such. These days my favorite tool is my iPad Pro, with every kind of synth emulator and an expressive touch interface. Here's a couple of examples of my stuff, a totally algorithmic piece I did about twenty years ago (Jesus) and a more straight rock/blues number that's more Tom Waits-ish. Probably not interesting for your readers, but I'm proud of doing this stuff completely by myself in a bedroom. https://on.soundcloud.com/TbDWy https://on.soundcloud.com/TbDWy https://legbaandsons.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-dust-digital-single https://legbaandsons.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-dust-digital...