What do you prefer, the creative challenge, or the technical challenge?

[jesterroot4]

I'm pretty much in the boat with everyone else- don't use templates for "real" sessions, but for your own songwriting endeavors, I would recommend it. I write everything into a template, of which I have spent considerable time tweaking over the last year or so. It definitely helps a lot with what you're talking about- being able to focus on the music I'm writing, and having fairly decent to great sounding production elements is not only fun, but it helps get the vibe out and spur on my creativity!

+1 i find this definitely helps with the creativity, not only this, but its all this messing around and fiddling thats making me a better engineer.

 

[Glenn Fricker]

My personal quest is to have a template that I load up in Cubase that has all the mixing, mastering, etc. done, so that I just hit the magic button, and have the sound I crave. I want to be challenged to create good music.

It'll never happen. Each band performs differently. The sound is in the hands. It's your job to bring out the best in that.