I think some of us are just trying to protect and defend the legacy of actually being able to play a part, while some of you make jokes about it as if being able to play is a bad thing.
"Being able to play" v. "being able to play is a bad thing." "Defending the legacy" v. "piecing together parts note by note." And always--always--"us v. them." Hence a potentially useful discussion of a home studio recording technique in the Recording Techniques sub-forum of the Home Recording site becomes an opportunity to posture and divide, to imply that the people who do it one way are better and purer than the people who do it some other way. There are no opinions, only positions, and every discussion becomes a clash of ideology. It doesn't have to be this way.
Proof is in the product. Taras has written, recorded and posted what must be fifteen songs on this forum in the last year. The quality of his work speaks for itself. I have posted fifteen. Think what you will about the quality of those. Neither of us is telling you how you should do it. We are just explaining how we do it, for the benefit of someone who asked. I would say to anyone, if what you are doing is working for you, keep doing it.
For any who are interested, I'll post a link to a Youtube video about a recording session with Paul Leim, a Nashville drummer and producer. He talks about the importance of sessions players who can nail it in one take. When studio time is money and budgets are limited, you want people who can walk in, plug in, read the chart, and produce a pro-level take in one go.
I am in awe of those people. I really am. But I am nowhere near that level. I also don't have a team of A-list cats to come in and play with me. While I'm fortunate to have found people lately who are interested in collaborating, for the most part it has been all me. My mortgage is my studio cost. But I'm also under time pressure, because I write a lot of songs and want to realize them in recordings. So I do my best with the techniques that are available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWMKAX8Chuc