Can cool edit make my song writing anybetter?

[Alteezza]

Ha ha what a dumb question huh? I was wandering if I plugged my brain tumor into the line in on my soundcard if cool edit can decipher the entangled veins and lump and make......SONG WRITING HISTORY? ha ha sorry for wasting your time, I just thought that you maybe needed a laugh but I fear that I have made you all slightly less intelljint by herring dis.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Actually, I think the answer is "yes". One of the hardest things about songwriting, at least in the beginning, is imagining how everything sounds together, and in knowing where the breaks, bridges, choruses etc should go. Cool Edit Pro allows you to cut & paste, mix & match and take a good song and tweak it into a much better one. Last spring we were recording a CD project and one song just wasn't happening. It sounded "OK", but that was it. We discussed the problem for a long time and finally I took the last chorus, copied it and pasted it right after the break, which had previously led into the next verse, and there we were.

 

[chrisharris]

Nice topic, lol.

But seriously, while it can't make you a "better" songwriter, it can sure as hell make you a more productive one. I can't tell you how many times I got a vocal melody in my head, knowing that it would soon vacate that small area if I didn't put it down fast. No time to grab a 4 track and start plugging shit in and twisting knobs, lol...but plenty of time to open up CEP and hit the "on" button on my preamp and just record it. Most of those have turned into songs that never would have existed but for the convenience of this little gem.