Me locking the other topic was hardly a dick move when it was starting to turn into shit. The topic was completely useless in the first place, and I only left it open just because I knew it would generate some activity here. I locked it because my moderator senses told me it was going to hell and if I didn't stop it then, I'd have to come back to a complete mess of poop when I came back from my hiatus (I was out of state).
The simple fact of the matter is, people do, and always will, use presets and loops. Other people will want to invent their own sounds or try to use sounds in a way nobody else has before. Chances are, somebody already has and you just haven't heard of them. There are millions of ways to make a track unique.
Yes, production is important.
Yes, the notes/chords/melodies/etc are important.
Yes, the sounds you use are important.
No, you do not have to know how to do everything yourself. This is why many electronic acts consist of multiple people (some who make sounds, some who mix/master, some who write melodies and lyrics, etc etc), or have a sound engineer that mixes and masters for them, or uses presets that a sound designer made because it happens to be the particular sound they want, and so on.
Today's music industry makes it bleedingly obvious that you do not need talent to make it big. All you need is good marketing and/or connections in the industry.
We should all just respect each other for trying. Some people do this for the art, some do it as a hobby, some do it for the money, some do it for other reasons. Whatever your reason, don't spit on other people because they don't do it the way you do. That's just shitty.
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