Arbaz,
I think I'm going to go with you on this one. If someone wants to think they've got the bead on what it takes to be a "pro" by the equipment or methods they are using and anyone who is doing it some other way is an amateur....oh well. Or that in the final analysis it is the stamp of approval by a live audience to judge whether we are real or fake, or the work is good or bad.
I think in both cases, the perspective of making music however for the sheer pleasure of the sound is lost.
Success and professionalism and muscianship is a state of mind the rest of this stuff is mere judgemental mumbo jumbo to make one feel better than the next, by what baggage they are carrying.
Me, I'm making music guilt free...if someone wants to say, oh I don't respect your work because you use an arranger instead of a workstation, or you don't scratch out a tune note by note for every different part, well that's their hang up, not mine. I'm not making music to impress them anyway, that's what adolescents do.
Terry

[This message has been edited by Jocko (edited 11-09-2001).]