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That's what I am out to do.
Songwriting first, technology second.

I look at recording and the songwriting process as a tree.
I'm trying to lay down those roots.

Anyone attempting songwriting has their own mental picture of how they want to sound.
Whether the end result is an improvement depends on what the creator of that work is looking for.
Pro-Tools and knowing where the A chord goes can't get someone their alone.

Now if I could find where that A chord goes.

Matt

Edit: I thought I should add, that despite the terminologies in music, organized music at it's most basic level is playing specific notes in root to a given beat. And a kid that wants to be taken seriouisly in songwriting would cop riffs to create songs. At least myself and anyone I know of that did that and played in bands.
Seeing to it that the listener hears the familiar in the given song.
Most music is an imitation of another form. People have even mentioned all kinds of influences with what I do even trying to stray away from anything that sounds copped.
I am to the thinking that it is in ones sound and originality that sets them above, not physical talent.
The Beatles may have been very inventive and talented, but they were also new and fresh.
So much so, that they were turned down for recording contracts many times before they had one.
I don't have those stars in my eyes with what I am doing, and do recordings for the love of doing it more than anything.
It's one thing to learn the basics and cop riffs.
It is another thing all together to do something new and try to follow that vision.
In the last 3 years I have been on the net, musicians like that either get back that they do not know the fundamentals and, or are not serious musicians, or there are people that consider what they do fresh and new - a plus.

Some just like to play the type of music they love, others like trying to stray from that.
But how far technology can add or diminish a recording is always going to depend on the user, and what Jim says, how one knows about the use of that technology.
But what is done with technology, in any form, is important as well.

Matt