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Hi Ferkungamabooboo! Thanks for watching my GameSpot interview and taking the time to reply with your thoughts about it. I read your comments and I thought I would just clarify things a bit, from my perspective. :-) When you said that I was saying something like "ok we're going to sit down and write a song like x" -- I was just talking about musical genres. As media composers, we're all asked to write in various genres, and we have to get used to being flexible in terms of our skillset and musical expertise. No composer creates in a vacuum. I think we all try to learn from the masters who came before us, and we all try to understand the wealth of musical genres that currently exist. I think that's creatively exciting, and very inspiring. Thanks for saying that you like my viewpoint on being a "one stop shop". You're right -- it does open up a lot of doors. :-) When I said that "face time is important", I was talking about meeting with prospective employers at conventions and conferences. While one might assume that an employer would hire a composer strictly on the basis of their music quality, the employer also needs to consider other interpersonal factors like "will this composer be easy to work with?" and "does this composer really understand my project?" Prospective employers are naturally quite nervous. They want to make the right decision, and there are a lot of things for them to consider. A face-to-face meeting goes a long way towards helping them get a feel for what you are like as a person. It can be tremendously reassuring. Thanks for your thoughtful comments about my interview, Ferkungamabooboo! Kind regards, Winifred Phillips

Wow. I had no idea this topic was still live, haha. Thanks as always, Marius, for the in-depth insight. I'm pretty positive that it will be a very, very long time before I have a computer powerful enough to handle either of these packages. Not to mention the amount of time it would inevitably take to learn them properly. But I'm always amazed at what's being achieved through sampling!