I use musagi. It's versatile as fuck but buggy as hell, and to be honest I wouldn't recommend it to people (I've been using it for 4 years, feels like my child).

I have limited use of Ableton, but every time I HAVE used it I've enjoyed it. Pretty easy to pick up and also has a lot to fuck about with underneath the surface, though if I remember rightly it has a hefty price tag...

I don't think everyone was taking it as criticism, you've got pretty legit reasons too, ones which I'm sure many others, including myself partially, share.

Hopefully  as people begin to drop off we'll start getting about 60 weekly entries, so listening to all of them will be more realistic for everyone!

I tend to write about 4 or 5 songs simultaneously (probably explains my stupidly high output last year) but since starting WeeklyBeats I've refused to let myself write more than one at once. Why? Because it means come the following week I've come up with so many ideas I want to try from the previous week that I'm literally gagging to start writing. No joke, the SECOND it hit midnight monday morning this week, I began work on my track. I foresee another midnight session this coming monday too,but it's keeping both my momentum and enthusiasm for the project high.

I think we've also entered a weird place where comments=popularity. It's odd but logical, maybe if there was a like (not dislike, counter-productive) or play count this would suffice? I know I personally would get as much fulfilment knowing people are just listening, though the nature of the challenge makes Trash80's choice for just comments make ALOT of sense.

Also, I do have the time to listen to everything, but I decided as I'm doing the round-up blog posts, not to comment on any songs. The pros are I have a time to live outside of weeklybeats (as the blog itself, plus listening time and time for me to be indecisive about my favourites usually takes about 8-10 hours over two days, depending on how many entries there were, so plus 5 minutes PER song to think of something constructive... as Roboctopus said, days) but the cons are, that the songs I genuinely love but were cut from the 16 that go into the blog (top 5, 10 honourable mentions, and whatever cTrix has been up to) don't get any, well, love.

Glad people are enjoying it, cheers for the support