My main inspiration comes from a kind of scientific testing of things. I like to push the red button, so to speak, JUST to see what happens. Usually the result is inspiring. But this is the general method of creation that I use all the time, and the beauty of it is there's always something new to try. John Cage says "consider everything an experiment", and that works really well for me.

I also find inspiration and ideas on what to experiment with in fairly mundane things (or non-mundane, depending on your point of view) such as nature, evolutionary biology, books, other people's experiments and an urge to adapt them for myself, as little-scale said - the phase misalignment of car indicators, and so on.

I would be interested, potentially. My week 21 was composed, but not produced, in about 55 minutes. Total time was about 1:20 including polishing the sound in Logic a little. I think 45 minutes is a fair goal.

I dunno if this belongs here or in a genuine whinge thread, but you know when you're doing a gig and the cable from your computer to the PA doesn't work properly, so audio keeps cutting in and out, but not on both connectors? And somehow I managed to feed the audio input into the output (though the software I was using I *swear* prevented this)...

Embarrassment...

Relate, very relate. But I managed to get something done!

Yeah it's a site policy rather than a technical legality.

Ah, sounds like virtually ever bit of software ever. I have had no problems with it so far. Except for the whole learning how to use it thing.

I bought Max 6, I didn't like 5 much at all. 6 seems alright, but I haven't used it enough previously to really say if I dislike it. Why do you dislike Max 6?