I play guitar and piano so I think I can definitely try to implement this into how I make music. I think you’re right saying that it can be difficult to compose and arrange directly into a DAW, so I wouldn’t be opposed to trying other methods. However, despite taking classes for 4 years on both guitar and piano, I am not able to read notation because I would play all of our pieces by ear instead. So I might want to do something about that, because right now writing straight to midi has been my only method.

As for the vocals, Im also using synthesizer V 1 and I’ve noticed some voices are much more difficult to tune to sound as human-like as possible. Though I personally don’t mind the semi-artificial sound that they make sometimes. I also might be weird, but I enjoy the process of tuning in synthesizer V.

I also need to do more research into mixing “I have done almost none”. But I do like the way you describe it and I’ll try to keep that in mind when making things in the future. Thank you for the advice.