"Despite recording studios being the place designed to capture musical ideas, in many of them it takes far too much effort to get those ideas down as they're happening." From Processing Creativity by Jesse Cannon (see review this issue)
How is it that a professional recording studio is actually one of the most difficult places to capture a spontaneous recording? I know that might sound shocking, but it's true. Think of the beginning of a typical session, where no mics are set up, no cables are patched, and no tracks are enabled. You wanna throw an idea down really fast? It'll be a while as we plug all this in, turn on the computer, align the tape deck, and so on.