certain plugins go a long way toward warming and fattening up music - but if whatever it's affecting just isn't there in the first place, it's not going to be the same. in recorded sound, the most important element is the source, followed by the initial capturing of that source, and then by whatever you do to it afterward, and finally in the playback. there are some people who turn this on its ear, warping the most incredible things out of something very mundane. but they still started with the original characteristics, which in turn affected the building blocks of their sound.
again, having said this, i enjoy some music made on laptops very much, some of it even doing a decent replicating job i sort of spoke against. whatever works.
d. (seeing if one section of my long reply at a time gets through)
