So I mentioned that I'm going to try running a music panel at a con in this thread, but I would like to get the community's opinion of what the best way to run such a panel. If anyone here has ever run a panel, I would appreciate your thoughts.
My goal for the panel is to teach the audience how to produce music, and I'm still bouncing around a couple of different ways I can approach this:
1) Panelists demonstrate the production process in their own DAWs and instruments of choice and describe their methods.
- Pros: Panelists are working in familiar territory and can generate higher quality music.
- Cons: The information might not be as useful to the audience, since they might not have access to the same tools.
2) Panelists demonstrate the production process in a free software like Audiotool.
- Pros: The audience has easy access to the tools demonstrated.
- Cons: The panelists are working in unfamiliar territory and will produce lower quality music.
If someone has other ideas, I'd love to hear them. If you were attending a con and saw a music panel on the schedule, what would you expect from it?