Check out T-Pain giving Diddy lessons on functions inside the Daw. I remember recording a session with Pain b4 he blew and he explaining "signal flow" to me. I dealt with this before without fully understanding the mechanics behind it but the way he explained it....at that very moment (I Understood). This was when he was using Sonar to compose/record with and days after he had made "Im Sprung" b4 the world heard it. This guy is hands down a genius and it is very inspiring seeing him go from teaching me concepts about music to now teaching "Diddy". HARD WORK PAYS OFF!!!