Yeah, I'm doing some composing as a hobby and I'm kind of in between wanting to dig deep into music theory, understand all the way from different waveforms to how all the intervals work, ...and also not doing that, because man, a lot of it seems extremely formulaic.
Like, I'm genuinely worried that if I learn all the techniques that everyone else learns, that I'll make the same music.
But it also just does not look terribly fun, neither learning the formulas nor applying them.
I guess, I might still dig into waveforms and such, to understand how it works at a fundamental level, while dodging all the "you should compose like this" advice...