Like the way you put that into words. Full circle indeed. Have been computer literate since Windows 95 *but* nothing as far as DAW until this past year or two. That's why I decided last year to take some sound advice and have a seperate custome tower pc built for video and audio editing duties and use laptop for everyday use and a book I keep putting-off intend to write about rather unique military experiences. Being a Type-A Personality, rarely do absolutely nothing for sake of doing nothing.
There's *ONE* vst/synth/sampler called Izotope IRIS that I want to purchase eventually. Ever read-up and see the things you can do with sound as if it were maleable clay? It's not a cheap one at $199. but would let you take a portable digital recorder and lay it next to a railroad track when train is en route, then take that sound as well (as banks of sounds it comes with) and imagine mixing slice of the stress on metal on metal mixed with say a bee's nest, thunder, and say a dash of cat's meow--then resampling, twisting, effecting, filtering, then drawing vector-like lines where the pass of the synth/oscillator's built cross over become whatever you want...! Take a look
http://izotope.com/products/audio/iris/ at demo and tell me what you think? It's like making sounds with a Haydron Collider (sp?), ha!
What's cool about the "full-circel" as you wrote above, is both groups have alot to offer and learn from each, if Ego and Id is let down to do so. Imagine Access Support pulling their hair out whilst being patient with those that Virus Control issues were more times than not their misunderstanding of the computer environment? Have read some real funny threads where people having problems with their DAW, whichever it may be, yet stubornly expecting to be using skype or play person to person proccessor intensive games over internet!!
Ignorance is bliss to some...the red or blue pill?!