The deeper I get into all these programs, the less music I'm making.
For me, it's more of a case of "how" I'm making music. I just spent the morning putting together a drum track for a jam track. So far it has been a whole lot of fun and I have to say that working with MIDI drums (scratch drumming, not loops) is definitely changing the way I hear tempo.
Having said that, a lot of the people in the Studio One community are people with zero to very little musical knowledge and they are using the tools in Studio One to compensate for their lack of knowledge. I'm trying to use Studio One in context with guitar and musical learning. At the end of the day, rather than trying to turn this into some cerebral journey, I'm having fun and learning a whole lot about the nuts and bolts of actual composition and technique.