I try to hard to be "zen" about my creative tools. It shouldn't matter whether I have my laptop or just a pen and a pad. A song is a song, right?
But I'm discovering that it does seem to matter. The last time I had PIanoteq open, I used a Rhodes sound. Now I've opened it again and the Rhodes sound was already loaded. I realized the sound was influencing my composition.
So I guess I should just go ahead and embrace everything that is the creative process.