Most musicians (including myself) are pretty lost in these classes. The Audinate class was 3 days of the instructors slowly going through IT basics trying to get people caught up to where we can know whats going on inside of the hardware when its linked to a GUI on a computer.
I tend to see it as good thing that audio has gone that route. Audio over LAN allows us to do things with systems we never would be able to without it. And I think its good that we’re using hardware that communicates with the outside non-audio IT world and are able to use boxes and modules that are already built, and just need to be tweaked to accommodate studio workflow.
Why do you say that? There was never anything inherently creative about wiring an SSL to an analog tape machine either. I don’t see how hooking up a Waves server in a post production facility would be any more creative than hooking up a Cisco server in a bank. Was this supposed to be creative? If so, I never got the memo 
Both certification programs (Waves and Audinate) tell you up front that at the end of the program you won’t be an IT guy. You’ll have just enough vocabulary and knowledge to be able to ask a real IT professional coherent questions about implementing a Waves product. I mean…gotta start somewhere…right?
