Sometimes you will hear something slightly organic, but this is often in combination with more synthetic sounding tones. I'm not particularly trying to emulate anyone, though at times I might be so impressed with a certain style or piece that I'm tempted to create something similar. But these are only layman's impressions of those styles. It is only recently that I felt like researching basic music theory, but the many rules and conventions are seldom consciously adhered to. Much of music theory seems just a way of communicating some of the typical aesthetics most musicians already have internally.
Music is intuitive.
If you know what you like in music, you don't need to know anything else. People have asked me why most of my music is instrumental. There are many reasons for this preference, both aesthetic and practical. First, I don't have a whole lot to say, at least not much that would go well with the music I write. I found that the contents of many of my lyrics were getting a little too similar.