Go through the manual at least once so you could have a background even if you don't understand everything just yet. At least the subject lines will become more familiar. You're not suppose to understand everything all at once anyway. CT does a really good job of holding your hand as a beginner and taking you through the whole process. When I started, I knew absolutely nothing except having the desire to record music on my computer. I'm a numb-skull, and if I could get to a point where I could play and record musicon my computer, then anybody can... I'm a guitar player (fill in joke here)... You'll be surprised how much you'll refer back to the CT tutorials. You are, learning a diferent language. Don't be discouraged and just ask questions. Most of them I can almost guarantee, are already answered in the CakeTalking tutorials. And if you still don't understand post a question here. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephanie Pieck To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:19 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Am I in over my head? Hi, Have to agree with you there! It's hard, and the manual is dry reading. Not only that, but I never learned Windows thoroughly or correctly. I'm a concert pianist, piano teacher and composer, not a professional sound engineer! I got Sibelius and Sibelius Speaking at the same time. The manual for that is much easier. What do you do with music? Just curious and very relieved to find someone else on this list who's a beginner with the guts to say so. (I mean, just looking at the subject lines of the messages gets me confused. Are they in English or what?) Stephanie ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:14 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Am I in over my head? yeah pretty much the other thing is half the lessons I'm like am I ever going to need to do this?. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephanie Pieck To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Am I in over my head? Hi, I'm new to this list, new to CT and SONAR, and I can agree that starting out is really hard! But I figure there are about fifty lessons in the CT manual. If I do one a week, maybe in a year I'll have a clue! Stephanie