At 10:54 AM 7/4/2005, you wrote: <snip>
I started out knowing absolutely nothing other than being able to play my keyboard.
Thanks!
Sincerely Aaron Cannon
> -----Original Message----- > From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of David > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:30 AM > To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Am I in over my head? > > Stephanie, your not the only one on this list that looks at much of what > gets posted and has very little understanding to what is being said. I > can > read the words, but I know little more after the read than before it. > > I tend to look at it as eating an Elephant, and if I look at the Elephant > as a huge animal that I have to eat all at once, I get overwhelmed. Bite > by bite is how I learn this recording software as well as computers in > general. > > There is no doubt that this stuff is complicated on several > levels. Learning to set up the software so it will even work, then > getting > your screen reader to work with it, then learning the baby steps of > recording a track. Then learning a few terms along the way. Then > learning > to alter the recording levels, the recorded sound, and the play > back. then comes setting up the Mix. Plus a lot of other things in > between what I have already said. > > Not only do you need to learn and practise your favorite instrument, but > running the software is a lot like playing an instrument. It too > requires much practise before your efforts begin sounding good. > > I bought Sonar and after getting it, I realized that Sonar is WAY more > than > what I needed. Hey, I just wanted to do some simple recording and play > back. but instead, I bought the top of the line professional recording > package when I should have bought something a lot less professional. > > <Chuckle> But, I'm into it far enough, I can not really go backwards, so > I > press on, with some grumbling and griping along the way. > > So even though your an accomplished Pianist, its back to walking Baby > steps > when it comes to recording. And your not the only one taking Baby > steps. I'm sure there are a lot of us out here. > > I can't help but wonder how many of us buy equipment that we hope to use > and soon find that we can not get it to work with either our screen > readers, or just can not master it well enough to get anything useful out > of it. So it sits on the shelf. > > > A > the problem I see with most manuals is that they are often written by > someone that is extremely familiar with what ever the software might > be. They assume you the new user, knows more than you actually > do. People that are deeply familiar with something have a very difficult > time breaking it down into very basic beginner baby steps for the person > that really knows nothing. And I do mean nothing. > > > For most of us, It is like being thrown into a college course and we have > yet to attend grade school and high school. > > So I am very grateful for lists like this one where others who have jumped > into this recording pond before me, have found the answers ahead of me. > I > can ask them and if I get an answer that is full of terms I do not > understand, I then ask them to give it to me again in baby language. > > Hopefully I can come up to speed and I then can help others coming into > this experience after me. > > > <Smile> Now if I can just get my computer to play a Midi file I'll be one > more tiny baby step closer to my goal. > > Cheers! > > David > > t 05:19 AM 7/4/2005, you wrote: > >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: <mailto:Doorish_jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>Jason > >To: <mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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: <mailto:stephpieck@xxxxxxxxxxx>Stephanie Pieck > >To: <mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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 > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 7/1/2005
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