[ddots-l] Re: Am I in over my head?
- From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:29:58 -0700
Jason,
"Are there other
programs or is sonar it."
IF you need access due to visual impairment, then I think so.
----- Original Message -----
Dave
From: "Jason" <Doorish_jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 04 July, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Am I in over my head?
thank you for saying that. I just feel like exactly what you said. I'm in
grad school of sound engineering but I haven't been in first grade yet. I
guess I didn't realize how pro audio sonar really is. Are there other
programs or is sonar it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <dheilman1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 9:30 AM
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
>>
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