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
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
