Hi all
As everyone is introducing themselves I thought I would do the same. I am
Graham, 46, live in York and run my own assistive tech business. I am not a
musician and initially thought this list was not relevant to me but Peter
encouraged me to join. I did discos for nearly twenty years as a hobby for
my friends for weddings etc. and would like to get back into it as think
there's a demand for themed discos especially eighties and would like to do
this using a laptop with jaws and possibly station playlist which I am
familiar with having briefly run an online radio station or maybe a mac.
Music has always been really important to me, I have a large collection of
vinyl and about 900 cd's and bought my first pop record when I was 7. I like
a lot of guitar based pop and rock but also am really into house and trance
and would love to learn how to mix dance music and also produce it but not
sure about the accessibility of all of this but assume it's either going to
be achieved through midi controllers or something like pro tools. So are
there any other DJ's on here? Ok that will do for now except to say that
the Olympus Chris is referring to is the LS100 which as far as I know has
full voice guidance and multi-track recording facility amongst other
things,. I can supply Olympus so if anyone wants any further info please let
me know. Cheers! Graham
From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Norman
Sent: 15 April 2015 15:08
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] Re: In Reply To: Introduction
Hi Sarah,
I'm afraid you might be stuck with recording with guide as it's quite a
limited piece of software. Where I volunteer we teach people to use guide,
and it's got nothing so far as I am aware to record with.
That said, if computers aren't your thing, there are a lot of great hardware
units out there, from tape machines to minidisk recorders to fully-fledged
digital recording systems. I've just sent a friend of mine a message, and
I'll let you know when I get the answer, but there's a little device made by
Olympus (not sure of spelling). It's a multitrack recorder, and it's pretty
well accessible so far as I can tell. I don't think it has speech output or
anything like that, but I know my friend certainly got a lot of really good
stuff done with it.
It's got reverb and possibly other fx with it too, so you could do some good
stuff with it.
Sadly, the recording programs for computers aren't easy to use - by their
very nature they're complicated beasts. The one saving grace though, is that
you can pick your speed.
When I used to record with Garage Band, I used to use the internal
microphone on my Mac, and the On screen Keyboard (which I still love using).
So I was completely removed from the abstracts of audio devices ETC. Nowa
days I'm more hands-on, with a big audio interface, and I pick inputs,
busses etc, but the point I'm trying to make is that you can choose to
interact as little or not as you like with your chosen software of choice.
If you're interested in knowing any more, please feel free to ask and I'll
give you more info - just didn't want to spam the list with this one post if
it wasn't something you were interested in! :-)
Cheers,
Take care,
Chris Norman
On 15 Apr 2015, at 13:56, Sarah Mellor <sarah_mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI Chris,
It was lovely and interesting to read your email and I think its a great
idea to share things about ourselves. our musical backgrounds etc. I sing
mostly with backing tracks usually covers but I especially love singing jazz
and songs from the shows. I like singing sixties and seventies to and some
modern songs so there is something to appeal to all ages. I have a demo
which I hope to use to try and find an agent so I can get more work at
weddings parties etc and maybe even clubs but I especially enjoy recording
and would really like to find a way of doing it which is accessible with
guide but so far haven't had any luck and dolphin didn't have any advice
either. I love hearing special effects things like loop peddles etc they
are extremely clever. I'm glad you included the link to your web site which
I will certainly check out. I hope you enjoy the list as I do.
Take care and best wishes.
Sarah
