[ddots-l] Re: New member
- From: Stacy Blackwell <stacy.blackwell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:12:03 -0600
Hello, Mark. I agree with
everything Michael said. In the 90's and a few years after,I used a Yamaha
MD8, but RP soon took its toll to where screens were useless. I gave up my
songwriting hobby and just enjoyed playing in my band www.backroadsband.net.
Around 2005, someone turned me on to Dancing Dots and I toured their site. I
talked to Gordon and Bill for years, not sure if I should make the big step.
Then I did. I have had my new system with Sonar 7 since September of 2008, and
I have enjoyed every minute of it. No more drum machine, no more analog
keyboard recording, no external processors, and best of all--JAWS and the CT
scripts tell me everything I need to know. Being a singer and guitarist, my
knowledge of MIDI was so basic; but now I have a better understanding of it and
its practicality, thanks to the CT tutorial. I'm still learning as I try new
things, and ddots-l's current members and archived posts have been so helpful.
But I must say a special thanks to Mary Pat and Bryan for putting up with my
many emails and phone calls. So, take the big step like I did. I don't think
you'll regret it.
P.S. I toured your site. Good job! That is something I want to have of my
own one day with my own originals. Right now I have completed 3 projects, and
I have 52 left to go! ha ha
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: New member
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:05:36 -0500
>
> Hi Mark its Michael Ciarciello from Montreal. I have been playing music
> since the age of 7 years when I started on the accordian, and then switched
> to guitar and bass, and keyboards at the age of 11 years. I have since then
> been in a few band some winning contests, and recordings too. Now I run a
> small time recording home studio, and its growing slowly, and am teaching
> music software at the rehab centre where I get to train Jaws for Windows,
> and Sonar, and Caketalking, along with GoodFeel. I also do teach guitar
> bass, and vocals as well, and I work steadily at a church here in Montreal,
> and am involved in playing weddings, and rock gigs here and there. I
> graduated from Concordia Univercity in a batchlers in Performance in music,
> and am very proud of that. I am also taking my masters in educational
> technology in hopes of bettering my knolege for technology, and computers
> and music. Oh yeah not to mention that I am married too.
> My wife believes in me greatly, and really wants me to succeed.
> You asked on weather or not it would be a worth while investment to purchase
> Jaws along with Sonar 8, and the scripts for Sonar. Let me put it to you
> this way, if your wanting to have a steady script, and work to grow in
> learning how to use Sonar, it would definatly be a worth while investment.
> Arguably there are free scripts that Vic has designed to make Sonar work,
> but you will greatly benifit from Ct's shortcuts, and tutorials.
> David Pinto the creator of Caketalking really puts lots of time for us
> giveing us in what my opinion is the greatest kick ass scripts you'll ever
> find on the planet. When I started this music recording thing back in 1992
> I went from one failure to another, testing out all sorts of screen readers
> out there, and sequencing programs which did not work at all. In all I
> think I may have spent about $4000 and nothing was working at all. One day
> my brother and I were sitting in our basement, and we gave it one more crack
> at getting Cubase to work with Jaws, and Windows bridge which at the time
> was a pretty good screen reader. However in the end we couldn't get Cubase
> to work at all with any screen reader, and I started to become very
> discouraged. Infact I almost gave the whole recording and writing music
> thing up which was in 1996. After four years of battleing it out, I didn't
> feel that I had any hope left in contributing to the univercity degree as
> well. However my brother gave me one word of encouragement, and that was to
> tell me that I shouldn't give up, that I'm sure something would come out of
> all of this. With that in mind the next morning I woke up, and called my
> local music shop, and asked them for the number for Cakewalk. The guy at
> the store however told me that at the time Cakewalk wasn't as powerfull as
> Cubase, but I told him of my situation and he wished me lots of luck in my
> adventure.
> At any rate after speaking to a gentleman at Cakewalk, he told me of a
> gentleman who was developing a product called GoodFeel, which would enable
> midi music to be translated in to braille using Cakewalk, in conjunction
> with Goodfeel.
> It was from then on that since dealing with Dancingdots, that I decided that
> this was finally the right path to take. I began working with Cakewalk and
> Gordon's scripts which now Vic has taken over, but still felt that there was
> something lacking from Gord's script even though I really appreciated the
> fact that at least I had something to work with and it at the time that I
> thank Gord too, as well as bill. Ok to make a long story short, I have been
> working with Ct, and Sonar, from 2000, til present, and will soon finally
> get a copy of Goodfeel. I can't begin to express the importance of how Bill
> has made it possible for all of us on this list to be successfull, and Dave,
> and Gord too.
> You might be probablly be thinking that I am pitching for you to buy CT, but
> believe you me, its definatly worth the money, and Dancing dots, and the
> support staff like Brian Smart, and Albert, and Bill, and Mary Pat, "Have I
> forgotton anyone," at Dancingdots are definatly there to support you should
> you require technical assistance.
> hope this helps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Dew" <jmkeybd1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:11 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] New member
>
>
> > Hello folks, My name is Mark Dew and I live in St. Louis Missouri.
> > I do piano-bar work here in St. Louis 4 nights a week.
> > On the job, I use the Yamaha p90 digital piano and the Roland Fantom X7.
> > I also use the Roland PK5 bass pedals and the Alesis Drum machine.
> > I am going on my 22nd year there now.
> > I have been using Sonar 2.0 for about 6 years now.
> > I am a Wineyes screen reader user.
> > I have just upgraded to Sonar 8.0.
> > Because of Windoweyes, what i get out of Sonar is some what limited.
> > I am considering switching to jaws screen reader and perchasing
> > Caketalking
> > as well.
> > My question is, what to I need to watch out for and how well do the 3
> > programs Sonar, Jaws and caketalking work together.
> > This is going to be a big exspense perchase.
> > I would welcome any input from you all.
> > If you wish, you can listen to some of my recordings at my web sight.
> > http://www.markdew.com
> > Thanks for your time and consideration.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >>
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> >>www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave
> >>Carlson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
> >>11:27 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Peak Limiter in Sonar?
> >> Phil, You wrote "you can' alter...". Did you mean "can" or
> >>"cannot"? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From:
> >> Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday,
> >>February 18, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Peak Limiter in
> >> Sonar?
> >> You can only enable or, disable it.
> >>Regards, Phil Muir
> >>
> >>P J Muir Productions,
> >>Music And Audio Production
> >>
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> >>URL:
> >>www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From:
> >> Stacy Blackwell To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent:
> >> Wednesday,
> >>February 18, 2009 10:32 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Peak
> >>Limiter
> >> in Sonar?
> >> Cool.
> >>S.B.
> >>
> >> From: ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Peak Limiter in Sonar?
> >>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:27:14 +0000
> >>
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> >> You could use Boost11 or, the Sonitus Compressor.
> >>Regards, Phil Muir
> >>
> >>P J Muir Productions,
> >>Music And Audio Production
> >>
> >>UK+44-1747-821-794
> >>Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246
> >>E-mail:
> >>info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>URL:
> >>www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message -----
> >>From: Stacy Blackwell To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:19 PM Subject:
> >>[ddots-l] Peak Limiter in Sonar?
> >> Is there something else that I haven't run across?
> >> S.B.
> >>
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