[ddots-l] Re: New member.
- From: Edward Alonzo <ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 07:43:58 -0500
wow. sounds like you've been through quite a bit.
I've always been interested in audio production, and sense I'm a guitar player,
hopefully with sonar and caketalking, I will be able to merge the two together.
Like I said before, I have a roland gr33 processor which can make most of the
sounds I might need for production other instruments, accept drums.
I am unlike a lot of blind people, a good keyboard player, so I am hoping to be
able to learn how to use a midi controller to make my own drum tracks. I find
its a lot easier to record when I've got a drummer in there..
Edward Alonzo
Email: ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx
Tell: 870-324-2334
On Apr 7, 2014, at 11:41 PM, "Mike Tyo" <mtyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Edward,
>
> Welcome to the list. I've been here for a while, and I find it to be friendly
> and helpful as well.
>
> When I first got into recording and mixing, I was manipulating old reel to
> reel machines and cassette recorders patched through whatever amps and little
> 4-channel mixing units that I had at the time.
>
> My first real "production" facility was a Tascam Portastudio. <Anybody
> remember those machines?> Hey - it wasn't pro audio, but it was better than
> what I had. For the benefit of those who don't know, it was a 4-track
> recorder/mixer that used cassette tape with type II DBX noise reduction. You
> didn't have a lot of head room with it because of the fact that you used
> cassette tape; quite often you'd get distorted audio even when you'd record
> or bounce down tracks at a decent level.
>
> I went from there to a Fostex 8-track reel to reel that used quarter-inch
> tape with Dolby C noise reduction; that was patched into a 12-channel mixer
> that I had to constantly mess around with to record and hear things back
> simultaneously. Even with the tape traveling at 15 inches per second, there
> were still problems with getting a decent take on a track or a bounce due to
> the fact that each track was the size of one track on a cassette. There was
> also the expense of calibrating and/or replacing tape heads so the damn thing
> would operate correctly.
>
> When the Alesis Adat machines came out, it was a step towards digital
> recording, but you still were using tape - which was super VHS tape. You also
> had the usual problems associated with the mechanics of using tape machines.
> I had a slightly better mixer, but I really didn't have enough channel to
> accommodate the recorder and inputs for mics or instruments.
>
> Then I graduated to a Roland VS-880, which was an 8-track digital recorder
> that used a hard drive, and it too had a built-in mixer with an optional
> multi-effects board that I had installed. It wasn't a bad machine, but it too
> had limitations in that it compressed the audio, so you really weren't
> getting what's considered high quality audio nowadays. Another huge obstacle
> with that machine was that I was running into accessibility issues -
> especially when it came to editing the data and operating features beyond the
> pans and sliders on the mixer. I ended up messing up more projects than
> getting things done the way I wanted them.
>
> I think I went from the fire into the frying pan when I moved up to a
> stand-alone Fostex 24-track recorder and a 32-channel mixing board. The mixer
> was analog, and I didn't have too many problems operating it; but the
> recorder, well, here again, it was a good machine, but that old accessibility
> issue reared its ugly head once more.
>
> When I heard about Dancing Dots and its great accomplishment of developing
> the CakeTalking module to allow JAWS to interact with Sonar, I had to take a
> good long hard look; and I was extremely impressed with how it all worked -
> and how well it worked.
>
> The rest is history. Needless to say, I'm in awe of what I can do with this
> stuff using my computer to get done what I should've been able to do all
> along; and, I actually enjoy doing it! I was seriously considering not doing
> this recording thing any more because of the lack of accessibility to an
> awful lot of the hardware out there; but the folks at Dancing Dots saved my
> rear-end - to put it bluntly.
>
> I wish you well in getting a system that'll meet your needs; and if you run
> into problems and whatnot, the people on this list along with the
> well-written CakeTalking tutorials will get you up and running.
>
> Take care.
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Alonzo" <ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "dancing dots email list" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 12:54
> Subject: [ddots-l] New member.
>
>
> Hello everyone:
>
> I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Edward alonzo, and I have been
> playing guitar sense the early 1980's. I recently heard a demo on cake
> talking using sonar. and really liked it.
> I use a roland GR-33 fx processor as well as an FX-5200 processor for my
> guitars.
> the roland if you don't know is like a guitar midi processor. it allows you
> to be able to make multiple instruments. its pretty cool.
> I am looking to get me a DAW from Dancing dots, so I can create music using
> these processors, and vocals.¬
> I also plan to use a midi controller to create drums for my music as I am not
> a drummer, nor a keyboard player, this will take some learning on my part as
> I am not familiar with how all that works.
> I will have a lot of reading to do.
> I am hoping to get some help from this list once I start.
> Everyone take care and I would be interested to talk to those of you that are
> successfully using the software to create your own productions. my contact
> info will be at the bottom of this email.
> thanks for reading.
>
> Edward Alonzo
> Email: ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx
> Tell: 870-324-2334
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