Mike had a porter studio verry early model, and then a parter studio 246 <smile yes we have come a long long way.At 12:41 AM 4/8/2014, you 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 Skype: edwardalonzoPLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! 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