M
MikeAustin
New member
Um. hola!
Now that my lurking phase is ending, time to step into the fray. Newbie is the word here, because not only did I just "go public", but I'm also a novice to home recording (I'm even impressed w/the level of knowledge of the newbies here!). But I know smart people when I see them and these BBS's are rife with geniuses, and mostly friendly at that, too! I look foward to flattening the learning curve!
So, as Confucius said, "you gotta start somewhere" or words to that effect. And although I'm a true rook, I've been a musician for long, long time now and have actually done recording projects as far as 20 years back. Just not consistently... Through lucky breaks and by marrying a rich, senile old widow(!) I'm able to begin to lay down a home studio almost as a full-time job. I don't aspire to be the Daniel Lanois of the Southwest (he already is); my primary focus is songwriting and performing (keys/MIDI mostly). I'll save the rest of the bio for later (Dragon's so good with links he probably has one already for me on Amazon) but get to the point:
I definitely want to go digital off of my PC (2001 model Win 600+ MHz, running 98). I've decided that CakeWalk recording software will do for me, based on reviews and particularly that it's a Win standard (lots of company!). At this point I'm looking at Home Studio XL. My questions are these:
1) Am I getting the gist that the diff. between XL and "regular" 2002 is the extra auditing edit effects, more or less? If so I want the effects in XL. Any other key "bonuses?"
2) Would it be easy to switch to SONAR if I ever found for some reason, mostly transportability, that I wanted to dump my projects into that app?
3) Specs obviously considered, are there any sound cards that for any reason work particularly well with Cakewalk products?
For now, SONAR seems beyond my needs/goals, but I'm more interested in how adaptable the Home Studio projects are with a higher level software, and what the up's/down's are in trying to take my project to a professional studio. Apologies if this has been hit somewhere in this universe but I didn't find it so far. I'm stoked about beginning a home studio!
Anyway, good to be here, thanks for taking the time...
MikeAustin
Now that my lurking phase is ending, time to step into the fray. Newbie is the word here, because not only did I just "go public", but I'm also a novice to home recording (I'm even impressed w/the level of knowledge of the newbies here!). But I know smart people when I see them and these BBS's are rife with geniuses, and mostly friendly at that, too! I look foward to flattening the learning curve!
So, as Confucius said, "you gotta start somewhere" or words to that effect. And although I'm a true rook, I've been a musician for long, long time now and have actually done recording projects as far as 20 years back. Just not consistently... Through lucky breaks and by marrying a rich, senile old widow(!) I'm able to begin to lay down a home studio almost as a full-time job. I don't aspire to be the Daniel Lanois of the Southwest (he already is); my primary focus is songwriting and performing (keys/MIDI mostly). I'll save the rest of the bio for later (Dragon's so good with links he probably has one already for me on Amazon) but get to the point:
I definitely want to go digital off of my PC (2001 model Win 600+ MHz, running 98). I've decided that CakeWalk recording software will do for me, based on reviews and particularly that it's a Win standard (lots of company!). At this point I'm looking at Home Studio XL. My questions are these:
1) Am I getting the gist that the diff. between XL and "regular" 2002 is the extra auditing edit effects, more or less? If so I want the effects in XL. Any other key "bonuses?"
2) Would it be easy to switch to SONAR if I ever found for some reason, mostly transportability, that I wanted to dump my projects into that app?
3) Specs obviously considered, are there any sound cards that for any reason work particularly well with Cakewalk products?
For now, SONAR seems beyond my needs/goals, but I'm more interested in how adaptable the Home Studio projects are with a higher level software, and what the up's/down's are in trying to take my project to a professional studio. Apologies if this has been hit somewhere in this universe but I didn't find it so far. I'm stoked about beginning a home studio!
Anyway, good to be here, thanks for taking the time...
MikeAustin
