Re: FN-FORUM [OT ish] Computer Music & John Major

date posted 1st October 2002 13:15

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> That's great, Paul. Thanks for the encouragement. I am a complete
> novice to computer music, so if you could point me in the direction of
> what to look at first with regards to 'Cubase/Soundforge/Protools' etc,
> I'd be very grateful. I am a song writer and would love to expand my
> knowledge to keep up with the technology.

that depends greatly on how you write your songs.

you don't need a whole load of stuff to do it despite what you may read
in alot of the music tech mags - who promote gear lust... saying that i
have two floor-standing ceiling high racks packed with stuff i never use...

I used to use sequencers... but now just record everything "live" and
edit it later, i use cool edit pro because it is simple and incredibly
powerful. it doesn't force you to work in any particular way.

music technology is a great and wonderful thing... potentially... but it
so very easy to become reliant on it... beware the ides of march's
sound-on-sound... ;-)

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