Tried Everything!

Btw, my piano is a Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-305, if anyone else uses one like it and knows how to get it to work with Music Creator 5! Thanks! :o)

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me, this gives me quite a bit to try out! Thank You! :o)

~~~~~~~~>         CaseyK :o)

www.myspace.com/caseykunleashed

Yeah there is little time as you know, but my husband is super supportive and I told him even if he took the kids for an hour to the park, thats huge, and yeah, with this software, I can get A LOT done in an hour! So yeah its a great time for me to be doing this. So, thanks for being so welcoming, and I'll have to post about my success! I'm already trying out the advice from Greg and looking into interfaces, which it seems I would've needed anyway. Yeah the desktop was working just fine, a little slow to initially load of course, but I am having way more trouble with this laptop! But I am hoping things will work out, cause its nice to have the speed of this updated processor. Anyway, sorry to ramble! And thanks again to you both for being willing to extend some of your knowledge my way. :o)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>                Casey :o)

Thanks so much for the help, it is so appreciated! Yeah that makes sense about Windows XP, so I am a little torn about using my laptop to do music, although the portability is nice. It seems there are pluses and minuses to using either or. :o( But hopefully between the two I can actually get where I want with this! :o)
 
I actually just bought myself an M-Audio Fast Track through Amazon, so I hope that does the trick! :o)
 
Thanks for the info on the songs forum, I'd love to join in on that! It would be nice to have that comraderie, so thanks so much. :o)
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>              Casey :o)
 
www.myspace.com/caseyknleashed

Most of us here use laptops with dedicated audio/midi interfaces.

It works pretty good.  take a listen to some of the music we record on MC and Sonar on our soundclick sites.


Do you play an instrument, sing, write, .... tell us a bit about yourself.

I play guitar, sing, write, mangle some keyboards....... but enjoy every minute of it.
 

Wow, I am so thrilled to have such talented and educated people here to help me follow my dreams! I just can't say thank you enough! :o)

Update: I got my piano working, after uploading the software, go figure. Why didn't I do that to begin with? Don't ask... :o) But the help was much appreciated. :o)

Laptop Update: And we are actually getting a slightly more expensive laptop that supposedly has the best processor available right now and 4GB and all that good stuff, so my husband thought it'd be worth it to spend a little more. I'm excited to use that once we get it, but until then, I'm back to using the desktop, which of course has no latency issues, so I was able to "complete" my song enough to get it out there, which I already gave my disclaimer about that on the "Songs Forum". :o)

If you want, you can hear it on my myspace page. Its the first song on the list. :o) I apologize if its not your flavor of music. :o) I'm a Pop/R&B girl to the core. :o)

And thanks for the instructions in advance about the Fast Track, I'm sure I would've needed that! I'm relieved to hear there are other poor musicians like me who are using the Fast Track and making it work for them. One day when I can get paid for doing this, I'll get some sweet gear, but until then, its so nice to be able to do this affordably. Phew! :o)

Well, I'll try not to go on and on, but I'm 25, and I'm the youngest of 6 kids and my whole family performed "oldies" as a band (my parents were in bands before having kids) and so starting at age 5 years old, I loved loved performing and started writing songs, and then eventually formed a band called SumOfUS, with one of my sisters and one of my brothers and we had a great time performing our originals in the Phoenix area, but eventually that fizzled and my husband and I moved to Salt Lake City, UT, and I kind of gave up on my dream and started having babies, but more recently I've felt that bug again even though I'm preg with my 4th (due Feb) and so I'm still working on it!

At the risk of completely boring anyone who reads this, my goal is to have my whole album recorded before I have him (actually I'm trying to finish it before the end of the year if I can, and that way after I give birth and am feeling up for it, I can start gigging my stuff assuming it'll be spring and I can hit the arts festivals and fairs here in UT and then go from there. I am able to sing just fine when preg (which is a miracle) and I bounce back pretty dang quick after giving birth (another miracle) so I am really hopeful that I can get back in the game after so many years of being "out of it". :o)

I can play enough piano to get by, and my husband plays guitar and piano much better and so he helps me where I need it. I kind of know enough about instruments to get by, but I'm hoping to learn more and improve. I'm mainly a singer/songwriter/performer, so of course this is all a means to an end which is to get me back on stage. :o)

Anyway, I look forward to getting to know all of you better and thanks again for the support and encouragement! Anything you want to share with me is welcomed very much, I have an appreciation and love for musicians coming from a family of musicians. :o)

Thanks again!!!!! ~~~~~~~~>     CaseyK :o)

www.myspace.com/caseykunleashed

nice bio.... welcome.... ask questions when you need to.

With guitar and  basic keyboard skills and the right synths... you can do anything, as evidenced by my songs.

Video Tutorials if you haven't seen them yet
 
nice work on the songs
 
links that may be helpful
 
Common Chord Formulas 
 
chord progression generator java based takes a bit to load
http://all-guitar-chords.com/ many tools here