A Special Thank You To This Forum

Looking back through my meager post history here, I realized that it was one year ago that I made my first post on this forum. At that time, I had been looking at getting into home recording as a hobby, and made the following post, which started me on my quest.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...Beginner-m3430421.aspx

I don't think I can adequately describe how little I knew (about anything) 12 months ago, and how much this forum has helped me over this past year. At the time, I had no concept about Midi, audio interfaces, virtual instruments, how to connect anything, or even what a DAW was. At the time, Sonar was not even on my radar - I was close to purchasing either Reaper or Studio One. The lifetime updates piqued my interest; however, it was this forum that convinced me to buy Sonar. The folks on this forum were (and continue to be) patient and helpful to an extreme newbie. Though many have helped - Chuck, Larry, Azslow3, Bitflipper, Fleer, Scook, and especially Abacab have been personally helpful to me. Thank you guys!

What a year it has been! Since last summer, I've got setup a fairly decent keyboard based system (pictured below), built a DAW computer, found out what GAS was (and succumbed to it), bought some modules, bought some VSTs and plugins, set everything up, learned about Midi routing, subscribed to a few recording magazines, and learned some very basic things about Sonar and recording. I still know very little (I'm a very poor musician), but I am having an absolute blast with all of this.
 
My goal for this upcoming year is to learn the basics of recording and Sonar. I've bought the Sonar series from Groove 3, and I have started going through it. My biggest challenge is that I have no background in recording, I don't even know what the terminology is. The videos seem to be good enough to explain where to find things in Sonar, but I'm missing the basics which would bring it all together. Comping, take lanes, echo, ripple editing, busses, etc. - it all all foreign to me. I'm humbled by the decades of experience that some forumites have here, and how they selflessly give time and energy to help new folks. I hope that continues with the string of very basic questions I will have soon.
 
Again, thank you.
 

Where's your lava lamp?

Nice setup, Michael! What kind of desk do you have there?

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I like to think that in this forum this applies. You have questions we have answers!
 
I glanced at the thread you posted and my comment is that. Not every answer is appropriate or correct. Its up to the poster that starts a thread to weed out those answers that contain poor advice. One even suggested you go to Cubase.
I view that as bad advice. Not only is it inappropriate for this forum it is also singularly bad advice for a beginner.
 
Stick with Sonar and it will repay you for your efforts.
 
In the end though how far you get is up to you. There is a ton of tutorial material available plus we are here to help get over the humps that stop one from progressing.  
 
Welcome to the forum and ask away.  

husker
 
Again, thank you.
 

You are certainly welcome, husker.  You have made some amazing progress.  And that is quite a rig you have built there! 
 
Kenny recently posted a thread about the Sonar learning curve, that had some great back and forth discussion.  Here it is, just in case you missed it.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...-la-Cart-m3608415.aspx
 
I think that the consensus that I took away was that it is best to learn as the need arises, rather than trying to swallow the whole thing at once.

abacab
I think that the consensus that I took away was that it is best to learn as the need arises, rather than trying to swallow the whole thing at once.

+1
That's good advise right there.

bitflipper
Where's your lava lamp?

Agreed. I'm afraid we can't help you anymore until you get one and post pics. ;)

Believe me, I didn't pay near that - I found one used online.  Felt fortunate to find that - the market for inexpensive desks that have a slide out tray for an 88 key workstation is....minuscule.
 
Actually, most things you see in the pic were purchased used.  
 
And as for those lava lamps....

I have a classic blue lava lamp.  
 
Plus a Lava Lamp Aquarium!!!
https://lavalamp.com/product/7208/
 

 
 

Yes.

Maybe.

You need this many synths... Or at least Hans Zimmer does, I guess...


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Scott R. Garrigus - http://www.garrigus.com
* Cakewalk SONAR Video Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/u...gus?sub_confirmation=1
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks
* Publisher of the DigiFreq music recording newsletter: http://www.digifreq.com/
* Publisher of the NewTechReview consumer tech newsletter: http://www.newtechreview.com/

Has anybody  every figured out how to make a Lava lamp control a synth? I bet that would sell like hotcakes!