For my 2cents Bob, this forum should be exactly what you [and me] want it to be.

If someone here can't figure out how to get GT or some associated software or hardware to do what it's supposed to, or they want to improve some part of their recording technique, they ask a question here.

If someone knows the answer to said question, they reply, or try to help in some other way.

A bit of a laugh and a joke along the way makes it all a bit more fun but basically, those two tenets should hold true.

Nobody can ask a dumb question has long been the way it is round here, and long may it continue.

Anyone who judges someone else on their ability to use this software is sadly lacking in the social graces - we all had to start somewhere.

The answer to a question is either easy or difficult - depending on whether you know it or not!

As far as I'm concerned Bob - any question you ask is valid and I will always attempt to help you, or anyone else for that matter - as such, you are as welcome here as anyone, and I hope you continue to use this forum in your quest for knowledge.

Remember, the guys that write the software don't always get it right so what chance the rest of us!!









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I appreciate that, Steve.

No problem mate - without guys like Robert, Randy, JamzOr and Doc investing so much time in me way back, I'd still understand very little about all this.

It's nice to 'thank' them by way of helping others out myself when I can Bob - a lot of my advice is secondhand in a way, but hopefully attuned to a specific problem.

ORIGINAL: hrtfxr

I believe that Doc posted this tutorial in timely response to my PM'd question about interrupted playback, along with dwindling hard drive space and moving files over to an external hard drive.
He already had it prepared for general help, I believe.
I have never pretended to be an engineer. I am just trying to record my own songs. Any help that I have been given is strongly appreciated.
If I am innappropriate for this forum, please let me know. This is the first inkling that that may be so. I have felt welcomed until now.
Where is a guy supposed to start, apart from going to recording school, which is not feasable with a career under way.
I don't plan to be a rock star so I don't want to pay for the massive studio time that I would no doubt need. I am a hobbiest just wanting to do something myself with my songs. Maybe learn something along the way.
Then again, maybe I have misunderstood Z's post?

I think you did misunderstand my post, but mainly I was setting up for a joke about our resident troll. Then I got cut short because I had to leave in a hurry for behold,I lost track of the time and had to rush out to the store!
As for my opinion about someone already knowing how to handle a low disk space warning I think maybe I can explain it this way. If you are going to use your computer and equip it with a cakewalk product to use, I think you first need to at least understand the bare minimum basics about computers in general. Meaning you should know what your cpu, ram, hard drives, keyboard, mouse, anti virus program, and etc. etc. do, and should know how to maintain them so you don't ruin or break them.
Anyways in no way was my post directed at you and I thought you were trying to switch out hard drives which is much different, I didn't realize you had an hdd space problem. It's just my opinion anyways and I'm not trying to make you feel unwelcome.

Turns out my joke was not very funny as I had more to add and explain, but it was one of those spur of the moment things where I'll probably never even remember what I was thinking. Sorry about that!

ORIGINAL: Doc_Hollingsworth

Z,

I have to disagree with you. GTP3 is entry level. I would agree with you if someone were to buy Sonar 7 and not know how to deal with a disk space issue. But this is something I have seen more than once in this forum in the last year. And some noobs are better than others at looking around first before posting.

I am going to still disagree with you! I don't think GTP3 is entry level at all, I think something like Audacity or N-track is entry level. But I do see your very valid point, and i do agree that some noobs are better than others.

But again, I was really just trying to set up for my joke that would have been funny had i had the chance to finish it!!!! Now I wish i could type real fast.

Bob,

That is exactly why these forums exist. The starting point for some is a bit different for others. Some people have had prior studio experience and others have not. I just hope that I can help others so they can touch other people with their music.

I got the joke Z - you just missed out one italicised letter - that's all!!

ORIGINAL: zeypxun

ORIGINAL: Doc_Hollingsworth

Z,

I have to disagree with you. GTP3 is entry level. I would agree with you if someone were to buy Sonar 7 and not know how to deal with a disk space issue. But this is something I have seen more than once in this forum in the last year. And some noobs are better than others at looking around first before posting.

I am going to still disagree with you! I don't think GTP3 is entry level at all, I think something like Audacity or N-track is entry level. But I do see your very valid point, and i do agree that some noobs are better than others.

But again, I was really just trying to set up for my joke that would have been funny had i had the chance to finish it!!!! Now I wish i could type real fast.

Z,

That's the thing about this room I think is good is that we can discuss and agree to disagree. This room by far is more welcoming than the Sonar room where people have a tendency to have their head where the sun don't shine. It's important to have a place to start where one can feel accepted and not degredated for their lack of preparation or knowledge. Or for that mater difference of opinion.

For a low cost product it is a place for the more serious musician to start and learn the basics of digital recording. But the thing about knowing your way around the inside of a PC (or Mac) is not for everyone. Some are challenged by the technology itself and the seeming lack of logic that Microsoft has put into the operating system (comparatively speaking and compared to UNIX or Linux). There are so many ins and outs of a PC that for a lot of individuals it's hard to get around or know what to do to rescue or fix a problem.

I would agree with you to a point. but not everyone knows or gets their way around a PC. Heck there are few people who can get into the guts of their cell phone and fix a Java problem. We are a society of technology users, and only a fraction of us are technology fixers.

In any case I think I agree with Steve, we could see where the Joke was coming from.... and going now that you mention it.

ORIGINAL: Doc_Hollingsworth

This room by far is more welcoming than the Sonar room where people have a tendency to have their head where the sun don't shine.

Or Worcester, as we know it.

There I go being over-sensitive again.