Full On Geezer... Turned 62 in January but hey... at least I'm not as old as I feel !! Who'd a thought it? It's an Amazin' time to be alive. Doin' pretty good too. Able to sit up and eat! Got an eye on a new Scooter Chair...

I am 47 and I am reading this thread with great interest. And I am amazed at how you guys live life with zeal. I am a music teacher by trade buy love making music with sonar. I think I still have at least 30 to 35 years left to make great music. Thanks for sharing. This thread is awesome! 

mmorgan
I resemble that remark (64 and there's so much more ). 
 
I do it because I love music and my humble attempts at composition and production are very rewarding at a very deep personal level.
 
Regards,

Will ya still need me?  Will ya still feed me?

I will be one of the geezers in here one day. :-)

Just turned 62, but I don't feel like 62, more like 42, maybe even 32 on a good day.  Started back in the 60's with reel-to-reel tape, then on to cassette, then on to Teac 2340 tape deck, then on to Tascam 8-track, then finally to computer.  Somewhere, also have a Teac/Tascam 24-track portastudio as well as a Fostex 16-track portastudio (hard drive based). Been using Cakewalk since the inception.  Just started performing again after a 32-year hiatus due to work constraints (retired now), and digging it.  Playing in two bands, one a classic rock band, the other a Chicago type horn band.  Still record my creative stuff as I have always done.  Also working on my bands' websites as well as my own, personal website.  I met a guy back in the seventies (retired highway patrolman) who is now 74 and we get together weekly to record in Sonar with me doing the background tracks and he doing the lead vocals.  This has really helped me a lot since it keeps me up to par, especially doing the background vocals and all of the instruments as well as troubleshooting problems with computer recording.  We've put a couple of CDs out already, working on number three.

I'm still a year or so shy of the club but been recording about as long as many you. When I was a boy my dad had a Sony reel-to-reel... I apparently showed enough interest that he bought me a little AIWA mini tape recorder that used 3.5 inch reels. When I became a teenager he gave me the Sony. My high school buddy also had a Sony deck and we would record by bouncing between the two reel-to-reels through a Sony 6-channel mixer, all the while drooling over adverts of the "new" Teac 3340. Craig Anderton's first book came out around then - I got and and realized that there was a whole sub-culture of us young guys doing all the same home recording thing, but Craig had the insight to write about it, and I've always hated him for that.
 
Made the jump to digital around 2000 buying Pro Audio 9 - I've owned almost all versions of Sonar, but only up to X2. For me the down side to computer recording is that I like technical things so I end up tinkering and testing far more than recording. So I'm saving up for a multi-track reel-to-reel.  

75 here. Many years spent in the outskirts of the music industry-in the music reproduction arena. H.H. Scott, KLH research and Development and Acoustic Research were among the companues I spent time with. Moved on to clinical psychology and them Management development trainings and organizational devlopment. After retiring I discovered I had lots of songs I wanted to record, ballads and folk style. So far 6 CDs with another in the workd just for friends and family only.
What a wonderful time to be alive with all the possibilities of DAWs and sampled software!!
Sonar X3e 64 bit All Garritan libraries, many ethnic sample libraries, Kurzweil keyboard etc...
 
Fred

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mmorgan
I resemble that remark (64 and there's so much more ). 
 
I do it because I love music and my humble attempts at composition and production are very rewarding at a very deep personal level.
 
Regards,

Will ya still need me?  Will ya still feed me?

As long as you keep posting good deals in the software forum. 

I'm 63 and started composing at 11.  I played in bands when I was in my teens and early twenties, but quickly tired of both pop music and shlepping equipment around.  After doing 12 years of commercial scoring for games, animation, TV, film, dance and documentaries, I decided to switch directions and focus on composition and music production as an end in itself.   I'm now working on my 13th album, teaching and doing my workshop, Beyond the MIDI Mockup, www.jerrygerber.com/beyondthemidimockup.htm.
 
I was one of the first American composers to do an entire TV series using MIDI, back in 1987-1988, The Adventures of Gumby.  In those days the instruments were primitive compared to what we have available now.  My first sampler stored samples on a floppy, the 12-bit resolution and the tiny number of samples (about 4 for the solo violin) was simply insufficient to produce a beautiful, versatile instrument.  Now I am using the VSL Orchestral Cube, and the solo violin consists of 10s of thousands of 24-bit samples, a true musical experience can be achieved.
 
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
 
 
 
 
 
 

I'm 58 and have a little more than a year to geezerhood. I'm Loving the new technology but will always appreciate the talent it took back in the day to accomplish such great music. I think we've gotton lazy somewhat. Not because of our age of course. It's all good though.