ampfixer
Look folks, Craig and I have had an offline discussion and I was off-base due to some skewed assumptions. I did not intend to put anyone off of buying his book. Things have been tense since Gibson took a dump on us and I let that creep into my post. I forgot that Craig wasn't mr. Gibson, just another victim.
Respect to you for posting this. As you say, it's become very tense since the program we love has become abandoned. Actually, I still cannot believe that Cakewalk and Sonar have been abandoned.
I chose Sonar as
My Music Program after finding that no other music production program fitted the way I work. Learning a new
Music Program (or DAW as they now seem to be called, though I'm not sure that includes MIDI?) is like learning an instrument in itself, so one does not wish to be changing to a different one in a whim.
In fact, the last production program I really worked well with was Music-X on the Amiga. That shows my age somewhat. I did have fun with Reason, and made a good few techno tracks with that. I hoped they would introduce a simple MIDI sequencer within Reason so I could do simple note sequencing to external analog synths alongside the native Reason instruments, but that came after I committed to Sonar.
So, for the electronic music that I produce, Sonar may or may not be a good choice, but it is the choice I made and it is likely too late to teach this old dog any new tricks. (Or is it..?)
Cheers,
Steve