Switching form PC to Mac and from Sonar to Logic meant starting afresh for the most part. Though I did re-record a bunch of projects.
 
Last time we went back to Canada, I retrieved an old HD full of Cakewalk projects and copied the content of the audio folder.  Once in a blue moon I pick up one of those and put it back together in Logic. It's an interesting process, if just for the fact that I can spot all the little mistakes and all the bad decisions I made in each mix.
 
It also allows me to answer certain questions, such has "what the heck was that sound, which synth was that?"
Good thing that Cakewalk implemented a better file naming scheme for Sonar than in the old Pro Audio days. A8rh2wo98fft.wav wouldn't really help. :P

mike_mccue I thought there was a suggestion to post examples of stuff that we have saved and later enjoyed working on again.

I do apologize if my idea wasn't clear. I'll try again.
 
Do you have a tune, an old project that you recorded in the past, that you posted and would like to re-do from the ground up?
 
I do. And if I did I'd have two recordings- The old one and the new one. That way I could post what I originally did when I started out...very much like Beepster in that it was recorded when I was just getting started with digital recording...and post what I can do now with same tune. A before and after AND if I did this it would be almost a decade apart recordings of the same tune...and since I did everything on it, it would be me doing everything on it again. (geeze...I've been here 10 yrs !!)
 
James brought up an interesting point- what if one didn't do all the parts? That would make it hard because one may not be able to get the same people on the second take...not good. Hopefully there will be participants that do all the parts themselves. The big advantage to me with all this digital stuff is that I wouldn't need others to record ideas with. (wish I had ambition to learn how to play other instruments but I don't so have to use crap like EZ drummer...which is Ok...just prefer "real" instruments when possible.)
 
Just a thought and maybe worth the effort? I'm thinking it would be for me. Personally I think I can do better but there's only one way to know for sure and since I don't have issues like different people doing parts it makes the comparison much easier.
 
May be a very simple suggestion just not possible or of interest to others. Maybe best it's a trip I take alone....I mean that in a respectable way. It just seems so misunderstood with "alternatives" mentioned. Hard to stay on track if it's misunderstood for any reasons.
 
Maybe I over-complicated the question so;
Do you have a special tune that YOU did when you started out with digital recording (with Cakewalk) that you would like to redo from ground up so that you could post the original version along with the new (and hopefully "improved" version) ? 
1. For yes.
2. For no.
LOL
 
 
So if I answered myself in this thread...(maybe I could use another member name/log-in LOL)
 
Yes (#1 lol), I have a tune that I did and if I participate it would be examples that would span ten years. What I did then and what I did now.

Yes.  This old beast:  http://www.nwdreamer.com/download/Berry-Jam.mp3
 
I play everything, but had only been playing drums for two weeks (and only on a V-Drum set) - YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! .  
 
I had just bought a nice baritone guitar and had to try it out (hence the name of the song).  Unfortunately, I never got around to recording everything properly (and the baritone is long gone) so this is what I've got.  Someday I'll redo it using tons of better techniques that I've learned since (like how to mic the guitar speakers better, using a mic pre before sending it to be process, better drums, better bass, yeah...).
 
Oh well!

Ok. One more try and I'm giving up because so far...
Nobody has an "special" old tune from when they started digital recording
that is "special" enough to do a redo so we can start a thread (together) that has the "then and now" together.
 
Yes, I do. And yes I'd post a "before and after" or a  "then and now" ....so far I don't anyone can or wants to. Last call, done talking about it.
 
 

I can feel an OP deletion coming on...sorry we're so exasperating Michael. We can't help it.

Ah... actual finished re-works (with Cakewalk). Haven't really been working with Sonar that long so all I've done was a "then and now" remix (not a full do-over) of one tune which I did actually post for comparison. I won't dig that thread up though because I burnt myself out on that tune... listening to it and talking about it. It has been extremely useful for some bureaucratic type crap I needed done so that's cool. The session stuff I was talking about will be kind of a half do-over but that was done in another program and I didn't actually record it myself (had a button pushing monkey in the room). That stuff is far too raunchy for the forum though.

No reason to apologize James. I'm not exasperated. Sometimes questions aren't as easy as they may seem I guess.
Of course the question(s) isn't hard when one knows the answer and either one does or doesn't.
 
Besides...it's something I can do and enjoy alone. Just thought it would be a fun group "thing"...I was apparently wrong.

spacey
Ok. One more try and I'm giving up because so far...
Nobody has an "special" old tune from when they started digital recording
that is "special" enough to do a redo so we can start a thread (together) that has the "then and now" together.
 
Yes, I do. And yes I'd post a "before and after" or a  "then and now" ....so far I don't anyone can or wants to. Last call, done talking about it.
 
 

 
Guess, I didn't understand.  Sorry!

spacey
No reason to apologize James. I'm not exasperated. Sometimes questions aren't as easy as they may seem I guess.
Of course the question(s) isn't hard when one knows the answer and either one does or doesn't.
 
Besides...it's something I can do and enjoy alone. Just thought it would be a fun group "thing"...I was apparently wrong.

I woudn't mind doing it, but it might take me a while. It's a good idea, don't give up on it 'cos no one bites after 4 hours.

Michael,
 
Are you saying you want to take your first digitally recorded song, and with the help of contributors here, completely re-record the song?