@musicproduction How did you learn music production, primarily?
Interested in how people came to it: self taught, took classes, grew up in a musical family and was immersed, etc? And what strengths or weaknesses do you feel it brought you?
@musicproduction How did you learn music production, primarily?
Interested in how people came to it: self taught, took classes, grew up in a musical family and was immersed, etc? And what strengths or weaknesses do you feel it brought you?
@limebar @musicproduction Age 0-10: Peeping through keyhole to dad’s band room, learning English obsessing over LPs (but no turntable!), banging half-skinned snare drum - finally a wonky piano.
Age 10-20: Tubaist w/ professional ambitions, piano terrorist
Age 20-30: Bands, musicals as pianist
Age 22-52: From Cakewalk 3.0, ever more possessed by production, mixing, arranging, synth progr.
Biggest pro: Music theory
Biggest con: Never properly investing, realising too late it’s my life passion!
@terjefjelde @musicproduction oh wow thanks for the great response! This tells a story.
I am also Cakewalker since DOS days. Rediscovered it when bandlab made it free. Will you stick to it when it goes paid? I’m considering a switch.
@limebar @musicproduction Happy to share! And I enjoyed reading your story, and all the other ones as well, great idea!
I stopped using Cakewalk when Gibson messed up everything, and went over to Studio One.
After 25 years, I knew Cakewalk inside out, it felt like my DAW “home” and “identity” – and it was a big leap for sure. But honestly (and, at the time, begrudgingly!) Studio One was a revelation, and my productivity went through the roof. And so, I’m still with Presonus 😁
@limebar @terjefjelde @musicproduction I was a Cakewalk user from Sonar Producer 2.0 through whenever they sold to Gibson (who sold to bandlab, right?). I switched to Reaper which after a steep learning curve I’ve managed to configure in a way. I still open Sonar from time to time to get an old project to convert. I still miss some things about it.
@limebar @terjefjelde @musicproduction I first started learning to use a DAW using ACID. 😆
@puffer @limebar @musicproduction I used that for a while, too! I used it for audio because my version of Cakewalk at that time only did MIDI – if I remember correctly, that is… so many years ago!
@puffer @limebar @musicproduction Same when Gibson happened. It was a tough decision to make at the time, but I went to Studio One and I haven’t really looked back after that.
@terjefjelde @limebar @musicproduction Like you it was hard to leave because I knew it so well, but now I’m glad I did because like you it changed my process for the better