OSAM 3 - APRIL 08 CHECKLIST

georgeinar · Post by **georgeinar** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:48 pm

Dee, your whole scenario scares me. I've been reading about the Oasys and the M3 and imagining what I would go thru if I bought new gear and how important it would be for me to finally learn to hook up a pc and keyboard with midi and I get that nervous twinge and rush back to my TS and wait until the feeling passes. I know I could do more even with the equip I have, but I'm nervous about going the next step (especially learning FL Studio, which I have but have never used.) I'm enjoying so much being familiar with my processing and my gear and am leery of another huge learning curve such as I went thru when I first got my TS. It was my first real workstation synth and took me a long time to learn.

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:10 pm

I am seriously thinking I have done probably the CRAZIEST thing ever in my whole life.

At the moment most of it is like total GREEK.....the pages of the manual swim before my eyes.........

Will keep you informed!

Dee

JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:24 am

You will make it Dee! Mastering it is not a necessity at this point. Whatever you do will be fantastic I am sure!

Jon

ellll · Post by **ellll** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:35 am

Me Too!....I Believe..!!

Johnny

chordial · Post by **chordial** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:02 pm

Same here, it will take some time, but then I'm sure you'll love it.

georgeinar · Post by **georgeinar** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:21 pm

Opinion poll here: I am tired of using Audacity to mix my TS wav tracks as there's not that much you can do in there and I would like something with a bit more features. I own FL Studio but to wade through all the features in there to figure out how to simply mix down some audio tracks to make a final master wav is a true headache. I'm wondering if I should just buckle down and learn this, assuming it will even do what I want, or find a more popular software that will be truly worth whatever learning curve there will be to put out some better production values for my pieces. I read about cakewalk, sonar etc but I don't know much about these packages and it seems most are more for sequencing and virtual synth sounds and slicing up samples etc, which is not my focus at this point. Yet if I invest in a new software it should be one that will help me going forward if I do branch out into recording midi. Right now I'm just recording to my TS hardrive and copying the wav's to my pc and then after some effects mixing them in audacity. I love that audacity was so easy to learn, but it's very limited and while you can do some effects in there, it's very limited.

Daz · Post by **Daz** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:29 pm

George I think you might enjoy Reaper ( http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ ) or more likely Mackie Tracktion ( http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion3/ )

Both easy to use but with some headroom for getting more funky.

Let me know if either float your boat there ... I think Tracktion might be just the thing (let me know!)

Daz.

ellll · Post by **ellll** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:36 pm

Reaper!! The Best...but I don't have...

But don't give up on Audacity 'till you download the plug-is..(hundreds),,and try some..

I have been using Kristal....

John

georgeinar · Post by **georgeinar** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:36 pm

Thanks Daz, I'll check them out when I get a free evening.

edit: I've downloaded and done a bit in Tracktion, it seems really easy to use and yet very powerful. Not too expensive for the main set up. I may try a few more things with it and then purchase. Somehow the layout seems intuitive to me, like a massively beefed up audacity, which is what I was looking for. The jury is still out though, but this one looks promising.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:10 am

georgeinar wrote:Opinion poll here: I am tired of using Audacity to mix my TS wav tracks as there's not that much you can do in there and I would like something with a bit more features.

I highly recommend Sony Soundforge. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/dow ... soundforge
It's a breeze to learn with unlimited undo, lots of very useable processors, and awesome editing capabilities.
I've used it for years, and have my favorite vst plugins, installed including Ozone 3.
Wavelab is very nice, but more expensive, and T Rax is another, but I don't know much about that one.
Try the Soundforge demo, and throw any questions my way.
I'm still using 8, but 9 has multitracking ability, and that's handy. Since I have Sonar 7 PE, I can do any multitrack work there, it's very powerful.

JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:05 pm

Tracktion is a fantastic option. Real simple to use. Cheaper than Cubase which has many more features, but might be over the top.

I use T-Racks for my mastering (I have the pluggin's).

Jon

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:04 pm

I looked very long and hard at Tracktion before choosing Sonar, because of it's wonderfully intuitive GUI.
However, this might be of interest,

http://soundadviceforums.com/index.php?topic=1336.0

Soundchaser, is a guy who was totally in love with Tracktion for quite some time.

Just FYI.

georgeinar · Post by **georgeinar** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:57 pm

Well, I've been reading the manual for Tracktion and downloaded the demo, I do seem to instantly "get" what the set up is and how it works. It's fairly cheap too, so I'll try some mixes with the demo, it's a full demo with just a noise every so ofthen so you at least can learn how to use the features.

ellll · Post by **ellll** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:47 pm

As to April,

Let me see..Thirty days hath September, Apri,l..June. uhhh..a ha...!! That must mean...lets see..11 to 12 days left???

Johnny..(ellll)

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:45 pm

11 to 12 days left???

You're right

What am I going to do ???????????????

I'm feeling totally lost here amongst installation disks and plugins and books and tutorial DVDs and lots and lots of cables....

Dee
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