Some of you might know me from other lists like MIDIMag. I'm from Greenville, South Carolina, in the US, and, though I've moved around a lot, I live in Greenville right now. My primary musical recording interests center around sequencing/composition. This has been a hobby of mine since I was using an Apple IIgs back in the early 90's, writing Amiga Protracker Modules (mods), by hand. I eventually graduated to an old version of Cubase with OutSpoken on Mac OS 7.5, then to Cakewalk Pro Audio on Windows, which became Sonar, and now it's back to the Mac with Pro Tools. For a long time, music was strictly a hobby, as I went to college for Computer Science, and worked for several years as a programmer and support consultant at Microsoft. Since leaving MS to work for myself in 2004, I've gradually been transitioning more of my work life in to musical projects. Largest of these has been the work that I've been doing with Dancing Dots over the last four years or so. Right now, I record demos for local clients, provide tech support for DD's music products, train customers on Sonar and CakeTalking, install home-based project to semi-pro studios, and take on lots of other bit work, mostly involving the tech side of all of this. I enjoy composing and mixing the most, but, for now, I mostly end up supporting other peoples' efforts and teaching. I enjoy that, too, as about the only thing as awesome as being able to make my own music with accessible recording technology is seeing how excited other people get when I show them how they, also, can record their ideas.
I'm also your list moderator, for the moment. I don't intend to be the only moderator, though, as moderating a list can end up being a lot of work. I'll assign other mods soon, as the list starts to fill up. For now, I want to keep the list very casual. The main focus is talking about Pro Tools accessibility tips and tricks, but you can discuss anything that has to deal with Pro Tools here. I also don't care if you discuss other production tools and DAW platforms a little as they come up, but if you want to mainly talk shop about Sonar, QWS, or another DAW, there are other lists where you'll find a lot more people that are deep with those tools. Oh, yeh. This is a list for adults. I don't care if you swear, or if adult subject matter comes up in general chat, though getting graphic for graphic's sake, just to get attention, might cause problems. In general, though, no real rules here, until people start to abuse the situation and create the need for rules. However, I'd ask that we avoid divisive subject matter. On a list like this, we have people from all walks of life, from lots of different regions and cultures. Of course all of us will never see eye to eye on subjects like God, government, and favorite flavor of ice cream, but that doesn't matter. We're all blind, and we all want to record music. Talking about what we share, rather than how we're different, is the way for us to all benefit the most. Anyway, writing about this kind of stuff is boring. Speech over. I look forward to chatting with you all. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of clarence griffin Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: hello there Just wanted to say hello and make sure this is working. I don't have pt as of yet, but waiting for the m-powered link to come up so I can make the switch/upgrade from 8.0.3 to 8.0.4 I can't wait to dig in to this thing and learn of its great powers. lol GF
