The start of my journey came about purely by accident.
Back in 2004, I was just about to lay out £200 on a digital 4-track hardware unit. Before actually parting with the cash, I popped into my local PC World to see if they sold software for producing drum tracks which I was hoping to use in the 4-track.
Thankfully, they didn't.
But what they did have on the shelf was this:
As it was selling for a fraction of the cost of the hardware unit (around £40) I thought I'd take a punt. And the rest, as they say, is history ☺️
To be honest, back then I was so lacking in knowledge about computers and software that I had no concept whatsoever of 'home studio' or DAW software and was amazed that it existed at all!
I subsequently followed on from GT2 to GT2Pro and GT3Pro, then moved on via Music Creator 24 to (the wonderful) Sonar Home Studio 6 and then (the quite dreadful) Home Studio 7. Eventually I started mingling with the big boys with SONAR 8 Studio followed by SONAR 8 Pro, and then continued to update the 'Pro' version annually up until now.
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