epytryga Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hello all: I thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself. I began recording on my Atari Mega2 back in 1989 using Notator...after my Atari Falcon 030 died in 1990 (using Cubase), I switched to a PC and began using Cakewalk (version 4.0, IIRC)...I stayed with Sonar until it was discontinued...as a result, I floated around from DAW to DAW...Cubase, Studio One, Samplitude, etc. I just recently checked out the latest version of Sonar...and, frankly it's great to be back. I'm a little rusty with it; however, I have loads of past experience with and may be able to help newcomers to the program. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Sorice Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Happy new year and welcome to the family! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome. I have a similar story but my Atari Mega 2 didn’t die until 2004. Actually it was just the monitor. And it got lugged around to gigs so was never really babied. The best thing about the Atari was it had the midi ports. It took me a long time getting midi to work on the PC using a stupid Sound Blaster and adapter cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Baay Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Good story. Welcome back. I'm curious, were you not aware Bandlab resurrected Sonar soon after the shutdown or just didn't trust it to remain viable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epytryga Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 2 hours ago, Sock Monkey said: Welcome. I have a similar story but my Atari Mega 2 didn’t die until 2004. Actually it was just the monitor. And it got lugged around to gigs so was never really babied. The best thing about the Atari was it had the midi ports. It took me a long time getting midi to work on the PC using a stupid Sound Blaster and adapter cables. That's exactly why I went with the Atari...plus, I heard in Europe that was the main computer pro studios were using...thank you for sharing your story 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epytryga Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 1 hour ago, David Baay said: Good story. Welcome back. I'm curious, were you not aware Bandlab resurrected Sonar soon after the shutdown or just didn't trust it to remain viable? I was aware...and downloaded the "free" version...however, I have a 4k monitor and, frankly, it was hard for these old eyes to see the fonts as they were so blurry...when the "New Sonar" became subscription only, I didn't want to do it at first...but a few days ago, I tried the 3 day trial...and I was hooked on Sonar again! So, I subscribed for the year at the 79.00 sale price...I couldn't resist. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Baay Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 12 minutes ago, epytryga said: I have a 4k monitor and, frankly, it was hard for these old eyes to see the fonts as they were so blurry... I can relate. Sonar is much sharper on monitors of all sizes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I never got the "blurry on 4K monitors" thing with CbB. Maybe it's the monitor but I only have one on a 17" laptop and it's crisp at all settings. Only issue here is 17" @3840x2160 is too small so 250% zoom or 1920x1080 is used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Welcome--I know your name from somewhere...did you used to frequent the old newsgroup ages back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epytryga Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 Yes, indeed! I suppose the goofy last name of mine gave it away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 The first thing I tend to think of whenever I see your username is "epic trigga". No idea what it would mean, but...there it is. FWIW, I started with used well-worn analog tape decks (open reel 1/4"), in the 80s, with "toy" keyboards and such (sometimes opening up the backs of the keybaords to touch different parts of the PCB to make it make noises other than those intended; I didn't know enough electronics to actually modify stuff, but I knew from accidents with radios that this could happen with audio circuits and fingers). In the (early 90s? late 80s? whenever the a500 was first available used) I went to the amiga and Trax (which sucked) and Bars&Pipes (which was great), but by the mid-90s was forced to a Windows machine, and picked Cakewalk v3 because it was easier and more intuitive to use than the other one that was on Synthony's demo computers (Cubase? dont' remember), and just about everything could be done with a keyboard with only a few things being easier with a mouse, whcih made everything faster to do. Been using CW, then CWPA, SONAR, and Project5 since then. (still ahve the others but the older SONAR is what I'm still using--I'd consider the newer SONAR if it weren't subscription-only, and had a permanent *completely offline* license system like the old one, so that once activated, I'd just be able to keep using it just like it was right then forever, and if I had to reinstall (on any machine) I just use the same key as that one, so I could still use it no matter what happens to Bandlab/etc, just as the Bakers made sure we could do with the old SONARs). I'm a bit better at the production side of things nowadays, but I'm not sure that my actual music is any better than it was then. (still have boxes of probably unplayable reels and cassettes, and a few DATs I wish I had a machine to play; if there was a mostly-automated way to get those into the computer and onto Soundclick I'd stick it all up there for "posterity"...or maybe archive.org would be a better place). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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