I, all of a sudden had a robust program in my hands the could do all types of musical things that I’d never imagined possible. I could synthesize my private tones, give them different ambiance and effects, layer multiple tracks on top of one another, play things backwards you want it.
By the standards of today’s best music production software, it was not terribly tough, but at the time it positively blew me away.
One of my siblings was heavily concerned in the music biz as a local performer in LA. Although he wasn’t really making a career out of it, he did have a pleasant clean extra revenue from his shows. I didn’t have the abilities to be a musician, but I had a talent for music. I could take a good track and make it better a talent that all music producers need. I determined to invest in some serious music production software about the time I left college. Although the technology wasn’t quite up to what it is today, I continued to know that music production programs were the wave of the future. Purchasing racks and racks of studio apparatus was exceedingly costly especially for a beginner sound recording engineer like myself. What I did not realize at the time was how many different sorts of music production software there are, and how different the results were between them. A normal music production program could run anywhere from fifty greenbacks to 5 hundred, I know to have the same features. Some were basically music recording and mixing programs, built to do multiple tracks and clean up the sound quality.
I slowly noticed that if you wished to be a recording engineer, you wanted to have one of everything and be in a position to do it all. You might not very well have somebody come into your studio and not able to use the equipment he required.