Hello all,
I enjoy composing jazz and orchestral pieces using Musescore, but Musescore is a notation program that doesn't have good sound (it was designed for ease in notation, not producing great sound).
I knew there'd come a day when I'd have to work with a DAW, but I know absolutely nothing about them. so I went into research mode and studied my behind off for several days to both learn about DAWs and to get an idea what would work for me; I need to get the audio (or audio files or MIDI or what have you) into a DAW and and tweak the sound until it sounds decent and reasonably realistic—for my own personal enjoyment, nothing for professional use.
So I downloaded Tracktion 6 (which is free) and went through some tutorial videos just to get a feel for the whole thing. I have Cakewalk as well, which is what I'll probably end up using after all is said and done. So here's my question to you all.
Where would you go online (or elsewhere) without having to spend a fortune in order to learn how to use a DAW (Cakewalk in this case) quickly and fairly thoroughly? What Youtubes or training would be a good place to invest some time (and money) in order to move crash-course into this, I guess you could call it, so that I don't waste a lot of time trying to find training material amidst all the stuff that's out there (one can waste a ridiculous amount of time just trying to find the right stuff).
NOTE: I'm not a very geeky, technical person, so please keep that in mind.
Any input would be great.
Thanks very much.
I enjoy composing jazz and orchestral pieces using Musescore, but Musescore is a notation program that doesn't have good sound (it was designed for ease in notation, not producing great sound).
I knew there'd come a day when I'd have to work with a DAW, but I know absolutely nothing about them. so I went into research mode and studied my behind off for several days to both learn about DAWs and to get an idea what would work for me; I need to get the audio (or audio files or MIDI or what have you) into a DAW and and tweak the sound until it sounds decent and reasonably realistic—for my own personal enjoyment, nothing for professional use.
So I downloaded Tracktion 6 (which is free) and went through some tutorial videos just to get a feel for the whole thing. I have Cakewalk as well, which is what I'll probably end up using after all is said and done. So here's my question to you all.
Where would you go online (or elsewhere) without having to spend a fortune in order to learn how to use a DAW (Cakewalk in this case) quickly and fairly thoroughly? What Youtubes or training would be a good place to invest some time (and money) in order to move crash-course into this, I guess you could call it, so that I don't waste a lot of time trying to find training material amidst all the stuff that's out there (one can waste a ridiculous amount of time just trying to find the right stuff).
NOTE: I'm not a very geeky, technical person, so please keep that in mind.
Any input would be great.
Thanks very much.