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beh
Total Posts: 10
Joined 04-28-2018 status: Newcomer |
Thank you Philwoodmusic. I don’t know how I could learn from basic to advance for both “how to operate MOX” and “how to use Cubase”. I purchased the MOX8 but it feels like sitting in an airplane’s pilot seat and not knowing how to fly. I know MOX is very powerful but unfortunately there is no single source of A to Z for learning and mastering it. There are forums and discussions everywhere but for a beginner like me it’s easy to get lost in forums because if I’m trying to learn the “B” from the alphabet, I find a subject on a forum about “B” but then in the discussion comes a lot of “C”, “D”, ...."Z" terms which are undefined to me and would make it confusing.
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philwoodmusic
Total Posts: 1055
Joined 07-01-2013 status: Guru |
The point you’re at is a common choke point for many users. Recording your own music as audio is a big step up in terms of complexity. You are basically expected to dip your toe into the world of recording studio techniques and audio theory, including digital audio theory, in this case. That’s a lot for someone to take on if they’ve just bought a workstation for the first time and haven’t spent any time around recording studio equipment. It all takes time and work, but the results are very gratifying, and really, it should take time, it’s not like learning MS Word or an extension of home or business computing. You’re expected to be part of a very technical art form, with a lot of history, and that’s AFTER you’ve written your music. Putting together a song in Song Mode might be a 2 or 3 on the 1-10 difficulty scale, but creating audio tracks and files of it is much higher up the scale and possibly in the 7, 8, or 9 range, depending on what needs to be done. The jump can be tough for many people. In fact, some people never get past the difference between MIDI data and audio. Commonly quite clever people, too. At times, the concepts can feel quite abstract. |
beh
Total Posts: 10
Joined 04-28-2018 status: Newcomer |
Thanks. The complexity of learning how to make and record the music is a fun challenge, given that no extended gap would come in the process of learning. Thanks for all your guides and insights. |