Paige Andderson

From Hardware to Software. Season 1 Episode 3

Pee + Stick + Two Pink Lines = Selling Everything Fast

I had become acclimated to the Stienbreg Cubase X3 software with its many glitches. Stienbreg Cubase was set to update the software with new security profiles. I was calling the IT department asking questions about people like me who did not use the internet on the studio computer. I would get the company script "Dongle is going to be great it protects your software". What no it is suppose to protect YOUR copyright to YOUR software. 

Well just like any software head. I was up all night on Youtube.

I did not even know how many other software platforms there were.

Pro Tools was a platform I knew but I also thought it was over priced. Cakewalk Sonar, Fl Studio 8 with Audio Recording, Ableton, Logic, PreSonus Studio One, Reaper and others.

Wow! I don't have to take this from Stienbreg Cubase. I'll just switch platforms. Which one should I choose? All just try them all. You are sure to love one. Right! This is where the the problem starts. When you open pandora's box everything comes out. 

Now I had songs in this platform that worked great in that platform but not in the other platform. Despite other testaments each platform has a difference in sound character yet it is all digital.

In one months time my computer had become a software storage. Storing about 10 different platforms. That I had become really good at using.

I was also storing a bedroom full of hardware gear. I was a musical storage unit. With wires and boxes of all colors and shapes. Digital displays everywhere. Also in my computer files everywhere. My days for neat filing were gone in a month. 

My wife called me in to the bathroom. Paige I am pregnant and we need to use the room with the junk equipment. I don't see you using anymore. I don't use them any more. 

But, I still love them.