I have been playing with music production software ever since I downloaded a trial version of Cool Edit back in high-school. It was sort of clunky, but I totally adored it. I all of a sudden had a forceful program in my hands the could do all sorts of musical things I had never imagined possible. I could synthesize my own tones, give them different ambiences and effects, layer multiple tracks on top of one another, play things backwards you mention it. By the standards of today's best music production software, it was not really forceful, but at the time it positively blew me away. Manufacturing music was a dream about mine at the time. I even considered going to university to start a music biz career. One of my bros was heavily concerned in the music business as a local performer in LA. Though he was not truly making a job out of it, he did have a pleasant neat extra income from his shows.
I made up my mind to invest in some heavy music production software about the time I left college. I used to be a realist. Though the technology was not 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 phenomenally pricey especially for a beginner sound recording engineer like myself. The software for music production cost one or two hundred bucks, but this was nothing in comparison to the costs of products sound recording appliances. 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 typical music production program could run anywhere from fifty bucks to five hundred, I know to have the same features. Some were essentially music recording and mixing programs, built to do multiple tracks and clean up the sound quality. Others were designed for electronic music recording artists. They'd music sampling, advanced effects, and MIDI capacities. I slowly noticed that if you wished to be a recording engineer, you wished to have one of everything and be ready to do it all.
