[Zavius Firerave]

Wow! It sounds like a lot of fun!
Oh! I just remembered some things...

1. If my keyboard comes with a driver installer CD, should I install it before or after I install the DAW and audio editor programs or does it not really matter at all?
2. So, how do you tell the DAW program what tempo you are playing at when you are inputting a MIDI data via playing the electrical instrument analogously? I would suspect that it will be different from one program to another.
3. I you don't mind me asking a personal question, how long does it take for you to compose a single project now that you are a pro with music related programs? What about the "gods" of the composers?
4. When you say that there are "better" programs out there, do you mean they are easier to use, can perform more detailed task, or both of them with some more stuff that I don't know?

Thanks a lot for the education! I guess musicians DO have great attitude. I wish other forums also have members like you.(-_-)

P.S.:
Ah! I completely missed you very last sentence! I just noticed it after I finished writing my reply.

Originally Posted by Harmony

Isn't music fun!

So...HELL Yeah!!!!(Well, at least it is for us melancholies...)(^_^)

Reminds me of the feeling when I finished performing my remixed "Force your Way" from FFVIII at a small concert held by my music school.

[Kanthos]

Originally Posted by Zavius Firerave

Wow! It sounds like a lot of fun!
Oh! I just remembered some things...

1. If my keyboard comes with a driver installer CD, should I install it before or after I install the DAW and audio editor programs or does it not really matter at all?
2. So, how do you tell the DAW program what tempo you are playing at when you are inputting a MIDI data via playing the electrical instrument analogously? I would suspect that it will be different from one program to another.
3. I you don't mind me asking a personal question, how long does it take for you to compose a single project now that you are a pro with music related programs? What about the "gods" of the composers?
4. When you say that there are "better" programs out there, do you mean they are easier to use, can perform more detailed task, or both of them with some more stuff that I don't know?

1) I'd install any drivers first, though if you don't (or if you ever get a new keyboard with new drivers), it's not a big deal. Any decent DAW should have no problem with hardware changes of that nature (though you may have to do a bit of configuration, obviously, to use the new hardware - you'd have to do this kind of thing in either case).

2) You typically want to set the tempo in your DAW (it should be pretty obvious in most) and then play along with that. Most, if not all, DAWs will give you a clicktrack or metronome to play along with.

4) Easier to use, in some cases, but mostly having more and better features and more and better plugins, particularly effects.

[Harmony]

Kanthos summed it up. I'll add that aside from having a few extra features that may be helpful for really large or complex projects, the bigger more expensive sequencers (SONAR, Cubase, Logic, etc) potentially will give you fewer headaches when trying to work with third-party software and hardware. Does Kontakt (a popular software sampler) work with SONAR? Absolutely. Does it work with Mixcraft? eh...maybe...it should...right?

Originally Posted by Zavius Firerave

I you don't mind me asking a personal question, how long does it take for you to compose a single project now that you are a pro with music related programs? What about the "gods" of the composers?

Everyone's different. I take weeks or months to finish a full song. The length is partially due to the fact that I work with a lot of live instruments, and setting them up to record isn't always a fast process. But I'm also a perfectionist when it comes to my own music, not because I (or anyone else) need to be to get good results, but because for me it's fun Some people crank out the hits it hours or days. There's a music competition over at ThaSauce called the One Hour Compo in which musicians have a single hour to finish a song. The quality some people get in an hour is amazing sometimes. So yeah, it just depends.

Thanks a lot for the education! I guess musicians DO have great attitude. I wish other forums also have members like you

No problem, and thanks