Welcome,Ben:
As always, you will find there are many answerers and answers to your
questions.
As for the audio interface, there are several very accessible ones, some
with real knobs, buttons, and sliders, some with no hardware controls at
all, requiring a control surface to control them. This latter solution
will, of course, double the cost of the interface, but the good side of
that, if you can see it as one, is that control surfaces can be used for
controlling the audio interface and the DAW with a simple button-press.
If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't sink a lot of money into anything
right away, especially the audio interface, until I was rock-solid sure
I was committed to this new stuff I just bought. You don't want to get
into another Sonar+CakeTalking situation if you can avoid it, and I
think you can. Focusrite and RME make some very professional and
accessible interfaces. On the less expensive side, but not necessarily
of relationally inferior quality, Behringer has some good things, too.
Folks in here will tell you their preferences and reasons, I'm sure, as
I said before. What do I use? A Behringer X-Air 18 controlled by the
Behringer X-Touch controller, which I also use in two Windows DAW's.
Four DAW's? Call me crazy, and you'd probably not be alone, but for me,
that's half the fun of it since I'm not in it for business
purposes--keeping up with the current state of the art, so to speak.
As to which DAW is more accessible out of the box, well, that question
has been known to start wars (smile)! I'll keep my head below the
parapet and just remind you of where you're posting your messages, and
let you figure out what the answer will be from probably everyone in
here (LOL). That having been said, folks get work done in both programs,
but, OK, I'll poke my head up at the risk of getting it shot off by
Logic users, there are accessibility issues when editing audio therein.
Someone will also probably pop in and give a complete and concise list
of what can and can't be done accessibly in either DAW. After that, I
think it all comes down to workflow.
On the social side, what kinds of music do you make and teach? I've had
a lot of classical piano training, but tossed the idea of a career in
classical music aside for one in the computer biz instead, starting long
before accessibility was even a concept, let alone a popular term. Music
is what I would call a serious hobby for me--I'm kind of like the folks
with great big model railroad layouts in their basements, always adding
a new car, or spur track, or signalling system. That's me all over the
place, always adding and learning to use new plugins and trying to learn
how to play instruments with a keyboard that don't have one in reality.
I do keep up my technique by practicing semi-regularly though. I have
absolutely no composition or creative skills of any kind, but I have an
awful lot of fun making some very interesting musical noises (LOL). I
started out in the eighties with DOS-based sequencing packages, and when
Windows accessibility became a thing, I, too, jumped on the
Sonar+CakeTalking bandwagon. I abandoned it in about 2009 or '10, aside
from one project I had to do in 2012 for a backing track for a vocal
competition. The Windows DAW scene changed for me in 2016 with the
introduction of accessibility for Samplitude, and improved accessibility
for Reaper. I got into, or onto, the Mac side about a year later with
Logic,then earlier this year with Pro Tools. By no means do I know any
of those four DAW's well, but I *can* get some so-called "real work"
done in them, and for me, that's enough.
On 6/27/2018 12:43 AM, Benjamin Blatter wrote:
Hello all
I’m a musician, composer and teacher. I got myself a mac a few months
ago. I bought Caketalk from Dancing dots a few years ago, only to find
out that it didn’t quiete work on my computer. Now I’d like to give
music production on the mac a try.
So, my first question here is about getting a fully accessible audio
interface. What are you using ? I’d like to have a really professional
device, 8 to 16 channels with digital capabilities. And the interface
should be really accessible, including software mixer. For the last
couple years I have an RME Fireface UC. I rely on premade presets from
a sighted person. For my mac audio interface I’d like to have
something I can manage myself, if this is possible at all. I don’t
mind buying extra hardware like a midi controller for this to happen.
And I actually have a secondth question : I just did a little
experimenting with Logic Pro so far. And I was able to record a small
test track with the integrated instruments this program offers in
about 30 minutes of first use. This was pretty amazing. But aside that
I’m totally new and aks myself wheter I should start using logic pro
or pro tools for my work. I got here because someone on the Dancing
Dots list suggested me posting my audio interface question on this list.
Which DAW is more accessible out of the box ? Because I never had
really good experience with jaws scripts using sonar I’m hoping that
both programs could be used without any scripts which just work in a
certain system configuration and so on.
I hope I don’t sound too pesimistic and frustrated, alltough I admit
that I was just that when I found out my purchase of Caketalking was
for nothing after much fiddling arround at the end. But I’m willing to
start anew on the mac. I like this OS so far very much.
I’ve got a Macbook Pro 2015. And if things are working out fine and I
need more power in order to do my things I’m considering to buy a mac
pro, if there will be a new one eventually that is ...
So, thanks for your help and kind regards
Ben
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