I just re-installed ProTools successfully today. Got it to record audio successfully but the playback wouldn’t work. On top of that, ProTools Academic 7.3 is pretty slow ’cause I have a slow computer. I think I’ll use Music Creator 5 from now on ’cause it’s faster and easier to use.

When I was first using ProTools 7.3 way back in 2006… it used to work perfectly fine for me but up until now that the software is pretty old and outdated… it doesn’t work too well anymore. I haven’t used ProTools in so long that I’ve probably forgotten how to use it. I had to uninstall IE8 in order for ProTools to launch. So after I uninstalled ProTools, I went back to Google Chrome. Another reason I’m sticking wth Music Creator ’cause it actually sounds better than ProTools. In ProTools you hear humming noises and in Music Creator you don’t.

I think I’ll either throw out Pro Tools or just give it to somebody, I guess.

I don’t know why these programs go outdated and then you have to buy new software. I guess it was done intentionally ’cause it’s their sneaky little way of making more money.

I want better DAW software so I can do my own mixing, producing and try to find my sound with my music. Music Creator 5 is just a cheap software for beginners that was about $40 or so but still sounds incredibly decent! So I’ll stick with Music Creator for a long while, I guess.

I don’t know why the musicians industry make it so hard to find decent recording equipment these days. I really miss those Tascam 4track/8track cassette boards. With those things you didn’t have to worry about using too much memory in your computer or worry about wasting a lot of time trying to figure out your input/output stuff. That stuff was cheaper than recording software too. I miss making demos on regular cassette tapes back in earlier days. Yep, I’ve been songwriting and recording music for years… it really has been that long.

I started off pretty crappy in songwriting when I was younger but I improved as I went along. I would like to go back to my older cassettes and listen to my older demos for fun but to be honest, I don’t really enjoy listening to myself. I only listen to myself when I’m recording and when I am finished with the track, I never look back on it. I don’t listen to my own music like a lot of musicians do. I don’t have that big of an ego and I can be my own worst critic!

Kev