Ableton Live and Cakewalk Sonar Tuition

I'll help you get started with using Live, Ableton's excellent software package. This programme takes a different approach to music making but is excellent fun and you can get great results very quickly. It lacks some of the niceties of the other major Digital Workstations but has a lot of benefits.

Also Sonar is Cakewalk's Workstation that is gaining ground with PC users. With some great built in effects and is VST compatible. If you need help getting started give me a call.

If you would like affordable tuition from an experienced Music Tech tutor please give me a call or email me. See the link below.

Giga Sampler

Giga Studio is a high quality sampler for standalone use or as a VST inside of a DAW such as Cubase. See Tascam's web-site for details.

It is used mainly where multiple samples need to be played simultaneously. Because of the high quality of the samples used it often can be installed on many machines and sometimes using midi to trigger these as sound modules is not accurate enough.

If this is the case it may be better to use a Local Area Network (LAN) and a piece of software to trigger the samples over the network, meaning exceptionally low latency times if the system is set up correctly. It isn't always straightforward but if you want to program orchestral pieces using sample libraries such as the Vienna Symphony library you may have little choice.

I have helped a composer in South London, who has TV credits including music played on Channel 4, set his 5 PC system up using Teleport and a LAN.