Dear Renoisers,
I’m thinking about signing up for an intense 8 month training program at an audio school…
at this school they will teach the basics: music theory, beat making, piano skills, and song writing… Using protools, logic, reason, and ableton live.
and later other courses regarding the music business, certification$, etc…
well its around $17,000 just for the 8 month core training…
and around $3,000 for books and materials (including protools, logic, reason and ableton) which we are required to own.
Well for the last 3 months I have been taking a basic audio class at another school… Using logic. Before this, I had been messing around on renoise for almost a year. Well after composing on logic, I had come to the realization that the kind of music that I compose …Which at the moment I shall call psychedelic glitch trance, cannot really be accurately produced on a sequencer such as logic… it involves lots of effect commands, pitchbending, tempo shifting, and speed glitching…And isn’t just random shit i throw together, it actually makes sense and tells a story (at least to me).
furthermore (and perhaps already evident to trackers so i wont get too much into it) I have found logic to be totally illogical and unintuitive, compared to renoise.
So why is it that logic is an industry standard and most people have never heard of renoise here in the U.S. ? no need to answer that rhetorical question.
Anyway, my dilemma is that $20,000 is a nice chunk of dough…
So these questions are for you pro audio geeks out there who have experience with all these DAWs and probably have careers…
I know everyone is different and some people actually use several DAWs at the same time… but honestly:
If I love renoise and hate logic, will I hate protools, ableton, and reason?
Or am I just being ignorant, and all these other DAWs actually serve a purpose ?
I don’t really “hate” logic… because I already have it but I just don’t want to spend money on protools, reason, and ableton, when I already have a feeling I personally won’t be using them that much to compose with… except maybe ableton for live gigs If I ever get there.
Will this 8 month crash course really secure me a job as an audio engineer or professional sound designer who composes music for web, tv, film, and games?
Am I asking the wrong questions at the wrong place?
or should should I just spend the money on omnisphere and the new CDJ’s, and just stay in my studio composing the wickedest music eva ?
If you have made it this far, I thank you for reading. It’s really bugging me and I needed to just write it up anyway, even if only the crickets will answer me.
Plus I only have 3 days to make my mind up or else I will be just staying home for the next 5 months until the next school session starts.