This track was completed in Cubase Elements 5 back in 2014. Yes. You read that correctly, and may wonder why I’m putting it here now. It’s kind of a happy ending tale you can probably relate to if you work with a DAW. I lost this and a few other things in a computer mishap back in 2016. All I’d had left of the song after that was an mp3, and a not so great mix I’d upped on Soundcloud (still there with about 650 plays as I write this).
Imagine my surprise when I found the “lost” project yesterday on a dvd-r that salvaged it, and a few other things when the computer crashed. I always liked this song, and I’ve actually been recording a new version of it over the last week or 2. I’d stupidly done that without having played my original in a while. What I find is that I’m now working on a fundamentally different song that’s related, but will need a new name.
In any case, I loaded the happily found dvd-r and opened this original version in Cubase Pro 11. I applied a little better knowledge of mixing and mastering to it than I’d had back in the Essential 5 days, but what was played then is unchanged.
Adding this here now to mark my serendipitous find of something given up for lost, and a glimpse back to my earliest days with Cubase-not to mention one of my compositions that I always enjoyed hearing and playing that was never here or on bandcamp.
This is a pretty simple recording. A couple of acoustic guitars, a fretless bass, and a pattern written and played on a Boss DR-880 drum machine. I’ll probably add my 2023 work that sort of revisits this here soon. In the meantime, here’s Pioneer School.
John
