Hello everyone, well i just spent an hour writing a new thread only to loose it ! no I'm really bummed!

To cut a long story short, i spent alot of money on my home studio and i don't have the brains to get it working ! I'm at least six months into having everything set up and have nothing to show for it ! my main hang up is getting my head around midi stuff and how to get it to bounce to disc with the other audio tracks ? do you need to make midi into an audio track to bounce to disc ? I find it hard to learn this stuff when i often don't even understand what the manual is telling me to do? need a dp for dummies ! oh i'm so lost don't know where to start or who to ask ? anyone know of any good tutorials for beginners or dvd's that speak in a newbies language ?

If i could just get the midi stuff figured out i'd have enough to start making my music and i'm sure i'd work the rest out along the way !

Well thanks for listening.
Any west australians here using dp ?

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For many aspiring classical musicians, the dream of playing Carnegie Hall is destined to remain elusive. But in five months, the best and brightest entrants in Google's recently-announced "YouTube Symphony Orchestra" contest will take that stage to perform Chinese composer Tan Dun's "Internet Symphony No. 1, 'Eroica.'" All it takes is some talent, a videocamera and an internet connection -- a combination many YouTube uploaders are familiar with, but which has somewhat eluded the classical world to date.

YouTube Symphony Orchestra asks classical and more non-conventional performers to shoot videos of them playing Tan's composition and a piece of standard repertoire to be judged by Google's experts and YouTube users. Sheet music for the pieces is available on YouTube in PDF form along with individualized conductor video featuring Tan conducting each part. In other words, if you're a timpanist, you can download Tan conducting the timpani part just for you. Instructions for participating are available in 17 languages in an effort to put world's classical talent on the same page, so to speak.

Google product marketing manager Timothy Lee (pictured to the right above with Michael Tilson Thomas and Google's Ed Sanders), who was involved with this idea from the start, explained to Wired.com that in addition to mashing the winning performers into a live orchestra for the Carnegie Hall performance Google will mash the uploaded performances by each winner into a single video with little boxes containing each performer, with the audio from their auditions mixed into a single orchestral track.

This means that even if you don't attend the Carnegie Hall event, you'll be able to hear what the winning players sound like together. However, there are no plans at this time to allow YouTube users to create their own "fantasy" orchestra comprised of their favorite players, said Lee, currently on a year-long sabbatical from Google as he earns his MBA from Stanford.

The idea for Google's first large-scale foray into content creation first took hold during one of the company's "Dragon's Den" contests during a company retreat, a game in which various Google employees are given two minutes to explain an idea they've had. Lee and another classical musician from the company's ranks explained the idea, which was quickly embraced by the rest of the company.

Apparently, the contest is just the beginning -- conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and other high-profile partners in the program plan to unveil new YouTube initiatives around classical music in the coming months, with the ultimate goal of creating a worldwide community for string quartets, duets, soloists, orchestras and other classical music groups to collaborate online, in an attempt to bring traditional Western music to the digital mainstream.

Dun, who has composed music for the Olympics and Hollywood films, wrote "Internet Symphony No. 1 'Eroica'" in a modular way, so that prospective orchestra members will be able to play something that makes musical sense during their audition, even though it won't contain the rest of the orchestra when they record it, according to Lee. In addition, Tan intentionally gave each instrument a time to shine during the group performance.

The composer likened the internet and YouTube to the so-called "Silk Road," which transmitted cultural elements throughout Europe and Asia along the famous mercantile route. In composing the piece, he says, he was inspired by the sound of the beer-drinking Olympic crowds, Beethoven's Third Symphony, elements of Tchaikovsky and the opera Carmen.

The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is currently accepting auditions, and will continue to do so until January 28. A panel of experts from various high-profile orchestras will winnow the field down to a more manageable number, with the YouTube community voting for their favorite semifinalists between February 14 and February 22. Google will announce the winning players on March 2. In April, this YouTube-selected orchestra will be flown to New York City for a three-day summit with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, after which it will play Carnegie Hall on April 15.

Photo from left to right: conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, YouTube product marketing manager Ed Sanders (?) and YouTube Product Marketing Manager Timothy Lee: Eliot Van Buskirk