Today I began without much direction. I have two mp3 files fairly close to completion, and the beginnings of a song that I would love to notate in finale. I have several problems: The main issue is that my computer simply refuses to hear my midi keyboard. It would be much easier to key in my melody and experiment with chords if I had a keyboard that worked. Also, finale freezes regularly. I think my computer has too much going on, and it really can't handle it all. So if I can't use finale, and I can't get sonar/audition/reason to hear my keyboard, and I've finished chapter 3, and there are no evaluations on Sakai.... what EXACTLY should I be doing?
I've started on more users manuals, and I'm checking out a few tutorials online, but I'm afraid that I won't maintain a great deal of information if I'm not doing the tutorials along with watching them. I'm going to employ the use of some of the other Computer Science students after lunch to see if I can make any progress. I'm fairly solidly frustrated by the entire morning's progress.
If I can't get my computer to work for me, I will spend the afternoon reviewing my chapter 3 comments and talking them over with Erica. We're going to try to see what reorganization ideas we have, and see if we can explain some of these concepts more simply. Then I'll go through all the chapter 3 tutorials again and clean up my responses- I should only have to copy and paste once the evaluations are posted on Sakai.
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