I thought the first post on my website should be about what makes a person want to spend time and money developing their home studio. Looking back into my past, I was trying to remember what first inspired me to start my studio.
Does the idea start before you know it? I would like to know if it started in elementary school when I got my first Yamaha Portasound keyboard. Perhaps it was in junior high when I purchased a Yamaha music computer where the data had to be saved to tape and cartridges or when I bought my first Yamaha four-track recorder. That inspired me to acquire two Yamaha PSR keyboards throughout my junior high years, which I still have. I travelled with these keyboards everywhere, even took them on family vacations.
Was it during my first year of high school when I worked for a store selling Yamaha pianos? Was it when I bought the first Roland Sound Canvas and the accompanying Sound Brush? I currently have those in my studio to remind me of how my studio was, compared to what it is today.
Perhaps it was in college when I purchased my first Roland digital piano, which I gave away nearly a decade later. It must have happened sometime because I had a studio in the corner of my parent’s basement. My studio was my Roland piano and two PSR keyboards connected to my old Yamaha computer and then to the Yamaha four-track. If you wanted to save projects, you had to save them to a data cassette, which was a painstaking process.
Later when I got married, I upgraded my studio, and my friend helped me build an excellent music PC. I purchased Cubase Studio, an M-Audio Project Mix, two mics and a pair of KRK Rokit 8’s. The PC is the only thing I no longer own, as I’m running a Mac.
I’m much older now, and my studio has increased in size, complexity, and capability, which I greatly enjoy.
So looking back, I can’t remember when I decided to start a home studio; it just happened along the way, piece by piece, instrument by instrument, and now I have one. In some ways, I always did.
My story is similar to many others; you start developing your interest in music, and over time this interest becomes a passion. I’ll leave it at this; when did you know you wanted your studio? Thanks for reading; I’m just a music teacher having fun; catch ya on the next one.
