The last couple of months have been a bit of a journey. It all started on Christmas Day. I’d spent more than enough time being sorely beaten at Wii tennis and thought I’d have a look around the iPhone App Store. BeatMaker caught my eye so I downloaded a copy and started playing around. Half an hour later, I’d put together a pattern which developed into a track called Bad Habit.

Inspired by BeatMaker’s simple interface, I began to dig into DAW software by researching product features – Reason, Ableton, Cubase. I settled on Cubase and bought myself version 4.5 (wish I’d waited a couple of weeks until 5 came out as now I’m enduring the rigmarole of Steinberg’s rather onerous upgrade path). Since then, I’ve composed a couple of pieces, using the grid editor to hand key each note on the screen – a process even more tedious than upgrading Cubase! But that’s all about to change and I’m really stoked about how the Axiom 49 will impact upon the composition to mixdown time.

Time to pull the wrapper off.

On the lookout for people using Cubase on Twitter. Set up an account – unsurprisingly @jonathanscary. If you’re a Cubase Guru and would like to share experiences, I’d be really grateful if you’d follow me!