I'm pretty much self-taught - I'm one of these people who reads the manual before I even turn the thing on for the first time; when I bought Cubase in 1993 for about six months the ring-bound manual was my bedtime and bathroom reading material. Also, in about 1985 or 1986 I started buying buying Sound On Sound and the magazine that was variously known as Home & Studio Recording, Music Technology, MT and finally The Mix before it folded; I've probably missed less than10 issues of SoS in that time, and I still have all of them here :blink: as well as all the others, including loads of Future Music and Computer Music magazine. I guess most of what I've learned comes from experimenting with what I read in those mags, although I honestly don't remember not knowing about MIDI or basic studio techniques - my first 4-track recordings from around 1985 came complete with reverbs on sends and the full 10-tracks-bounced-to-4 that the medium could offer. More recently I've had tips from from Misted Muppet, Hujaboy, Tron, Pop Stream, Chris Organic, Beatnik, and a few other people.