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offline chinete from Granada (Spain) on 2003-05-03 10:40 [#00682501]
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I'd like to know how do you make electronic music, if you
already do it.
where can i find the necessary machines (and how expensive
are they) or programs for the computer?
Any famous web page that i don't know??

thank uuuu


 

offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-03 10:42 [#00682503]
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I have been to Granada before. I camped in the moutains.

It is a great place.

Well done for inventing it.

Try musichitsquad, a great place to start if interested in
electronic music


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-05-03 10:44 [#00682504]
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too hard to be specific. just fsk around with whatever you
can get yer hands on. if you really are into it then soon
enuf youll amass a bedroom full of junk ;)



 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2003-05-03 10:45 [#00682507]
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"Well done for inventing it." LOL!

Start with a simple program like Fruity Loops or Reason.



 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2003-05-03 10:45 [#00682510]
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I've been to Newcastle before, it was crap!

Is it true that girls are told to take their bra off when
they're indoors so they'll 'feel the benefit' when they go
out?


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2003-05-03 10:46 [#00682512]
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I agree with sido..


 

offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-03 10:52 [#00682516]
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What was up with newcastle, it is great now.

Did you go to a night club ?

Actually I have just changed my knickers, sorry my mind,
newcastle is shit as good clubs are being shut to make way
for those with a chrome / pine interior.



 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2003-05-03 10:55 [#00682520]
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It was fun really I was being silly! It was a pub crawl
with some mates, I think we ended up in a club but I don't
really remember anything.. I remember the smell of cheese?
is there a big cheese factory there?


 

offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-03 10:59 [#00682521]
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argh it costs bajillions of pounds in the end. Keep away,
keep awaaay


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2003-05-03 11:02 [#00682522]
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getting the software will be very expensive or very pirate-y


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2003-05-03 11:07 [#00682527]
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get Cubase SX and every VST instruments you can find. Cubase
is what most electronic musicians use, i'm pretty sure.
Richard D. James used to use it, liam howlett uses it. they
used it for the soundtrack for requiem for a dream, name it.
It's very expensive also, but u can get a pirated version on
the net


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2003-05-03 11:08 [#00682529]
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of the VST instruments i recommend:

phatmatik pro, FM7 synth, Absynth, DR 008, Halion sampler,
...there's loads of them


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2003-05-03 11:11 [#00682533]
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Yeah i use Cubase SX , whicked program!
But maybe a little hard for a complete beginner.


 

offline k9d from mpls (United States) on 2003-05-03 11:20 [#00682540]
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i use LSDj on my gameboy and imho it's ace.

the tightest, quickest working enviornment i've seen on or
off a computer. it's interface is similar to a tracker but
the pattern arangement, like everything else, is really open
ended

which makes it a great musical scratchpad, it's easy to try
different arangements and put different parts together
without reprograming each pattern.

you don't need to put a lot of time into producing if you
use one ... what you hear is what you get ... so it's almost
like a self contained studio.

some people will agrue that working with 4 voices at a time
and being limited to bitty sounds makes the whole thing a
joke, but i disagree.

the synthesis engine is complex enough to get cool sounds
out of, you just have to work it. i enjoy the polyphony
contstraints, it forces me to dedicate myself to my musical
ideas rather than adding yet another textural layer of
pluggined sound.

also, there is an active community built around LSDj and
other chip-trackers ... people are putting records out ...
if it's a joke it's a damn good one!

on the other hand, if you just hate 8bit sound or u thought
learning special moves in streetfighter II was a drag, the
gameboy isn't a good platform for you ;D

otherwise you can get a bitching, portable setup going for
~$100 ... that's the cheepest portable setup i've ever
encountered ...

the only thing comperable in price is the qy-10 ... which
you can't load samples into (as is possible with lsdj!), has
a winky display (compared to a massive gameboy screen) and
it's sounds are all uneditable shite gm (compared to lsdjs
versitle synth engine based on the gameboys 4 chan sound
chip).

if yr new to making music and wanted a free pc program to
try that has a similar pattern editor i'd look at
modplug tracker. there is also a full-featured demo of LSDj
on the web site (only thing it wont do is save, b


 

offline k9d from mpls (United States) on 2003-05-03 11:23 [#00682544]
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ut u can get around that in an emulator).

renoise is another pc tracker, but it has a vst
structure so you can load it with pluggined sound if that's
your thing. you can make "pro" sounding stuff with that and
it has good options like exporting individual tracks for
sending to a producer or whatever. i think it's $50, again
less than anything in it's class (fruity loops, reason,
cubase).

i guess i went a bit apeshit there, the board didn't evne
include my hwole message, why did you read all that? i'm
sorry.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-03 11:32 [#00682554]
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Try software first. There are many music programs. You can
browse through www.sharewaremusicmachine.com yourself, or
get recommendations which is probably a better idea. Much of
the software is free.


 


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