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making electronic music? |
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fruity loops. |
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oh and reason |
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anything else is 'too complicated' and you have to learn bits. it's obviously shit. the 2 i mentioned are great to try and sound like that artist you like without having to do much. |
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ableton + mic |
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garageband |
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fruity loops & reason. i think ill go with those two, ive heard from other people there good to. some guy i collaborated with across the internet sent me fruity loops in an email, so ill start with that. thanks guys. |
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any other suggestions would be great. |
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shady=afx |
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why do you say that young skywalker? |
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Mario Paint for SNES |
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lol, cool. |
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Reason is comming out with a modular environment. Pretty awesome I say. |
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explain "modular environment" and "Reason" |
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I think having sex with men can produce quite good music. But only after marriage, of course, and remember to read theology books and look at rotting rats before you indulge yourself in sexual activites. |
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fl studio is what i use. i don't often run into limitations, but it does seem somewhat linear lately. |
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i use equipment. and a tracker. and sound recorder. |
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Ummm. Well, its a modular synthesizer for reason that you can choose what kind of oscilators, filters, envelopes and effects, and patch them together through a matrix window. Its going to be named THOR, and its comming out on reason 4.0 And no, I don't really like considering reason a modular environment. You could say the same for anything that allows you to choose which vst plugins are going to run and modulate eachother. |
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I should specify that I don't like considering the full packaged reason a modular environment. |
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Egyptian Lover recommends Fruity Loops. |
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Agreed. It's more of a compliment of "instruments". An actual modular reason would be very cool though (even better would be an open source environment to allow homebrew programmers to create new instruments, or at least port in VSTs). |
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egyption lover, i wanna get some of his albums, he seems pretty cool, but yeah ill probably use reason and the new fruity loops when i get 500$ from these last jobs i did. a friend is going to build me a computer for 400$ then i need a cheap but good monitor. |
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then you need theory |
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ill have to say the only music programs i have purchased are reason and reaktor other than that the shits be downloaded. check some BT sites see what you can find. (note: i do not promote piracy if the RIAA is reading this) haha For starting out thought i'd deff say Reason as the least its a choice program, takes a little getting used to but once you get the hang of things you can make some ill shit, especially when you start rewiring them through programs like ableton live, etc. I dunno about others but for laying out tracks with samples and putting some effects here and there Soundtrack Pro works wonders too (if you have a mac). But on windows like everyone else has said check out the FL studio. |
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are fruity loops and reason found @ stores like bestbuy or cuircut city, or do you download them from the net? |
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well fruity loops and reason can be purchased at music stores such as Guitar Center, if you have one near you id check there. You can purchase Fruity Loops online as a download, you can also purchase Reason from their website (propellerhead.se). |
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I'm having too much fucking trouble with FL Studio lately. It's the little things that get you. Rendered loops are offset by the length of the latency in samples, if you're using effects that have any latency. I did an experiment where I recorded the fucking METRONOME to a mixer track, played it back against the live metronome, and it was OFF. With no plugins or anything. That's heinous. I can't work with software that broken. It's too bad because it's an amazing program in so many ways - loads VST and DXI plugs, now has a fantastic audio editor that does convolution, has probably the most flexible routing and best autiomation assignment, recording and playback of any host program I've used - but the shitty non-automatic delay compensation and sloppiness of rendering loops and synchronization kills it for me. I'll check back in version 8 and see if it's any better. My other host options I'm looking at are Live and Logic but I'd need a Mac for Logic. |
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One thing I'll say about Live is it has tight timing. If I record the output of a Reaktor drum machine to an audio track and play it back against Live's metronome, the metronome just disappears. It annoys me in some of its details (probably only a matter of not being used to it) but the essential functionality is solid. Automatic PDC, tight timing, plays well with Reaktor and other plugins, gets along well with M-audio gear, extremely solid performance at low latencies and with high CPU load. Good stuff. |
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renoise |
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yeah thats FL biggest problem. It sucks ass for live/midi syncs. I thought it was just my copy, lol. Abelton Live works great for that stuff. |
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some people say its realy easy to use, like if yer new to mixing, then you should use it. |
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Komplete 4 with Kore. And ableton live. |
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I'd say you should try someone else's set up before you splurge loads of cash. At least have some idea what to do with the software, maybe do a couple of collaboration tracks with a friend to get a feel for it. Then buy software, computer, etc. Perhaps spend more than $400 too........ |
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In this order: Fruity Loops 6 (or 7 if you can get hold of it...) Reason 3 ACID Pro 6 Reaktor Ableton Renoise AudioMulch EnergyXT Cakewalk Sonar Steinberg Nuendo Steinberg Cubase SX Logic I use FLoops and ACID Pro - pretty powerful combination.... |
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you should really be able to do anything you do with acid in flstudio, its got a lot of layers to it that i keep discovering. too bad it runs like shit on my macbook, prolly because of the mac drivers for my sound card, but eh? whatre you gonna do? |
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Boxed copies of Reason and/or floops occassionally crop up at places like PC World. I was at a client's office a few weeks back and they had about 20 boxed and unopened copies of Reason 3 on the shelf. Other than its instability and the lack of a "more than one channel quantise", floops is very good indeed and there are comparatively few limitations. Anyone who says it's a toy can listen to Midnight Request Line (which was made in Floops) and then fuck off, because nothing they have made in Logic/Cubase comes close. Reason is also very good. Ableton Live is pretty sound too. |
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what current music-making software is bad for making electronic??? try them all and keep the one you're happy with and that suits your style best |
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I personally love Cakewalk Sonar (versions 3 and upwards) for studio stuff and Ableton Live for...erm...live stuff. |
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