producing tunes...but which software?! - Page 3

adam · #21 12-12-2005, 12:06 PM

I didn't think he was old enough to buy booze.

thee carp dreamer · #22 12-12-2005, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam

I didn't think he was old enough to buy booze.

mate, i'm not a yank.

anyway, yea. LOL JIMMY WTF BBQ>???!!!!!11

so, ben. are you actually playing live this time, or pretending to do stuff again?

Leon · #23 12-12-2005, 12:58 PM

Dude, good times.

Anyway, I'm way too fucking lazy and stupid to try to understand Jeskola Buzz. But I think this would be a program you'd like to use. It's free and it offers very much. I guess it takes some time to find out all the features, but if you know how to deal with it, it's great.

shudder · #24 12-12-2005, 05:08 PM

oh i'll be pressing buttons.

shudder · #25 12-12-2005, 05:09 PM

don't listen to leon trackers are evil.

TheRev · #26 12-14-2005, 08:23 AM

Trackers are for programmers that want to make music. So for some people they are more intuitive. Though if you come at music as a performer first then they don't make a whole lot of sense.

Personally I prefer the hands on appraoch that programs like Acid and Live offer.

Basically, if this is your first fooray into making any sort of music, get whatever you can get your hands on within your budget and just practice the art of making music. If you can perfect yourself as a musician, it won't matter what software / hardware you are using. They are all just conduits, like a trumpet or a saxophone is to a standard performer. One isn't better than the other per se, but one may be more comfortable to one person over another.

That said get yourself acquainted with a sequencer like Reason or Live because if you want to expand you'll be able to jump from those to something more complex than if you start off with a Tracker.

Nix all that if you come from a programming background though.

thee carp dreamer · #27 12-14-2005, 08:57 AM

by the way, i know fuck-all about programming. not a thing at all. just thought i'd mention that, incase anyone thought you had to have a phd in comuter science and programming before you can use a tracker.

but i agree with the idea that you should find as much software as possible, because sticking with one piece of software means that you will have a distictive sound that is obviously created in that software. i'm thinking of reason in particular.

tiq · #28 01-02-2006, 05:24 PM

i use reason 2.5 (i know this version is outdated and it isn't freeware)
you have many options, it's very versatile, it's easy to use and you can make it as big and extended as you'd like

tonnerre · #29 01-08-2006, 10:34 PM

i may be the only mac user on this entire thread, but I use Sound Studio by Felt Tip Software a lot. Prior to that was Cakewalk Metro but I think they discontinued it so it won't run on OSX?

botkiller · #30 01-29-2006, 12:50 PM

I use hardware - the roland groovebox 505, a tr-909, and some other machines - then on software I'm a fan of cubase SX and reason 3.0 with as many refills as you can muster, as the factory refill is crap. ableton is amazing, but I can't get myself to use it yet. if you wanna fool with some great sound design and have fun try out synth edit - www.synthedit.com - which is free, and as for trackers, my favourite is renoise, www.renoise.com. I love it, because you can use VST's in it (aphex twin has used it to make tracks, apparently), but you can do that in madtracker as well - www.madtracker.org - as of recent. both are free to use and have low registration fees. fruity loops is great, acid is fun for mixing. if you're looking to stay cost concious I'd suggest getting the free rebirth, renoise and some free vst's off of http://www.kvraudio.com/ . there's a lot of good stuff out there. as for hardware in your computer, I use an maudio audiophile 24/96 and I love that card, the ASIO is great and very low-latency, and it's cheap now, as it's "outdated". it's also nice to have a good external keyboard, such as Radium 61 key or something of that like.

you don't need to be a programmer to use this stuff - just spend some time learning.

there's really a lot of good free stuff out there, and I would suggest being careful about what you buy until you've tried it. Reason is great - but I hated it until 3.0, and I thought I'd wasted my money when I bought it at 2.0. Spend some time seeing what you like, what you want to drop money on. You might find that you're a hadware person, and it's better to direct your money the right way, of course.

i'm fooling with all this right now, and really liking what I'm doing, on average.

good luck!