Get a Midi Keyboard… Nothing fancy (like one that has a built on synthesizer) since all the sounds you need will be on your computer. Just make sure it has velocity sensitive keys. Get Reason 3.0 and Ableton Live. Fuck around until you know what you’re doing. Remember that compression is key. Don’t get reverb happy. If you ever get big then PM me and I’ll tell you where to send the money.
P.S. I miss you girl. Why don’t you write me anymore?
My setup for MIDI orchestration and composing: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 2 GB RAM and M-Audio Audophile 2496 running Cubase SE and connected to a Yamaha P-70 digital Piano or a Edirol PCRM50 MIDI controller if I need to use a mod wheel. Sample Libraries East West Orchestra Silver and Garritan Person Orchestra. I monitor on KRK RP5 Rokits. They offer the frequency response I need for orchestra without sounding too sweet or being too expensive. I headphone mix with a 25$ Sennheuser set that really needs to be replaced, but they have a wide frequency response for the price and don’t touch the sound very much so they do the job when I need to get up close.
Sadly, since I bought all that I haven’t even had time to sit down and really dig my teeth into it, but I am nearly done creating my full orchestra preset template. Maybe then I can start recording some tracks. I still make beats in FLstudio all the time. :tup:
I make some dance music, you can hear my stuff at www.myspace.com/benacosta but I’m not very good at the moment :-p
Just DL some drum samples, a program (ie: Fruity Loops, Reason, whatev), some VST’s and your ready to go heh 
I recommend you to Tranceaddict.com’s forum they really have a lot of talented producers.
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=48
remember to check out the stickies.
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Three new tracks up.
How do people get the 5 track hookup?
go here:
^add them as a friend.
like…5 new tracks since i last posted. the mixes are concepts for a possible mixtape that i mite be pursuing. sober is not mixed tightly but the non producers never catch it so…
I think the most important thing to do is get a good sample cd. Vengeance essential club sounds are the best. Worth my money.
Next I’d get a sequencer, almost any will do. I perfer fruity.
After that, I’d get a decent synth. Software is good because it’s cheap, and it has no wires, hardware is good too, but it’s more expensive, plus you don’t need a pimped out pc. I’d generally stick with at most 3 different synths to save your wallet, and your time so you get to know the synths well.
Knowing music theory isn’t bad either. Not totally required to make music since people have been making music for ages without it. If you don’t know how to make music and it’s your first time, I think you should know at least how to play in key. Minor = darker, major = happier. Most dance music is in minor.
If you know someone personally who makes music, and knows how to mix, ask them to teach you. It’s just much easier to learn that way, much funner, a lot less headache, and much more time efficient. There’s a ton of information on the internet, but it doesn’t really tell you where to start. Learning on your own can be hard because what’ll take you weeks to figure out might take you 5min if you know someone.
After getting most of that, learn how to mix. It’s part art, and part science. If you want to do something, there are probobly 900 other ways to do it.
In the mix, you pretty much adjust the levels, and make sure everything sits in it’s proper place in the frequency spectrum.
Has a chart that shows where stuff usually sits, its somewhere in that page. It’s not a 100% rule to keep them there however. If it sounds good then it is good.
The best way to learn how to mix for me is just by listening to CD quality music of your favorite artists. Notice which parts are louder, which parts are panned, which parts are sitting in it’s proper place, etc.
Also, unless you have vocals, I’d put a -6.0dbish at around 500hz on the master with a decent amount of Q and I’d shelf anything except kicks and bass under 120hz. Your mixes will start sounding cleaner after that. Cutting when EQing is better than boosting most of the time. If I had to tell someone who’s starting out making music, that’s what I’d tell them first.
So there’s my lesson on mixing in a nutshell. There’s still a lot more to learn though.
i mke hiphop beats and DJ. underground sample-based style
Wow, I never thought that I’d need a better sound card than the one that I had, but I believe that day has come.
I was trying to work on this song, but the sound kept on getting messed up on the first and second notes, but third played perfectly. Or maybe it could be a ram problem, I'm not sure, but this brings me to my question.
What is the best sound card I could get to put into my computer for audio production. Or just something not too expensive. And what's a good sound card.M-Audio anything is a good way to go for beginners. :tup:
I’d recommend E-MU over m-audio at this point, though you couldn’t go wrong with either.
new beat up [the only one on there lol]
havent made a beat in a while so…yea
After a year and a half of writers block I’ve finished this…
"Sorting Emotion From Trinkets"
For those of you who haven’t heard me, I produce electronica. I couldn’t classify myself, but think early Aphex. Since I’m confident my writers block is over I will be putting alot more into this thread. I’m currently using a mix of FL 7 and Cubase.
yay 10x is back
Had no idea there was a thread for this. I’ve been producing IDM/breakcore/chiptune/hiphop for about 10 years now. I use cubase and a shit ton of plug-ins. Hit the link to my myspace for some samples.
Ok i just listened to some of the music from you guys… holy shit, grow a penis. Some of the weakest “hiphop” beats I’ve heard in a long time. Not to talk shit or anything… but come on.
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ZOMG SICK!
That’s Fuckin Sick Thnx Inverse!!!
Whoa, I had no idea this thread was here! Great (old) news.
I was fooling around with logic pro the other day. I love how you can play the instruments with the basic computer keyboard. So much fun. And you can record that too, so you can easily come up with your own beats.
Hey, to all you producers… if you’re into hiphop. I tried fucking with fruityloops and shit and I dont understand how to use it, either that shit is way to complicated or Im stupid.
But my question is, If I were to spit some shit into like Sound Recorder or something… Like separate files for each verse, hook, chorus, backups and shit. If I sent it to you, would you be interested in mixing it into a beat? This could be an ongoing project or whatevs. Im not into makin money with it right yet, just experimenting. Hit me up.
^ go download a tutorial for FLstudio. It’s seriously not all that hard and it’s much easier than what you mentioned doing with Sound Recorder.