Anyone make music?

[Netsky1991]

I'm about to start making some tunes, mainly drum and bass and dubstep so just wondered if any of you guys make music and how you get on?

[K17NEY]

Only with my arse

[Dom]

Use to have a little play when I was 12-14ish, use to make backing tracks for grime tunes, realised it was shit.

Start on Fruityloops, its hard to get use to but the beats you can create are immense.

[0rang3peel]

Yeah, fruityloops is pretty good

[djmartin]

yep I make music do remixes,master peoples tracks for a living :)

software I use

ableton live
cuebase
logic pro
reason 4
fruityloops 9


you need VST with some of them though with regards to reason and ableton you can firewire them together so both programes work in time.

your main object for now is some good monitor speakers & soundcard dont even bother making music until you have those in place.

[Netsky1991]

yep I make music do remixes,master peoples tracks for a living :)

software I use

ableton live
cuebase
logic pro
reason 4
fruityloops 9


you need VST with some of them though with regards to reason and ableton you can firewire them together so both programes work in time.

your main object for now is some good monitor speakers & soundcard dont
even bother making music until you have those in place.

cheers for that mate, do you earn good money from it? Also you got a record label?

[C4_Lew]

Ive been doing it for 7 or so years. Mainly FL but had a play with a few programs

[Matt.S2]

I've only been doing it about 2 years, making mainly urban music so dubstep, grime, synth pop etc... I find cubase and logic are by far the easiest softwares to use! It's such a buzz when you send you tracks to people and have them vocaled and sung on. Good luck with it! :)

[djmartin]

cheers for that mate, do you earn good money from it? Also you got a record label?

im starting up one after summer im currently signed to a couple of labels.
money is not amazing (as most labels do a 15% rate at the start then it grows over time) I get my money from doing dj gigs & mastering otehr peoples music. aka sound engineering.

[Peter_D]

Only with my arse

Sound recordings off your phone or GTFO

[Dave-B]

Fruity loops and reason :)

[Netsky1991]

cheers for the replies lads, yeah my mates getting me reason so we'll see how it goes :)

[citroen_saxo_vtr]

Only with my arse

Made me lol! :D

[Craig_B]

i used logic and reason in college, but finished college now, so dont use them as much, used to make everything from trance to dnb
play guitar aswell, so also write music with that to

[Furio-92]

I make noise, not sure if it will be classed as music though

[Carlvtr88]

Yeah, i make music mate, Personally im a big fan of reason.. although its limited cause it dont suppose Vst instruments. For those i use Cubase. and im a big fan of abelton live's warp function. You can warp some good vocals and chop them and insert them in a DR REX within reason.
Taught myself for a good couple of years then went to college to study sound engineering. My bedrooms almost a studio lol... even tho its not the best in terms of acoustics. It does the job though, Its about persistance, Patience, a good ear and a BIG passion of music. Dont expect to be making the hotest beats within weeks though mate, as i say it takes time to learn the best ways of gettin your tunes as accurate as possible for the mastering studio.
Best thing i ever got was from college, and it was an info sheet on the frequency range's that certain instruments lie. Very useful. Also, Get some monitors to give you a accurate representation of your mix, Hi-fi speakers generally tend to glamourise your music, So it may sound great on them, And diabolical on another system. The idea is if your tune sounds good on monitors theres a good chance it will sound the same on any other system. Good luck mate and i hope it goes well for you. Its a fascinating thing to do and your always learning.

[tjsidhu]

save some money get your self a midi keyboard and some studio monitors (speakers)
im using mpk49 and reason 4.0.... i might be selling my mpk49..
with reason theres alot of loops and addons worth buying.. i been doin production in my spare time for years made abit of money few years bk (not alot)... but always fun to get away and put ur head down in to it... download demos and see what programs are best for you everyone works diffrent.

[TomT]

Yep,

I make grime n hip hop.

Mainly use Reason 4,

Often use Cubase 5 n Reason together though.

good luck with it

[Carlvtr88]

Yep,

I make grime n hip hop.

Mainly use Reason 4,

Often use Cubase 5 n Reason together though.

good luck with it

I think rewire is going to be a bit too much for him at the min :) But it is goood :D

[taitypot106]

i think cubase 5 is the best by far, the stuff you can do in it is immense, its like photoshop for music, hence why its costs so much. but FL is pretty good once you learn it. i dont usually make dance, r n b, or grime or anything like that,
im in an alternative rock style band and cubase is good for our stuff. i do a hell of a lot of track splitting and putting them with different parts and alot of drum programming for our basic backing tracks, you can play alot with vst's in which some are awesome some not so good, but if you find the right ones there is vst's for everything. i would say get a decent soundcard like a tascam so you dont have any latency issues, and some decent monitors, if you have the cash some KRK R6 or KRK RP8's would be decent

[Netsky1991]

i think cubase 5 is the best by far, the stuff you can do in it is immense, its like photoshop for music, hence why its costs so much. but FL is pretty good once you learn it. i dont usually make dance, r n b, or grime or anything like that,
im in an alternative rock style band and cubase is good for our stuff. i do a hell of a lot of track splitting and putting them with different parts and alot of drum programming for our basic backing tracks, you can play alot with vst's in which some are awesome some not so good, but if you find the right ones there is vst's for everything. i would say get a decent soundcard like a tascam so you dont have any latency issues, and some decent monitors, if you have the cash some KRK R6 or KRK RP8's would be decent

Soundcard?

[C4_Lew]

the part of your pc that processes the sound, if you dont know what one is then yours is probably a built in one and will make loads of crackling noises when you are trying to make stuff as well as other issues

[Netsky1991]

Oright I understand, cheers.

[djmartin]

you need a firewire soundcard they run faster then external cards running via the usb.

or get the tried and tested cards
M-audio 48/96


thats what I use in both my proudction comps and they do the job well. roughtly £65ish to buy new.

[Carlvtr88]

i think cubase 5 is the best by far, the stuff you can do in it is immense, its like photoshop for music, hence why its costs so much. but FL is pretty good once you learn it. i dont usually make dance, r n b, or grime or anything like that,
im in an alternative rock style band and cubase is good for our stuff. i do a hell of a lot of track splitting and putting them with different parts and alot of drum programming for our basic backing tracks, you can play alot with vst's in which some are awesome some not so good, but if you find the right ones there is vst's for everything. i would say get a decent soundcard like a tascam so you dont have any latency issues, and some decent monitors, if you have the cash some KRK R6 or KRK RP8's would be decent

or some alesis m1 active 520 USB's built in Sound card, They're pretty awesome. 189 quid

[Stissy]

I'm about to start making some tunes, mainly drum and bass and dubstep so just wondered if any of you guys make music and how you get on?

haha - UKF got you interested in producing ;)

i make piano stuff with reason 4.0
i'm not very good... but i reckon reasons really good for beginners :y:
www.myspace.com/bearsvsbirds

[sssaaaxxxooo]

Used to. Really miss it, but am not motivated enough to do it anymore.

I made dnb mainly, using cubase. I spend over a grand on monitors, dynaudio bm6a's - they are badass.

Some tunes I made..

Www.soundcloud.com/venkman

[Netsky1991]

Used to. Really miss it, but am not motivated enough to do it anymore.

I made dnb mainly, using cubase. I spend over a grand on monitors, dynaudio bm6a's - they are badass.

Some tunes I made..

Www.soundcloud.com/venkman

No motivation, why not!? Those tunes are really good you made mate.

[JamesR]

Used to. Really miss it, but am not motivated enough to do it anymore.

I made dnb mainly, using cubase. I spend over a grand on monitors, dynaudio bm6a's - they are badass.

Some tunes I made..

Www.soundcloud.com/venkman

Not bad mate, nice one :y:

And i found that Reason worked in a different way to most of the other programs? Just something about it i didn't really like.

[Carlvtr88]

Used to. Really miss it, but am not motivated enough to do it anymore.

I made dnb mainly, using cubase. I spend over a grand on monitors, dynaudio bm6a's - they are badass.

Some tunes I made..

Www.soundcloud.com/venkman

venkmon, Get in touch mate, Id be interested in rinsing one or two of those tracks at Hysteria in brum if your ok to send. Nice one m8.

[djmartin]

reason is an all in one based product

all instruments are there to tweak and use.
new sounds are in what we call REFILLS which are reason files with more musical instruments in.

they have sice released software called

RECORD
which is basicly reason 4 and a seriously cut dow version of ableton live. working as one bit of software its great for layig vocals onto music :).

with reason you also use some software called RECYCLE basicly what it does is you put any music into it count the beats then save it and it will become a file which reaso can read.

mainly used for converting soud fx and loops.

best SFX package ive used is vengence club sounds 1,2,3.

here is one of y productions coming out this year.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503196139&v=app_2392950137#!/video/video.php?v=432078376139