Music Production. - Saxperience

DusheR · 11th January 2010, 00:36

Ive always been interested in producing some of my own music, used to dj quite a lot so got a basic understanding of music. Ive got myself and oxygen 8 but I want some decent software.

Would it be best to get a computer just for this with a great sound card? As in the computer is just used for music production?

Does anyone here produce music? If so what genre and whats your setup?

What kind of budget should I have?

Is there any good tutorials out there?

Cheers

Ashleyp · 11th January 2010, 00:48

http://soundcloud.com/ashleyprigmore/tracks

computer, and some form of software is required. next step is studio minitors, the synths, samplers etc etc

no need to get a new PC, unless you have loads of cash to burn

my home desktop set up was awesome, heres what i have at uni: could only take 1 studio monitor) lol

DusheR · 11th January 2010, 00:55

Im guessing the alcohol is an important part ha

What software do you use?

The M-Audio Oxygen 8, any good? Found it cheap thats all.

Ashleyp · 11th January 2010, 01:00

the M-Audio Oxygen 8 is hardware, not software

you can aquire most production software programs. reason (get 3 not 4) fruityloops, cuebase etc etc

learn to use your software before branching out and spending loads on hardware imo

DusheR · 11th January 2010, 01:03

ha yeh I know its hardware. Ive got reason 3 (ebay job, was a bloody copy like). Cant get the oxygen 8 to work with it.

How do you make the melodys without a keyboard?

Ashleyp · 11th January 2010, 01:05

you have to write them on the software. with your mouse

see what i mean now. about spending money on hardware before understanding your software

you can do pretty much everything on a program without the use of hardware.

ive had reason for like 3 years now, and still only know about half of it, theres so much to learn

DusheR · 11th January 2010, 01:10

I know, confused the hell out of me. It was easy to use the oxygen 8 with a free copy of fruity loops. But you cant do anything with the free copy. Used fruity loops?

Do you know how to get the oxygen 8 to work on reason 3?

Ashleyp · 11th January 2010, 01:11

read my above post. learn to use reason before worrying about your hardware add-ons

DusheR · 11th January 2010, 01:15

so how do you make melodys without the hardware?

Ashleyp · 11th January 2010, 08:07

it's hard to explain without showing you

search tutorials for the basics on youtube

if you cant find any, i'll knock up a quick vid for the basic stuff and email it to you

Harv · 11th January 2010, 23:56

Ableton live ftw! I'm sure you can get a copy somewhere

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Mochachino · 12th January 2010, 00:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harv

Ableton live ftw! I'm sure you can get a copy somewhere

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irc thats like £500?

DusheR · 13th January 2010, 01:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashleyp

it's hard to explain without showing you

search tutorials for the basics on youtube

if you cant find any, i'll knock up a quick vid for the basic stuff and email it to you

Hmm cheers but think Ive got Reason 4.0. Just looked, going to install it on my laptop and have a play with it.

C4_Lew · 13th January 2010, 11:56

If you just want to learn, get fruityloops, if you want it badly for free there are plenty of ways to get it, I wont go into that here.
It also has the bonus of there being a million guides on youtube, and if you have some good plugins for it you can make some very decent sounding stuff.

heres a few clips of stuff Ive made with fl, some im still doing:
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisr.mp3
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisrremixcomp.mp3
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisrcheese.mp3

ben_glen · 13th January 2010, 14:29

ive got FL 9 and im still learning how to use it, but it seems a truly awesome piece of software, im looking at getting the Beat Thang Virtual software at the moment though, used to produce the majority of Method Mans new album and also it was used to produce 50 Cents track Do you think about me by Rockwilder...
and then progressing from that by getting the Beat Thang hardware...

JamesR^m · 13th January 2010, 15:25

I have the following:

FL studio 7, Sonar 6, Cubase etc I fine Acid Pro 6.0 very very good though and it's what i use mainly. Also a keyboard is essential imo

Reason works differently to most of the programs though, not a fan of it at all

DusheR · 13th January 2010, 16:58

Think I might get fruity loops. PM about getting it free? ha

If not how much am I expecting to pay? and where from?

Cheers for all the replys

DusheR · 13th January 2010, 17:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lewis_Raz

If you just want to learn, get fruityloops, if you want it badly for free there are plenty of ways to get it, I wont go into that here.
It also has the bonus of there being a million guides on youtube, and if you have some good plugins for it you can make some very decent sounding stuff.

heres a few clips of stuff Ive made with fl, some im still doing:
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisr.mp3
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisrremixcomp.mp3
http://ezkills.co.uk/music/lewisrcheese.mp3

Had a listen, they seem canny, where did you get fruityloops from?

Ashleyp · 13th January 2010, 17:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saxo_vtr

I have the following:

FL studio 7, Sonar 6, Cubase etc I fine Acid Pro 6.0 very very good though and it's what i use mainly. Alos a keyboard is essential imo

Reason works differently to most of the programs though, not a fan of it at all

reason has everything internal so no need for VST's

it's more complicated than logic if you know how touse logic

but then logics more complicated if you know how to use reason

point of this random post: it's not what equiptment you have, but how you use it. as i said in 1st post, anyone can have £10,000's of hardware, but it doesnt make them a good producer

DusheR · 14th January 2010, 00:19

Do you know where you are???????????? Your in the jungle baaaaaaby haha

albums have arrived.

Turns out it is reason 3.0 I have. Think I might just get fruity loops aswell. Learn the basics.