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- orpkoobcam20
I can't even begin to imagine the music you're trying to make with all that setup and waffle you're talking about. If you're new to making music digitally may I suggest you keep it simple and low cost:
Try Renoise first - it's free:
Use a simple but good free analogue synth to learn the basics.
This actually quite a decent synth:
http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/…And you can find decent free drumkit sample packs to use, for example this one is super awesome:
http://www.orangetreesamples.com… Kit.rarRenoise has native FX's filters that are decent, and I suggest you use a Mac so you can make use of the free native Apple AU FX's that are brilliant.
Create a few patterns, beats, loops and put together a basic track. Then use the FX, EQ and mixer to learn how to mix a well balanced track. Some decent tutorials here:
http://audio.tutsplus.com/Once you are confident, and feel you have talent - and feel the limitations of Renoise, invest in Ableton.
You can use renoise as an instrument within ableton if you get attached to it.
you can use the MPK25 with renoise as well as Ableton and it's a pretty nice little midi input board with a decent low price. it just plugs straight into a usb port so no need for all that space station geek pc stuff you're talking about. Not sure what you are talking about regarding mini PCI-e etc.... You can get a fancy keyboard later if you have talent.
This guy is super awesome, is about 20 years old and is only using fruityloops, a mouse and a crappy old PC:
http://soundcloud.com/robotakihe's done some decent remixes that have been published. All done on a crappy setup up.
http://soundcloud.com/robotaki/y…– you don't need all the gear etc to make decent music - you need talent. So start low cost first. Maybe take a few music lessons.