Homemade Electronic Music 2626 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 11 months ago | Thread started: Mar 3, 10, 11:46 a.m.

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• eighteen

  I just bought a basic keyboard/drumpad/controller setup and downloaded ableton a couple weeks ago and have been experimenting with all of the different stuff I can do with it.
  Mostly I've been recording stuff raw from the keyboard and haven't really gotten into cutting and editing anything into a real song yet.
  It seems like a healthy few of you are into this sort of thing so I was wondering what programs you all use and if you have any suggestions for finding sounds/beats?

  Mar 3, 10, 11:46 a.m. – Permalink

• jonturi

  for purely random samples to use, connect to TV, record and start flipping through channels. you are sometimes surprised what you end up with. if you have a full kit of drum samples (808, 909 etc) and synths you should be good. beyond that if you feel you must sample some songs, do that too.

  lots of people use: cubase, reason and ableton

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 11:49 a.m. – Permalink

• bored2death

  Ableton Live
  NI Maschine

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 11:51 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  

  Native Instruments make some nice synths.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 11:52 a.m. – Permalink

• clearThoughts

  If you are lazy get Reason.
  Semi lazy Ableton.
  If you are serious about it get Logic.
  Pro Tools is probably out of the question for electronic music...

  Probably fun to get some hardware. The screen tends to have a bad effect on music. You should try to 'hear' it rather than 'watch' it.

  • this makes no sense– Meeklo1/3

    probably no sense if you don't know much abour music and have no sense of humor– clearThoughts2/3

    yup, sounds like me..
    I know nothing about music (specially electronic) and I have no sense of humor– Meeklo3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink

• Baths

  What model keyboard are you guys using? Looking for a smaller one to be able to connect to amp/pedals

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:49 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  Get yourself the Korg Legacy digital collection.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:50 p.m. – Permalink

• defstro

  Logic Pro is the bee's knees. For sounds/beats, start hitting up used record stores.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:51 p.m. – Permalink

• defstro

  I should also mention Logic Pro comes with a ton of very powerful instruments.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:52 p.m. – Permalink

• eieio

  ableton

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:53 p.m. – Permalink

• xcarlx

  if you want to do something really unique, learn max msp and jitter. there is a plug in for live.
  
  
  

  • Had to learn/use Max for a class in college. It was the bane of my existence.– nocomply1/2

    it is visual/patch based coding, some people like it, some don't.– xcarlx2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:55 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  Logic Pro is awesome. I only wish I had the time (and more motivation) to spend a couple hours with it every night to really get good with things. As it is right now I use Logic to compose band songs and general ideas for my band as well as instrumental stuff.

  I'd love to get more involved in electronic music to really get a variety of basics down to make the whole process easier. The software instruments in Logic are all great. I also have an Alesis Micron hardware synth I use occasionally.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 3:59 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  

  • oh hell yes.– prophet0NE

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 4:21 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  Logic Pro + Novation remote25 + NI Komplete + Arturia V + Rob Papen Albino, Blue, Predator + Lennar Sylenth + reFX Nexus + Cakewalk Rapture

  • Love Arturia synths.... just picked up a copy of the CS80V last month.– defstro

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 4:36 p.m. – Permalink

• autoflavour

  finding beats = records
  making beats = ableton
  recording sounds = zoom h4 recorder
  making sounds = any number of pieces of software or hardware.

  access snow are pretty good, depending on the music you make.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 4:52 p.m. – Permalink

• autoflavour

  also save and buy a nice compressor.. outboard of course..
  avalon are the bomb

  • pointless really unless you own top notch AD/DA converters.– acescence1/2

    and yes, i own a 2044 and a 2055– acescence2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 4:53 p.m. – Permalink

• bored2death

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 6:40 p.m. – Permalink

• eighteen

  

  
  These are the controllers that I bought and am using right now. I find them to be pretty useful for what I want to do, even though the keyboard doesn't have that real keyboard feel to it.

  • I have the drum pad and love it.– mg331/3

    yup nanopad is great, map the buttons to chords...– kingsteven2/3

    YES ableton does it automatically and it's lots of fun– eighteen3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 7:40 p.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  software is the least important part of the deal.

  • this video shows you that there is no formula, anything goes.– Meeklo1/2

    It's all about the scarf...– ideaist2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 10:38 p.m. – Permalink

• neue75_bold

  Have you ever seen one of these things, the Yamaha DJX
  

  

  it's a blast to fuck around with, but of no real use... Had a quick go on one last night...

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 10:46 p.m. – Permalink

• prophet0NE

  yesterday i won a yamaha qx3 sequencer on ebay - so excited. also recently acquired a tr707, an oberheim dx and an mpc 60. i'm also looking at an akai dps24 now... i have a mac pro, pro tools, ableton, etc, etc but i seem to be reverting back to the 80s/90s instead of embracing new tech. i think i have a problem. just wanted to share.

  

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  Dog-earMar 3, 10, 10:47 p.m. – Permalink