Homemade Electronic Music
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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?
- jonturi0
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
- bored2death0
Ableton Live
NI Maschine
- ukit0
Native Instruments make some nice synths.
- clearThoughts0
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 senseMeeklo
- probably no sense if you don't know much abour music and have no sense of humorclearThoughts
- yup, sounds like me..
I know nothing about music (specially electronic) and I have no sense of humorMeeklo
- Baths0
What model keyboard are you guys using? Looking for a smaller one to be able to connect to amp/pedals
- ismith0
Get yourself the Korg Legacy digital collection.
- defstro0
Logic Pro is the bee's knees. For sounds/beats, start hitting up used record stores.
- defstro0
I should also mention Logic Pro comes with a ton of very powerful instruments.
- eieio0
ableton
- ********0
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.nocomply
- it is visual/patch based coding, some people like it, some don't.********
- mg330
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.
- ukit0
- autoflavour0
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.
- autoflavour0
also save and buy a nice compressor.. outboard of course..
avalon are the bomb
- eighteen0
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.mg33
- yup nanopad is great, map the buttons to chords...kingsteven
- YES ableton does it automatically and it's lots of funeighteen
- neue75_bold0
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...
- prophet0NE0
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.