How easy electronic music producing can get?

[Daniboy]

What is the easiest way of producing electronic music?
I see a lot of sample packs to sell and they seem to have parts of music already made, so, should I just mix this stuff with ableton and BOOM I have a track?
I wanna start producing something just for fun, and making something easy would be a lot cooler that spending hours watching complex tutorials on youtube.

[arsman]

The easiest way to make a track is to sit down, open your daw and produce.

its your passion, talent and hard work that lets you finish a track. its your creativity that starts it.

[Daniboy]

The easiest way to make a track is to sit down, open your daw and produce.

its your passion, talent and hard work that lets you finish a track. its your creativity that starts it.

yea I realise that, but is it easy as: Buy Sample pack - Mix kicks to leads to etc. - export with dither (24bit to 16bit) - DONE
??
Am I missing something?

I already have ableton 9, 2i2 scarlett interface, beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro headphones and a good VAIO, what else do I really need to produce a track? Is a MIDI controller really necessary?

[Patch]

Am I missing something?

What do you think?

[cheef]

No, it's not as easy as that at all. I'm new to it myself, and as much as we all want an easy life something like producing your own track can take many many hours.

To give me a head start I paid for some online courses in Logic that gave me a really good grounding, but there is so much to learn across many different elements that expecting an easy ride at this will mean your results aren't going to be of any significant quality, and you certainly won't stand out in any crowd.

You need to invest time and some money into learning if you want to do it the right way.

[JBang]

Yes, it's that easy if you want to just put together some loops and show it to your friends.

But if you're serious about producing your own music, then no, it's not that easy.

[Daniboy]

Yes, it's that easy if you want to just put together some loops and show it to your friends.

But if you're serious about producing your own music, then no, it's not that easy.

But is putting this loops together considered producing? Like, can I sell it? Will I get any respect for doing this or it will be obvious that I simply put things together?

[Nas525]

Well when you say easy what do you want your track to sound like? i can make a track in half an hour with no mixing, EQing and all the plugins added onto it. If your looking to buy sound packs all that gives you is sound. Not a whole track which you are thinking.

In electro music that big build up and sweep isn`t just one sound its many things working togeather to have that big drop. For a beginning producer there is nothing easy about making a track.

[Daily Crisis]

Is a MIDI controller really necessary?

Definitely.

That's if you include MIDI controller with a MIDI keyboard.

I got some excellent advice off a top music promoter in my city and he suggested in order to keep pulling off sick tunes (for example artists like Dusky, Simone Vitullo etc.) you have to learn piano.

With the right piano tutor... Within 2 weeks you'll be as good as any music producer or DJ now... Just pulling off melodies in your tracks. He also said a good 20 mins at least a day with a midi keyboard. I don't suppose you've got space for a grand piano but if you've already got one to practice on, great. But you might as well get a MIDI keyboard for your VAIO. Get a lil home studio going... Pulling off melodies like no tomorrow.

I used to find trying to do good melodies hard and confusing (me being confused how people in Beatport for example could do it and I can't). And now I'm able to. Luckily enough for me, this music promoter knew the best piano tutor in the whole of Brighton. He's the course designer for BIMM for the whole country for Piano. You really can't go wrong for £50 an hour ahaha. Worth it though definitely, I'm sure there are plenty of great piano teachers in Sao Paulo.

But as MIDI keyboards go, you only have to get something cheap and cheerful. For example, I have the AKAI MPK Mini. Tiny.

I hope I was some help to you.

[johney]

But is putting this loops together considered producing? Like, can I sell it? Will I get any respect for doing this or it will be obvious that I simply put things together?

you will get no respect for doing this

also MIDI controller is by no means necessary. I know a lot of producers who produce just with mouse and keyboard.
Learn your DAW first and when you really need the controller, then get one