Hey what’s up guys, I am brand new to making music and i have a couple of questions for a person just starting out.
As a spring board is piecing together loops from GarageBand to make a solid beat to play for people. I downloaded Dubturbo looks like this program is more advanced version of Garageband where you can actually to making the drum line and adding stuff.
For a person just starting out what are some good things to have? I.E Macbook which i have, what should be my next purchase turntables?
DubTurbo is kinda like GarageBand to answer it quickly.
Great questions you have. I would like to Make Heavy drum and bass music, house/techno beats with some dark textures.
Now being new i don’t understand what Techniques you are talking about, and turntables are something where i can scratch and mix music and change sound settings.
if you can expand more on the turntables and techniques that would be great!
I’ve never heard of durturbo either, but if usually a good step up from Garageband is Logic. It’s fairly pricy but if you are in college/have an edu email you can probably find a academic version for A LOT less either online or in your campus bookstore.
I don’t see how turntables would be really helpful. Usually producers (which I assume is what you’re doing) buy a midi keyboard or a drum pad. Personally I have the MPK Mini, and I love it.
Ok i bought that program so shoot me i use that and garage band to make music, i didn’t know that dub turbo was the magic word on getting banned, a person asking a simple question on how to make some music
Now you going to say I’m spammer again, or just ban me and have the last laugh
LOL, I laughed so hard reading this thread so far. I was like how the heck did Mostapha spot a bot like that? Brilliant! And then I find out it really was a person, it just made my night.
Anyway back to your question Narcassistic - honestly if you’re just doing production work, whichever DAW you want to use (I am assuming Dubturbo is the one you chose, I have no idea what it is nor do I want to really look it up), and maybe a simple midi controller to work on your music with, such as an MPK Mini (http://www.guitarcenter.com/Akai-Professional-MPK-Mini-Laptop-Production-Keyboard-106224769-i1629984.gc).
Your best friend in this journey will be YouTube and patience. You have to read for hours upon hours upon hours to understand it, and then after that you have to practice for hours upon hours upon hours.
Anyway welcome to the forums, I don’t think any feelings were meant to be hurt by Jester or Mostapha as I know they are continually contributing as and how they can wherever they see fit. We just sometimes get random ass bots that show up on the forums and spam shit.
Ok first and foremost it was me that banned you. If i was wrong then i readily apologise but, it was not just the use of the word duburbo in both your posts which made it seem like spam advertising, it was also the use of language.
Check this quote and the use of English which sounds like a Spam Bot. If English is not your native tongue then thats understandable but this paragraph reads very badly:
And then compare it to this post which looks like it was written by a totally different person although i understand that is also you.
Now, as i said if i banned you when i shouldnt then i apologise but i did it because you sounded like a bot NOT because of the size of my dick so tone the attitude down.
You could have just asked “why the ban guys, im genuine” but you didnt.
Are we clear. An honest mistake does not mean you can give attitude.
You banned me before I could even post another thread about being genuine.
Anyways forget about it. that wasn’t the reason I came to these boards, I just want to learn more about DJing and making music in general.
Coldfuzion thank you for the info, I just want to get a clear picture on how to make music and know all the history about it. I will check Youtube and other sites to fine tune my abilities.
To add to this post, I may sound stupid in my questioning this is because I have NO idea about this music, and once I signed up to the forums I got intimated by all you guys with years of experience, I loop cool beats on GarageBand which is probably like kindergarten level. This is why I started the post saying I was brand new because frankly I am brand new. My only equipment right now is a Macbook pro, and want to expand on it.
honestly mate I’m not gonna tell you what you should be using and what you shouldn’t but I promise you that you’re going to get very sick of DUBturbo very quickly, Quality costs money and from the looks of DUBturbo’s site they don’t have to quality to sell their product in a legitimate fashion. I believe your best bet is to save up some money or sell some stuff and buy an educational license for Logic Studio. Yea it might cost more than DUBturbo but you won’t get sick of it. I can assume you think I’m a logic fanboy and will back it till death but I’m not I just know through using it and watching videos that the software is deep! the two big players in Electronic Music Production I find are Ableton Live and Logic Studio and both are as powerful as each other. There’s no right and wrong in music production but all I can give you is my personal advice and oppinion.
wongaling, thanks for the info also, sounds like I need to get Logic on my Mac. To save money I will stick with Garageband to start off because it looks like Logic is the same but to be a pro is moving to Logic.
I’m not quite sure how your writing improved so much. But, yeah…in general, anything touting to be “the secret” for making music is either a scam or a marketing trick. And don’t trust “pro audio” sites that use the same paywalls as porn sites.
Garage band is actually kinda cool…it’s just limited. If I were you, I’d read about techniques and use it as best you can until you start finding things that you can’t get it to do. When that happens, try to get your hands on as many demos as you can. IMHO, top 3 are Logic Studio, Pro Tools, and Ableton Live…not necessarily in that order.
Apart from that, audio.tutsplus.com has some good articles…and everything else is a matter of searching and surfing unless you actually want to go to school for audio engineering or music theory.
youtube videos – I enjoyed watching various Masterclass videos. Search for ‘masterclass computer music’ or ‘future music’ and go through some of the interviews with artists you like. Take note of what they use to make music. A lot of them really surprised me with how minimal there gear is.
I also watched a lot of dubspot videos on youtube. However they are likely more useful once you know what direction you want to go.
Search around there’s tons of information to be had on all aspects of production/djing/whatever.
Reaper is worth checking out. Very well featured, stable and inexpensive ($60 for a non-commercial license) DAW for both PC and Mac. You can try it out completely unrestricted for 30 days. When it comes down to it though, whatever DAW you choose will only be limited by how much time you can spend learning it and your own imagination.
I’ll second the mention of DSF’s production bible. It’s full of fantastic information that applies to whatever genre of music you want to produce, not just dubstep.
A MIDI keyboard is good for playing out your melodies. Get a DAW (Reaper is good, I personally use Ableton Live as it’s intuitive for loops and samples). There’s plenty of free VST instruments at KVR. Buy yourself a couple of issues of Computer Music and Future Music, try replicating the tutorials with the tools you have at hand. Read them from cover to cover. Basically, get involved. It takes 10,000 hours practice to become an expert in something.
