Music software !!!
Whats the best FREE music software to create your own beats to then put on CD.
Im new to the music industry hahaha !!!
Ive been told to use audacity what do you all think ??
Download the demo from Ableton, watch tutorials on youtube and get to know the shit.
For free, I wouldnāt recommend anything. For cheap, Iād recommend Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/. You can evaluate before purchasing.
Thatās like asking what car is the best to drive, no definite answer.
Iād recommend Reaper, though^ just because of the unlimited trial, i like that approach from the devs. That said, if you can afford it, definitely go and buy the license!
Bear in mind itāll take a lot of time to get to the level, where you actually start producing something listenable, donāt expect to know it all overnight.
Cool,
yea i know it takes time, i just want to get started ASAP !!!
Ill have a ganderssss ā¦
Cheers
First, you need to understand the differences between the software you need.
What you want is a DAW. A Digital Audio Workstation.
Audacity is something you will edit sound with, but will not suffice as a DAW.
You should look into Cubase, Ableton Live or ProTools.
There are others, like FruityLoops and Reason, but the above 3 are industry standard.
I started on Rebirth, the Reason, the Cubase and after long last Ableton.
So..yeahā¦go research that some!
Is Logic not known as industry standard?
Cool,
with regards to recording voice, can you then place them on to these programs too ??
Ableton has become more of the industry standard for dance music in the last couple of years. Also the workflow of live is much easier to learn than logic.
And protools
I personally always worked with cubase, a very linear daw, and trying to make the switch to ableton is quite difficult for me.
To the OP, iād suggest fruity loops. Better than reaper IMO, and your skills will translate well to any daw, linear (cubase, logic, protools), or non-linear (ableton, bitwig), and it has a s***load of great synths and instruments in it, so you will be able to learn basic synthesis without buying some thirdparty VST synths.
And practice, practice, practice. Your tunes will sound like crap in the beginning, no matter if youāre a musical genius or not.
Just donāt give up
this may sound daft but could you explain what you mean about linear and non linear daws?
also i thought logic had the easier learning curve, it seems to ālookā easier then abelton
Its a Digital Audio Workstation.
This means it can do ALL of it.
You input your micā¦hit record and record that as a sound sample.
You will work with either sound samples or create the sounds with Synths by means of VSTās.
Without trying to sound like a dick, find someone that knows a bit about this stuff and let them show you the ropes.
Asking questions like that on forums might get ya flamed!
Nice surname by the wayā¦its mine too.
While logic uses the old but trusted multitrack interface, ableton is a little more innovative with the fact that it uses these so-called āscenesā and āclipsā.
This basically allows you to create a load of different tracks that may not necessarily sound good together, and then try combining them in different ways until you find how they sound good together. Itās a completely different approach to more traditional DAWs where itās a pain in the ass to completely change ideas when you already started the project.
And while yes, linear daws have easy learning curves, there is some stuff that is just easier in ableton. Sidechaining, for example.
Logic, protools and cubase have very vast featuresets that are quite bigger than abletonās, but to access and properly use those functions you need a lot of knowledge of the daw itself. So while the learning curve in linear daws is very fast in the beginning, digging to more advanced functions will take more time
At least this is my experience with these daws. Iāve extensively worked in logic, protools and cubase, but ableton iām just trying to understand a bit more throughoutly, and iāve currently just scraped the surface
cheers bro.
im actually in the process of deciding which to chose myself, hence why i asked.
i was going to go with abelton because i know later down the line i would want to try working on a live show.
Although a mate of mines is selling me a macbook (i need a upgrade as my mac is now on its arse) and said he will stick Logic on it for me!
so now im unsure to just learn logic since im going to have it or abelton.
also ive heard logice is a bit more cpu hungry to live, is that true?
probably the best totally free DAW right now. plugin integration, recording function, master and much more. i started with this before switching to ableton. also some good tutorials on youtube (most for linux but same rules aply to all OSs).
Iād say learn both simultaneously!
Yes, logic is a bit more cpu hungry, thatās because it has a better sound engine than ableton. But itās more stable than ableton, since itās written directly for the mac environment.
Really youāll have nothing to lose if you try both
I too avoided Live when I was using Cubase.
But I must admit, I find Live a much easier workflow and quicker.
I get somewhere with it quickly compared to Cubase.
Then againā¦it helps TONS to learn the shortcut keysā¦I didnāt really.
I did know the basic ones and built nice little tools by making presets to help do certain tasks etcā¦but I dunno, find Live better these days.
Preference I guess.
Ableton Live.