# Production software for beginners **URL:** \ **Category:** Music Production\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966 "2012-01-30T01:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![djo1006](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/djo1006/32/16242_2.png) [@djo1006](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/djo1006)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966/1 "2012-01-30T01:01:35Z")
**Production software for beginners** Whats up all!! Qq—looking to make my own music and remixes. What is the best software for that? Pro Tools, Ableton, Fl Studio? What are the differences in these? FYI I use Traktor S4 and maschine. Thanks for the help!! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Zorilow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/steve_zorilow/32/14747_2.png) [@Steve\_Zorilow](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Steve_Zorilow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966/2 "2012-01-30T01:32:09Z")
Maschine within Ableton or any other DAW would do the trick. Ableton offer a lot of interesting feature and you can also use it with your Maschine controller… not 100% ideal but workable. In the past I used Acid Pro and I liked it. To be honest, there’s no such thing as “the best”, try few demo and make your decision. ---
**Author:** ![Conall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/conall/32/13634_2.png) [@Conall](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Conall)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966/3 "2012-01-30T01:59:02Z")
Its personal preferance mainly, I like ableton. You should get into the maschine, its a pretty powerful bit of kit. ---
**Author:** ![mostapha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/mostapha/32/14134_2.png) [@mostapha](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/mostapha)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966/4 "2012-01-31T17:33:14Z")
I’m a fan of maschine. If you already own a Mac, Logic Pro is by far the most cost effective option. But it’s all preference. IMHO the best 2 are logic and pro tools by a wide margin with ableton coming in a distant third. Button should really watch videos and read tutorials and pick the one that seems to make the most sense. One thing I’ll warn you to be careful of: Reason. It’s really good and sounds great. A lot of people use it and apart from being kinda hokey (you have to patch virtual cables) it’s actually awesome. Except that it’s a completely closed system. You can’t buy plugins for it of any kind and are kinda stuck with what you get. That’s kind of okay because a lot of it is pretty good and they have a software interface called ReWire that gives you 16 audio a d 16 midi channels into reason and 64 audio channels out of it…but it’s sequencer still sucks and I you don’ like the sound of their SSL desk modelling, you have to rewire it into something else. I haven’t really do e any critical listening, but I’ll bet it’s SSL modelling isn’t great. Plus, you already own maschine which is a better drum machine and sequencer than the stuff that comes with reason. ---
**Author:** ![mostapha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/mostapha/32/14134_2.png) [@mostapha](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/mostapha)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/production-software-for-beginners/36966/5 "2012-01-31T17:35:16Z")
And you don’t actually need anything but maschine unless you’re doing vocals or real instruments. Just get a soft synth and when you can hear the flaws, better processing plugins. And go ahead and get a reverb that doesn’t suck. NI sucks at making reverbs.