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Advice needed! What is needed to start out making electronic music??

  • 14-03-2012 2:51pm
    #1
    GarFromEire
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    Hi all,

    I'm hoping somebody can help me out here. I've been wanting to get into making (electronic) music a lot lately, however, I currently do not own any equipment to do so. I'm looking for advice on what I need/don't need to make the music I'd like to make.

    I come from a piano/guitar/synth background but I really want to start to get into making music via DAWs and the likes. I've been looking at a lot of midi-keyboard controllers and I think I lot of them do the job of several pieces of equipment in one. I know how to use a midi-keyboard fairly well but after that I haven't a clue as to what I should get.

    The kind of music I'd like to make is stuff like deep house, nujazz, minimal etc.. Is there some essential pieces of electronic equipment I need to do so?


    Realistically my budget is about E1000. With that I'm hoping to get at least a decent midi-keyboard and a pair of monitor speakers. After that what do you think I should look at buying? I'd like to do a lot of sampling from vinyl and different things - what's needed to do that?


    Any advice would be greatly appreciated

    Cheers


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  • #2
    old gregg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


    laptop, midi controller, audio interface, your choice of DAW (probably either Ableton or FL Studio) copious amounts of time learning how it all hangs together, back of the net.


  • #3
    AirsoftAndy
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭AirsoftAndy


    1. Software like Ableton , fruity loops
    2. plugins MASSIVE etc
    3. Time

    Later you can pick up little bits and pieces like this http://www.aquariussound.ie/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=224&category_id=79&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2
    Check out Noisestorm on YouTube Irish DJ who only uses Massive and Ableton


  • #4
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    old gregg wrote: »
    laptop, midi controller, audio interface, your choice of DAW (probably either Ableton or FL Studio) copious amounts of time learning how it all hangs together, back of the net.

    Sounds expensive and time consuming, I'd go with a Buddha machine and a nice bag of weed :pac:


  • #5
    GarFromEire
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭GarFromEire


    cheers for the tips lads. I think time is definitely the big one there, learning this stuff takes a good while, especially when you're technically retarded like myself.

    I downloaded flstudio the other day and have been messing around on that trying to figure it out. To understand the basics it doesn't seem the hardest but, if I'm going to devote a lot of time to learning how to use DAWs, which is the best one to learn how to use? Ableton comes up a lot, so I suppose that's defo one of the better ones..


  • #6
    GarFromEire
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭GarFromEire


    Scubadevils wrote: »
    Sounds expensive and time consuming, I'd go with a Buddha machine and a nice bag of weed :pac:

    that bhudda machine thing looks hilarious. i'm trying to be a little more serious with my music production though... lol


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  • #7
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    Give Reaper a go.

    Demo is completely uncrippled, it's only 50 snots for a license when you want to splash out for it, and there's a rake of support for it.

    You can use all the VST instruments you can't use with Reason and it handles audio editing really well.

    Less of a live thing than Ableton is, but I find it much easier to get my head around.


  • #8
    bedrock#1
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭bedrock#1


    Executive Steve wrote: »
    Give Reaper a go.

    Demo is completely uncrippled, it's only 50 snots for a license when you want to splash out for it, and there's a rake of support for it.

    You can use all the VST instruments you can't use with Reason and it handles audio editing really well.

    Less of a live thing than Ableton is, but I find it much easier to get my head around.

    That looks class


  • #9
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    It's good man, I know several pretty big names who have all moved over to it from Logic and Cubase.

    There's ridiculously geeky **** you do with it in terms of workflow customisation / reskinning etc, if there's anything at all you don't like the layout of you can just poke about under the hood and reshape it to your own specs.


  • #10
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Download a demo of propeller heads reason see what you think of that. Its very easy to use once you get the hang of it and how it works so well is in its simplicity. There's tons of tuts on YouTube on how to use most DAWS. I wouldn't bother with VST plug-ins until you have the basics down.

    Demo for Reason version 6 available here http://www.propellerheads.se/download/ -

    If you can get a demo of version 4 or under I'd recommend it there's much more to get used to in later versions.


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