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Making Music (Electronica)

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linusthepenguin

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I don't know if this is an appropriate place to post this... but here goes!

I've always wanted to get started into music... mainly downtempo and acid trip-hop. I've dabbled in Fruity Loops, Reactor, and Garageband. After playing with the applications for days at a time, I always came away overwhelmed by the cluttered interface as well as frustrated with trying to find the right sound.

Does anyone have any experiences they would like to share or suggestions for beginners like me? (Freeware / open-source is strongly encouraged. I'm a broke college student looking for a couple of creative outlets to replace gaming as a childhood hobby.)
 
Fruity Loops is more than you'll need, I think, since it can do so much. You can combine it with sounds you record or get off the internet and make really nice songs. It has tons of plugins so you can get tons of guitars, pianos, weird sounds, etc.

My suggestion would be to simply look through help files for Fruity Loops and learn to use it. If there's anything you still don't get, use google to search for info and tutorials. There are tons. It can take minutes to make a song with it so it can't really get easier than that. It's kinda like the Photoshop of music in the sense that you can get in there and create something fast but if you wanna do really complex things you can do that also.

This is a guy I know who uses Fruity Loops for most of his songs and I think you'll agree that they're of a professional quality: http://www.myspace.com/martintibbs
 
fruity loops is great...Reason is the bomb! Neither are "beginner friendly", you just have to stick with it. I've used reason for years. The way I learned was from reverse engineering other peoples songs and seeing how the heck they did the things they did. Now I have a USB midi keyboard, and I love composing. Even if my stuff never goes anywhere, its good fun.
 
havent played with the newest version of Fruity Loops = but loved every moment of the hundreds of hours ive sunk into older versions of that app... very powerful, but also very simple if you keep it simple.

start small, work your way up as the location of items and certain processes become second nature.

Cheers
 
fruity loops is how i learned man. It helps you get familiar with effects, beats, melody, songwriting, ect. Its a very powerful beginner tool. HOWEVER it is also very limited compared to some of the high end sequencers ie- cubase, pro tools, logic, ect. Also, building your own home studio is very important if you want to step your music up to the next level. I recommend a firewire or usb soundcard and studio monitor speakers at least. www.studio-central.com is an amazing website to follow when starting your endeavor in music. Check out my tunes on myspace, i think we appreciate simular styles :)

www.myspace.com/thesecession

feel free to ask me anything about my production techniques!
 
Personally I use Reason. I don't normally do the style you're looking for, but I found that it is easy to do if you wanted to. In 1 sitting I can take a rock song heavy with 2 guitar's, bass, and drums, and dump it to a techno/trance blend a la Lostprophets
I'm not sure if the other apps listed do it, but you can extract the individual slices out of a published in reason song. For instance, I use the drum samples from the reason published song "In the Cold Light of Reason" by Clawfinger
 
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