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1. What genre of music are you aiming to produce?
2. What OS are you using, what processor speed and how much RAM?
3. What software/hardware do you already have (state make and model)?
4. What do you need a piece (or several pieces) of software/hardware to do?
5. How much money do you have to spend on it?
6. Extra information?

1. Folky/Funky/Pop/Jazz/PostRock/Rock Hard/Pop/Dreamlike/Post Rockish
and stuff like Pinback/Jim Guthrie/THE SEA AND CAKE/Genesis/Tortoise/Can
My Bloody Valentine/Radiohead
2. Windows XP Home, 2.4 GHZ 512 RAM
3. Reason 3.0.4 Too tedious perhaps. I need a better interface. The sequencer sucked (imo)
4. I'm gonna make music. mix, produce everything but the guitar (only software. no hardware).
I would like an easy to use sequencer that has piano chords and guitar chords... or just easy to use
I need lots of variety and an user manual (or video guide). Reason's drum machine only had limited options
5. price doesn't matter too much, hence I want the best with the most but also very user-friendly.

what should I get?

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

1. Pop
2. Windows, 2,39GHz, 1G
3. Cubase SE3
4. Everything, I guess. I don't neccessarily need it for synth sounds, as I have my old Ensoniq besides the computer, but softsynths are nice for variation.
5. Way too little. Thankfully there's a lot for free on the Net.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

so what should I get? I heard good things about cubase, at least for drums.

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

it might be outdated

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Geir, what free stuff can you recommend? I want something like Cubase, but free.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think you will be able to find good studio ware for free. There are several good free Softsynths though.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

geir - do you know what synths were used to make those great p-funk sort of leads? not exclusive to pfunk, you get the same sort of sounds in a lot of 80's pop as well, but you know.. that warm, funky synth thing.

― never acid again, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

1. What genre of music are you aiming to produce? - depends on my mood but mostly sort of freakfolktronica.
2. What OS are you using, what processor speed and how much RAM? - no idea. It's a PC running XP?
3. What software/hardware do you already have (state make and model)? - I have various programs but I'm struggling along with Reason at the moment. I heard Logic is supposed to be good so I might give that a go. I also have a guitar, bass, I have stolen a MIDI keyboard from my flatmate, I have a Shure M58 mic and an Edirol UA-20 sound card.
4. What do you need a piece (or several pieces) of software/hardware to do? - A music program that works to my sensibilities would be nice, and some kind of mixing desk/compressor too.
5. How much money do you have to spend on it? - Zilcho!
6. Extra information? - no.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

anyway.. original question..

1. What genre of music are you aiming to produce?
somewhere between 4x4 garage and um.. 'fidgit house'?

2. What OS are you using, what processor speed and how much RAM?
Windows XP, not sure about the processor speed or RAM.

3. What software/hardware do you already have (state make and model)?
All sequencing done in Renoise modtracker. Selection of VSTs, mostly freeware. AKG microphone. Gong.

4. What do you need a piece (or several pieces) of software/hardware to do?
Not get in the way of composing.

5. How much money do you have to spend on it?
Square root of fuck all.

― never acid again, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

1. Rock/Pop/Indie
2. Windows XP, 2.4 Ghz , 1024 MB RAM
3. Cakewalk Sonar 4 Producer Edition, Tascam DM 24 digital mixing console running as a remote control for Sonar, MOTU 2408 mk1 audio interface connected via TDIF, lotsa mics (shure SM57, SM58, Shure drum mics, AKG condensor mics, Behringer condensor mics)
4. I need hardware cooperating with the software (which I already have working)
5. Way too little, but every month a new studio asset gets bought/borrowed
6. I have this studio with some friends. We call it Alcatrash Recordings. First record from my band Thoughts Create The World is already finished, mixed and mastered all by ourselves. My other band Girls On Top has recently finished recording all tracks and we're getting ready for mixdown.

― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

geir - do you know what synths were used to make those great p-funk sort of leads?

May be any analogue synth that is known for a "warm" sound. Certainly pre-FM synthesis. I am not an expert in actual data for various synths, but I know synths such as the Yamaha CS80 would work perfectly for that kind of sounds, for instance.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

― never acid again, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Geir, what free stuff can you recommend? I want something like Cubase, but free.

Lots of people say good things about Reaper, which was free until recently and is now some donationware/shareware deal (though still effectively free till you decide that you owe the guy cash).

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks. When I say "I want something like Cubase", what I mean is I want to be able to record my shitty guitar playing onto my computer and add a few tracks, that kind of thing. I realise that Cubase is way, way, WAY too advanced for the kind of thing I want to do.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

1. Techno / house with the occasional experiment here and there for fun.
2. Ha, I do it on my now 6 year old computer with something like 750 mhz, windows xp.
3. Fl studio 4, it's an old version, and as you may guess not very good.
4. all I care for is something I can make loops, sequence, and ad filters to stuff with.
5. Got it for free

― mehlt, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

A surprising amount of commercially available albums are still made using good old "trackers", low level sample-based programs originally developed for the Amiga: The Field works with Buzz, and there's a Venetian Snares video in youtube showing a playback in Renoise.

― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Nate Wools, Audacity is good as a free multitracker.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i heart renoise

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― never acid again, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

For p-funk leads, a minimoog would do.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

1. Drum & bass, electronic, dub
2. WinXP, enough
3. Cubase SX, Presonus Firepod
4. Let me multitrack and edit wav files, all the normal stuff
5. I spent about $500 on the whole setup, used
6. I love Cubase but I know I could probably do crazier shit a lot faster/less laboriously in Ableton. Maybe for the next album, for now I don't want to switch up and I like having less options. I should probably spring for some nicer plugins though.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

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