Creating Dance Music

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What's the best app/hardware to use for a home user? Don't want to spend thousands..but a few hundred wouldn't be a problem if it was for the right stuff.

Is Propellerhead' Reason the way forward?

Please help. Thanks.
 
What about Fruity Loops Studio? I thought that was half decent at creating Dance music
 
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Tried&Tested said:
What's the best app/hardware to use for a home user? Don't want to spend thousands..but a few hundred wouldn't be a problem if it was for the right stuff.

Is Propellerhead' Reason the way forward?

Please help. Thanks.
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Reason is supposed to be good for starting (even though it looks complicated at first) but Cubase is what you really want to use if you have enough time to put into it.
 
Fruity Loops tbh.

Ejay is just plain awful. It's worse than having hot acid poured in your eyes.
 
Reaon is good for starting with, but yeah, cubase is better as in it is more similar to the standard software of studio's. If you can, Nuendo. We used Logic at college, but you'll only be able to get older versions as it is mac only these days :rolleyes:

I'm not joking, i've used ejay for years :D :eek: . I started on Dance 2 and after a few days began recording my own samples etc. I got Music director gold later and have been using that for a few years (again, only recording and editing my own wav audio files with it). Yeah, it has it's bugs, but i'm too lazy to use the fancier packages (though think I could use Logic now after 2 years of it at college). I'm usually just an audio kinda person, and most "midi" type tasks are played in live from keyboards/synths as audio.
 
fruity loops doesnt exist no longer.. its FL studio due to U.S copyrights..

cubase, reason, nuendo, sonar, live, acid, FL studio, pro tools etc etc are all really complex.

imo if you want to start producing music decide what your gonna want to do first, and then search for a sequencer that has the right tools otherwise you will get swamped with buttons and so on with no idea how to use them and it kinda ditracts away from the point of it. Same goes for how you want/prefer to work, ie,with reason's virtual studio style layout or live's arranger/session view type of thing ;) i think you would be better of starting out with something like 'ejay' or one of the £20 packages to learn how your style(s) of music are structured
 
Cubase imo, having used the rest it offers the most flexibility, but you need to put in the time, with just cubase and the basic pieces that come with it you can produce stunning, tottaly original results.
 
any good guides/tutorials for cubase that you could recommend ?

reading them might give me an idea as to what the program can do etc and how suitable it could be for what i wanna do
 
Record a "beep" sound. Repeat.
Record a "ingst" sound. Repeat.

Vary order two sounds are in. Voila :)

Advanced version:

Take someone else's classic song. Speed it up. Play above over the top of it. Voila.

I hate dance music :p
 
Like the others have said, Loops or Cubase. Cubase is a lot more powerful, but isn't as easy to pick up.
 
Reason is an amazing piece of software, but very complex. I think a lot of the big names in IDM use Reason to make their own synths.
 
cubase and a bunch of vst's is a good start, some of my fav vst's are,

Aybsnth 2&3
Hypersonic 1&2
Korg Legacy Collection
Camal Audio Cameleon 5000
The Grand

I'll usually rewire reason into cubase and use reason for drumloops etc for,

I'm not that brilliant at making music it's more of just a hobby for me, I just love playing around on the vst synths etc.
 
lowrider007 said:
cubase and a bunch of vst's is a good start, some of my fav vst's are,

Aybsnth 2&3
Hypersonic 1&2
Korg Legacy Collection
Camal Audio Cameleon 5000
The Grand

I'll usually rewire reason into cubase and use reason for drumloops etc for,

I'm not that brilliant at making music it's more of just a hobby for me, I just love playing around on the vst synths etc.
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Yeah.. I use cubase LE(Free with my Emu card) for recording and arranging, with Fruity Loops Rewired from drum tracks(eg: my GCSE compositions where I did some smooth jazz ;) :p)

Judging by some of the tutorial pieces it can do dance
 
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any good guides/tutorials for cubase that you could recommend ?

reading them might give me an idea as to what the program can do etc and how suitable it could be for what i wanna do
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Legal free 350 page pdf download sx guide http://www.auxbuss.com/cubase/cubase-sx-tutorial.htm
That should give you an idea.
Sx and reason is a great combo,having both means access to huge sample libraries and vst instruments/plug ins,lots of free ones on the net.
I`ve not got sx3 but i saw a demo of its audio manipulation and it looked awesome.
George has good idea if you can grab a demo/free version of le you could have a go with that
 
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