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im hooked on music by the likes of astrix and infected mushroom, i just love its total crisp, clean electronic sound.

is there any music makign programs you guys reccomend for making such 'psy' music?

ive used things liek Ejay in the past, but thats a little to basic i think.
i dont have any real experience appart from ejay. so im lookign for soemthign easy enought to get the hang of, but complex enough to not be limited by it.
 
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Id be interested in the very same thing :D

Used ejay before and it was cool, if a little limiting. Tried cubase vst (i think) which came free with my sound card but couldnt get my head round it.

If you find anything please let me know R B :)
 
R B CUSTOMS said:
im hooked on music by the likes of astrix and infected mushroom, i just love its total crisp, clean electronic sound.

is there any music makign programs you guys reccomend for making such 'psy' music?

ive used things liek Ejay in the past, but thats a little to basic i think.
i dont have any real experience appart from ejay. so im lookign for soemthign easy enought to get the hang of, but complex enough to not be limited by it.


Reason 3.0 is what proffesionals and hobbiests use. its expensive to buy though, if you buy it at all of course :rolleyes:


other than that youve got Fuityloops
theres a great little program called Hammerhead, mainly a drum program but ive used it to do all sorts with over the last 8 years :) its free too!!

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/


also check out this website for every free toy you could ever need...

http://www.users.surfaid.org/~robinv/free.htm
 
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FireMoon said:
And dont forget the sound quality is only as good as the card that is producing the end product...


i wouldnt be too sure... ive found all this "super excellent fantastic £150" sound card stuff to be abit of a false market. the stuff i used to engineer on a £9 creative labs sound card was just as clear as on a £150 version. when your only working with Wave files both in the creation of and use of, you cant really go wrong, when your working with Midi, thats a different story.
 
^^ not sure i understand the reasoning behind that one....I have two comps one with the onboard sound the other with a *Pro soundcard* and the difference is night and day... Not only is the whole picture about a 1/3 bigger the bass is deeper the treble is sweeter and the jitter is virtually non existant..

Thats not to say you cant make decent recordings with a cheap card... the, EMU 0404 being a great example, but asre accuracy transferring from one system to the next... i doubt that very much...
 
locutus12 said:
i wouldnt be too sure... ive found all this "super excellent fantastic £150" sound card stuff to be abit of a false market. the stuff i used to engineer on a £9 creative labs sound card was just as clear as on a £150 version. when your only working with Wave files both in the creation of and use of, you cant really go wrong, when your working with Midi, thats a different story.
Ha ha - nice one!

I nearly thought you were serious for a minute!
 
wow fruity loops is not easy to use ! ( or it may be because ive never really dabbled in sound ? )

is thewre a way to get a kind of time line view like in Ahem... Ejay ?

ive sat pondering and clicking it a few times and cant seem to work out how it works :S

can someone some it up for me ? lol

fire moon : im using an X-fi and hi-hi seperates ( denon speakers bla bla ) so thats not really an issue.


btw locutus, id like to lisrten to it... dont really care what its encoded in lol... not really an audiophile
 
There are a few good guides out for Reason and Fruity Loops, if you add me to msn I can send them over to you if you want in PDF.

I would suggest learning Reason as it is an amazingly powerful piece of software once mastered. Although FruityLoops can be just as powerful with the right VSTs.
Also I would buy a midi keyboard, even a cheap one will do as it makes everything so much easier than using a mouse.
 
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