Just wondering how everyone here learned how to produce. Was it turtorials, books, school, experimentation or someone showing the the basics?

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-Brian-
'How far can I go?' - JunkieXL

Experimentation!

Sean, it seems like you really know your shit. How long have you been producing for? By the way, thanks for all your contributions to the forum. Your'e helping out a lot of people including myself

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-Brian-
'How far can I go?' - JunkieXL

i just played around and experimented some...

and then i have just got some nice tips from the users here to improve myself...

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Daniel

I think developement is very, very important for one to create their own unique style of music. You need to go through all the stages where you dont know what the hell you are doing, that way you will remember things better when you do figure it out. Its important that you learn everything yourself, and not skim through sections of a book. If you learn things one by one, then nothing will be overlooked.

This doesnt mean that reading tutorials is a bad thing, but you wouldnt want to learn how to make music from a book, or sit and listen to someone. Sure this way takes longer, but I think you get alot more out of it. The key is to experiment, and try new things.

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just played around really, explored things like bassline, percussion, leads, 303s, effects, various vsts and how to get the best sounds from them.
learn abt structure from listening to various tracks and tried to create a similar effect, but in my own style.

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Found Atlantis - Mixography [mix archive/mokumentary/my soul]?
i writed a song.

I've been producing for a little over 2 years. The first year all of my stuff was total garbage, the next 6 months I started to be able to throw stuff together that I thought was awesome (when I listen now it sucks), and I think over the past 2-3 months, thanks mainly to tranceaddict, I've gotten okay.

I still haven't learned how to produce, I just crap around with synths and drums and knobs and sliders


but I started crapping around with screamtracker 3 ahhh those days, making lousy tapes with crappy hardcore

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All rhythm evolves around a kick...

Basically by experimentation. I started with FL, and i'll probably never leave it.

I'm not actually any good at producing, I just enjoy making music.

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Currently Whoring:

• Space Tribe Vs Electric Universe - Rabbit Hole
  
• CPU - So It Begins
  
• Too Short & Mistah FAB - The Sideshow
  

for me... playing around with reason/acid for months got me nowhere. literally. so i stopped trying for about 3 months, then i jumped on reason very randomly and i very easily programmed a few things (something just clicked in my head). then i started "producing" with some friends who were already making things, so by having them show me the ropes it really helped me figure things out. i think it helps a lot to have someone show you the basics.

My first song was a little diddy I threw together using the .wav samples that are included in the chat program ICQ (I mixed them in Sonic Foundry Acid (as it was called at the time)) Moved up to fruityloops - I really advanced with that program.. learning structure and stuff... then I moved back to Sonic Foundry Acid (now Sony) and have been using that as a mixer (not as the loop based tracker that it's intended to be) - I've tried Cubase SL and didn't like it for mixing in wave files.. it just didn't give me the kind of contorol that I've been spoiled with by using Acid which I still use along with a few VSTi's and my Alesis QS 6.1 - and that's the story of my life

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Sub note:

One HUGE even GINORMOUS thing that helped in my producing was taking piano lessons and music theory - keep that in mind if you ever want to progress past trance [] control (a perfect example of great production skills with no musical talent)

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