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Originally posted by meriter Who the hell is BT?

You're kidding, right?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles How expensive does the equipment and DAW have to be to allow a person to make good music? What will I need to buy to take the next step up? Will Logic be required, or will Cubase suffice? Will an Andromeda suffice, or shall I seek out a vintage analog poly like a Jupiter 8?

You don't need a bunch of expensive equipment to "make good music" but if you want your shit to sound like Deadmau8 or whatever you're going to need more than a pirated copy of Reason. Right tools for the right job. No one ever said making music was easy and it's certainly not cheap. If you drop $200 on a drum kit guess what it's going to sound like a $200 drum kit no matter how well you play it, and that's going to kill your inspiration. Ask guitar players if they like playing shitty guitars. Try being a DJ and spinning your awesome set on Gemini belt-driven XL100's. Not saying you should drop a ton of money on equipment but if you want a professional sound a good place to start is with professional tools. In the mean time all you can do is make the best of what you have and work around that. Sampling is a good way to get quality source sounds if your software/hardware isn't cutting it. By the way not all hardware is fundamentally better obviously. You get what you pay for. I've got a yamaha synth that was about $700 in 2000 and it more or less sounds like ass except for a few patches and things which is basically all I use it for at this point.

Also there's nothing like the interface of a hardware synthesizer. I probably don't give FL, Live, Reason ect enough credit and that's obviously personal bias. I could never work with that shit. I need knobs and buttons and LCD menus but that's just what I was raised on.

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Originally posted by meriter Also there's nothing like the interface of a hardware synthesizer.

Indeed, I should know since I own a Moog LOL.

I've already given up.

Join the club.

/me goes and takes his happy pills...

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Not really cause I honestly do not spend enough time doing it.

I am going to sound cocky here, and I don't care, but when I release a song I sit down, barf it out, and don't give a fuck half the time about 90% of the stuff in it. Its ambient, so it kinda can work that way, but oh well. So no, I spend way more time doing way way way more unproductive things, like watching porn and playing video games or taking naps.

So all I am going to say is JBJ, do whatever, its cool, you know, do what you feel like. You were fucking good though. My only advice is do not care as much.

People like the guy above me, who I have known for years in real life, try too hard, its not that it is a bad thing, but its that they try so hard that it just frustrates them and makes them angry.

Apathy is fucking sweet.

Oh fuck you Clifford.

But you're right. As usual. Sort of.

But still... fuck you.

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Originally posted by wrzonance Oh fuck you Clifford. But you're right. As usual. Sort of. But still... fuck you.

Dude, seriously, I know its your nature but man you just give a fuck too much sometimes. You are fucking good at what you do naturally, the fact that you obsess over it just leads you to get all dysfunctional. I am not saying that you should fucking slack off like I do, you cant, wife, kid, etc. But ffs you are 23 and going way too fast. You are going to have a fucking heart attack at 30 the rate you are going man.

Just sayin I'm saying. Nah mean.

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Originally posted by EgosXII you are constantly posting threads sayig you're thinking of quitting and how annoying you find it because you can never make good songs...

Quote **ONE** thread where I said I was "thinking of quitting".


Theres a HUGE DIFFERENCE between not being able to install FL and quitting.

At one point I recall contemplating the idea of switching to Live, but at no point did I ever entertain the idea of quitting. I DO get mad with the quality of my music a lot, but I also believe that discontent serves a larger purpose, which is to evolve through the ropes quicker then the avg person.

I'm not trying to start shit theres just a big difference is what I'm saying.

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Main Synth Lead/Pad GTs - Z3ta, Sytrus, Sylenth, Vangard, Albino & Nexus.
Main FXs GTs - Waves Plugins, Soundtoys, Volcano, FL Native FX.
Hardware - Truths, Echo Audiofire, Virus Snow, & Novation Xio Midi-Synth.

Take a bunch of E, go to a rave/EDM club. Feel refreshed. Rinse and repeat. Or just remember why you fell in love with the music.

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Originally posted by Stylz Take a bunch of E, go to a rave/EDM club. Feel refreshed. Rinse and repeat. Or just remember why you fell in love with the music.

Lame. If you want him to get inspired to keep making any form of electronic music, the last thing you want to tell him to do is go listen to anything new.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Lame. If you want him to get inspired to keep making any form of electronic music, the last thing you want to tell him to do is go listen to anything new.

LOL. OK.