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stevebutabi
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Registered: Apr 2003
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easiest way to get started

i want to start producing my own techno/tech house tracks... what's the easiest way for me to get started

-note-
i'm not very good with complicated computer programs


thanks!

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Tranc3
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
Re: easiest way to get started

quote:
Originally posted by stevebutabi
-note-
i'm not very good with complicated computer programs


Then you might want to reconsider

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Bren-F
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Location: Liverpool
Re: Re: easiest way to get started

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Then you might want to reconsider


I'll second that !

Also -> http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=152236


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Massive84
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Sequence Realm
Re: Re: easiest way to get started

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Then you might want to reconsider


actually no

logic is what i consider complicated.

Fruity can do the job very well, look at Icllit, and i don't think it takes ages to the learn basics for fruityloops.


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DJ-Igloo
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: United States

first off main thing before u start producing is study up on production and mastering. Then get u a good starter program like reason or fls to start working with study the tutorial files and download some allready done works and study how the arranged the tracks and how the created their sounds in it. Then spend countless hours playing around in the program really self teaching ur self how and what does what. Eventually u will learn the programs and baddabing baddaboom ull be producing. ^_^


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djdustx
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Toronto, Canada

Omg lol damn nice pic...im a big fan of A Night at the Roxbury myself it was actually the thing that got me into producing

Well man

Dj-Igloo has some good points

But really u dont have to study mastering...producing because it then strips the fun out of producing...reading 500 page books when only 75 pages actually give the information u need

I would definitley say go with FL Studio 4 (fruityloops). Reason is much more technical and in order to work with reason u need to read lots of reason based material and that would take a couple of months...and well why would u want to create high obsticles for urself

So jus get FL 4 round up a couple of Vsti/Vst's (Synthesizers - Albino Absynth FM7 etc) and read Fl Studio's manual this is a pretty good read and half of the manual is pictures.

I Started with no knowledge in music theory/piano theory etc...i jus studied the tracks in the Projects/Cool Stuff file on the tab on the left of the screen and jus read the manual...and things came out fine for me

I created so far 4 unfinished tracks (not any finished cuz i have a shit supply of soundbanks)

Study how to make melodies/chords/arps/strings/elevations and that would already be a good start

Good Luck on ur journey bro

Sebastiano

P.S. heres a free tutor site which teaches music theory...also provides a more in depth tutoring service which has a 5-day demo

http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html

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postman
tranceaddict in training



Registered: Jun 2004
Location: alkmaar, netherlands

if you wanna create easy stuff get a yamaha r1x, roland mc505 or 909. easy and fun to use.

after a while get more complex hard-/software.

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Mr.Mystery
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa

quote:
Originally posted by DJ-Igloo
first off main thing before u start producing is study up on production and mastering.

No way. First learn how to build a tune (knowing music theory will help here).
After that you can concentrate on the sound quality.

Oh, and furthermore:
The first few months will not be easy, and your first tune will most likely suck. But it's all part of the process we've all been through. Don't get discouraged.

Luckily this process will weed out the people who only want to produce cause it's considered "cool" from the people who do music for the love of it.


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KilldaDJ
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location

get fruityloops or something and just piss around in that, make up some beats etc then move on to adding synths and shit to it.

i find that mastering and EQing just takes the piss.


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thecYrus
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Registered: Oct 2002
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you don't need eq'ing and mastering for the beginning.. just do your tunes
it'll take you months to understand how music really works in the technical way.. and with the time you can use more of those magic tools like compressor, limiter, eq, ... then if you don't know what you are doing, your tunes will sound much worser than without..

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stevebutabi
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: On the Edge of the Trans-Amazonian Highway in a Hastily Erected Wooden Shack

thanks for the tips

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danxxx
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Staffordshire, England

FL Studio or Cubase I would say.


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