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Best way to fully understand DAWs and other equipment
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| Neuro X |
Hey guys,
just wondering what the best way is for a newbie to fully understand DAWs and all the other equipment needed to make electronic music (specifically Trance). Im currently screwing around on the FL 9 demo but without a mentor to teach me its pretty daunting. I have looked at some guides (videos and written ones) on the subject but it is still hard to fully understand everything you need to make good Trance songs.
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| Max Thomson |
youtube tutorials, lots of em. its the easiest way to get up and running quickly.
gearslutz.com for questions past that
good luck |
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| jdat |
learn what the different things are for and what the things mean
what's a square, sawtooth etc
eq, compressor, effects, bus routing etc,
there's books there's tutorials there's manuals
have fun |
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| Senator Clay Davis |
| try teh production studio subforum and read the stickies there. man i sound like a hiccup in the record. |
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| Seandroid |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
RTFM :p |
QFT |
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| derail |
I sell a number of multitrack song packs on a website I run, InsideMixes:
InsideMixes
You can browse through the songs in the library, and if there's a song you like the sound of you can buy the song pack. The packs contain the full multitrack audio files (each sound split onto it's own track) as well as a PDF with screen shots of all the plugins/settings used during the mixdown, as well as my comments on why I made those mix decisions. The song packs I've uploaded also have the MIDI files and synth settings used and most of them have a second version of the multitrack files, with all the mix processing turned off.
Here's an example song pack (28MB zip file):
Fabrik Europa - Metropolis
It's only a short demo song. Most of the songs are a few minutes long.
All the best!
Fabian |
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| DJRYAN™ |
hire a ghostwriter and be done w/ it.
Nah, I'm just kidding...
Seriously, I'd get Reason. I've been using Reason for awhile now and I swear by it. Although my productions are still not "pro" they're getting there and that's all that really matters.
I've used Fruity Loops too. And it seems to be just as powerful but with the ability to use VST's and VSTi's. You can actually integrate far more additive and subtractive synthesizers as well use, a variety of other tools that will enhance your music production.
But, I've found out that its not what you use, but how you use it. A lot of producers download massive libraries of samples and integrate those into their productions.
You have to first decide on whether or not you want to make your own samples or use others. Or a combination of both. I made the decision that I was going to use samples for beats, fx, rises and drops.
For bass lines and melodies, I'd get good at drawing. Drawing is where you open up the "piano roll" in any given program and draw the notes that you want played. For most people, that's the asiest way to profect the the track your trying to make. Some just bang out riffs on the keyboard. But depending on your knowledge of musical progression or how well trained your ear is. That could be somewhat daunting. So again, I'd encourage you to "draw".
Other than that, a lot of are more than happy to provide feedback. Usually its mostly negative until you get the hang of it so don't feel bad when someone says your track sucks. Remember, most of us were dj's first and we're picky about our music.
Best of luck to you and hopefully one day you'll be on beatport's top sellers list =) |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | [b]Originally posted by DJRYAN™ [/ b]
Seriously, I'd get Reason. I've been using Reason for awhile now and I swear by it. Although my productions are still not "pro" they're getting there and that's all that really matters.
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Reason is great, particularly if you don't plan on recording audio. Whatever DAW you decide on, I highly recommend spending a little extra and devoting a weekend or two going through the Groove3 video tutorial for that DAW. Getting comfortable with your DAW is half the battle when you're first starting out, so having a good methodological approach like Groove3 offers can get you over that hump very quickly.
http://www.groove3.com/str/ |
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| EddieZilker |
| What's cool about Reason is that when you get to a point where you are recording audio, it can work with a DAW that does. |
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