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Dunno
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Beat Making Programs
#14314840 - 04/18/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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ive never been into the whole "beat making" trend, but a friend of mine came to me the other day with a cd full of beats and i must say, it wasnt bad at all. hearing these beats and knowing that he created all of em' from scratch using this program began a growth of curiosity which grew into a, "fuck it, let me go ahead and try this." type attitude.
of course i went to FLstudios.com and played around and it was actually pretty fun. im not going to lie though, I WAS FUCKING LOST!!!
do any of you play around with these types of programs? do you prefer one over the other?
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Belac
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Re: Beat Making Programs [Re: Dunno]
#14314853 - 04/18/11 11:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I tried to get into it and Ive spent maybe 10 hours on FL studio and I managed to make some really shitty ass song before I gave up. Ill try to find it...
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Dunno
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Re: Beat Making Programs [Re: Belac]
#14314862 - 04/18/11 11:48 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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its pretty fun dude. i just wish i knew what every button and switch did...
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Re: Beat Making Programs [Re: Dunno]
#14314987 - 04/19/11 12:11 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Spend a few hundred hours with a DAW and you'll get to know the buttons and switches. I used FLStudio for years and had a blast with it. It's got a great piano roll for step sequencing and some decent built in instruments. I got to a point where I could sequence out all the instruments and make a quasi metal or hard rock tune, guitars, bass with pops and slides, intricate drum parts, the whole deal. It takes serious time and energy to do anything of quality so if your only goal is to be able to crank out some "beats" just to be able to say you did it I can't really speak to that.
Now I mostly do live recording and I use Sonar because I had a buddy that knew it well. I'm actually not too happy with the sequencing capabilities of Sonar so I'm looking for another DAW. I tried out Ableton but it was shit for my purposes and I also found that it performed very poorly system wise compared to other DAW's I've tried. There are some free DAW's I've never used. There's also Reason which I have no real experience with; ACID-which is easy and capable enough, especially for loop based stuff; Cubase, which a lot of people seem to like, and Pro-Tools which is about to or already broke their exclusive relationship with Digidesign(hardware manufacturer) so that may open up as an option now for more people.
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