I'm looking into making some music using some music making programs and I was wondering if any you guys had any suggestions. I'm mainly looking for a program that's a bit more on the user-friendly side. Also, I know I can use google, but I don't get suggestions/reviews.
Reason 4, Fruity Loops, Ableton Live, Cubase.
Logic Express is my personal favorite.
garageband
only kidding
cubase
[QUOTE=Loompa Lord;17431549]Logic Express is my personal favorite.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, logic is awesome.
I want this also, any free ones?
FL Studio is the best in terms of ease of use and user-friendliness. If you get some good VST Plugins for it and samples it kicks ass.
Shibbey, I seriously doubt there are any free music making programs with near the power of FL Studio or Cubase.
Ardour is getting pretty close to a replacement for a some-what-like-pro-tools-but-with-a-bit-of-cubase-in-there.
It's free, but only runs on linux and has a steep learning curve at first and is an absolute PAIN to get running correctly. (I trashed an ubuntu install just trying to get Jack, FFado and ardour working together)
Buy an audio interface with a copy of some standard software included. Here's my Picks-list of software I own or would like to own and enjoy using:
DAWs/Hosts:
FL Studio (Cheap, Nice, Hard to use for the first 10 minutes but once you get past all those options, easy peasy)
Pro tools (Expensive for the proper hardware setup)
Cubase (Can be had cheap off ebay, Easy as hell to use)
Reason (Best used in conjunction with another host to integrate proper audio tracking (Rewire))
Plugins and crap:
FXpansion BFD2 (Cheap but VERY good Drum sampling system, 50GB of samples)
Amplitube
Guitar Rig
T-Racks 3 (Mastering)
Izotope Ozone (Mastering)
MDA Plugin pack (Free)
Retro Sampling VSTs (Some Free)
As far as my searches have found, there's no mature Free DAW sotfware apart from Ardour, and that has it's issues, I gave up and bought Cubase 4 and never looked back :v:
Maybe something useful in that incoherent post of doom.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;17432653]Shibbey, I seriously doubt there are any free music making programs with near the power of FL Studio or Cubase.[/QUOTE]
I know that, I was hoping to be lucky.
Alas, there is the life of a cheap bastard.
You could try [url=lmms.sourceforge.net]LMMS[/url].
[img]http://lmms.sourceforge.net/screenshots/0.4.0/lmms-0.4.0-1.png[/img]
It's not as powerful as the professional DAWs, but it's free.
[QUOTE=Jephir;17434236]You could try [url=lmms.sourceforge.net]LMMS[/url].
[img]http://lmms.sourceforge.net/screenshots/0.4.0/lmms-0.4.0-1.png[/img]
It's not as powerful as the professional DAWs, but it's free.[/QUOTE]
oh god, that's sore on the eyes
well not as sore on the eyes as some of the old trakers right enough
Logic Pro is my favourite we use it a lot at my school. (I'm studying to be a sound technician thingy)
Reason is also good if you want to make something fast, but it gets kinda boring after a while, the loops aren't as good and from my experience, you can't record your own instruments (from guitar, keyboard etc) as you can in Logic.
[QUOTE=CoLD_IcE;17434529]Logic Pro is my favourite we use it a lot at my school. (I'm studying to be a sound technician thingy)
Reason is also good if you want to make something fast, but it gets kinda boring after a while, the loops aren't as good and from my experience, you can't record your own instruments (from guitar, keyboard etc) as you can in Logic.[/QUOTE]
What is good about Logic? I haven't heard much about it and want to know if it's something I should maybe look into getting.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;17434910]What is good about Logic? I haven't heard much about it and want to know if it's something I should maybe look into getting.[/QUOTE]
first you need to fork out for a mac then you need to fork out for the actual software then you need to fork out for all the hardware you will need to run it
[QUOTE=CoLD_IcE;17434529]Logic Pro is my favourite we use it a lot at my school. (I'm studying to be a sound technician thingy)
Reason is also good if you want to make something fast, but it gets kinda boring after a while, the loops aren't as good and from my experience, you can't record your own instruments (from guitar, keyboard etc) as you can in Logic.[/QUOTE]
I find reason more useful as a VSTi in it's own right rather than a master application.
You can really tailor a specific synth sound out of it which makes it wuite handy.
FLStudio
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