I want to start making electronic music. Where do I start? - General

I started using FL studio a year ago after wanting to do the exact same thing. I watched a few tutorials and made something stupid and thought I was a genius. Out of the entire year, I've only been decently 'good' at making music for the past month or two. It takes a lot of patients, and eventually you'll start making something that is 50x better than the last thing you've made. It's really frustrating sometimes, but if you are super determined, it won't matter. A midi keyboard isn't exactly a must have, I've gone the entire year without one. I must say though, I would love to have one. I'm also pretty interested in becoming a DJ artist. You'd be surprised how many of them use FL Studio as well. It's quite powerful.

[QUOTE=killa101;27788595]I started using FL studio a year ago after wanting to do the exact same thing. I watched a few tutorials and made something stupid and thought I was a genius. Out of the entire year, I've only been decently 'good' at making music for the past month or two. It takes a lot of patients, and eventually you'll start making something that is 50x better than the last thing you've made. It's really frustrating sometimes, but if you are super determined, it won't matter. A midi keyboard isn't exactly a must have, I've gone the entire year without one. I must say though, I would love to have one. I'm also pretty interested in becoming a DJ artist. You'd be surprised how many of them use FL Studio as well. It's quite powerful.[/QUOTE] I could say the exact same thing as everything in this post about myself, except the DJ part. :psyduck:

[QUOTE=Number-41;27779630]What Ableton does is keep things separated. You need a synth with reverb? Fine, just stick a Reverb module behind it. Need some equalizing & compressing? Same thing. Arpeggiator? Easy as shit. Anything you need is there in Ableton, and it's only there if you actually [U]need[/U] it. The complexity is completely in your hands.[/QUOTE] What the hell, it's exactly the same in FL! You must be refering to Sytrus, it's pretty huge and comes with alot of built-in shit, but you don't have to use it.. Just go with one of the smaller ones (3x Osc, SimSynth, Wasp, DX10, to name a few). What's so negative about having [I]both[/I] options? There's nothing concrete about your argument. You just prefer to use simple synths. AGAIN, it's not fair to compare synths when discussing DAWs. It's like comparing guitars by looking at the strings.

[QUOTE=Feralicous;27773669]people with next to none knowledge about the program making assumptions like this.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2dlsvf9.jpg[/img] yep totally never used the programme

[QUOTE=Rad McCool;27789354]What the hell, it's exactly the same in FL! You must be refering to Sytrus, it's pretty huge and comes with alot of built-in shit, but you don't have to use it.. Just go with one of the smaller ones (3x Osc, SimSynth, Wasp, DX10, to name a few). What's so negative about having [I]both[/I] options? There's nothing concrete about your argument. You just prefer to use simple synths. AGAIN, it's not fair to compare synths when discussing DAWs. It's like comparing guitars by looking at the strings.[/QUOTE] I don't like them. I hate them! They sound shit! Fuck! [I]incoming "that's because you can't use them"-argument[/I] I can, I started out on them and after switching to Ableton I think that the synths there fit like a glove, unlike any of FL's synths. In FL you have to set a channel in the mixer and then pick an effect from the huge nondescript list. In Ableton, you see a simple list, drag & drop and you're done. Nothing more. Automation in FL is also a bitch IMHO. I hate everything about it, just because I've used Ableton and it felt as a huge relief. And still, Operator & Analog are just 10x more versatile, that's just a fact. Have you tried them? Apart from this, as a DAW I like Ableton more because everything works together better, the interface is cleaner, more logical, everything goes faster. I can't help but say that...

[QUOTE=Sporkfire;27779920]Do any of you guys have any experience with modular synths? I have a bunch of soft synths and one modular synth (ACE 1.0) and the presets on the modular synth sound like 1000x better. Is it better programing or are Modulars really that much better? I'm not even that interesting in making music I just wanna try and make some badass sounds would a modular be better for that? this is the guy I'm playing around with right now [img_thumb]http://www.online-mixing.com/wp271/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Picture-19.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] :gizz:

FL is all good yeah, people tend to say it sucks just because "noobs" use it. Still I prefer Ableton and think it's sooo much better and easier to use once you get the hang of if. Which you get very quickly by watching tutorials etc. [editline]1st February 2011[/editline] As long as you use good synths and samples it doesn't really matter what DAW you use.