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RE: Experimenting With Lo Fi Beats (& Two Original Songs)
Wow I appreciate that, thank you so much. And thank you for the wonderful advice!! I most definitely will look into that further. What program do you use to make music? Because I'm just starting out I'm using garageband which was preloaded on my mac but there are features which I dont seem to find on that application, so I'm looking to find a new one to use.
It's best to find some software who is suitable and easy to use for you. I use Fruity Loops from beginning of my production journey. Some programs who are mostly used by popular artist are:
Also I saw many artist using Ableton Live on MAC and it's most popular program now. But it could be little tricky to use until you spend some time.
Youtube is full of tutorials about all of them.
I can give you a strong recommendation to try Reaper. It's free to try fully featured and has strong midi implementation. You can also try different skins which emulate different DAWs. Ableton is unquestionably the best for composing on the fly ... it lets you run a standard scrolling DAW in the background, capturing what you are a triggering... while you launch "clips" of midi or audio, all time sync'd. Basically a perfect hybrid of DJ sampling workflow, midi notating and DAW editing.
But yeah. Reaper is free. And also great. So there's that.
Thanks for recommendation. Seems that it's very lightweight as it's only 11mb for Win-64bit.
But also looks very interesting.
Ableton Live is about the industry standard. It’s expensive though.
Korg Gadget might be worth a look though. It’s cheap and has a load of fun built into it.
Excellent recommendations.Forgot about gadget since my Ipad became fossilized.
I semi-like Gadget. I feel like I'd like it much more if I had a hardware controller as trying to manipulate sounds on a touchscreen drove me MAD eventually.
Although, I'm fairly keen to check out Modstep on iPad. That sounds like a neat little sequencer. I love the idea of getting some loops up and going and then just jamming. I'm trying to get myself a little hardware setup sans PC so I can just do live jams. Get my eyes off a screen, hand away from a mouse and just hit some buttons!
I was all about Gadget till I finally just got a damn laptop and ableton for the van and I literally haven't even packed my Ipad since. Makes for a lovely controller for the modular though. = )
Yeah I bet! I'm not even thinking about modular. I've not quite got the technical capabilities for that right now. What a rabbit hole that could be!
Part of me thinks about getting a Novation Circuit. I could imagine whipping that out on the train for a commute jam.