Electronic Music Producers! Question for you.

[Copper Loosebrain 31]

I have a laptop, an internet connection, a pair of headphones, and an interest in having a go at electronic music production.

 

Using only these, and free software, and free articles legally availlable on trustworthy parts of the internet, is it possible for me to start doing electronic music production?

 

Also which guides and software are best and where are they?

[bcd34a 51]

Um I'm an electronic music producer and to be honest, you need something like a desktop with a really powerful CPU (processor) and if your gonna use LMMS, you will need it as it is a ram and CPU hog, others like Ableton and FL will do fine as they are both trusted and theyve been around for 10 years. Now the headphones, are you using Sony or skull candy? Because Sony headphones can't do good bass unless you have the giant headset ones and the skull candy headphones should do fine when making bass lines and I recommend you learn from synthopia and PAV production if you wanna do electronic

 

Oh yeah and by the way

 

Try howtomakeelectronicmusic.com

Synthopia and PAV Productions have mainly become more hip hop and mainstream trance

[K3WRO 79]

You should Start out with LMMS, It's free but it's a CPU hogger and it's not so great if you have a Dorito as a soundcard or something.

I use Sonar X1 and FL studio as my main DAWs, while I use Reason as a rewire slave for them, just so I can use it's granular synthesizer, Thor. FL studio is a pretty neat software for it's price (Recommend getting Signature if you want plugins with it) Easy and reliable, People say Abelton is good too, especially for people who perform, and Logic pro for mac users.

All of these software I just mentioned are between $100 and $500 I guess

 

So, places to get tutorials and samples? I recommend these

http://www.boyinaband.com/

http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/

[F2R_faris 15]

Maybe you will need FL studio. And beatboxing to select the drumming pattern . Use keyboard for melodical stuff , then fill in the piano roll.

 

Maybe there's a chance you need Virtual DJ and sound Mixer to combine some pattern that you have create. And you need to learn from another electronic producer like : Daft Punk and Deadmau5

[DusK 1,264]

I seriously suggest that you shell out if you're serious about making music. FL Studio is great for making electronica and its demo is full-featured, so give that a shot. Typical headphones and a weak laptop are fine as you're trying to learn, but eventually, you'll reach a point where you'll want some good flat-frequency headphones and a rig powerful enough to run enough VSTs and stuff to fill out your track while still maintaining a low buffer latency, especially if you ever plan on doing MIDI or audio recording.

 

Look up tutorials for all kinds of techniques; the Internet (YouTube in particular) is a treasure trove of info in that regard. Also, I recommend finding a community where you can get critique and suggestions on your works from people who are well-acquainted with music production (OC ReMix is bar-none the best forum community for this imho).

 

Remember, this isn't just something you can do overnight. Learning everything you need to know about music composition and production will take a long, long time. If you got the drive, though, you'll stick with it. Good luck!

[Copper Loosebrain 31]

LMMS looks interesting, I'll have to have a good thin about whether my laptop can run it smoothly though.

 

My Headphones are Skullcandies with an AA battery powered bass amplifier (since getting them I've been Totally Addicted To Bass Ah Wow Wah Ooooh)

 

However I can't work out what kind of sound card I have, it must have some kind otherwise it wouldn't be able to play music on youtube like I'm doing right now.

 

I've been hearing reccomendations of FL studios' demo version, but it looks like in the demo projects can't be opened up again, what exactly does that mean? Would I be unable to start on a project, save it, then continue work on it another day?

Edited November 15, 2012 by Copper Loosebrain

[K3WRO 79]

Maybe you will need FL studio. And beatboxing to select the drumming pattern . Use keyboard for melodical stuff , then fill in the piano roll.

 

Maybe there's a chance you need Virtual DJ and sound Mixer to combine some pattern that you have create. And you need to learn from another electronic producer like : Daft Punk and Deadmau5

 

Virtual DJ is mostly for DJing, not producing, but using your own music to create a mix is an option, or perhaps to perform it in public.

[F2R_faris 15]

Virtual DJ is mostly for DJing, not producing, but using your own music to create a mix is an option, or perhaps to perform it in public.

 

You know I'm really happy when adding my good pattern into some popular music .it's my self happiness. . Remixing my best music create my super best music.

[DusK 1,264]

I've been hearing reccomendations of FL studios' demo version, but it looks like in the demo projects can't be opened up again, what exactly does that mean? Would I be unable to start on a project, save it, then continue work on it another day?

 

That's correct. You can, however, save a file in demo mode and re-open it when you've unlocked the full version. But generally, most people dabbling in FL Studio for the first time (largely because they're not doing the more advanced, time-consuming stuff that comes later) tend to bolt from start to finish and render the project, which you can do with the demo version.

[F2R_faris 15]

I've been hearing reccomendations of FL studios' demo version, but it looks like in the demo projects can't be opened up again, what exactly does that mean? Would I be unable to start on a project, save it, then continue work on it another day?

 

I've been try it for a time.Demo version only used to evaluate the program before you buy it . 2 of my music was created using demo version ,hard but Interesting when i'm beginner.