Music Softwares

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 11th, 2006, 14:37

Righty o, i've bought my self one of these: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/F ... -main.html

But the bundled software is confusing and pants.

I've tried Tracktion 2, and that seems to be slightly fairly easy to use, yet that still doesnt stop me from getting a headache over it... I've also tried cubase, but fear brain hemorrhages.

Has anyone got any recomendations for easy to use music recording/editing program that are preferably free or floorable?

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » August 11th, 2006, 14:41

Slight link to the other thread you started about the macmini, and that quick link thing, says something about using it with GarageBand, which is bundled with all macs. so yeah.. not free, or floorable, but if you buy a macmini, its free.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » August 11th, 2006, 14:47

Yeah, but i want something to run on my pc... As of the moment

I'm saving up for the mac...

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 11th, 2006, 14:50

Floorable stuff to look at:

Pro tools
Cakewalk
Cubase

Also think about one of these nice things!:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/produc ... rentId=114

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » August 11th, 2006, 14:50

Something like FruityLoops or Cubase? Both floorable, I believe.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » August 11th, 2006, 14:58

I dabbled with Reason in the past and it's quite easy to get into. It gives you a visual representation of a rack of music gizmos, you can push buttons, twiddle with knobs move sliders as if you had the real kit in front of you.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » August 11th, 2006, 15:04

spoodie wrote:I dabbled with Reason , but I'm beyond it

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 11th, 2006, 15:05

spoodie wrote:I dabbled with Reason in the past and it's quite easy to get into. It gives you a visual representation of a rack of music gizmos, you can push buttons, twiddle with knobs move sliders as if you had the real kit in front of you.

Ooh yeah that's really good, also reminded me of Rebirth

http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/

A free bass synthesizer and rhythm composer, great fun!

Post by **FatherJack** » August 11th, 2006, 20:42

Cubase or Sonar for recording MIDI and messing around with musical staves, Reason or FL Studio for remixing and post processing effects.

There's some crossover between the products, plus something like Ableton live can use most of the others as plugins and tie it all together.

I don't do music stuff as much as I used to, but I used to use an old version of Sonar (Calkwalk) to record MIDI from a keyboard, then imported into Reason to mix it all together.

Post by **deject** » August 11th, 2006, 21:44

Audacity + ACID Xpress FTW.