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Anyone here have experience with using software or hardware to make tunes? I'm curious about this whole thing. My friend once had some sort of $4000 Roland board that was just a thing of knobs, but he claimed it could make a lot of different sounds.
A bit of background: I've played piano 10+ years and just started getting into Drum and Bass.
Where could I start?
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I use Korg Legacy collection and a very basic midi keyboard. Now I don't even know how to play the keyboard but I'm a huge electronic guy who likes to mess around with the sounds and a few years back i just about bought a Roland JP-8000 when at the last minute I chickened out and bought an inexpensive midi keyboard and downloaded the korg software.I'll tell you I couldn't have been happier. If you have some decent speakers you'll be blown away by the depth & richness of sound that your computer can produce. IMO expensive keyboards are just not needed.
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I've played around with Reason, FLStudio, and Abelton Live. I found Live to be easiest to use and the most fun, but that's mostly because I just remix existing stuff, for actual production I think it is probably the most limited of the three. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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Reason, FLStudio, and Virtual DJ.
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Reason will give you the most bang for your buck, but it's a pretty big buck. You can try pirating the software if that doesn't intrude on any personal morals of yours. FLstudio is garbage, don't even consider it. My best friend with whom I collaborate on music projects knows a lot more about the hardware and software than I do, so the next time I'm hanging out with him I can ask. He's got a Roland and a keyboard, Reason, electronic drum kit, Techs, Scratch Live, and a bunch of other weird shit (recently a theremin!)
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Reason's interface sucks shit, Logic and ProTools are more industry standard. If you are really just starting out, you can goof around in "junior" programs like FruityLoops or GarageBand, but don't expect much from them. I have a Roland TD-3SW drumset sitting next to my computer, which I should really play with more often, because dnb owns.
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Brosnan wrote:Reason's interface sucks shit It does but you get used to everything in time. You're just a noob.
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Have fun running your shit at 800x600 to make the text readable because the interface designers decided to make every module look like a Winamp skin instead of actually doing an HCI analysis to see if it was a good fuckin idea.
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Hooking reason into protools using ReWire gives you a pretty unstoppable set of options. Reason is an extremely powerful program, and don't let disenfranchised token trolls tell you otherwise. As for the Roland that your friend has, Switch, a thing with a bunch of knobs (called a synth module) is designed to hook up to a keyboard to access its sounds and parameters via MIDI. Ableton is very...well...able. Extremely versatile and extremely stable, much like Reason, but is suited more towards performance-based composition. It's gaining ground (and fast) as a very strong dj platform. Do you know much about MIDI systems? Safety + Peace
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