best music maker program?
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best music maker program?
where can I find the best music maker program?
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Logic Pro for Mac is fantastic, but complicated. It's a lot cheaper than Pro Tools, and almost as good.
Evilgrapez (https://soundcloud.com/evilgrapez-music) recommends Mixcraft 7. It has a 30-Day Trial, and works well for PCs. It's also much simpler. It's his favorite DAW, right behind Logic Pro. It comes with several stock loops too, to help get you on your way to song writing.
http://www.apple.com/logic-pro/
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/
Evilgrapez (https://soundcloud.com/evilgrapez-music) recommends Mixcraft 7. It has a 30-Day Trial, and works well for PCs. It's also much simpler. It's his favorite DAW, right behind Logic Pro. It comes with several stock loops too, to help get you on your way to song writing.
http://www.apple.com/logic-pro/
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/
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For me, nothing can beat the ease-of-use and nevertheless complexity of FL Studio. It's extremely expensive compared to many other programs, but it's very much worth the price if you're going to get serious about music.
https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/
For something free and easy, try Musagi. It's good at making chiptunes and not much else. But it is free, and still quite powerful.
http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html
https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/
For something free and easy, try Musagi. It's good at making chiptunes and not much else. But it is free, and still quite powerful.
http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html
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I've heard a lot about FL Studio. I find it confusing to use, but it clearly has a lot of things you can do. It's pretty pricey, but there's a free version which is exactly the same, only you can't save your files. An artist Erik Pacheco uses FL Studio, you can get his Twitter here http://twitter.com/xarnyx and his SoundCloud here http://soundcloud.com/erikjude
If you just want to manipulate existing audio, then Audacity is FOR SURE the way to go. It can record, overlay tracks, change speed, add crazy effects, even play sound backwards... It supports several audio formats, (MP3, WAV, OGG) and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! Yes, FREEE!!!! It's not too good at producing original sound though.
Or just go all chiptuney and get Little Sound DJ (LSDJ) for Nintendo Game Boy. This one costs $0.01, or however much you are willing to donate. This one is very confusing, but if you can figure it out, you are awesome. I did
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If you just want to manipulate existing audio, then Audacity is FOR SURE the way to go. It can record, overlay tracks, change speed, add crazy effects, even play sound backwards... It supports several audio formats, (MP3, WAV, OGG) and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! Yes, FREEE!!!! It's not too good at producing original sound though.
Or just go all chiptuney and get Little Sound DJ (LSDJ) for Nintendo Game Boy. This one costs $0.01, or however much you are willing to donate. This one is very confusing, but if you can figure it out, you are awesome. I did
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Sounds cool, but this topic is 4 months old, please don't bump it.cloudrac3r wrote:I've heard a lot about FL Studio. I find it confusing to use, but it clearly has a lot of things you can do. It's pretty pricey, but there's a free version which is exactly the same, only you can't save your files. An artist Erik Pacheco uses FL Studio, you can get his Twitter here http://twitter.com/xarnyx and his SoundCloud here http://soundcloud.com/erikjude
If you just want to manipulate existing audio, then Audacity is FOR SURE the way to go. It can record, overlay tracks, change speed, add crazy effects, even play sound backwards... It supports several audio formats, (MP3, WAV, OGG) and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! Yes, FREEE!!!! It's not too good at producing original sound though.
Or just go all chiptuney and get Little Sound DJ (LSDJ) for Nintendo Game Boy. This one costs $0.01, or however much you are willing to donate. This one is very confusing, but if you can figure it out, you are awesome. I did
I've got reply notifications turned on, so ask any questions you like!
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I personally don't see a problem with bumping this thread with relevant information? Also I don't see what position you're in to act like a moderatormyuacc1studios wrote: Sounds cool, but this topic is 4 months old, please don't bump it.
IDK if you're looking for budget stuff you could technically use Garageband? For sounds you could simply go to an online sound library such as http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html
For music tracks you could look at Incompetech or other CC/Public Domain music sources. musopen.org is a good site for royalty-free classical music.
There's no need to rely on "exotic" or expensive methods: sometimes the simplest methods work as well
Caton wrote:how do I make very good music. like for a movie.
Whooo, wait a minute. Do you mean orchestral music?
First you need to learn composition (that is: harmony, voice leading and instrumentation), which should take you at least two years before you could compose a decent orchestral track. Even if you skipped learning music notation and ignored the instruments' abilities for the sake of using a sequencer there's still a lot to learn about harmony - in my opinion a year is a minimum. Seriously, think twice before you start, because it really takes time and if you want to write astonishing music after a week of trial and error you'll get nothing except disappointment.
And if you're interested in period music, like me (I'm fascinated by Classical period) - well, after three years of learning I'm by no means close to composing a complete piece. I've got a ton of sketches, motifs and passages composed but they don't fit each other well enough to form a piece.
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