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hiccup
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xes said:
I've got an Evolution midi keyboard. Does the job. Got it second hand for £30
http://www.evolution-i.net/products/index.html
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
I bought an M-Audio Oxygen8 v2 - it has knobs and everything.
M-Audio keyboards start fairly cheap I think....mine was about 70 quid, but there are 3 or 4 in the range before that.
Damn salesmen.
I am cracking on really well with learning how the thing works - the DVD I got really, really helped. I love the automation lines you can run in the sub-lanes for each instrument - tres cool.
The main problem I have at the moment is I keep critiquing myself out of making a full track.
I know the best thing I can do right now is put everything I have learned together in to a 3 minute song, master it, export it and stick it in the archives as a starting point.
Thing is; each time I start to put something together, I get so far and think "nah that's shit" and start something else.
Well of course it is going to be shit - I am a novice Reason user and an utter n00b musician - WTF do I expect?
Dammit!
Oh well - I have lots of snippets I can go back to. It doesn't help that I am refusing to use any loops and thus am slowly and painfully constructing everything myself from scratch through ham-fisted keyboard playing.
Thank fuck for quantize.
Oh and to make matters worse, I have had a little play with Logic Express and am only a few days away from having the new Logic Studio 8 suite downloaded, which will give me even more ways to procrastinate away from actually making some music.
Hmm - If you guys are going to be learning as well, I reckon we n00bs should commit to posting/exchanging our first tracks by a certain date.....that might help and would give us something concrete to work towards?
M-Audio keyboards start fairly cheap I think....mine was about 70 quid, but there are 3 or 4 in the range before that.
Damn salesmen.
I am cracking on really well with learning how the thing works - the DVD I got really, really helped. I love the automation lines you can run in the sub-lanes for each instrument - tres cool.
The main problem I have at the moment is I keep critiquing myself out of making a full track.
I know the best thing I can do right now is put everything I have learned together in to a 3 minute song, master it, export it and stick it in the archives as a starting point.
Thing is; each time I start to put something together, I get so far and think "nah that's shit" and start something else.
Well of course it is going to be shit - I am a novice Reason user and an utter n00b musician - WTF do I expect?
Dammit!
Oh well - I have lots of snippets I can go back to. It doesn't help that I am refusing to use any loops and thus am slowly and painfully constructing everything myself from scratch through ham-fisted keyboard playing.
Thank fuck for quantize.
Oh and to make matters worse, I have had a little play with Logic Express and am only a few days away from having the new Logic Studio 8 suite downloaded, which will give me even more ways to procrastinate away from actually making some music.
Hmm - If you guys are going to be learning as well, I reckon we n00bs should commit to posting/exchanging our first tracks by a certain date.....that might help and would give us something concrete to work towards?
I have an Oxyv2 as well & it's v lovely. Probem for me with it is that Reason doesn't (or didn't, I haven't checked) have proper controller maps for that keyb.
My other problem is that since I started trying to learn the geetar I've done feck all on the computer, so I've kind of forgotten all the tips & tricks I'd learned on cubase & reason.
Multi-task? Moi?
My other problem is that since I started trying to learn the geetar I've done feck all on the computer, so I've kind of forgotten all the tips & tricks I'd learned on cubase & reason.
Multi-task? Moi?
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Swarfega said:Hmm - If you guys are going to be learning as well, I reckon we n00bs should commit to posting/exchanging our first tracks by a certain date.....that might help and would give us something concrete to work towards?
You've got until next Friday to come up with the goods.
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Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Junglist said:
There's a tutorial on dogs on acid from a bloke who got some sick bass sounds out of the subtractor.
People diss reason for various reasons (badomtish) but i've tried other packages and reason has always been the one i've got my best work from. Especially now as my stuff is mostly sample based but even if you're making synth sounds, as long as you know what you're doing it's more than capable of making decent sounds. I believe it got a bad rap cause of it's ease of use which paved the way for alot of shitty tracks being produced cause people thought "Oh, i've made a alright track with not much effort" as opposed to "Oh, i've made a shit track with lots of effort". It really is down to what you do with what you have rather what you have can do for you.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Crispy said:
Yeah Venetian Snares uses trackers and he comes out with some pretty good stuff
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Oops.
I have now decided that Logic Pro 8 is way more interesting and complicated, so I am wasting my time on that now.
I have to say, the sounds you produce are far better in quality and detail than I managed in Reason..........I can actually make guitar lines that sound like a guitar being played.
Still - most of it is way, way above my head - at least Reason was more n00b friendly.
Oh well, I get to procrastinate away from actually making any music even more now.
I have now decided that Logic Pro 8 is way more interesting and complicated, so I am wasting my time on that now.
I have to say, the sounds you produce are far better in quality and detail than I managed in Reason..........I can actually make guitar lines that sound like a guitar being played.
Still - most of it is way, way above my head - at least Reason was more n00b friendly.
Oh well, I get to procrastinate away from actually making any music even more now.
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