Difficult to make?

[Damian Nation]

Alright so I've been going on and off of this idea for ages. See, I'm HEAVILY influenced by bands such as Combichrist and Grendel, and realized; "Hey! Even I can make this kind of music". But after delving deeper into what seemed like a great idea, came complications and bewilderment. I have tested out a few programs (but now that I think of it, I can't even remember the names), but generally found it all hugely difficult.

Are there any decent programs that I'm missing? Is it really much easier than I'm thinking, because I would really love to be a musician myself, but it just seems way over my head.

[JW]

My friends and I have been trying to mess with some programs for a little while now, the main one we use is FruityLoops

Don't know much about it though, or other programs, but from what I've experienced its pretty much a bitch to get in to

[Damian Nation]

Yeah, I'm gonna look around the net. An LWS user named "The_planet" makes his own stuff (and it's really good), but I'm not sure if he's signed or not. I might just pm him on LWS about it.

[IndependentClauses]

My friend and I have a cheap beatmaker and a middle-of-the-line synth station. We make techno that we really enjoy. We don't know how to record it yet, exactly....but we have a lot of fun making it.

[Hannible]

Yeah, The Pirate had a really cool program that he lost.. It was really sweet, we actualy made some good songs, kinda light and not very good lyrics because they came with the program but it was good.

[ThePirate]

Yeah, The Pirate had a really cool program that he lost.. It was really sweet, we actualy made some good songs, kinda light and not very good lyrics because they came with the program but it was good.
Yeah. Dance eJay. There was a whole series of the eJay programs and I made a couple songs. Really easy - it's basically click-and-drag.

I've also made some beats with Fruity Loops, but that's 10 times more advanced.

[Larry G.]

Alright so I've been going on and off of this idea for ages. See, I'm HEAVILY influenced by bands such as Combichrist and Grendel, and realized; "Hey! Even I can make this kind of music". But after delving deeper into what seemed like a great idea, came complications and bewilderment. I have tested out a few programs (but now that I think of it, I can't even remember the names), but generally found it all hugely difficult.

Are there any decent programs that I'm missing? Is it really much easier than I'm thinking, because I would really love to be a musician myself, but it just seems way over my head.

Hi, Damian Nation.
I have know idea who those bands are that you mentioned, but if you plan on making/recording music using your computer, I Highly recommend using:

MultitrackStudio Pro Plus edition. www.multitrackstudio.com

In terms of power and simplicty, you can't get any better.
I just purchased it myself, and am very happy with it.

For drum beats try: HammerHead Rhythm Station.
It's a simple program, but it can get you going with your project.

Link for HammerHead: http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml

-Larry G.

[ryanvsrobots]

i have a dance song i made on my music page www.myspace.com/ryanvsrobots

i made them mostly in fruity loops. keep in mind these are years old :P so be nice. i've gotten pretty good at self recording so if you need any help shoot me a PM.

[Occulum]

ive tried Reason, Cubase, and Fruityloops

Reason and Cubase arent really useful unless you have a midi keyboard (i dont D:) Cubase was really hard to learn, steep learning curve, and Reason was my favorite, you use virtual synths and stuff, pretty nice :)
kind of expensive though :(

[wadie]

You need at least a midi surface to create any sort of music, its not worth trying without it.

I mainly use reason and create darkside dnb, a little jungle, a little glitch. I'm trying to get my head around ableton right now, but reason is an excellent tool - reasonably priced too.

All it takes is time and a lot of practice but it starts to become clear after a short while, then its just learning tricks and how to get the ideas in your head into that sequencer.

edit: something I was working on tonight, its all very wrong and I decided to leave it alone but it gives you an idea of the sounds reason can make... sadly I lost all my patches so this is just factory synth patches and loops
http://www.supload.com/listen?s=Ss0XzgzF6lP

[Taggart]

I have Cubase SX which is a version that's about four years old, and I highly recommend it.

It's great for recording and editing MIDI and audio. It also comes with some virtual instruments in VST form.