EPTI made a blog asking about making electronic music more than 1 year ago and I've finally made something with Ableton live! I love that so much more over the more conventional ones (everything else that I've tried before) for its user interface.
I definitely have to thank Klesky for his recommendation and intrigue for backing it up (please check out his music too
), because if I were to have other people coming in I wouldn't have learnt Ableton until I get used to another program.+ Show Spoiler +
On November 14 2011 23:10 Klesky wrote:
Might I recommend you look into Ableton Live? I find the interface much easier to cope with as compared to fruity loops or cubase. Ableton is basically right up there with all the other big names as well. But then again, I only use ableton to create fancy waves for digital signal programming, so yeah... Also, you can use your computer keyboard (keys A - L and W - O) as a keyboard. You only get one octave, but yeah, it's the cheapest option.
For the scratching sounds, I think you might be able to achieve something like that with Sylenth1 (although I really have no idea).
Also, teach yourself all the music theory you can get your hands on (specifically scales, keys and chords) because that will just be infinitely useful.
Best of luck.
*disclaimer: I don't make music and/or I'm essentially musically inept.
edit: having looked through some more of ronald jenkee's stuff, man that guy is insanely talented.
Might I recommend you look into Ableton Live? I find the interface much easier to cope with as compared to fruity loops or cubase. Ableton is basically right up there with all the other big names as well. But then again, I only use ableton to create fancy waves for digital signal programming, so yeah... Also, you can use your computer keyboard (keys A - L and W - O) as a keyboard. You only get one octave, but yeah, it's the cheapest option.
For the scratching sounds, I think you might be able to achieve something like that with Sylenth1 (although I really have no idea).
Also, teach yourself all the music theory you can get your hands on (specifically scales, keys and chords) because that will just be infinitely useful.
Best of luck.
*disclaimer: I don't make music and/or I'm essentially musically inept.
edit: having looked through some more of ronald jenkee's stuff, man that guy is insanely talented.
On November 15 2011 05:34 intrigue wrote:
ableton live is so good for electronic music. posting your shit on soundcloud is nice too, but it can be a circlejerk where you get no good real feedback. gl!
ableton live is so good for electronic music. posting your shit on soundcloud is nice too, but it can be a circlejerk where you get no good real feedback. gl!
I later tried to find out more about electronic music in other blogs too and I learnt a lot from the replies
So here's the track, and I hope you like it because I've been sleeping at 5-6am quite often for about a month while working on it. I welcome any criticism, and you can PM me if you think it sounds harsh.
I started out wanting to make something Nujabes-esque and it just evolved into something else :D I made it with ableton and played all the guitar parts.
I have a lot of plans to make other stuff, remixes, brostep, chillstep/ liquid dubstep (don't know what's the difference between them) fusions with other styles but I'm currently focusing on playing live because I really don't know how to perform my electronic stuff live without it sounding boring....
ps: I'd be very happy if you'd give it a like if you enjoyed it =D It's free for download at bandcamp btw :D
