Hi all,
im new to producing and have informed myself a while, thereby found this forum any many helpful tips. Tested some DAW, Reason, Ableton, Samplitude.
To make the first move i thought it would be good to try to remix a known song. I love ambient styled DnB (Bukem). Examining DAWs, i think Reason is by far the best for making DnB and cheapiest for beginners. Also it seems to be hard to save patches or settings in a DAW like cubase/samplitude with ext. vsti and finding good vsti. I got some DnB .rps on reasonstation to take a look how a DnB song is build up.
What really confuses me looking at those DnB .rps, they dont sound quite different from DnB im hearing since 1995, but they use so many devices, 30 synths, passing trough 20 effects, 10 redrums etc. pp. As far as i read, Bukem and co. mainly produced 1995 on hardware with few rack devices.
I think there are of course several ways to create a sound, but for me as noob the setting possibilities in some DAWs seem to be over redundant using km of virtual cable of the back side of the rack in reason producing nearly same sound as before 10 years.
So what is the key skill to build DnB songs? Seems some do try to save a average song with sampled breaks by effecting it a lot in 30 DAW traces to give it individuality, Bukem songs sound so simple but beautiful and unique. Should u focus on learing combining different effects in series or its more important to learn how to synth really good sounds. Some guys seem to build dnb songs without using one sample, but sampling breaks and slicing seems also very common.
I searched a lot, are there any free/commercial midi files, .rps from classic dnb songs (adam f circles, bukem demons theme etc.) out there , would be very helpful to see what is made by notes and what by effects.
Found this
http://www.midifile.net/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=23838&products_id=103503
but a whole song midi would be nice instead of single grooves
Whats a good beginner masterkeyboard for reason. Found these 2, can anybody recommend? Especially can u fast adapt the virtual reason knobs with the controller knobs working in malström for example, or du u need special keyboard for single DAW? Some DAW like Ableton seem to have their own hardware controller
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Advanced-Semi-Weighted-Controller-9900-51411-10/dp/B000EM6TBI
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-OXYGE...8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1242578952&sr=1-1
thx
im new to producing and have informed myself a while, thereby found this forum any many helpful tips. Tested some DAW, Reason, Ableton, Samplitude.
To make the first move i thought it would be good to try to remix a known song. I love ambient styled DnB (Bukem). Examining DAWs, i think Reason is by far the best for making DnB and cheapiest for beginners. Also it seems to be hard to save patches or settings in a DAW like cubase/samplitude with ext. vsti and finding good vsti. I got some DnB .rps on reasonstation to take a look how a DnB song is build up.
What really confuses me looking at those DnB .rps, they dont sound quite different from DnB im hearing since 1995, but they use so many devices, 30 synths, passing trough 20 effects, 10 redrums etc. pp. As far as i read, Bukem and co. mainly produced 1995 on hardware with few rack devices.
I think there are of course several ways to create a sound, but for me as noob the setting possibilities in some DAWs seem to be over redundant using km of virtual cable of the back side of the rack in reason producing nearly same sound as before 10 years.
So what is the key skill to build DnB songs? Seems some do try to save a average song with sampled breaks by effecting it a lot in 30 DAW traces to give it individuality, Bukem songs sound so simple but beautiful and unique. Should u focus on learing combining different effects in series or its more important to learn how to synth really good sounds. Some guys seem to build dnb songs without using one sample, but sampling breaks and slicing seems also very common.
I searched a lot, are there any free/commercial midi files, .rps from classic dnb songs (adam f circles, bukem demons theme etc.) out there , would be very helpful to see what is made by notes and what by effects.
Found this
http://www.midifile.net/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=23838&products_id=103503
but a whole song midi would be nice instead of single grooves
Whats a good beginner masterkeyboard for reason. Found these 2, can anybody recommend? Especially can u fast adapt the virtual reason knobs with the controller knobs working in malström for example, or du u need special keyboard for single DAW? Some DAW like Ableton seem to have their own hardware controller
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Advanced-Semi-Weighted-Controller-9900-51411-10/dp/B000EM6TBI
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-OXYGE...8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1242578952&sr=1-1
thx
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