Thinking Of Starting Out Producing???
Heres What Youll Need.
A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
Cubase, Fruityloops, Reason, Logic, Ableton and so on.
You can get free alternatives to these programmes and you can find them on this thread :
http://dnbforum.com/showthread.php?t=16610
A DAW is used for creating your music. They usually come with plugins to generate sounds and effects. They are the main tool for your music making and if u ent got one u ent got much chance lol.
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A Good Audio Interface
This is what you will connect your monitors too. You can either get audio interfaces in,
Usb
Pci
Firewire
and i think midi
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Some Monitor Speakers
These are used for mixing down and mastering of your project. They let you hear a bigger range of frequencies than normal speakers and hey let you know how your music ACTUALLY sounds. (also known as truth speakers)
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A midi keyboard/controller
This is used to control your DAW software and also create melodies, basslines and so on. Its basically the same as a normal keyboard except they link to your daw and record the keys you play through midi.
this is not an essential but it will make producing alot lot easier.
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some vst's if your using a prog that uses them.
u can get alot of good free ones from kvr audio. search it on google man.
also remember vsti is an instrumen and vst is an effect
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I cant think of anything else yet. Feel free to add to this as you please.
Also any chance of this being a sticky? i seen alot of posts from people asking what they need to start out. Will save going over it time and time again.
Thanks
Heres What Youll Need.
A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
Cubase, Fruityloops, Reason, Logic, Ableton and so on.
You can get free alternatives to these programmes and you can find them on this thread :
http://dnbforum.com/showthread.php?t=16610
A DAW is used for creating your music. They usually come with plugins to generate sounds and effects. They are the main tool for your music making and if u ent got one u ent got much chance lol.
-------------------------------------------------------
A Good Audio Interface
This is what you will connect your monitors too. You can either get audio interfaces in,
Usb
Pci
Firewire
and i think midi
------------------------------------------------------
Some Monitor Speakers
These are used for mixing down and mastering of your project. They let you hear a bigger range of frequencies than normal speakers and hey let you know how your music ACTUALLY sounds. (also known as truth speakers)
------------------------------------------------------
A midi keyboard/controller
This is used to control your DAW software and also create melodies, basslines and so on. Its basically the same as a normal keyboard except they link to your daw and record the keys you play through midi.
this is not an essential but it will make producing alot lot easier.
----------------------------------------------------
some vst's if your using a prog that uses them.
u can get alot of good free ones from kvr audio. search it on google man.
also remember vsti is an instrumen and vst is an effect
---------------------------------------------------
I cant think of anything else yet. Feel free to add to this as you please.
Also any chance of this being a sticky? i seen alot of posts from people asking what they need to start out. Will save going over it time and time again.
Thanks
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