As i was browsing the Web i find out that there are lots and lots of powerful software. Reason 3, Recycle, Battery, Reaktor, Cubase etc.

 

I am thinking of buying the EMU 1616m laptop sound card so i can connect my KORG Triton as a MIDI keyboard and start putting down my inspiration.

 

I am using Reason 3 for the last 3 days and i can say that its a very nice program with lots of nice effects.

 

I am also looking into download Native Instruments Komplete 4 (25Gigabytes) and my download rate is 8kB/sec (damn) It will take me months to download it.

Anyone has it? Or any other music software you recommend?

I have a Korg Trinity Plus, a Yamaha P80 and various other bits of midi kit. Sony Soundforge is cool for playing with sounds. There is a bit of Korg software that emulates the various synths and you can control it via midi. I'm sure if you stick Korg Trinity into a torrent search engine it will show up, as it's name escapes me :) Cubase is cool but if you've got a triton the onboard sequencer should be more than adequate.

I use reason 3.0 rewired through cubase sx so I can have reason + cubase runing at the same time and finally master the lot through cubase. I also have Roland xp-30 but hardly ever use it's sounds because I just can't set the damn thing up properly so I use it as a midi controller.

I use reason 3.0 rewired through cubase sx so I can have reason + cubase runing at the same time and finally master the lot through cubase. I also have Roland xp-30 but hardly ever use it's sounds because I just can't set the damn thing up properly so I use it as a midi controller.

 

Reason is nice to create patters. However the new version of Battery (Drum machine) should be a kick ass application with its 15Gbyte library of sounds.

 

I am planning also getting the Yamaha AW2400 digital recorder. I want to make a small studio in my house cause I really want to create something.

As i was browsing the Web i find out that there are lots and lots of powerful software. Reason 3, Recycle, Battery, Reaktor, Cubase etc.

 

I am thinking of buying the EMU 1616m laptop sound card so i can connect my KORG Triton as a MIDI keyboard and start putting down my inspiration.

 

I am using Reason 3 for the last 3 days and i can say that its a very nice program with lots of nice effects.

 

I am also looking into download Native Instruments Komplete 4 (25Gigabytes) and my download rate is 8kB/sec (damn) It will take me months to download it.

Anyone has it? Or any other music software you recommend?

 

 

 

Hey bud, i'm well into my dance music but more the Event organisation and managment of... :D

However a good friend of mine and colleague is a font of knowledge and does alot of producing on the dance and drum & bass side, his advice and thoughts are as follows:

 

Good Software includes:

 

Cubase SX – as this integrates with virtually all other software

Sonic Foundry Soundforge – to “adapt” all those samples

Native Komplete2 is also good and less of a download but I still wouldn’t attempt it on dial up!

Recycle is also pretty good.

 

Be aware that Reason is not VST compatible, so will not integrate with other music progs, such as Cubase. The whole marketing of this is that it is a standalone. It can still be midi’d up but you won’t have the connectivity that a VST compatible piece of software gives you.

 

Also be aware that the quality of your samples will REALLY influence the overall “workability” of a song. I often record a demo of the song I’m doing with “rough” samples of 1MB to 2MB until it is complete and then add the proper 8MB to 16MB samples once I’m happy. As these are so huge they tend to sap your computer’s resources, hence fannying around with smaller samples in the first instance.

 

I usually take the large samples and work them in Soundforge until they become manageable. There’s not that much of a difference when listening on anything other than studio quality monitors or top of the range cans.

 

Also, when you finally export the finished tune into a playable tune (mp3 or Wav) you will get a slight degradation in quality and the larger the file is to start with will reflect the final mix-down and export. I’ve got some songs that are 40+MB once initially mixed down!! I then do a final mix to make them circa 4MB.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Oddjob

 

hope that helped ;) .... please feel free to email him directly at: john.ryan2@btinternet.com

 

James :cool:

Hey bud, i'm well into my dance music but more the Event organisation and managment of... :D

However a good friend of mine and colleague is a font of knowledge and does alot of producing on the dance and drum & bass side, his advice and thoughts are as follows:

 

Good Software includes:

 

Cubase SX – as this integrates with virtually all other software

Sonic Foundry Soundforge – to “adapt” all those samples

Native Komplete2 is also good and less of a download but I still wouldn’t attempt it on dial up!

Recycle is also pretty good.

 

Be aware that Reason is not VST compatible, so will not integrate with other music progs, such as Cubase. The whole marketing of this is that it is a standalone. It can still be midi’d up but you won’t have the connectivity that a VST compatible piece of software gives you.

 

Also be aware that the quality of your samples will REALLY influence the overall “workability” of a song. I often record a demo of the song I’m doing with “rough” samples of 1MB to 2MB until it is complete and then add the proper 8MB to 16MB samples once I’m happy. As these are so huge they tend to sap your computer’s resources, hence fannying around with smaller samples in the first instance.

 

I usually take the large samples and work them in Soundforge until they become manageable. There’s not that much of a difference when listening on anything other than studio quality monitors or top of the range cans.

 

Also, when you finally export the finished tune into a playable tune (mp3 or Wav) you will get a slight degradation in quality and the larger the file is to start with will reflect the final mix-down and export. I’ve got some songs that are 40+MB once initially mixed down!! I then do a final mix to make them circa 4MB.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Oddjob

 

hope that helped ;) .... please feel free to email him directly at: john.ryan2@btinternet.com

 

James :cool:

 

Thanks man. Every little helps. ;)