I’d say go fiddle around in your DAW rather than spend ages on tutorials. But if it’s a must for you, imo it’s better to watch tutorials/masterclass videos made by headlining artists, rather than anything some company tries to sell you for fifty bucks.
Also, I think there’s much more to be learned from observing how these experienced artists think while producing rather than doing “monkey see - monkey do” after watching some tutorial where some kid with almost inaudible voice tells you how you should always do certain thing in a certain way.
I would recommend that you get something that you can grow into. That is why I wouldn’t recommend Dubturbo, but with that said, I have never used it. All of the links for it look really bait. I have never really looked at it to be honest.
I have never used Reaper myself as well, but through word of mouth I know it’s a fully capable DAW that is highly customizable and can handle audio, VST’s and MIDI.
For $60 you can’t go wrong, especially if you are just getting into this. There are plenty of free VST’s to be found out there as well.
DubTurbo was a pisstake btw (some of you figured that out I hope)
@IllumiNate - I just remembered this thread: everything here is free to fuck with and can help you past the initial learning phase.
I wouldn’t even think about buying anything until you’ve at least learned about 16 step sequences, ADSR, waveform types, LFOs, just basic-basics. Audiotool and Audiosauna are good ways to cut your teeth on this stuff without committing to anything.
Not necessarily, some people myself included get by on minimal musical theory knowledge; however, a course isn’t necessary for learning just do some online research.
Most def not saying it mandatory. It just helps for those who don’t have the drive to teach themselves or just prefer to be taught. I was a band head so it helped me a lot.
It can be either: it’s a format based on old hardware sequencers and drum machines. Like on an 808, there are 16 buttons across the bottom in the row; you select a drum voicing (like kick or snare) and create your hit pattern using those 16 steps.
This is a fun little exe that can teach you all about the concept with the bonus add on of teaching about choke/sample cutoff groups:
Laptop, mixing through laptop speakers and switching to HD600 headphones, basic plugins
That being said my laptop is pretty powerful (16gb RAM, 2.5GHZ Quad) which I absolutely need with the amount of tracks and processing I use but monitoring wise I’m quite happy with my HD600’s and not having to worry about the room.
If I were to speak to my younger self (presumably through some time travel phone) I would recommend decent headphones from the word go and just make sure the computer is powerful for your workflow. Even if it isn’t powerful enough there are ways to get around it (bouncing, freezing tracks, stemming)
After working in a recording studio I realised that gear makes no difference if ur music isn’t good. A lot of very shit bands passed thru and even though they had a fairchild and la2a etc on everything they still sounded like shit.
Yeah man, I fell into the trap of “My music is shit because I don’t have XYZ” and I guess to a certain extent that’s what companies need you to believe for you to keep buying their stuff.
I’m not saying that good equipment isn’t great, used in the right place it can really improve things, just that well if your tunes aren’t being signed etc it’s not because you didn’t have an SSL comp with API eq on every channel, it was probably just that you had a shit tune
After some research and worldly alignment I’ve finally set my sights on what I deem a decent laptop!
Here are the Specs:
~7th Gen Intel Core i5
~8GB DDR4 RAM
The link:
As you can see this is a pretty affordable laptop for a new producer.
My question is: Are there better laptops for the money out there?
I am working with other people to acquire this laptop so our price range is around 500$ - 700$. However if I give them a really good reason why it would be better to go up to the 1000$ status they might consider it.
But for now, I know that I could easily score this laptop and start learning!
Any input is greatly appreciated, thank you so much!
i’d hazard a guess and say it’s bcs that the grey one has better build quality (my ex had one, metal chassis and shit) and the red one has a touchscreen.
• Comprehensive connections including USB 3.1 Type-C (Gen1), USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and HDMI; Lightning-fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi keeps you connected through any congestion or interference
Now I have a huge question that needs answering:
Will this computer be able to run FL Studio?
Here are the system requirements for FL:
2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64 (or later) compatible CPU with full SSE2 support.
WINDOWS 7 or later / macOS 10.11 or later.
4 GB or more RAM recommended.
4 GB free disk space.
Soundcard with DirectSound drivers. ASIO/ASIO2 compatible required for audio recording.
My curiosity remains with the processor.
The speed on this laptop only gets 1.8Ghz (but it can boost up to 4.0Ghz…)
Could any computer experts tell me if this is worth it?
I thought it’d be alright when I got it, but I’ve only been able to test it out through public wifi and my friend’s mobile hotspot - so I can’t tell if this is worth it yet.
I would really appreciate some feedback, as I only have 30 days to return it.
On another note, I’ll probably make the jump on ordering FL Studio with Serum soon.
I’m considering getting the Signature edition to get all the plug-ins that come with it, but my heart tells me it’s probably not worth it and to just stick with the Producer Edition.
I’m really excited to dive in and find my bearings.
