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Making beats on the computezor
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:09 am
by daedalus__
Does anyone do this?
What do I use? I've seen a couple of pieces of software floating around but don't know what I should pick up?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:11 am
by RobertGonzalez
What in the name of all things geek are you talking about?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:30 am
by Luke
I think he's talking about software to compose beats... like those you would hear on a Jay-Z album.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:00 am
by daedalus__
No.
You ever watch Samurai Champloo? I'm next to damn sure those are all samples.
Too many rap/hip-hop beats are very sucky, I want to make ones good for listening.
Then I want to make some for a movie (short) about Samurai that I want to do with my friend if I can ever convince her.

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:33 am
by Chris Corbyn
Get Traktor by Native Instruments. If you want to go all out and spend lots of money you can buy final scratch and connect to your exisiting vinyl decks to use time-coded vinyl which manipulates digital media on the computer in realtime. It's very cool, I used to play around with it.
EDIT | Oh... and we'll have only good beats

Broken Ones

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:36 am
by onion2k
I used to tinker with Dance Ejay. That was an ace application.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:23 am
by Jenk
BAH! You E-Jays and your nancy digital media.
Vinyl is where it's still at. 3000 records and counting

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:42 am
by feyd
FinalScratch + Cubase VST are my usual spots.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:55 am
by RobertGonzalez
I feel like such an ungeek for not knowing, at all, what the hell you are all talking about.

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:56 am
by feyd
Thread title translated to human: Making music, digitally.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:07 am
by panic!
I use fruity loops for the actual beats and then logic...
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:52 am
by daedalus__
I'm thinking there is alot more to than that I know about.
Two things are I don't have a record player or a keyboard, I want to be able to do everything in one or two pieces of software.
^^
I don't really know anything about this, or music, but I decided I need to start trying to find new hobbies. The only thing I do anymore is code!!!! ...and drink, lol.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:59 am
by Obadiah
or you can do what im about to do.....go get yourself one of
these babies and call it a day

....geez i cant wait for tax time
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:56 pm
by RobertGonzalez
feyd wrote:Thread title translated to human: Making music, digitally.
Ah, I see now. Thanks. I feel am smarter now much.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:26 pm
by Ollie Saunders
Get a subscription to "Computer Music" great mag I've been subscribed since about issue 14. Alas no more as I'm a web dev now but I was going to write electronic soundtracks for a living at one stage.
Anyway for beats I'd recommend Native Instruments Battery, seriously good, or any good ROMpler. You'll need a VST host to run it in Reason and FL studio are good choices or you can go for one of the big boy sequencers like Sonar (my favourite by miles, windows only), Logic (Mac only) or Cubase. There are plenty of freeware seqs out there and some are pretty good in fact.
If you want to save some money I'd suggest buying just any old issue of Computer Music because the cover CD has about 10 separate pieces of free software that the editor had written especially for the mag over the years and all of it is absolute great. Not pro quality stuff but loads of character and plenty to play with.