Category: Jam Session
Hi all,
I've recently gotten into a lot of electronic music, (dubstep, drum and bass and the like).
I'd like to start producing my own beats, so I wonder if anyone here might know anything about djing or accessible sequencing software? I record quite a bit of my own music, but this mostly being guitar and vocals, I've always gotten by on using an old school 8 track recorder. I know little to nothing about making electronic stuff or doing dj type music.
What do you guys think? Is this possible to do? Are there any good resources where I might learn to use a turn table, or is this all done with software sequencers?
Thanks in advance for any advice you may have.
Zach
I don't know anything about creating electronic music, but I want to wish you luck. I've gotten into a lot of electronic music over the past year and think dubstep is especially awesome.
can i just vent for a little while?
I have been into dubstep since about 2003, before it was even really being called dubstep and was still dark garage, and temper recordings and loafa and people like that were running the game.
Now, most of what i hear on the scene is vocoded, wobble wobble bs. Yeah, I love all the wobble stuff sometimes, but seriously, vocal dubstep? just seems to me like their trying to commercialise it, there is a lot of amazing dubstep out there still though, bar nine, quarter 330, burial, and code nine's gonna have a new album soon that i'm excited about.
Accessable dj-ing is a real bitch, i still use turntables because most of my stuff is on vinyl and i'm not a big fan of digital djing, but all the stuff i've tried to use has not just been inaccessable, but has, for me, taken all the fun out of djing.
I honestly think you'd be better off getting yourself a synth, maybe a microkorg sd or something and a drum machine or sampler.
anyway, i'll shut up lol
Hmmm, I figured that was about the way it was. I've never really gotten to use any turn tables or synths, but I am not surprised about the lack of accessible software.I never did like doing anything the easy way, lol. I really hope I'll be able to get into doing this, kind of a new unexplored musical venture since I've already conquered rock guitar.
I'll check out the Corg synth and see what i think.
Thanks and keep the advice coming.
Zach
apparrently soundforge and ableton are alrite, but i've never really investigated how to actually do it, and what i've seen of soundforge would make beatmatching pretty difficult, not tried ableton.
sonar's the one everyone uses for production, but frankly i have no idea how they do it, it's a very cluttered program with way too much going on for me to fully understand.
yeah, i've used some bad recording stuff in my time, but sonar is pretty ridiculous. Never heard of ableton, but i can give it a look.
it really bugs me that i can't use sonar, i know some blind guys that swear by it and use it for everything, with good results, i just don't get it...
you ever thought of going down the midi root man? quick windows sequencer is a god send.
I don't really prefer midi, but at this point maybe I'll give it a try. I just wanna start out basic and see if I'm any good at it before i get to invested, lol.
As most people have already mensioned Sonar is really hard to get. I've had and use it, but I know only 1 percent of wht there is to know. It's a pretty big learning curve for me at lease.
Matthew