Music Making Blog — Computer Music Making | Make music like you’re playing a game!

To start making music and make your first good song, you need firstly to choose an instruments to use. It’s not the standard music instruments like drums, guitar, flute, etc. It’s a special instruments – software to compose, to synthesize, to mix tracks and apply effects. 

The first thing you need to choose is your main sequencer. Practically, sequencers now is just like virtual studios – they combines instruments to write music, to synthesize musical instruments, and to combine it with audio track such like vocals, live guitars. 

For the future: In successful music making, it’s good to use something recorded live. For example, you can listen demo of my track We Can’t Die Tomorrow and you’ll see that I’ve used my recorded voice. The voice track (“Turn on the light, we can’t die tomorrow … “) was recorded on the very-very cheap microphone with the cost of only $20 and then was effected by vocoder, compressor and some another things. You can do it even better, be sure!

If you are beginner in music at all and don’t have any musical education, the good one to start is Sony Acid Pro. I even recommend you to use the version 4.0, the most stable and light version in the Acid Pro line. It wasn’t Sony, the full name is Sonicfoundry Acid Pro 4.0. This program is a greatest loop-based music making studio. It means that it’s mainly focused to manipulate with loops – a special pieces of sound that can be looped. Sonicfoundry Acid Pro 4.0 was my first electronic music platform and the main platform for first 1.5 years of musicmaking. In Acid, you can create a simple tracks with only combination of some loops, but also you can create a super-professional tracks. I know the man who is a very-successful electronic musician, and he is using this software to make a really great tracks and then publish it tracks on top labels. So you have to try Acid! Do some google searches to find supreme manual of this software.

Some notes about another sequencers, mainly Propellerheads Reason and Steinberg Cubase SX you’ll see in the next posts from me, not longer as in the next post.

In the august on this blog will be released a great series of screencasts and cool manuals to use Acid Pro and another sequencers! Don’t miss it, subscribe to RSS.

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