Music Composing Programs - Beats/R&B/etc.

[mandy]

Anyone know any free or CHEAP programs used specifically for creating Hip Hop/R&B mixes?

I'm trying to look into this program called Fl Studio... but I was wondering if there is anything else out there.

I have Garageband and it SUCKS BALLS for this type of project I'm trying to do.

Help?

 

[Hinouchi]

Maybe you can ask David Choi =P

 

[iSeize]

Fruity Loops: i got it for free. from a certain website. wink.

 

[LT_Clash]

Sony acid is a very powerful music editing software, i think its a little pricey tho

 

[Low Budget]

You can always download logic studio. Big file tho and you need a mac. Otherwise, fruity loops is pretty good choice for begginers, its not hard to learn.

 

[Cock]

http://www.mutools.com/products.html

Use the free player it's a very good easy to use beat maker.

 

[Roach]

FL studio FTW
its fun as hell to use..and so ez

i found acid to be really confusing..maybe only for the pros.

 

[HaileyHaze]

oh dear good luck with that miss mandy. cant wait to see what you do tho!!

 

[iSeize]

hahhaa i remember acid music. i would go to a buddies house for a weekend in like grade 4 or 5 and leave with a burned CD with all these mixes i made. so sick.

talk to thomastronics about music software. he knows quite a bit about editing.

 

[PLEP]

what program would be good for managing my band clips (drums,guitar, ect) FREE OFC

 

[HooB.wg]

Try and see if you can download a crack copy of "Reason". Good program to start with in terms of music production and most of the basic plugins come with the program. FL Studio is pretty basic unless you have plugins and other features which come with a purchased copy (waste of time)

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Shit Programs (Mostly free trials/full versions can be "found&quot
- Fruityloops (FL Studio version xxx)
- Cubase
- Acid

Medium Programs
- Reason

Best Programs
- Logic Pro
- Pro Tools
- Abelton Live

Take your pick. If you plan to actually release anything, get legit versions because all shit is digitally watermarked (so I've heard anyway).

G'luck!

 

[adam::davis]

Why all the fruity loops h8? I've seen quite a bit of impressive hiphop tracks that have been produced w. FL Studio.

oh and yeah, Ableton is the shit.

 

[Nid@l]

Mandy - I been making beats for years now, my best recommendation is Reason by Propellerheads. Now its not free for a legit copy, but its so easily d/l on torrent sites.

If you are no too familiar with sequencing your music and quantizations, this program kinda does it for you. And the best part of it is the interface, because it looks like a virtual studio with racks. Check it out.

 

[Leroy]

its good to see you back, nid@l [/threadjack]

 

[Nid@l]

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its good to see you back, nid@l [/threadjack]
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Glad to be back Leroy. WoW sucked the life out of me.

 

[S@lv_dor]

speaking as someone who has tried reason and ableton and acid (none of that hipster apple shit for me) i say FL studio is still tops in production. it's intuitive and yeah it does require a decent rack of plugins to be a truly effective beast but when it is running at full capacity it is truly the lord of all DAWs.

i still recall when 9th wonder was admitting he walked into a studio with a laptop, loaded up FL and spat out a Jay-Z track.

FL makes life EZ, the only people that rag on it are amateurs who can't record their own legit samples and think that a DAW should come complete with every synth plugin in existence.

 

[adam::davis]

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i still recall when 9th wonder was admitting he walked into a studio with a laptop, loaded up FL and spat out a Jay-Z track.

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care to elaborate on what plugins can be added to make FL Studio more powerful? I'm very interested in exploring its potential for Hip-Hop production.

 

[S@lv_dor]

a lot of the FL tools revolve around electronic music production, if you want to make bangin beats the best tools are an extensive collection of drum samples and of course melodic samples off vinyl.

i actually just picked up a nifty little box (<-- that's a link) that makes it ez to pull samples straight from a deck without getting interference noise which sadly does happen when you're plugging the RCAs directly into a soundcard hooked up to a motherboard.

anyway, the slicex plugin chops up samples really well. if you're planning to get serious you'll need at the very least a quality mic to get samples and make your own samples and shit, i'm saving up for one now because i realize how important it is

 

[OG buckshot jr]

No hate on FruityLoops Adam. It goes like this:

Fruityloops (any version) is shit because of this fact:

- sounds and samples it comes with are so basic and sound like a $149.99 Casio keyboard (you know, the one you buy at Zellers?)

Anyway, I used Fruity for years (cause I got it free), and to this day, I haven't used anything as easy. BUT, to all those pointing out "9th this and that" - here's the secret:

- Import your own samples (of snares, toms, hi-hats, kicks - all of which is INCREDIBLY easy to do in Fruity)
- and if you're 9th Wonder, just go to a vinyl shop, purchase all the old jazz/r&b/etc. from the 40's and up
- Sample and rape the fuck out of any song (chop, sample, and rearrange anyway you want), couple it with the non-fruity drum samples and you're done. Enjoy.

Now if you actually like to produce music (and not steal/borrow/sample/cutcopypaste (like 99.9% of hiphop), then you go Logic Pro/Pro Tools/Ableton Live!/Anything from the Native Instruments (Kontakt 4 is SICK!@!!) and you're on your way.



EDIT: To see what Fruity can sound like when you're not using any of it's samples (ok, maybe one or two here and there) then visit [link=www.myspace.com/wordofmouthtommyboy]my myspace page[/link] and enjoy some of the music I was putting out about 8 years ago (or so, either way, really old).

CAUTION! - You really need good headphones or a subwoofer because a lot of fine work was put into bass most tracks (favourite thing to tweak in Fruity )