Producing tracks?

ubw newbie Joined: Feb 19, 2008 Posts: 1

HI,

Can anyone offer some advice to me? I would like to start producing my own
Trance tracks, I am a complete beginner. I have some dj experience as I have been spinning vinyl for several years mostly as a hobby. I very much like big epic trance,hard trance and hard style as well as hard core. I would like to know what would a very basic set up of equipment consist of and approximate cost???

Thank You

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:13 pm

hi coda. welcome to the forums! Very Happy

i know this particular forum has 'questions' in the title, but it's really for questions related to the site or technical questions related to problems you are experiencing with a profile or whatnot. this probably belongs in the general music discussion forum, or you might want to try the 'electronica' forum, as it encompasses this genre.

i would definitely post it the latter for sure, since you're more likely to run across someone who can help you. i don't make trance (mainly acoustic) but have started using some sequencing software that you can use to make styles like trance, ambient, techno, and whatnot on my PC. i use the softwares Reason 4.0 and Sonar 7 Studio. Reason is probably the most versatile of the two, but is pretty much limited to midi and loops if you don't have software to record and format loops in the file formats it accepts.

user PPB, who mostly makes trance, uses a product called Fruity Loops. he swears by it.

sorry i can't be of more help. you can hear some tracks i've recently made with Reason that greatly vary in genre by clicking on the Audio Companion link below. i included the link to PPB's music profile above. most of those tracks were made with fruity loops, but some were made with another program called Mad Tracker or something like that. but that was ages ago.

post your question in both of the forums i suggested above and i think you'll eventually get better results. again, welcome to the forums, good luck in your quest, and i hope to be able to hear your tracks someday here at unsigned band web!

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

the best soft for technotrance, techno, hardtrance is fruity loops in my opinion or plan to break your money into midi 2 and asio hardware if you just create music as a semi pro or pro producer...there is so much to say about this...i would experiment fruity loops studio if i were you it's very powerfull and fast to use..but it's not pro software really...if you want a studio sound there is cubase sx , logic audio, sonar and others...they all use midi and vst/i features. Cool

ubw newbie Joined: Mar 05, 2008 Posts: 3

Most people find that the basic setup is for software:
Midi Controller
Audio Interface (not just a shitty sb soundcard)
Computer
FL Studio/Ableton Live/Acid/Cubase/Reason

or for hardware:
1 or 2 synth keyboards
Drum Machine
Multitrack Recorder
and Possibly a midi-sequencer

both could cost anywhere between 500 and up

for the software I'd recommend getting a combined midi controller and Audio interface like the behringer U-Control UMX49 to begin with
http://www.masteredmusic.com/350799/11897736.html
and later possibly move up to something more robust like a Novation x-station

For the computer you can probably just use the same computer you have now, or think about getting a laptop just for production (thats the route I went)

As far as a hardware studio (My preference due to a piano background and a very tactile production style) goes you should get a Roland mc-808 if you've got deep pockets. Or just get the pieces that make up a mc-808
(listed above)

http://www.masteredmusic.com/350800/11899759.html
That would be a good beginners multitrack.
First you lay down drums and bounce those to a track
then you switch to your synth and layer some pads on there
Add some sound effects
Then play your melodies on top

Master, Release, Repeat

(PS: I really love using hardware, but it can be more expensive)

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