Computer Music

jamjargod

Hey, i've recently gotten into electronic and computerised music, and am looking to get into making some original material. Unfortunatley i cant afford the equipment. I was wodering if anyone could suggest any online alternatives to say, the Roland TR-808/909 OR the tb-303 and any other synth programes, or samplers.
Any help would be very much appreciated

Entec

you should check these out

http://www.d16.pl

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/756.html

tomED

Could I add to that and ask...

What is the typical set up for someone who uses only their computer for producing this music?

Obvioulsy the products above - but is there anything else you'd need to use to bring it all together?

It's been a long time since I've done anything myself and it seems a lot has changed since I last played around!

Thanks
Tom

tman

Rebirth is available as a free download from http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
It includes an emulated 808, 909 and 2x tb303s, so well worth checking out if you just want to have a play around and make some noise.

You'd be hard pressed to make a complete, fresh sounding track with just that, but it's a decent starting point

L.R. Weizel

tman wrote: »

Rebirth is available as a free download from http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
It includes an emulated 808, 909 and 2x tb303s, so well worth checking out if you just want to have a play around and make some noise.

You'd be hard pressed to make a complete, fresh sounding track with just that, but it's a decent starting point

That sounds awesome thanks. Are they SF2s or VSTs or what? Can they be used with Modplug?

tman

L.R. Weizel wrote: »

That sounds awesome thanks. Are they SF2s or VSTs or what? Can they be used with Modplug?

It's a standalone program, but can be rewired to reason iirc.

tomED

tman wrote: »

Rebirth is available as a free download from http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/
It includes an emulated 808, 909 and 2x tb303s, so well worth checking out if you just want to have a play around and make some noise.

You'd be hard pressed to make a complete, fresh sounding track with just that, but it's a decent starting point

Hi Tman

Thanks for that - I've used this in the past and other similar programs - but really looking for a half decent set up without the hardware to really put something together.

Is it even possible?? I'm just assuming it is.

Thanks
Tom

tman

Well first and foremost you would need to decide on what to use as a sequencer.
Ableton seems quite easy to pick up, but Cubase (or Logic if you use a mac) are more professionally respected... (but also harder to learn)
After that you might want to get a few sample packs for percussion, and decide on what kind of synths you want to use and get the relevant VSTs (Korg Polysix and Sylenth are my 2 favourites at the moment, but that's down to personal taste)

I'm sure others will have more relevant advice though, I'm just a newbie to most of this as well...

tomED

tman wrote: »

Well first and foremost you would need to decide on what to use as a sequencer.
Ableton seems quite easy to pick up, but Cubase (or Logic if you use a mac) are more professionally respected... (but also harder to learn)
After that you might want to get a few sample packs for percussion, and decide on what kind of synths you want to use and get the relevant VSTs (Korg Polysix and Sylenth are my 2 favourites at the moment, but that's down to personal taste)

I'm sure others will have more relevant advice though, I'm just a newbie to most of this as well...

Ok cool thanks for that. I have used cubase in the past, so I'm familiar with that.

Thanks for the help!
Tom

synd

Ableton did it for me -

Id heard great things about cubase and reason but when I tried them out I wasn't too impressed.

Probably going to get cyber lynched by all the traditionalists now

Lukasz.

hello,well seeing as you have mentioned the likes of the 909,808,and 303 etc etc.i would recommend the "Rebirth package,as far as i know it could be freeware,im not sure though.

correct me if im wrong,but i think that runs through Reason.

i dont use software to make music,but i know a couple of things about software,just general stuff.

Ableton is amzing through,id recommend that....