Looking for a Music Creator Program.
 

To cleafy the requriments for the program:

I'm in the need of a program to create music, and would like to hear some suggentions, I do have a mic, the program I'm looking for should be able to Mix and create tones and beats rythmes, and should be able to have sound encoded also be able to open .mp3 files (Remix feature would be great)

I would love to have some recommendations :D

It's like fucking groundhog day in here...

You could try sonic music producer.

I've always used Garage Band. I got Logic, but it's just too confusing and I'm so used to it I haven't switched over yet. And, it makes one of my synths sound bad and I have no idea why. Anyway, Garage Band has everything you need.
I've heard that the newer version even fixes the aggravating inability to change tempos after the song's been created.

Well, GarageBand is, uh...adequate, that is if you have a Mac, which the OP didn't specify one way or the other. Logic, also Mac only, is vastly superior to GarageBand, although there may be more of a learning curve, it's well worth the effort to read the manual.

Not knowing exactly the OP wants based on the description, and having no idea what platform he's using, I'd be pretty hard pressed to recommend anything.

Acoustica Mixcraft 4 is easy and cheap if you are using Windows. Pro Tools is another. If you aren't using Windows, i'm afraid your options are limited to a very expensive program or a free useless one - Logic or GarageBand.

Uh... I don't even know where to begin with that statement.

Guys I don't think the thread starter is hanging around here anymore.

even if he isn't; pro tools

FL Studio. But you need to buy/illegally download (whichever you prefer) some instruments because those which you get with FL Studio really suck, but it's the easiest program to use.

It all depends on what level you want to create at, and obviously how at ease you are with technology.
Hmmm, in my opinion...
Do you have any prior experience with music writing with a computer?
Garageband or FL are fairly beginner friendly...
Now a days the difference between programs aren't as huge as they used to be, e.g. before if you dealt mostly with audio on mac's you used to always turn to Protools and for midi on Pc's you'd more often use Cubase... However when Cubase Sx came out it was getting compatible with the audio quality, and soon Protools got good with midi... Suddenly allot of studios switched to Logic on their mac's. I currently have to use Logic, but I must confess that I still prefer Cubase, but mostly because of minor details.
If this all still seems confusing, drop by some different music stores or even Mac stores, and get to try some of the stuff that's out there to see what best fits your needs/budget/creative way of thinking...

i use a cracked version of FL Studio9 and Reason4 on a PC platform.
FL is easy to get into, and also to keep learning about. there is a very useful manual included in the package and tonnes of tutorials on the net. i agree with the person who said the sounds that come with it are not the greatest. it does have some pretty powerful vst synths though, ones that i use on a regular basis and to an agreeable end result. it's an incredibly powerful tool really. you can do anything with it. it also comes loaded with incredible effects and a mixer that i think supports 99 channels, each one of which you can run infinite (if your computer has decent power) tracks into. again? that 99-times-infinity.

i use reason for the synths and the strange capability it has to turn the whole rig around so you can see the back and use virtual patch cords to interconnect a nameless number of different synths and effect. it's also very easy to use, so you can get straight to creating. AND, (i think) you could open it inside another program like a vst synth. i haven't done it, but you use rewire to do it.

as far recording anything with a mic or live instruments i'd probably go for protools or garage band. both very simple programs. one comes free with your mac if that's what you have. i use garage band to record my vocal tracks because i don't have an input console for anything of the sort on my PC, and i can just plug right into the mac.

but really, you can download either hacked or demo versions of pretty much any software available and test them out for yourself.

i also HIGHLY RECOMMEND vengeance sound packs and synthetic kits sound packs.

high quality dope, man.

i work with "frooty loops" and it seems pretty good for me ... try version 7 or better.

LOLwat.

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Well let's hear it.

I think he disagrees with your statement that Logic is useless.


I already know Garageband is crap, so that's a no-brainer.

It's not useless. It's just exspensive.

Never used it actually. I just disagree that it and Garageband are the only options for a Mac user.

Most of the ones I use have to be patched to work on a Mac. Maybe it's just that I use almost nothing but PCs so I haven't really looked.

GarageBand actually isn't that bad of a program, although i would NEVER do a final mastering in it. it has some nice basic midi instruments which you can customize to your likings, really the only reason i hear people complaining about it is because of low quality recordings, and most of the time the quality of a recording has more to do with the mic and input value than anything else, it's a very popular tool for people who aren't willing to pay hundreds of dollars on music software. i'll also admit that GarageBand is also better for people who are a tad more minimalist than let's say Sonace.

also the musician Bell uses garageband, to an amazing impressive extent.

Well, maybe my critisism of GB was unfair because I don't have a lot of experience using Mac computers. It just seems like it's hard to customize the plug-ins and VST selection and what not.

there are no real plug-ins with garage band... (as far as i know)
the demo version is most commonly used, but if you pay for it the midi capabilities are awesome.

Can you import your own VSTi? That's the biggest thing I think i'd be interested in.

i don't believe so, but you can customize the instrument itself while playing like a vsti
one of things that bothers me about garageband is you can only add 5 track effects, but it's better than nothing

Yeah. It's alright, but it just doesn't seem as open ended as other programs are you know what I mean? With mine I feel like I can tack on to it whatever I need and not have to worry about whether or not theres a "mode" for it. It's basically whatever my RAM can handle.

im entering this thread a bit late. but who ever cares.. i use a mixture of programs. such as MixCraft, Audacity, BeatCraft, Fruity Loops/FL Studios, Kramware, SynthZone and Mixxx. i use so many programs because its so easy to create a piece of music in one the import it to another and edit it then record vocals or whatever you want and put it all together. as others said i dont know what the poster wants but i recomend any of those programs. ive used them for only about two months now and ive already have created around 100 songs of all various genres ranging from complete doof rave music to electrocore and everything in between! also if you do use any of those i recomend installing every plug-in that you can install with them!!

Agreed. Garageband is exactly what it's meant to be: an entry level simple music creator for people who are basically new to DAWs and aren't really trying to record a studio quality album. It's rudimentary both in GUI and audio quality, but it's also quite versatile.

and the only prominent DAW that I can think of that is exclusive to the windows platform, and doesn't also run beautifully on a Mac is Fruity Loops, but since windows can be run seamlessly on Mac machines via Boot Camp and Parallels, I'm sure there's ways around that.

The only gripe I have against limited-feature recording software is that you're buying something else by the time you grow out of it.
It just makes more sense to me to buy something that's expandable and capable of covering your current and future needs, even at the expense of user-friendliness. I think a person is far better served expending more effort on a learning curve for a more intense program than to have to switch modes multiple times in different software instead of just building on one.

I think the main consideration in deciding what to use is figuring out what you need now AND what you'll need later. If you don't know how you'll change and evolve, that's fine, but if you stick with it and put your soul into it, I guarantee that you will... so in that context, it's better to get a size too large to grow into than multiple sizes just right for a limited amount of time.

If anything, you'll save yourself from having to learn different workflows, setups, interfaces, layouts... which ALWAYS slow down productivity.

ok, and when you create your music do you post it somewhere?
like you tube? facebook or idk.....where is it possible to find your creations???

I know somebody who ordered a music website like that: websitetemplates.bz/categories/website-templates-musics-2.html
you think what's better?

people use myspace and youtube because they are free. nobody wants to pay $ 1000.00 for a crappy template

most bands and artists who have paid for websites have labels to back them up
myspace
youtube
facebook/reverb nation
blogs
in your songwriting thread (in the SONGWRITING forum)

Well, I agree youtube is free, but obviously having your website is better.

idk, at least I really want to have my own blog or personal page. and I saw free templates... idk where you saw that price.....

those templates are for sale as I saw. You first need to be famous to have a website, otherwise nobody will visit it, and even if you decide to have a website it is better to build it yourself than to pay for a template. I mean, if you buy one of those templates how can you be sure that there aren't other artists using the very same template?

if the template costs that much than most likely you're also buying the rights to it

^ True. Usually web templates are cheaper if you don't buy exclusivity, and way more if you do.

In any case though, if you have any type of success with your music, it's usually a good idea to have your own web site (professionally designed, or at least looking like it) for folks to buy merch, albums, etc and refer to apart from Myspace and Youtube.
Even if you're not planning on selling all that, it's a lot easier to advertise www.whoeverband.com... and just having a site alone might grab more attention when promoting your band. Not to mention you have complete control of all your material and how things are done.
A lot of people start their own digital record labels in this way.

speaking of labels i know plenty who just have a myspace

Myspace, Facebook Fan page and a blog are all most netlabels have nowadays. Of course most of them just promote DnB.

but many release using tunecore (online distribution), and they sometimes help book shows