I'm looking around the internet for some music software. Not like Limewire, but something where I can record my own voice, singing/talking and edit it up. Nothing professional, just a basic program I can play around with. Would love it if it was centered around the electronic and techno genre as well. Anyone know of one that's cool?
yo you should try Audacity. you can do all kinds of different kinds of stuff with the program like change pitch reverse play backwards, record, cancel noise. there are tons of crap you can do i use it sometimes. also there are great tutorials on youtube on how to do almost anything in that program. And its free!!!!! i would recommend it for sure. heres the link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I learned a lot from Audacity; it really is a great starting point, even though it can be tedious. The selection tool is annoying/you can't display a song in bars or alter specific sounds very accurately, but besides that you can do almost anything if you have a keen-enough ear. Ableton Live and Frooty Loops are more fully-featured, but be prepared to learn.
Audacity has a bit of a learning curve... but once you master it its awesome. Nero also has some cool stuff... but you either have to buy it or download illegally
The learning curve isn't very steep; you can drag shit in there and play around with/learn the effects pretty easily.
for making tracks you cant beat this. not sure how it is, or even if its capable of, editing or recording audio tracks.
my friend uses Frooty Loops and says its great. he picked it up pretty quick, only took him 2-3 days to figure everything out.
yea its is very easy to get the hang of, thats about how long it took me to get the hang of everything
Fruity loops is a pain in the ass (i'm an audio engineer) go with this combo: REAPER | Download For beats and making electronica stuff, use reason 4. You will need a good headset or a USB mic pre. M-audio makes a decent mic pre for 400. Then you could grab an SM58 or a crappier behringer mic for 20-99 dollars. You can't record vocals in FL studio nor any other program such as it like reason. You must use a DAW to record with. You could also use cubase 5. They have a lot of virtual instruments and stuff. I think the reaper/reason combo is the way to go for a newbie. I use pro tools 8 and have used pretty much every DAW in the book.
And if you wanna get real fuckin' serious, get a maschine... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-K5rSHEQJs]YouTube - MASCHINE - 2/25/09 Live Demo[/ame]
Ableton Live shits on all other DAWS...dont cheat yourself by using FL Studio ..Live can do everything Reason/FL Studio does ++ much more [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZWYyDNZ4k]YouTube - Ski Beatz - Unique techniques with Ableton Live[/ame] ^^ he created this [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8EIoMelFc"]YouTube- Ski Beatz - the making of Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents" beat[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv0-JjCybzM]YouTube - DJ Jazzy Jeff on Ableton Live[/ame] even del the funky homosapien uses live check out this article http://www.ableton.com/del