Best DAW to start teaching kids music production?

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ACID, very intuitive .

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careyletendre wrote:Nice try people however your suggestions are laughable:

Super Duper Music Looper is actually made for children.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/edu ... lsheet.pdf

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maybe, but imo, that's a classic kind of underestimating children.

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engine wrote:music basics ->
but please dont touch reason. no! dont ask why...
Why not?
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I, Barack Obama, being of sound mind and body, do herby proclaim that as of Jan 25, 2013 the word "best" shall be forever stricken from Interwebs vocabulary via executive order. My NSA nerds are working on the filters as we speak.

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joeinternet327 wrote:
engine wrote:music basics ->
but please dont touch reason. no! dont ask why...
Why not?
Didn't you read the Reason warning to keep Cables away from children?


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As some one who teaches kids guitar, I'm going to suggest fl studio.

In fl studio, it is easy to get something fun and pleasing happening very quickly. And this is what you want with kids. Then you can slowly work them into the more advanced features.. and there are plenty of those.

Bottom line is, they'll have a cool beat going in no time, and that will keep them interested. I can't think of any other program that will give you results that fast.

If you do start them on FL studio, show them how to make a little beat in the step sequencer.. don't even worry about the piano roll at first. Load up a couple of monophonic vsti's and they can easily program melodies as well.

Once they've been doing this a few weeks, introduce them to some of the more advanced features. (piano roll, maybe even a little synthesis).


How old are these kids anyway? there's a big difference between 7 and 12...

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stillshaded wrote:How old are these kids anyway? there's a big difference between 7 and 12...
I agree with what stillshaded says, and the age makes a big difference. As will the number of kids you're teaching at once. You can get more in-depth and direct with 2 kids than you can with a class of 25.

And what sort of equipment will they have? 1 kid to a computer? Do they have a musical keyboard?


I also agree that you shouldn't underestimate kids. They can pick up new things really quickly if they're interested - it's often much harder as an adult. As stillshaded says, to get them interested they need to get almost immediate results, especially when they're younger.




Something like FL has the advantage that you can program a basic drum loop in about 20 seconds. It'll take you about that much time to show them how to program a four to the floor bass drum part, which they can then start playing by hitting space to get almost instant rewards. A piano roll is nice for musicians, but getting a basic beat going in the piano roll is much less intuitive at the beginning than a step sequencer.

A beat is also probably the best place to start - the concept of rhythm is innate so non-musicians can relate to it. Writing melodies is not as easy and may just cause frustration as the first step.


You could of course set up a template project in any host, but you really want the kids to be able to immediately jump in and just start making a noise - and to let them experiment on their own. Anything that takes half an hour just to explain what they need to do will bore most kids to tears, so you'll lose them.

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Six months ago, I'd have said Acid Xpress (which is still a pretty good choice). But now, I'll say StageLight.
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Pro Tools HD!

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filkertom wrote:Six months ago, I'd have said Acid Xpress (which is still a pretty good choice). But now, I'll say StageLight.
Wow. That's really cool. I started my son on Acid Music and then got Ableton Live lite, but that looks more teaching oriented for beginners. Ableton has lessons too, but that StageLight program is really inexpensive.
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k3ith wrote:Pro Tools HD!
Image Behave yo'self. :grin:
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A piano,manuscript paper and a pencil...

One pair of ears,plus an active and inquiring mind :wink:
No auto tune...

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sjm wrote:
stillshaded wrote:How old are these kids anyway? there's a big difference between 7 and 12...
I agree with what stillshaded says, and the age makes a big difference. As will the number of kids you're teaching at once. You can get more in-depth and direct with 2 kids than you can with a class of 25.
At what age would be good to try and introduce music making/playing to a kid?

Often they need a bit of encouragement to get going. Best tactic is maybe to start learning the basics of an instrument like piano/guitar, before firing up the computer studio?

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LawrenceF wrote:I, Barack Obama, being of sound mind and body, do herby proclaim that as of Jan 25, 2013 the word "best" shall be forever stricken from Interwebs vocabulary via executive order. My NSA nerds are working on the filters as we speak.

Yes, we can. :hihi:
We, the rest of the world don't care what you, Barack Obama deem as necessary for the collective 'we'

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Ableton Live is soo easy it's drag and drop and only shows what you need to use at the time. The lite version comes with many midi controllers so it's a no brainer if you are yet to buy a midi controller.

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