1. There are trial versions of many DAWs, so you could try several for free, or you could watch YouTube videos and see if they help.
There are many free plug-ins (and several types, including VST ones). There are sample libraries and various sources (including on CD/DVD with magazines).
FInding someone local who knows more about music can help, but don't let them take over.
Did I choose the right software & hardware + few questions
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- KVRist
- 350 posts since 13 Dec, 2004 from USA
I would agree on trying out different types of DAWs, if only to determine which kind of workflow you like: Live/Bitwig vs. Cubase is going to have a much different workflow, even if many major DAWs are including both clip and track/linear modes. If you don't mind lite versions you can probably get a half-dozen different DAWs for free, even more for cheap (Reaper is $60, Mixcraft often available for that or less).
For electronic you can really start simple in terms of instruments: decent synth drum VSTi, subtractive/virtual analog, FM, and/or wavetable synths, and you're good to go (maybe track down a trancegate or arpeggiator like BlueArp, other than that most DAWs will have enough basic effects to get started). All of those can be had for free if you want (synth1 for subtractive, Dexed for FM, Surge for wavetable are some examples), or if you want to just easily buy into something that has everything in those categories (and more) NI Komplete usually goes on sale for half price a few times per year.
For electronic you can really start simple in terms of instruments: decent synth drum VSTi, subtractive/virtual analog, FM, and/or wavetable synths, and you're good to go (maybe track down a trancegate or arpeggiator like BlueArp, other than that most DAWs will have enough basic effects to get started). All of those can be had for free if you want (synth1 for subtractive, Dexed for FM, Surge for wavetable are some examples), or if you want to just easily buy into something that has everything in those categories (and more) NI Komplete usually goes on sale for half price a few times per year.
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- KVRist
- 122 posts since 11 Mar, 2015
1. That would work fine, Ableton is well suited to this sort of music and the "suite" has so much material in it that you'd have a lot of it covered straight away.
2. You could certainly postpone the Push or get something cheaper, most of the work is going to be done in Ableton anyway. You've not mentioned any kind of audio interface, that might be more important. Also, what are you going to be monitoring (listening) on? That's pretty important even early on, a good pair of speakers or headphones might get you a lot further than a Push controller. I think that's the bit worth considering more carefully.
3, 4 &5. This is the tricky part - nearly all of what you've posted is made from samples. They don't need to be particularly musically competent to start with, you could make most of those vocal samples with your voice and the horn line you posted was just three notes, both have been heavily manipulated afterwards in a sampler.
Ableton Suite comes with many sample packs, enough that you could make quite a few tracks like the ones you've pointed to in order to learn how to do it all. Then you can progress to downloading free sample packs and use sounds from places like www.freesound.org , after that you might want to get a cheap mic and audio interface so you can record short bits of audio in to create some of your own samples, which I suspect is how Ishome did the vocals and horn line you've posted.
Hope this helps.
2. You could certainly postpone the Push or get something cheaper, most of the work is going to be done in Ableton anyway. You've not mentioned any kind of audio interface, that might be more important. Also, what are you going to be monitoring (listening) on? That's pretty important even early on, a good pair of speakers or headphones might get you a lot further than a Push controller. I think that's the bit worth considering more carefully.
3, 4 &5. This is the tricky part - nearly all of what you've posted is made from samples. They don't need to be particularly musically competent to start with, you could make most of those vocal samples with your voice and the horn line you posted was just three notes, both have been heavily manipulated afterwards in a sampler.
Ableton Suite comes with many sample packs, enough that you could make quite a few tracks like the ones you've pointed to in order to learn how to do it all. Then you can progress to downloading free sample packs and use sounds from places like www.freesound.org , after that you might want to get a cheap mic and audio interface so you can record short bits of audio in to create some of your own samples, which I suspect is how Ishome did the vocals and horn line you've posted.
Hope this helps.
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- Banned
- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
hmmm.. i call OP trolling.. (I may be wrong)
Yeah, sure. Ableton suite and Push 2 should be a more than enough tool to get you to make music like the MariaIshome artist[2]. It doesn't really matter what DAW you use. It ultimately comes down to how well you master the DAW and make it fit your needs and requirements for the type of music you want to make. (there is a big Chillstep EDM guy called Ramses B who use Cubase -- which is an old timers DAW -- but he manages to get it to do what he wants for the music he makes).
The only thing peeps complain about Ableton is the GUI looks like its a 20 year old piece of software. You really notice that when you flip between FL Studio or Cubase 10.x. Who knows, maybe thats a good thing, it means less computing resources devoted to making it look pretty to use and more resources devoted to making it perform better.
While you are at it, you *may* also want to checkout Max[1] as there are quite a few electronic artists that are using it to get new or "more unique" sounds than the regular run of the mill pallet of sampled sounds everyone else is using.
Good luck in your music travels..
[1] https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/
(btw.. if you look at the shot of the laptop sceen, she's using ableton.)
[2] https://scontent.fybz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 3258_o.jpg
Yeah, sure. Ableton suite and Push 2 should be a more than enough tool to get you to make music like the MariaIshome artist[2]. It doesn't really matter what DAW you use. It ultimately comes down to how well you master the DAW and make it fit your needs and requirements for the type of music you want to make. (there is a big Chillstep EDM guy called Ramses B who use Cubase -- which is an old timers DAW -- but he manages to get it to do what he wants for the music he makes).
The only thing peeps complain about Ableton is the GUI looks like its a 20 year old piece of software. You really notice that when you flip between FL Studio or Cubase 10.x. Who knows, maybe thats a good thing, it means less computing resources devoted to making it look pretty to use and more resources devoted to making it perform better.
While you are at it, you *may* also want to checkout Max[1] as there are quite a few electronic artists that are using it to get new or "more unique" sounds than the regular run of the mill pallet of sampled sounds everyone else is using.
Good luck in your music travels..
[1] https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/
(btw.. if you look at the shot of the laptop sceen, she's using ableton.)
[2] https://scontent.fybz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 3258_o.jpg
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