What kind of software should I buy?

which would make you...18?

  ten fingers ten toes said:

The steep learning curve on modern trackers is mostly due to the death of any tracker scene. Back in the day, when you downloaded .mod's and .it's etc, you were literally getting all of the sequence info to look at, and modify! I mean, I can't really imagine trying to learn how to track without downloading some Purple Motion s3m's and going "ahh, ok, so that's how he did that smoothe volume slide" or sample offset etc etc.

 

I can't really recommend trackers to newbs who haven't used them for this simple fact. It's really NOT a very intuitive way of doing things now that computers are as powerfull as they are. Back in the day, Protracker and Screamtracker had a bit of context when loaded on your Amiga or from DOS. It looked and functioned like a DOS program, and thanks to your local BBS, you probably had a decent library of tutorial music to look over. Since you're on a modem, downloading music software in 1993, you're probably a hacking/tinkering sort of type anyway, and therefore will spend the time to figure out the difference between 08FF and 0905. I've never used Abelton, but it sounds pretty neat.

i pretty much make everything in Reason 3 but ...

i actually just tried using a tracker (Renoise) for the first time over the weekend

it took me forever to figure out just how to make sound, but i'm starting to feel pretty comfortable in it

for percussion and such it's a relief but for melodies, being so used to piano rolls, i have little more trouble realizing them

  version2006 said:

which would make you...18?

20 :laughing:

  Adjective said:

...but for melodies, being so used to piano rolls, i have little more trouble realizing them

good, it'll pull you out of your comfort zone and you'll be more creative.

Just get Fruity Loops 6. Honestly, if you're starting out...DO NOT get Cubase/Logik/Nuendo any of that bollocks......ACID Pro 6's is also worth a look. The reason Fruity Loops 6 is good is that you'll start it up and be making a track within 15 minutes....Try doing that with Cubase (if you've never used it before), or Reaktor.

It sometimes gets slagged off, but it's actually incredibly powerful and intuative and easy to use. Do not buy anything else. You WILL regret it and be annoyed at the amount of money you just spent on something you never use.

  ?hamanix said:

a little bit of immorality would open your options right up

What do you mean?

download your software illegally and try them all

you could always just do this anyway and buy the one that you like.