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  1. reason is a dead ended program... the possibilities are too limited...

     

    i personaly started with Reason.. and i regret it now that i m thinking bout switching to logic...

     

    one should always start with the best program right from the beginning... dont waste your time on Reason

     

    get Logic or Cubase

    gonna take a while to get used to it... but in the end it all pays off

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    please dont take this advice too literal

     

    if you ignore reason you miss out on a whole world of possibility!!

     

    there are amazing thing you can do with reason, the only thing that compares is Reaktor5!

     

    and you can combine reason with cubase!! :)

  2. Reason is not a dead end, only if you lack skill and imagination. Reason is very powerful and unique! Treat Reason as a tool and you will succeed.

     

    I recommend Cubase tutorials by Ask Video. You will just have to make track afte track until you get good. Its all about experience. It might take you a year to get comfy with this program!! But its worth it.

     

    Since you are familiar with Fruity I recommend you start with using the GM Drum maps. Create a MIDI track, then set it to GM Drum mode. Add sounds to it or load Battery2 VST. This will give you a Fruity-like composing interface.

     

    I think in time you will think FL interface is horrible. It is great for instant music making, but beyond that FL has the worst user interface ... worse than cubase! haha.

     

    You might also want to try Ableton Live. Its very easy to use and sounds great too. Unfortunatly for sequencing, I think Live has a really bad midi editor.

     

    The only thing I think is better than Cubase is Logic 7... but then u need Mac!!

  3. what a crybaby!!

    am i supposed to feel sorry for hurting your feeling?

    because you give this excellent music 1/10?

    what the f*ck happened to reality?

    are we in the moron matrix?

     

    go make an album as half as good as Nothing Lasts, then come back and i'll apologize!

    after all, you only have to accomplish over 0.5/10, right? should be easy.

  4. Actually no, seeing as I never buy full on I never give it a rating... as far as I'm concerned it doesn;t exist... and it just goes to show how I've always said what a snob you are... if I don;t consider Shponglethe new Mozart you think I'm mad...  I just didn;t like it at all, it did absolutely nothing for me at all, like a lot of cd's I have bought oer my life, I xpected so much more and was soooo dissapointed, end of story.  Get a life, and chill out, your so full of angst it's ridiculous!

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    you are a fool.

     

    i usually dont agree with traveller, but he's right here.

     

    even if you dont like it, you should have enough brains to respect this art. no, you would rather cry and secretly hope simon visits you and makes you a special song so you can relive your glory days.

     

    i rate it 9/10

  5. arrange with copy'n'paste over a period of 3-4 minutes:

    start the song with 1 track, then keep adding the other tracks till you get to your peak.

    during this stage, do not make new sounds.

    next, drop back to a couple tracks.

    then rebuild for another 3-4 minutes.

     

    u now have a tune!

    complete with buildups and breakdown!! B)

  6. im not an expert in this but will give you my advice:

     

    to eliminate noise:

     

    - if you are plugging your microphone into your computer, you WILL ALWAYS have noise. therefore buy a mixer with nice mic input.

     

    now if you already solved that problem, here are others:

     

    - line noise: if you have wires crossed, or audio wires running parallel to electrical wires, etc, this will cause noise. you must take care to give your audio cables the best route possible for quality. no interference!

     

    - your microphone cable will make noise when it moves. dont move it. ;)

    - your hand makes noise on the microphone. dont move your hand. ;)

     

    etc. a good idea is a solid microphone stand so you dont have to touch it at all!

  7. infected mushroom is great, a few grumblers on message boards dont like em tho.

     

    i think their earlier stuff is great to listen to while you sit or drive.

    their newest stuff is better for dancing and partying.

     

    i've never seen any psy act get people dancing like IM does.

    ive seen some psy DJs do it, but said DJs dont produce all their own music.

  8. Its very easy! if u use cubase then on the transport panel [F2] where the BPM is you can click above it to choose either "Tempo Track" or "Tempo Fixed"

     

    Fixed is the one to use if you want to run the same bpm all the way through the track.

     

    TempoTrack: ok this is the fun part.

     

    Press [CRTL+T] a new tempo sequencer opens. i guess its pretty logic how it works, you have either Ramp or curve types of "bar".

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    it is pretty easy to do

     

    but ive never gotten the results i expect with this feature

    it destroys the other parts of my songs!! i dunno y

  9. good advices.

     

    i will have to try that spektral delay. it looks confusing

     

    im quite familiar with the reverb trick as i use it alot. it is also good with reversing your samples, reverb, then re-reverse.

     

    in an attempt to make my own sounds last night.

    i discovered the best way

    is to lower ADSR to 0 everywhere.

    ;)

     

    try and see.

    cuz i dont know anything really about synth so, i never tried 0 setting before. tis fun

     

    B)

  10. you may not notice

    but

    there is one full track here for free download:

     

    Sundrop - Psybop

     

    its not quite psytrance.

    i dont know what it is. lol!!! :blink:

    any comments welcome

     

    its one of my first tunes ever, with poor/medium production quality,

    but it may give you an idea of how i lay out my other tracks.

    i like crazy buildups and unique explosions of sound!

     

    if anyone can name the movie sample i use in the middle, wins a magic prize!!

     

    B)

    cheers

    dave

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