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  1. How do you mix songs that are in different keys to each other with such an ease like when mixing techno/house songs that practically are keyless? How do you match melodies?

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    Picking tracks that are alike somehow is part of a DJ's job.

    If you pick tunes that have way different beats/percussion/melodies... then I'd say you might be doing the wrong thing.

     

    It's all about building a set.. not just laying one track after another...

  2. Hey there Stalker... (I'll speak in English so others can join in and help me out as well)

     

     

    So.. when I said USD500,00 I said for BOTH Midi Controller + Sound Card. So those sound cards you recommended are kind of outta the question for now unless I can find a Midi Controller for USD 100.05 or 5 cents respectively.. :lol:

     

    From the top of my ignorance and lack of experience, I'd rather spend more on a Midi Controller that should contribute marginally more to the creative process of music making that an expensive-full-of-resources sound interface should contribute to music making with quality/fidelity. Are you with me on this one?

     

    So.. Midi Controller with more keys, knobs and sliders and a at-least-decent sound card is what I am aiming for here.

     

    I was thinking about M-Audio for both Sound Interface and Midi Controller.

    In this case I was thinking about these options here:

     

    M-Audio Axiom 49 @ USD 250

     

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    M-Audio Firewire 410 @ USD 260 (but when you click on it says 299?! :blink:

     

    What do you think?

  3. So I have decided to venture into this music production world.

     

    I found this machine here I believe is enough to produce for quite some time:

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1138087857903

     

     

    Processor Brand Intel® Pentium® D

    Processor Speed 2.8GHz

    System Bus 800MHz

    Cache Memory 2 x 1MB on die Level 2

    System Memory (RAM) 2GB

    Type of Memory (RAM) PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM

    Hard Drive Type Serial ATA (7200 rpm)

    Hard Drive Size 250GB

    Recordable DVD Drive Yes, double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW

    Recordable DVD Drive Speeds 2.4x DVD+R DL; 16x4x16 DVD+RW; 8x4x16 DVD-RW; 5x DVD-RAM; 40x24x40 CD-RW

     

    >> 700,00 USD

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

    Now... I want a recommendation for a SOUND CARD!, software and midi controller, Monitors

     

     

    Anyone? I was comparing Mac vs PCs prices and I can't really like the idea of spending more on a Mac even though many people say Macs are better for music production.

     

    I'm thinking about spending tops USD 500.00 on Sound Card + Midi Controller.

    And another top USD 500.00 on the monitors

     

    So.. can anyone give me a hand here?

  4. So I went to a friend's house last night.

    He produces full-on, he goes under the name of "Mental Skragma" and has been putting a few nice live-performances out lately.

     

    Nice guy.

    So I went there to check out music production and we worked together so he could teach me the software part.. and I put in the idea of what I wanted to make the music sound like.

     

    The result is on the link below

     

     

     

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/hs0liy

     

     

    Feedback?

     

    NOTE: My very first piece of electro/minimal.

  5. Take your time... :) Better to have people listen to it properly at when they're able to... and this is one mix I'd say is less "noisy"...

     

    If you have listened to the first one you'll notice right away.

    I prefer this one much more.

     

    You got any of your sets so I could give 'em a go?

  6. I'm super busy now, but reading this again, new posts added, I really want to write some stuff.

     

    My musical taste has changed a lot, I started DJing (poorly for now) a more progressive house/electro sound and the quality of parties have changed around Rio/Brazil.

     

    More to come later ;)

  7. Gonna listen later :) The Name of the mix reminds me of that houst track, get your hands of my man. I am gonna make a remix of that one, saying "Get your man of my hands" :)

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    haha I didn't know you had a man ;)

     

    And I've given this mix a few listens and I warn you: the mixing (beatmatching) is horrible!

     

    I like the progression of the set and the mixing (as in volumes, crossfading levels, EQ) very much. I believe it was much better than the first one.

    But I made very many silly mistakes on the beatmatching part which I could probably easily correct.

     

    I'll try to record this same set again with more attention. My brother said my mixer or my amp could be delivering the music with a bit of delay headphone-speakers.

     

    haha I prefer - sucks! - to believe it was the DJ ;)

     

    Back to practice some more!

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