What are Reddit's favorite Music Production Apps?

Cakewalk is a fully functioning DAW that until recently was sold for a lot of £€$. I’ve used it for years and dropped a lot of cash on upgrades but now you can get it for free.

Hello, I'm the guy that made the track.

Actually, the software I use is an emulation of the sound chip on the nes.

With a little tweaking you could put my song on an actual 8-bit Nintendo entertainment system. So yes, It's as "true 8-bit" as you can come I'm afraid. Download famtracker here!

Edit: I'd like to add that Mario 3 uses very similar drum samples which is (in my opinion) a step clearer than mine are. So much for "true 8-bit".

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Cakewalk is a lot better than waveform free. Cakewalk is literally Sonar platinum but free (no-cache no limiting factors no bullshit) Professionals still use it and prefer it over Ableton and another premium DAW's. You should add it to the list.

https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

The only music editing software the average person could likely ever need would be Cakewalk Sonar, which used to be $499 but is now free. See here: https://www.bandlab.com/

edit: and this, combined with free VST instruments will do most anything.

No he means 4/4 but for each beat (quarter-note), you will see eighth notes written like this. That means instead of playing straight eighth notes (split equally 2 to a beat), you are still playing 2 to a beat but holding the first one longer.

Here's an example

Cakewalk by Bandlab is free to download right now. It's a full on DAW. Maybe not be the best but it'll get you making music with your midi keyboard. It'll definitely have a stock piano plug in with it.

https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

Reaper is an amazing, fully-featured tool that has an uncrippled demo. Like WinRar, you can keep using it after the 30-day demo has expired.

You'll want to give them your money, though. $60 for that software is criminally cheap. The dev team is reponsive and constantly patching and adding new features.

Reaper has a great piano roll MIDI editor, but if you're looking for real "composing" software (as opposed to a DAW, recording package like Reaper or Cakewalk), MuseScore is open-source and free.

Haven't transcribed music for almost a decade but here I am, a whole 19 bars of fucking bullshit. link

If anyone can help me transcribe the tenor/baritone part, please let me know...

in case you're curious, the same designer who's now helping with Audacity's design previously made the designs for the upcoming Musescore 4, and prior to that most of Paint 3D and parts of Powerpoint and Ubuntu Mobile.

If there's something you need Pro Tools for, then as bodean55 said, the educational version is probably going to be your best bet.

If, on the other hand, you're looking for a phenomenal daw, check out Reaper. The free trial doesn't have any limitations (no features disabled, saving is allowed, etc) and for the price it's a steal.

Worth noting that this is the Fruity Edition (normally $100), not the full Producer Edition. Refer to the feature comparison tab on this page. Also, it's $60 on Newegg, not $50.

http://reaper.fm

Indefinite, full-featured free trial, very reasonable purchase price. Not a huge range of included plugins but a clean, extensible workflow and the dynamic plugins are very very good quality. Side chaining and custom I/Os are simpler and more extensible than any other DAW, in my opinion.

I also add CM magazine/MusicRadar's free CM plugin suite. A bunch of good synths and plugins for the cost of a magazine.

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Tracktion 6 is old but free and lightweight, but I believe it comes with some simple synth tools. You'll probably find a better VST host to be honest, but as a DAW it's old but stable and not crippled in any way.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/t6-daw

I made a copy on website called flat.io . Press the play button to make the website play out the sheet music (if you're on mobile, make sure your ringer is on).

Here's the link

I cannot read sheet music. Can someone explain to me how those notes correspond to the meat placement on the minimap as well as the room? I mean, I see 9 notes in the music and only 8 meats circled/placed?

And then >Note how the first 5 notes ascend one line/space at a time, and then the next line and space are skipped for the final 3 notes at the top.

How did he know to skip like that? Is that what the sheet music does with the notes as well? Or is he just mimicing the placement of the meats in the dungeon and guessing?

Edit: Found guitar sheet music for Amara's Wish and I can see clearly on this that the first 8 notes do indeed match up. https://flat.io/score/5e8e4addd59cef3f6a82bff8-amaras-wish The piano sheet music screenshots in the google doc were just way too blurry to read.

Musescore actually has a wide variety of instruments. When you create a new score, you'll want to change the drop-down menu from "Common instruments" to "All instruments". You can also download another soundfont and replace the default one if you feel the default is not realistic enough. Soundfonts explained on Musescore website

If you really dislike Musescore, you can try Noteflight or Lilypond, which are free. I haven't used them though, so I can't really tell you how good they are.

Edit: typo

I really hate to be that guy, but this post makes me so angry. You've clearly just taken the sheet music from the YouTube video of Stravinsky's Septet and copied it. But that doesn't work because the music in Petscop is different from the original.

Not only does your version not match what is played in Petscop. Your copy doesn't even track the original version because you haven't taken the transposition of certain wind instruments into account. Those are the Clarinetto in La, and Corno in Fa that you see to the side there. Did you even listen to the Petscop version while you did the transcription? That's kind of required.

This post got me worked up, so I went ahead and did an accurate transcription myself. Have a listen: https://flat.io/score/5b597d8a99e5875f418b04bd-stravinsky-septet-mvt-2

It should be note-for-note accurate with Petscop 7.

Reaper. You can get a free trial that is the full program for 30 days (though I'm almost positive that you can just keep using it if you don't want to spend the 40 dollars on it). It's gonna be different for you (as it would switching to any other DAW), but it can essentially do everything that Pro Tools can. I'd at least give it a try.

If anyone was wondering what Meiko's song sounds like, here you go. :)

I actually put this together when I saw the spoilers, and I thought [it'd be a lot more melancholy...Then I read the chapter and couldn't stop laughing at the strange mix of the melancholy song and Meiko's screeching delivery.](#s)

And I also had a little fun and tried to jazz it up a little, so if you're curious, give this version a listen. Heads up, I have no idea how to compose music, lol.

Yes. Very easy test: get some software like http://reaper.fm and load in a file. Now make a copy of the file in a second track. Woah, hear that? It's way louder, possibly distorting, because you're increasing every value.

Now press the phase button. Now you hear nothing, even though each track is visibly outputting.

http://www.personalpowermeditation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Phase-Cancellation.jpg

To think of it another way: your speaker can only be positioned +1 or -1. (all the way in, or all the way out).

Say you had a track that oscillated between +1 and 0.

Now you flip that track and it oscillates between -1 and 0.

So when your speaker gets the sum of those two signals, it is 0. aka, it doesn't move.

Ninsheetmusic has a good amount of sheet music, but not every track, in piano.

If you play something else, Musescore has sheet music arrangements in piano and other instruments made by fans if you search for Professor Layton.

Hope this helps :)

The orchestral stuff was part of 10 suite (as well as the surround panner afaik). The others are new to 11 suite. (I guess I wouldn’t call any of these free? Unless they’re giving them to standard and intro users which doesn’t look to be the case (https://www.ableton.com/en/live/compare-editions/) but I could be wrong)

History - some to this very day call it pejoratively "Fruity Loops". When it first came out it didn't have playlist window - only pattern blocks, no automation clips, no sample clips. No VST until 2003 in version 4 (and even then only generators were supported). I started with version 9, and it was pretty much complete back then, but I imagine Pros tried earlier versions and never gave it another try.

Avicci - Levels

Martin Garrix - Animals

Most of Deadmau5 early stuff

Everything by Savant

Porter Robinson, Feed Me, SeamlessR, Madeon and Basshunter have/still use it. They have a list of "Power Users" on their site

If you find this entertaining, you might enjoy picking up FL Studio.

I have been playing with it since I was 16. It's a lot of fun.

You should consider Musescore. Not the most advanced or intuitive (but no notation software is intuitive) but it's free and development is backed up by a very dedicated dev team and contributors.

https://www.bandlab.com/user7539169984420514/new-project-96a55149

Here's a rough Demo version :) The style is inspired by The Narcissist Cookbook, who is one of my favourite songwriters.

Also, it's still a rough draft, so hmu with any feedback!

Here is a list of the full feature comparison: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/feature-comparison/

In my opinion the biggest differences are:

Lite having a very limited amout of tracks
Standard removing that limit
Suite adding Analog, Operator, Sampler and Max4Live

musescore is open source and linux native. There is an official AppImage available or your distro may have it in their repositories. https://musescore.org/en/download

A text based option is lilypond, which has GUI editors like frescobaldi or denemo:
https://lilypond.org/easier-editing.en.html

Ok, so, assuming the version of Musescore you're using is the latest available from their website, I took the liberty of scanning every dll file it installs and the exe with Virustotal and it comes back 100% clean on all of them.

There are a few possibilities here, but primarily I would say that you might have misconstrued his ability to immediately 'fix' the problem with the fact that first it must be determined that:

There is a problem.
They're allowed to fix the problem.
That the antivirus, in fact, is the root cause, and if not the root cause has been identified. I am going to go out on a limb and say that virus definitions are not at fault here for it being blocked.
That despite what you might believe, maybe there is something wrong with the current version of Musescore and before it is white listed it needs to be vetted by the admin team first.

In IT no promises are made unless the thing promised already exists. I don't know is a much better answer than "sure" followed by "Whoops, nevermind" a day later.

Have you tried LMMS?

https://lmms.io/

Has a few synth plugins baked right in, as well as support for soundfonts.

One of the synth plugins is ZynAddSubFX, which you can also get stand-alone and is probably in your repos:

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

It sounds like some sort of B or C part for "Over the Rainbow." Attached is a recreation I made to help figure it out. I know it's kind of far fetched, but around measure four-five it sounds the the "rain-bow" lyric. Maybe some sort of medley containing Over the Rainbow?

https://flat.io/score/5f3c2b2729e46201c850c40c-mystery-song-for-reddit?sharingKey=a76a38d2a8960ea9749c3b7745f65a5757a065e121e1e7299439e790d96f8fa9e5d5b714dde63a33cf4b1bfc508f3138b2ae4d96348d1d202198e0c39b36f436

The obvious answer is - musescore. It's free, it does guitar tab, and you can copy tab to notation. And the notation looks a lot better than GuitarPro (IMO).

You will need to understand about timing - how to choose a time signature, note values (durations) and so on - but there are plenty of sites to learn that, and I also recommend looking at sheet music for songs you already know, to see how they show rhythms.

go onto the rest in between. in the palettes, there should be a category called “beam properties” or something like it. select it and choose the option that has the two notes beamed together.

this shows how to do it.

Sibelius and Finale are the two "professional" programs that people use, but I'd encourage you to check out MuseScore. It's free and does all the stuff you'll likely need to do.

I think mainly because there are a lot of people that play drums, but there are not a lot of legitimate drummers. Insofar as those that study their instrument like it's a science. Also there are way more guitar and piano players over all; so you're definitely right on your main point.

By all means, educate me on some drums! I write my own music and program the drums; so I'd love to have insights and ideas from knowledgeable percussionists, drummers, or whomever that can fill in my knowledge gaps that is only rivaled by the grand canyon.

I've learned so much just from coming to this subreddit on a daily basis; some of these people really know their shit!

For example; this is a song I wrote recently and would love some drumming insights. Specifically, how I could improve my drum ideas.

https://www.bandlab.com/posts/316eb740-239a-ea11-96d2-0003ffd1fc09

I transcribed the clicking into a music tab. It fits neatly into two bars of 4/4.

https://flat.io/score/5bd9fc07fe521733f2863404-petscop

I couldn't find this exact rhythm anywhere though. I first looked at Stravinsky's music, since that's the only named composer we have, but there is nothing. I still firmly believe that it's from a piece of music. There are just too many connections with music in Petscop for it to be arbitrary.

I prefer Reaper. It's much more fully-functioned than something like Audacity, and its workflow is much more efficient, for me.

It's also "free" in the same way Winrar is. You'll never lose functionality if you don't buy it, you'll just get a nagging pop-up on launch reminding you of how long you've used it for.

It's good enough that I bought a commercial license for it, but that was after a couple years of using it for free without issue and starting to make real money using it.

I have a Shure SM57 and use it to record vocals as well as acoustic guitar. There is an old DigiDesign MBox 2 as the interface to the computer/DAW.

I use Reaper as my DAW and really like it. It's free to try out and very inexpensive if you decide to purchase. There are lots of tutorials on their website as well.

Elitists will frown upon this answer, but in my opinion, your best option is to get a small, inexpensive USB interface (I use the Steinberg CI-1, retails for ~$100) and a cheap recording program like Reaper.

If you just plug another 1/4" cable from your amps headphone slot into the interface, you can use whatever settings/tone you want, and you're free to use any backing tracks you'd like as a .wav or .mp3, or even just playing YouTube from your headphones.

Reaper does everything you need and much more. Full unrestricted demo version comes with a 4 second nag screen when you open it and if you do get some cash I think it's like $60 to purchase. The Reaper website

Hey just in case you ever need to hear how it sounds, you can download a free program called musescore (musescore.org) and you can enter the music into it note by note and it will give you an idea of what it should sound like .

The chords are F#m9-B13, followed by Em9-A13, but you're right it's implying two different keys alternately - first E major, then D major. So there's four key signature options as I see it:
1. E major with accidentals for the D major bars;
2. D major with accidentals for the E major bars;
3. Blank key sig with accidentals all over;
4. Take the average: A major, with fewer accidentals, evenly distributed.

Personally I don't know which would be easiest to read. I think my preference would be for D major, because it feels like that's where it might end up resolving, if it ever did.

As for the rhythm, it seems to be swing overall - not just in the drums - although each instrument is interpreting the swing value differently (or it's been set at random on a DAW or whatever).
If you thinking of this as 2 bars per chord (in fast 4/4 or slow 2/2?) then the drums have a quarter-note triplet pattern at one point. Otherwise the swing 8ths don't seem quite at triplet strength.
In jazz, swing is not normally notated at all - i.e. 8ths are written as normal, maybe with "swing" written above. Only anything that is clearly in regular triplets would be written as such.
There is a metric modulation sign sometimes used in rock, but that indicates (literally) a triplet shuffle rhythm, not really swing. Swing itself is in the region between straight and triplet feel - nearer straight at fast tempos, nearer triplets at slow tempos.
Sorry this isn't much help!

I found about this today, but I haven't tried it yet. It is free and multi platform, so perhaps give it a try: https://musescore.org/

For really simple stuff I still use a copy of finale notepad 2007 (last free version).

To my knowledge, the heavy weights are still finale and sibellius, but I find them overkill for my needs.

I used to try to play along with Ultimate Guitar backing tracks (Pro feature I believe) but a short while back I made the decision to purchase Guitar Pro and even though a bit pricey (not expensive, just a lot of money in an age where subscriptions and ad/data collecting sponsored software is almost the norm), and it's one of the best decision I've made.

The vast amount of available GP files, the quality of the instruments, the controls in terms of tempo, looping selection, metronome, tuner and whatnot. And that's just on top of the tabbing/sheet music functionality that I had so far only practiced on Flat.io. Gives me access to the drums/other score parts, and allows me to adjust the volumes to hear the bass stand out without having to settle with weird MIDI sound approximations.

Or lets put it like this; Since I purchased Guitar Pro, the amount of Internet usage during my practice with a computer has become almost zero because before I had to jump between browser windows to have song tabs, the track, etc with all the distraction that having an open browser window can lead to.

Now I just spend the entire session in GP, making it essentially distraction free. Even to switch to another song, or experiment with a lick/riff, is done within the program. I might need to look something up/download a GP file occasionally, but it has lowered distractions and enabled a much more efficient offline practice.

Also I try to take down notes as I go along with any question marks that pop up so I can google them later, which is also a bit of a change from how I did it originally where I essentially looked up answers on the fly, never really getting into a flow.

PS. I'm fortunate but I understand not everyone can spend €70 on a software like Guitar Pro. There are some free options, the most notable one being MuseScore, but I don't have any experience with it although it can probably do more or less the same things as GP.

My goal was to finish the piece on my birthday today. I like to consider it a present from Bach.

I want to add a bass pedal section, but I thought I would stick to the guideline as a two part invention:

https://flat.io/score/5930855c783e290d1e6514f1-invention

Also, I like to add Greek mythological themes to my music. I enjoy listening to it while observing this painting:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0b/c3/73/0bc373867a6776bf394dd7d2cd93f8d6.jpg

We might have different understandings of recording and editing is, so let me tell you of my definition:

>A program that can record, allows me to capture the input of a microphone by click a few buttons to begin the recording, and a single button to stop the recording.
>
>A program that can edit, allow me to remove the pauses in the beginning and end, clean up unwanted grunts, clicks, and peaks, and level the volume to a pleasant level.

If you are going to record anything that should be listened to by anyone one this planet, you would like the tool to be able to clean it up as well. How many of the tools you use it not in this discussion, but you get them.

Audacity can record your lines, and also edit them to some extend. You can get more funky features to do certain things faster in other programs, such as Reaper, Tracktion or Adobe Audition, but Audacity is a good place to start.

>I'm also a bit weird in that I like doing what I'm not supposed to.

You definitely want to take a look at REAPER then. Ridiculously flexible routing and tinkering, but you don't have to dig to find it. You can also completely ignore it if you'd like. It has a very simple interface. Everything is a track -- audio, MIDI, folders, everything.

I've used ProTools, Cubase, Sonar, Tracktion, Ardour, Qtractor, n-Track and others. In my opinion REAPER is the best of all of them while adding its own improvements and cool features/workflows.

Ich hab Guitar Pro auch noch in Version 6, hatte mir das zugelegt, als ich Gitarre gespielt hab. Mich hat nur gestört, dass ein paar Kleinigkeiten noch so optimal sind, wenn ich auf andere Instrumente gehe - man merkt halt, dass der Fokus auf Gitarre liegt. Eine gute Alternative für Noten allgemein ist Musescore (kostenlos, Open Source)

This post includes an estimated timeline, which puts the stable release of Musescore 4 at 15 December.

It sounds like a massive task, it could easily be pushed back. Wait and see, I guess.

From the Handbook

There are a few links to alternative soundfonts at the bottom of the page including a few piano-specific ones. There's also detailed installation instructions. Hope this helps!

I can definitely understand your point and I do agree that the opportunity may not be a good fit for everyone. It may, however, be a better fit for someone that requires such an internship as part of their studies, and we are able to support and fulfill such requirements for academic credit.

I am not sure if you are familiar with MuseScore, but it is a free open source music notation application paired with an online community. MuseScore, like many open source projects, is built for the community, by the community.

As a free community-driven open source product, even many aspects of software development, documentation, support, etc. are volunteer efforts of the community.

There are, however, some internship opportunities that are paid, but these are done exclusively in cooperation with supporting partners, for example, with Google Summer of Code - https://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/google-summer-code

Regarding specifically our new efforts in marching percussion, our aim is to create the best solution in the market for marching percussion notation and make available absolutely free everyone. This opportunity is appropriate for those interested to participate in and support this community effort and goal.

How did anyone think this was a good idea?

I did actually. I wrote the MuseScore and the MuseScore Songbook app. I'm also one of the main developer of the free and open source music notation software https://musescore.org

I read this article https://www.nngroup.com/articles/stop-password-masking/ long time ago. I still agree with a large part of this article.

Of course, the password is not transmitted or stored as plaintext! And, if one can see your password in a glance, you probably need a stronger password ;)

It has some rough edges, but I've successfully used it to plonk out simple but good-sounding tunes after Googling up and downloading some good soundfonts. LMMS follows the design of FL Studio (aka FruityLoops) pretty closely and it's open source.

https://lmms.io/

Maybe first try playing 8 quarter notes, then play that same thing but twice as fast. That basically makes them into one full measure of eighth notes. Also try getting a grasp on the counting, switch between "1 2 3 4" (quarter notes) and "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &" (eighth notes). Be sure to keep a consistent tempo as well.

You can check out this guide I whipped up as a reference, it should be somewhat helpful.

Wouldn't that still allow you to just play and record a session off a keyboard?

I'm thinking of things like FamiTracker for NES, or BoyScout for GBA

In Famitracker, at least, there is only a limited amount of tempos available from the speed settings. As a way to get different, "intermediate" tempos, composers often rapidly alternate speeds between, for example, 2 and 3 to mix up a tempo in between those two. The Famitracker wiki has put together a chart of tempos that could be achieved with alternating speeds here: http://famitracker.com/wiki/index.php?title=Common_tempo_values

Applying the example above to the chart, Speed 3 = 300 BPM on NTSC and Speed 2 = 450 BPM, so the intermediate tempo between these two, using the pattern 3, 2, 3, 2... would be 360 BPM.

Let me know if you need more clarification/explanation!

Honestly you can pull up abletons version comparison and then just type in feature that suite has the lite didn't and you should be able to find a tutorial on that specifically.

There are a number of channels that have done a video explaining every single effect and instrument. Honestly, the new devices are the main upgrade, so learn the new instruments and effects.

That's automation. If you don't know about it, then your knowledge of DAWs is pretty poor (one guessing you're just starting?) & it would be advisable to first try to learn the basics by yourself and then come asking here if you get stuck.

Luckily Ableton has a great video series:

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/

...and an even better on-line help:

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/welcome-to-live/

To answer my own question:

"Live 10 will be available in early 2018."

"Ableton Live 10 will be officially launched in the first quarter of 2018."

And there you have it.

If you haven't already, check out Ableton Live. It's a real popular computer DAW that's used to make all sorts of music styles. You can use it standalone with samples and plug ins to make complete chillwave songs. I use it along side some synths to make some of my music. Plenty of youtube videos on how to use it. If you are looking to get started with just hardware, check out the newer Korg Electribe. It's a fun box that has a real good sound engine and it's portable. There are a bunch of subreddits to help you out with music production. Good luck

Before dropping any cash, I strongly recommend trying the demos/trials for the DAWs you're looking at.

Reaper is by far your cheapest option. I usually hear about it in regards to recording rather than sequencing, but it might work for you.

Logic is only $200, and from what I've heard, is one of the best DAWs in terms of bang per buck. It's basically super garageband (you can even import GB projects into Logic). Mac only.

I don't know anything about Studio One haha.

If and when you get the trial for Ableton, realize that you'll be running the demo for Suite (minus most of the 40gb of sounds), but the Intro and Standard versions might not have the features/capabilities that you like. Here's the feature comparison. Also understand that it's very expensive to buy Intro or Standard and upgrade later (you get a big discount if you buy Suite and what it contains all at once). Even with a student discount, Suite is $450. Ableton is my DAW of choice and I love it, but if you're looking for something cheap, it's probably not the best for you.

I went with Suite because:

I don't have a lot of hardware and it was the most realistic way for me to create a versatile set-up without breaking the bank.
MAX for Live intrigues me and I hope to explore it someday

It is hard for me to say whether you should get it, but if you want Max for Live you should probably go for it. I know the Suite offers some more robust MIDI option with MAX.

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/feature-comparison/

If you are recording and tracking instruments or live-playing virtual instruments you will want to invest the time into installing your interface's ASIO driver to reduce latency. If you do not have an interface then just stick with WASAPI, it's good enough to start with, just don't be surprised if there's a delay between playing a note and hearing it. If you get sick of the latency you can determine how much you want to invest into a proper interface later.

If videos are more your thing check out the official ones here: http://reaper.fm/videos.php

Setting up shop for preferences... aside from setting up audio and perhaps MIDI you don't need to touch the rest of the preferences. Just jump straight to the first song, recording or using MIDI videos.

REAPER will continue to function after 60 days so don't worry about running out of time to evaluate it. Choosing a DAW takes a lot of time because of figuring out workflows. Other DAWs with shorter trial periods are pressuring people into making snap decisions.

> and also the max rate on gen-1 scarlett's is 48khz

Wrong. The maximum sample rate on gen1 scarletts is 96khz, for gen2 it's 192khz. BTW, unless you have very specific needs, using 44.1kHz or 48kHz is absolutely fine - a higher sample rate just gets you bigger files and uses more processing power for virtually no audible benefit (unless you a are a bat...). Recording at 24bit makes sense though - you'll have more dynamic headroom to work with.

As for a beginner DAW, I'd recommend REAPER, since you can download fully featured trial version with only a nag screen after the trial period.

To elaborate on /u/Tarron's advice...

The most straightforward way to do this (IMO) is to get a DAW and some drum software. A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation, and will let you arrange multiple drum patterns in sequence, save them as a wav or mp3 file, turn on/off a click track, and load virtual instruments, like drum kits.

The drum software itself is a plugin that will let your DAW utilize drum sounds.

If you're not looking to pirate anything (and you SHOULDN'T pirate anything), the most cost-effective solution is to download Reaper and MT Power Drumkit 2:

http://reaper.fm http://www.powerdrumkit.com/

Install Reaper, which is your DAW. Then install MT Power Drumkit. You'll have to go into the settings in Reaper and tell it where to find MT Power Drumkit. From there, you can program in drum patterns and arrange them in the order you want.

Oh, and MT Power Drumkit is free. Reaper isn't free, but the demo version is fully functional with no time-limits. You shouldn't have to spend one dime.

LMMS will most probably put you off music production all together. I made a few tunes in it for an open source game (I thought I'd have a blast at trying to make them with open source software, due to the purpose of the tracks). It's really an abysmal piece of software compared to the major ones, and I imagine it'd be especially bad when you're still at the stage where you're learning.

If you're on the cheap, I recommend you check out Reaper which you can evaluate for 30 days and only costs $60 to buy after that.

From what I understand Reason isn't recording software. For that you need something like Propellerhead's Record or (my favourite) Reaper

For everyone asking, here's a bit of a breakdown of the process.

I record into a presonus FP10 running into my home built PC via firewire, into REAPER.

Drums:

Audix d6 inside the kick, about 4 inches away from the batter head pointed straight at the beater, plastic beater. Kick is 20x22, muffled with a pillow against the reso head. The Batter head is a pre-muffled aquarian head (comes with a foam ring fastened to the head, I forget the model number at the moment.)

SM57s on the snare and toms, nothing too fancy here. Drum tuning is a big deal.

two AT2020s for overheads. I only used 2 cymbals in this recording, so they're at equal height above each cymbal, adjusted to fix phasing.

EQ and compression to taste, and moderate reverb added. I can go over some EQ/compression techniques later if anyone's interested.

Bass recorded direct in to the interface, light EQ. Pretty raw bass sound.

Guitars recorded via a line 6 POD XT, running a line out into my interface. Custom patch. 5 guitar tracks total, 2 doubled rhythm/lead parts, and a solo.

Vocals are recorded with an AT2020, heavily compressed (10:1, about 8-12db Gain reduction), light EQ to brighten them up a bit. Melodyne Pitch correction used at 60% strength.

If anyone has any other more specific questions, feel free to ask! I love to talk about recording! Thanks for all the great feedback! I know this isn't the most popular style here, but it's great you guys are diggin' it anyway!

Musescore isn't designed for playback, so you'd probably have to mess around with the synthesizer in ways I'm not familiar with. This should hopefully be a lot more fleshed out in musescore 4 though.

The easiest way to get a nice sounding orchestral sound would be to use a DAW and get some free plugins. DSK Overture and VSCO2 orchestra have decent strings (both are free), and Spitfire has their LABS Strings (free, but with weird panning) and BBCSO Discover (free, but you have to fill out a survey and wait 2 weeks, or pay $50). If you don't have a DAW, you can follow this tutorial to make these free libraries into a soundfont you can use in musescore: https://musescore.org/en/node/293510

According to the release timeline, version 3.3 is currently scheduled to be released on October 7 or 8.

In the meantime, you can download a release candidate.

Tu peux trouver des tonnes de partitions au format pdf ou midi sur la communauté Musescore. La majorité sont pour le piano, mais il y en a spécifiquement pour violon ou des arrangement complets qui incluent le violon (j'ai vu Elephant Gun de Beirut, par ex.).

Et si tu sais lire la musique, tu peux toujours plus ou moins transposer du piano vers n'importe quel instrument et éditer une tablature. Tu peux faire ca sous le logiciel Musescore.

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If you can read sheet music, you can also try musescore, which is free and comes with a range of different instruments, including electronic ones. Some of the sound fonts aren't great, but luckily it's easy to install new ones (some of which also happen to be free).

Try MuseScore. They've been free/open source for years. I used to use it when I was stuck on Linux and I didn't think it was very good six years ago but it's improved a lot since then. Your Linux distro probably already has a package for it.

I typically use MuseScore, which is free and I've found easy to use with a fair number of features. It also has a moderately active community on the website where you can browse scores and share your own.

Download MuseScore (or any free music notating app) put the rhythms in a template and then you can have it play them back to you and it will follow the notes as it plays. Very helpful tool.

For free? I'd suggest either MuseScore, which in my experience was rather buggy but easy to use, or LilyPond, which produced better results but involved transcribing the music in a text format like a computer programming language.

> fruity edition

"Has limited FL Studio features. Is aimed at those people who need Piano roll for sequencing functions but does not have Audio Recording, Slicex, or Edison. For a list of all features included in this edition, see the feature comparison page here." --https://support.image-line.com/knowledgebase/base.php?ans=94

http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/editions.php

The fruity edition is really limited. You don't get audio recording. You can't put audio clips into the playlist. You don't get edison, slicex, or vocodex which are all great tools. You don't get automation clips (which you seem to be brushing off but that alone is enough to upgrade, automation is a big part of production, especially in EDM). And you can't record audio with it.

Poizone, Toxic and Harmless are all great synths, but the key thing is to find one that is good for your workflow. At the end of the day, all subtactive synths are similar, FM synths are similar and so on so it's really a preference on which you like to work with the most and which sound you like.

Two IL synths I would recommend looking at are Harmor, a very unique synthesizer that no other mainstream synth I know of is similar to it. And sytrus, which is an FM synth but it allows you to make your own waveforms. Toxic is also a great FM synth but it has a very different approach from Sytrus.

Nexus is more a sound library than a synth. It's great if you just want a bunch of presets but it's not made for creating your own sounds.

So, buy the synths you like, or use free ones, but be sure to get at least producer edition of FL studio.

Not an app but you can use https://flat.io/ to write out the specific music. The UI is a tad clunky but generally easy enough to use. I hope that helps, if you have any questions if be happy to answer them.

if u want to hear what it sounds like (first two lines cuz i don't understand last line and im not a musician)

On the world of Psycho-B-Gone, a theme song is more of a diegetic sound than it is on most worlds. Most heroes have one, which generally flares in the background when they're doing something important. The Five-Man Band have a few which have latched onto the heroes like remoras and are refusing to let go.

Nikita Malikov has her own theme song, or rather a short motif. It's meant to be in the style of Russian hard bass, though I certainly haven't made it what it sounds like in my head.

Mina Harker, as a form of parody of the classical vampire (think Lady Margolotta from Discworld, though a little more serious and heroic), enters a room to the sound of Bach's Toccata and Fugue.

Harry Colter, as a gunslinger of y'ore, has a bewildering variety of low, slow acoustic guitar music accompanying him. It's never the same music twice, unless it's a known piece like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which often pops up during Mexican standoffs (and which he really dislikes because he thinks it's overdone).

Paladin, as a pastor and power-armoured knight, particularly likes Sabaton songs.

HAL-9000, as a rehabilitated artificial intelligence with probably too much power over orbital bombardment systems, has a Spotify playlist of robot songs that they like to listen to while they work. It includes nearly the entire soundtrack of The Imitation Game.

Me upon realizing there's an untapped market of converting our world's religious tunes to Bookverse ones: if there aren't any hymns, I'll just have to sing them myself!

That's right, I'm so starved for content that I sung a twist on a hymn I liked growing up; I present to you "Hymn of the Seasons." The lyrics are shown on-screen alongside the music, so feel free to give it a listen - and if you'd rather not listen to me singing into my iPhone, I wrote up the sheet music + lyrics on Flat.io, so you can check it out there as well :D

I'll comment on this with some extra trivia ^^

Now you can listen to it https://flat.io/score/5d0ead9c37302a0967e66b59-i-dont-know-where-im-going-but-im-gay?sharingKey=f5eeae90e688d2a8f2966ab6db6dc2b0ce1e6a97af53883eb899bfc9d3bc1292b6e5f2fe9db4a64117eed79856429cc140f999bd9ede677c905114dbf55d1de9

FamiTracker http://famitracker.com/

Did some pretty awesome stuff with it. I love how the limitation of basic wavelengths and limited tracks really force you to be creative with your sounds.( Also if the snes ever makes a comeback l have my songs ready :p)

Org maker http://www.cavestory.org/pixels-works/org-maker.php

A tool the creator of Cave Story created to make the Cave Story soundtrack Really easy to use and has lots of great sounds

I used the free program FamiTracker.

I also used a template of an already-made arrangement by some guy on youtube. His arrangment already had specific instruments, the basic form, and drum samples that I used to make this track.

His file of the arrangement is in the video description

I would point them at Tracktion 6, that one's actually free, or Reaper which is essentially free until you decide to do the right thing and pay the very modest price.

I think he mentioned it, but anyway, software is the https://www.tracktion.com

This is one of the few DAWs that work well on Linux. Now they ported it to work on RPi architecture. And considering a claim of 30+ tracks on such low-end hardware seems like they did it properly (with required optimizations).

Are you all recording in the same room? If so you will need an interface or mixer as well as ensuring you get xlr mics rather than USB. Unless your recording environment is really good, I'd recommend getting dynamic mics rather than condensers. I don't think audacity can handle multiple inputs either so you'll want a different editor/DAW. I'd recommend Sonar. It's a full professional DAW and it has recently been reduced for free by its new developers.

https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

Most people seem to be using FL Studio or Ableton Live, but I've been using Sonar for a while, and really like it. Also, it's free now. I've not used the free version, but it's got to be worth a download (assuming you're on Windows anyway, there isn't a Mac version).

That's your DAW, the software environment you work in. You'll also need VST instruments to make sounds from your MIDI arrangements. You mention your broke, so a nice option might be getting into soundfonts. You can find players and tons of vaporwave sounding soundfonts for free online. You'll be pretty much good to go.

Yeah, good luck! This is a really nice hobby to get into. : )

Start at ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/ and watch every single video that’s there.
Then, typing "Ableton Live for Beginners" into YouTube search bar reveals hundreds of useful videos. Your pick.
If you’ll come across any technical issues, contact Ableton or your interface support.
For at least a year avoid posting questions in forums. There’s answer to any of your questions already somewhere. Most likely right in the manual.

Disclaimer: I use FL Studio so anything I say about Ableton is based on this and random things I've heard about it from other artists.

FL Studio Fruity edition has painfully limited sample editing capabilities compared to Ableton Intro. In my opinion this is by far the biggest pitfall of this software.

Ableton Intro has somewhat limited synthesis and effects libraries compared to FL Studio Fruity edition.

Ableton Intro has a painfully low cap on number of audio and MIDI tracks (16) compared to FL Studio Fruity edition (500, more if they add more in a free update). In my opinion this is by far the biggest pitfall of this software.

My personal advice to either save up a little and go with FL Studio Producer edition ($199, excellent), or as you suggested Logic ($199, excellent), or save up a lot and go with Ableton Live Suite ($749, excellent). All of these options in my opinion have more "bang for buck" even though they're more expensive.

If you can't do this, I would go with Fl Studio Fruity edition or find a different DAW. Honestly I wouldn't recommend either entry-level version for music production.

Whichever way you go, if you're missing out on some bundled software you can find a huge list of alternatives here.

Someone else correct me if there's a better budget DAW option.

This shit is exepensive I'm afraid! There's always going to be a pretty high initial cost just to get a basic setup going. I've not used the JD-Xi myself, but it seems like Roland have made is specifically with the beginner in mind, and I'm pretty sure that it is the absolute cheapest way available right now to get started with synths. If it's all getting a bit pricey though then it might be best for you to take the software route. There are countless free software synths and effects out there which are as good if not better than the real deal in some cases, all you're really missing out on is the hands-on programming that you get with hardware. If you want to get started in software all you need is a DAW (you can pick up Live 9 Intro for about £50) and a midi controller, although that isn't strictly necessary as you can just sequence the synths in the DAW. That should give you a good taste of things, and if you like it you can start blowing vast amounts of cash on synths later on like the rest of us :p Most people start out this way so maybe that's the best thing to do for now... and I'm sure we'll see you in the vintage synth thread in 6 months!

Intro is great for starting out. You aren't limiting to basic workflow stuff except for the number of tracks. See here for the complete feature comparison - https://www.ableton.com/en/live/feature-comparison/
Yes, you can use the same purchase for the later-date installation. No, you will not need to purchase a second license. I purchased Ableton Live 9 awhile back, installed it on my Windows and Macbook. Both work perfectly.

Based on your description, it really sounds to me like the microphone is broken. It was working fine and now it isn't. If nothing else changed in between those events, that's the most likely issue. But, we can test some more. I noted in another comment you're using Audacity to capture audio. Download Reaper (http://reaper.fm) and record a track from your Yeti into that, see if the problem follows the microphone or if the problem stays within Audacity. And if you have access to another computer, I'd move the Yeti to there and test again using another machine. If the problem follows the microphone no matter which software or computer you are using, then that will probably confirm a hardware issue with the mic itself.

<strong>Reaper</strong>. Demo is actually full versions, no limitations, lasts forever, has all the features of a DAW and then more. Basically you can use it for free. It's only 60$ to get a license.

The only thing missing are samples and instruments. See this post for all kinds of free stuff to fill that gape.

All DAW are equally hard to learn. It's a complex software, but they're all about as hard/easy to learn. Having video tutorial makes it easier to learn. Reaper have a lots of them, directly listed on the official website.

You'd normally use VST instead of soundfonts. Soundfonts itself is pretty outdated, and the alternative now are sfz. You'll see that many sfz are listed in the linked post. If you really want a soundfont, a good general one is "Timbre of Heaven".

You can get started right away with all of that without spending anything :)

We have to do this methodically. There are lots of things happening and we want to eliminate possibilities. I have a lot of ideas about what could be going wrong but I'm trying to not send you on wild goose chases. So let's see if input is the problem first.

Okay, your interface wears more than one hat so you need to look for it under both Audio > Device and Audio > MIDI Devices for the specific role it will be playing (it can play more than 1 role at a time).

It might be faster if you try to follow along the official set-up video here: http://reaper.fm/videos.php#Hh04XZqFsic

It would really help to see a screenshot of Prefs > Audio > Device but make sure your inputs are enabled and cover the range you are using (note first and last). Do the same for outputs.

If you close the preferences window, you should see in the upper-right corner of Reaper information about your interface. Namely, the sample rate, bit-depth, latency, and system. If that shows up without errors then you're on the right track.

Create a new track. Set the input to the analog input your guitar is plugged into. Make sure record monitoring is on. You should be able to see the meters move on the track panel and mixer panel when you play the guitar. If you aren't getting sound at this point, then we can narrow the problem down to output.

Yes, you want to create an automation envelope, most likely bound to the "wet/dry" control of your reverb. Refer to the Manual page 353 for automation envelope information. http://dlz.reaper.fm/userguide/ReaperUserGuide540c.pdf

And particularly page 370 for automating FX parameters.

If videos are more your style then look here: http://reaper.fm/videos.php You want the Automation section and the Parameter modulation sub-section.

The documentation of Reaper's Jesusonic scripting language is available here: http://reaper.fm/sdk/js/js.php

What the plugin actually does is very straightforward. If you can't understand it by reading the code then nothing I can say will make you understand it any better because the code is literally exactly what it does. It's a soft-clipper/saturator. It uses a soft clipping curve based on a sine function. That's it, and that's what the code says.