I am willing to start producing electronic music, wich program do you use?
and how you started to make your first tracks?
Best DAWs and Which One I Use
Good question, I have actually transitioned from FL studio 20 to Ableton Live 10 recently (those are DAWs/programs). For the very best daw for both composing and performing live in overall features along with efficiency of use, i would definitely recommend at least the standard or suite version of Ableton, which comes at the price of $449 and i think around $700-$800 respectively, although there is the intro version i think its called.
thats the best of the best honestly, but if the price is too high or if youre not planning on starting a full music career, but rather just composing as a hobby or whatnot, then it depends on how many features you want, what operating system you have, and a little on what genre of music you're planning on composing.
i have already done research on this a while back to see what to start out with. I have heard good things about logic pro although its only for mac/apple computer users, but from memory i think it was around the $100-$300 range, and definitely worth it.
other than that i would recommend fl studio sort of, although IMO the equivalent version of ableton for each version of fl studio is better (like the basic version of ableton is better than fl studios basic version). Fl studio is popular amongst hip hop artists though i think, and has a nice piano roll (the tab where you make a pattern of notes of different notes/keys), but isnt the best for live performancesThe Propeller head Reason DAW is also a bit less popular but an excellent pick, along with Pro Tools.
The Process/Parts of Making Tracks and Kinda How I Started
Then comes how to start with making tracks, or at least how i did it:
first you... well wait actually it depends on what daw you’re using because each daw has mainly a different interface, and so creating tracks is different on each... but what i CAN say is that I started with watching tutorials for my specific daw, back at the beginning of my time with fl studio. To be concise and helpful with some parts of daws though:
For creating/getting sounds: create sounds (sounds or loops/patterns really) with the Vst generator plugins that come with the daw, get new sound generating synths, or get or buy samples online or use the ones that come with your daw.
Next for actually using sounds: put the stuff you now have into (whats typically called) the playlist, or the place where you arrange all the sounds/loops/patterns keeping in mind the tempo of the sound/loop/pattern along with the key and musical scale its in, and making sure all sounds’ tempos, keys, and scales match at an individual part of the track
Then for editing sounds: use the other type of plugins or VSTs, effect plugins, to apply effects to the sounds, like reverb, delay, equalization or filtering, compression, limiting, sidechaining, literally increasing the F***ing amplitude/volume, literally F***ing slapping a SOUNDGOODIZER on the sound if your lazy... and much more, but for now id say those are the most important except for the last 2.
And finally, for another important step: mixing and mastering to make the audio quality better and the audio itself more punchy, stand out, and have a better overall feel. Im not gonna go too too in depth on this one for now though.
Final Note
thats just about all i thought i would cover, although there is more to it, and well this is like the outline of it all, as it doesn't include any specifics really. I really hope this helped, and just contact me on this page or anywhere really for any more help, of course i would be willing to answer any questions you or anyone might have
