Music Composing Software

chriskey88 · Post by **chriskey88** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:14 am

can someone please tell me the best Music Making software. using Instruments sounds.
Thanks .........

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Hysteric · Post by **Hysteric** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:04 am

I'm allergic. Having said that I've always used cakewalk so for me one of the cheaper versions would be my advice, sorry I have to go, I think I'm going to sneeze again.the wisecracks dont work without the picture of the flowers that showed up in songs.

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firubbi · Post by **firubbi** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:21 am

sonar or sx with scope hardware is the best.
sonar works great with scope hardware and what to tell you about scope... its the best and right choice who really don't want any pain with pc stuffs.. go ahead ... buy any one of scope with sonar or sx and rock'n

thanks

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:51 am

Some days ago I bought cubase sl 3.1 after working many years with VST 3.5 up to 5.1.
After tweaking my new sl it works great with Scope and there is a good tutorial included for beginners. So, if you don't need surround and some other features included in sx, sl would be a good choice ...

Good luck, Thomas

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:41 pm

for dj play and making easy "mix" tapes, ableton live gets full push for being reasonably priced, and is exremely streamlined for its purpose. Pretty cheap too.

SX for full featured productions. Logic/Cakewalk are same type of products, but SX seemingly has the broadest userbase. Ranks on the expensive side tho.

Reason is a good package for a affordable, and comprehensive package that'll get you started with electro style music quickly. Great for beginners, with a strong userbase.

Aside from these "mainstream" options, there are alternative options:

Macky tracktion, is a cheap package that has a distinctive interface that you may love, or hate. It is very easy to use, but does not come with much. I've done some large scale commercial projects on it tho. (installation soundtrack, many soundtracks for 2005 Aichi EXPO, 2 demos for a vocalist, and a soundtrack for a DVD cleaner lol) I just used tracktion to host kontakt 1.5 for a rush of summer projects on my powerbook, while I was away from my PC. I doubt many people use tracktion for such demanding tasks.. I was on the verge of stopping my use because of some bugs... but hopefully they've been fixed in newer versions.
my story here:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 4&forum=31

Orion, is also one of the rising underdogs, maybe pretty mainstream by now. It comes with a bunch of stuff, which I'm not sure is useful or not. Anyhow, it's like a mix of tracker and a normal sequencer. It is heavily pattern based (because it's like tracker), and looks great for electronic music. Wouldn't recommend it for "play MIDI live and quantize later" type music. Recommended for music that make you think of knobs.

and there were a couple of free ones that seemed like it could cut the cake, but I still haven't had the time to test in a real life situation.

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Daniel Mart · Post by **Daniel Mart** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:48 am

Try using FlexiMusic Composer is a multi-track program for composing, editing and mixing of
music using sampled instrument sounds. It is also available for free download. It is very
easy to use.

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flips · Post by **flips** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:01 pm

I tested Cubase, Tracktion, Logic and Ableton Live. I ended up using Ableton Live, and I haven't regretted yet. If you have lots of external MIDI devices and such, they say Logic or Cubase is better, but I don't know ... Live is easy to use, and excellent on realtime pitching of samples and such.