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as soon as i can afford it: mac with logic studio 8, have used it for a while and it was love at first sight!
never worked with pro tools though but hoping to try it out in the near future..AdSense 336x280Okay I do mostly house music, electro house actually, but my aim is to really do jackin’ / wonky / fidget / electro junk / underground house music. But I also do normal band-type stuff, except I do it all myself…
Anyhow, the software packs I mainly use are:
FL STUDIO PRODUCER EDITION
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I always try and stay up to date with the versions. I’ve been using FL since Fruity Loops Pro v1.7 (and I still have it can you believe it), then at version 4 it changed to FL Studio. I’m currently mostly using version 6.8, although I have version 7 and 8. I have many VSTi’s and VST plug-ins. Among my favourites are Poizone 2, Fruity Sytrus, NI Massive, V-Station, AlphaCM, ZebraCM, Virtual Acoustic Guitar and Virtual Electric Guitar.
One little thing I have trouble obtaining though are proper, decent samples for doing the house music…although recently I just went back to cutting samples from original songs, modifying them a little bit and adding them to my collection. Still, there is just something about songs where you can tell when they were produced in FL Studio. Then again, after proper mastering your songs can sound amazingly different and original. I also make click-tracks in FL Studio if I need them.
In conclusion anyway, FL Studio just stays my main producing package because I know it so well and because I simply dig it. And thank God for plugins, don’t we just love ’em.WAVELAB 4 or 5
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I use wavelab when I typically EDIT a remix into existence via the montage feature. I also use wavelab when I cut samples from loops or songs, then tweak them a bit. I use to use wavelab to also do the half-assed master, but lately I do that directly in FL Studio where each channel/sampler/track’s attributes are at my fingertips…or mouse pointer for that matter. I’ve never tried Cool Edit, nor when it changed to Adobe Audition. When I started out on this type of thing Wavelab was right there, so that’s what I used.CUBASE SX
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I have had Cubase SX for a few years now but never really PROPERLY tried it. Also, I was always under the impression that you cannot snap pieces to grid or to some form of beat/tempo, and that it would be hard work to line parts up the way you’d want them. Obviously I was wrong. Some of my friends here in South Africa are top DJs and just the other night I was hangin out with one of them at the New Year’s party at TRUTH nightclub, where the next morning we went to his house and he gave me some pointers on Cubase SX3. Needless to say when I really saw how he was going about it I realised that I was under the wrong impression regarding Cubase. Shortly after I also obtained Cubase SX3 and starting playing around with it. VST instruments are added to your project much differently than as on FL Studio as you can imagine, and as the cake I sometimes am I struggled for a while to figure it out (manuals are sometimes alien to me, lol). Anyway, once I figured it out, I deleted what I was busy with and totally restarted a new project, my first official project I’ve ever done in Cubase SX3…I will post a link to the full song at the end of this post, hehe. We are all here to learn and help out so feedback would be appreciated if any of you actually go and check it out people.
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It was just a first, and I didn’t do any final special finishes/touch-ups/effecting on it though…you’re warned.ATOMIX VIRTUAL DJ
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This is quite cool software. I am not a DJ at all, but I can imagine that hardware DJ equipment should be a bit easier than DJing on VDJ because you can use both your hands and you’d be quicker than on VDJ where you have to click to go to the mixer or the FX etc. I’ve got version 3.x and version 5.x but still use 3, and this is only when I am in the mood to mess around… I don’t spend alot of time on VDJ. But I did check out some prices on the actual CD equipment for DJing recently because it IS a bug that has kinda bitten me. :p Plus I figured it would help to know both sides of the story – producing and DJing.That’s it folks! Yikes, didn’t mean to type so much… And it’s difficult to see what you’re typing with such a small little textbox… 😉
Here’s the link to my first Cubase SX3 song, hehe. Feedback would be great people. Thanks in advance.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cuo188
-=~~=-AdSense 336x280Cubase4 as i can take accapellas & chop them up then time stretch them in the arrange window using 3 or 4 audio tracks ( track 1 for adjusted vocal,track 2 for weird FX, track 3 differnt FX, track 4 just to hold the imported vocal)Also once you have imported into cubase your mp3 becomes a wav so you can then stick it in a sampler or Phatmatic pro which is ment for beats but also instantly slices vocal into adjustable bits for playing.
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AdSense 336x280I mainly use Reason 4 to lay down the beats, Wavelab for cutting samples and T-Racks for mastering. Used Cubase 3 at college but saving to get Cubase 5 soon
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