Music Programs

[T_ed89]

I use Midi maker, it's really easy and the trialversion doesn't limit the user from using anything in the program. After been opening the program for 50 times you can't use it again....

...but there is nothing that stops you from saving the midifiles on your computer and then download the program again...  :

[Damien]

You could try Sound Club For Windows. It has it's own instrument bank, supports mod formats and you can import your own recordings in it, too. Unfortunatly, I think there is no mp3 support, but luckilly, there are a lot of free wav to mp3 (or ogg) converters out there.


T_ed89: Your avatar is a 959x598px size bmp resized to 60x60px. That makes it 1.6mb which is pretty unneccessary. Here, have a smaller (60x60px, 4kb) version so the Dial-uppers don't suffer too much:



And the link to the image:

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/DrunkyDuck/Help/molieux.png

[cheeba]

To be fair to the 'cubase sucks - fl studio rocks' guy, fl's definitely one of the more user-friendly ones. Provided you can click a few buttons and use a piano roll (don't be daunted, new people, it's really very easy to learn), you can get some great results. And due to it's heavy use of samples and softsynths, mixed down tracks come straight out of the prog sounding great, without having to worry too much about mastering afterwards.

I do find it a complete nightmare for overdubbing live instruments and vocals though, that's where sonar usually comes in

(EDIT: 'this post was automatically edited for "txt-style" spelling'. Oh, the shame )

[ManicMatt]

*Thinks out loud*

I suppose I found it so difficult to get to grips with Fruity loops because I was so used to a different music program that does things almost entirely differently, and requires a different way of thinking. It was like how I imagine someone who has learnt to drive cars with only automatic gears would feel if they tried out a manual.