making beatz?
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True and if he can't get the hang of FL, then he probably won't get the hang of an MPC + other hardware units. FL is retarded easy to use, yet very flexible and effective if you know what the fuck your doing. If your just fiddling with the built-in sounds and synths, then obviously you just fucking up. Find yourself some good quality sounds (especially percussion), and good plugins for synth sounds & acoustic sounds like guitars, piano, etc... The ones built-in FL are just too cheap sounding, I think their there just for the fact that the program will be empty if they weren't and just to get you started with how things work like tutorial reasons and what not. I say strip the fuck out of the program of all the wack shit and put in your own quality stuff.
An MPC is nothing more then a sampling drum machine with a midi sequencer in it. If you get a workstation, you get all that plus a keyboard and synth engine. The ASR10 is sample-based so no synth engine but there's tons of soundsets you can get for it and it's easy to hell to learn to use.
You can get plenty of good cheap boards if you buy used... I think an MPC+keyboard is a waste of money these days but you gotta decide what's right for you.
You can get plenty of good cheap boards if you buy used... I think an MPC+keyboard is a waste of money these days but you gotta decide what's right for you.
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I got some friends of mine that ain't got shit and use fruity loops and make beats that's ill as fuck. Honestly it's all in your cranium, I mean if you sit down and say hey I'm going to make a platinum track and you keep that state of mind, 99% -100% your going to have something good with just mouse and PC. On the other hand if I was you I would get a top shelf MIDI controller such as - http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UF60/ and a copy of reason 4 - http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Reason4/ . As far as sounds theres sound's out the ass top quality shit on the net for free or little to nothing, I'm talking you can get all the "Moog Shit, Virus Shit, Roland Shit etc and with the click of the button load them all into reason. No cables at all "BOOM" you got the vintage shit all there in refills. You can do anything dawg I mean I can use thor is reason 4 and make any sick ass Leads, Basses, Synths I want and people I do the track for is like "WOW" where the fuck did that come from. And with the power or "Rewire" shit it's limitless. But thinking you cant do shit with just FL and a PC is just well not using your "Cranium" lol. Hope that helps ya!!!
I got some friends of mine that ain't got shit and use fruity loops and make beats that's ill as fuck. Honestly it's all in your cranium, I mean if you sit down and say hey I'm going to make a platinum track and you keep that state of mind, 99% -100% your going to have something good with just mouse and PC. On the other hand if I was you I would get a top shelf MIDI controller such as - http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UF60/ and a copy of reason 4 - http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Reason4/ . As far as sounds theres sound's out the ass top quality shit on the net for free or little to nothing, I'm talking you can get all the "Moog Shit, Virus Shit, Roland Shit etc and with the click of the button load them all into reason. No cables at all "BOOM" you got the vintage shit all there in refills. You can do anything dawg I mean I can use thor is reason 4 and make any sick ass Leads, Basses, Synths I want and people I do the track for is like "WOW" where the fuck did that come from. And with the power or "Rewire" shit it's limitless. But thinking you cant do shit with just FL and a PC is just well not using your "Cranium" lol. Hope that helps ya!!!
Ok Heres How It Works
The easy way to do it is use the redrum my personal favorite for patterns etc. Click the small box in the redrum that looks likes a small folder and browse to your sample folder or refill your wanting to use. After that you basically just do that until the redrum is filled up with your samples your wanting to use to create your patterns. Now it gets more advanced when you use the pattern sequencer at the bottom of the redrum "The small white buttons" instead of the main sequencer to draw patterns. The reason for this is because say you want a certain pattern at the start of a song and switch at the first verse then back again that's where switching patterns in the main sequencer comes in kinda like automation. That's just the start of redrum dawg it's just so deep and can make hardware sick when used correctly. If I was you I would learn reason 4 very well and spend all that cash on a bomb ass MIDI controller, reason, vintage refills and big fish audio samples - http://bigfishaudio.com/ the best in the industry dawg. After that your all set to hit the business!!!
The easy way to do it is use the redrum my personal favorite for patterns etc. Click the small box in the redrum that looks likes a small folder and browse to your sample folder or refill your wanting to use. After that you basically just do that until the redrum is filled up with your samples your wanting to use to create your patterns. Now it gets more advanced when you use the pattern sequencer at the bottom of the redrum "The small white buttons" instead of the main sequencer to draw patterns. The reason for this is because say you want a certain pattern at the start of a song and switch at the first verse then back again that's where switching patterns in the main sequencer comes in kinda like automation. That's just the start of redrum dawg it's just so deep and can make hardware sick when used correctly. If I was you I would learn reason 4 very well and spend all that cash on a bomb ass MIDI controller, reason, vintage refills and big fish audio samples - http://bigfishaudio.com/ the best in the industry dawg. After that your all set to hit the business!!!
Now some of the plugins like sytrus and simsynth. I gots shitz loads of soundfonts and and all of the major producer drumkits. But the key is the mixer. If you use the mixer correctly, you can modify even the basic kits that come with FL studio and make them boom clap boom boom boom clap. Some of my beats have 70+ patterns by the time I'm done with them.
get a fantom or a motif keyboard, there both great with great sounds. ull be spending almost 2k on either of them, and both already have sequencers and samplers so u dont need an MPC for anything, only reason u would want one would be if u had both keyboards, and wanted 2 sequence with sounds from both keyboards. If 2k sounds like too much to you, get reason 3 or 4, those are both great and they are easy to learn and shit on fruity loops.
