QUICK help in finding FREE techno maker/mixer

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I just want a good techno maker/mixer to foodle around with. :)

Rep to the one who can find the best one that is FREE

But also add if you have any experience in making techno music and what you think of it all...etc etc.
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Maybe I should be more specific

Not shareware
Not demo-based
Fully functional

Those seem really cool...but those are just mixers.

I want techno MAKERS/mixers...
 
I dont think I have ever found anything thats worth using for free. I make music all the time, but I use Reason 3 a £300 package with plenty of refills at about £20 to £60 each I use 6 of these, I used to use Frooty Loops but I progressed beyond the capabilities of this programme.

For simple but very nice mixing I use Mixmiester, quite a handy bit of kit, or Sony Sound Forge 8.

you could look at this software Audacity Its works well and is free.
 
Delirious Adria
I just want a good techno maker/mixer to foodle around with. :)

Rep to the one who can find the best one that is FREE

But also add if you have any experience in making techno music and what you think of it all...etc etc.
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For a minute I thought you were talking about a RL mixer! :sly: I was gonna say anything Heath and Allen if your pockets are deep, else Vestax. 👍

Have you tried Music 2002 for pc? Its a good place to start if your not too technically minded when it comes to music, and you should be able to pick it up pretty cheap nowadays. I used to use music 2000 (an older version) for the PS1, and managed to create some rather nifty tunes. 👍

BTW What sort of techno are you trying to make? Who or what are your inspirations? I personally don't know too much about techno, trance is my thing. If your interested in listening to a good trance radio sation, tune into ETN, or Rise FM. 👍
 
I use Audacity all the time, its a great tool to edit music. I've used it to make custom Mix CD's. And what's best is that it's free!
 
Are sure about what you said of Fruity loops? I've seen people put out some serious music with it. Why don't you get yourself a microphone to go with it?
 
Keichi Tsuchiya
Are sure about what you said of Fruity loops? I've seen people put out some serious music with it. Why don't you get yourself a microphone to go with it?
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Frooty Loops is ok for beginers, but if you seriously want you music to sound really good, and I mean to the point of being Film score standard of audio quality then you need a better package, Frooty Loops is good for learning on too as its easy to use.

If you are looking at making profesional music, the say no to Frooty Loops and go for:

  • Reason
  • Logic
  • Pro Tools
  • Cubase

those tools are industry standard stuff, and really expensive to boot unfortunatly, but you get what you pay for. I dont use vocals to I have no need for a Microphone.
 
sprite
Frooty Loops is ok for beginers, but if you seriously want you music to sound really good, and I mean to the point of being Film score standard of audio quality then you need a better package, Frooty Loops is good for learning on too as its easy to use.

If you are looking at making profesional music, the say no to Frooty Loops and go for:

  • Reason
  • Logic
  • Pro Tools
  • Cubase

those tools are industry standard stuff, and really expensive to boot unfortunatly, but you get what you pay for. I dont use vocals to I have no need for a Microphone.
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Cool. I get what you're saying, but I doubt that he wants to do things like that.
 
I used to use Cubase, but at the start of this year I switched to a little known software called EnergyXT. In many ways it's more powerful than Cubase (particularly it's routing and automation), but it doesn't have as much studio integration yet, such as support for Mackie Control etc., though I can use it as a plugin inside Cubase if I need features of both. In many ways, Cubase has a quite archaic approach to things, which doesn't naturally inspire you to be creative, but is familiar for old engineers.

Not sure I'd recommend either for beginners though, I think it'd be hard for a newcomer to grasp them, especially EnergyXT.

Perhaps controversial, but I don't think the 'big 4' (Logic, Cubase, Sonar and Pro Tools) are necessarily the best tools. If you ever get a studio job, you'll be expected to be familiar with at least one of the above (for me thats Cubase, and I've dabbled briefly with Pro Tools), but for a home environment, many of the features which make them costly are simply not needed.

FL Studio (Fruity Loops) was mentioned above. I know several producers who've released tracks made using this (and other soft studio's, such as Orion, Reason and Project5), but I think it's workflow and environment make it more suited to dance orientated stuff. I too, could not imagine doing a film score with it though.

As for 'freeware', whilst not strictly counting, do Mackie still offer that NFR version of Tracktion? That's probably the best free package I can think of. Theres also early versions of Reaper which are free and has been getting good press, though I don't know much about it.
 
Im currently using fruityloops (fl studio), i find that the trick to using such a program is to constantly be searching for more VSTplugins, as this is where your music will truly excel. The ability to have a larger range of sounds and synths provides a good basis for progression.

Im try to get out dancing and raving on a regular basis, but it all depends on my cashflow.. If you find yourself up late at night with headphones on, with a basic "4 to tha floor" looping over and over, whilst trowling for melbourne shuffle videos on youtube... you should probably be making tek. (i do this err.. only sometimes :lol:)

Heres a link to my first release trance song, it was created with fl studio, before i expanded my VST's.
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=131130

Nothing is free, Delirious Adria, download a trial version of fruityloops, reason, cakewalk, or others metioned above. Give it a go and make an "educated" :sly: decision of where to go from there.
 

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