Your favorite Music making software?

[Commotion]

This is just personally opinionated, for those of you who make little sound tracks, which software do you like the most and why, and which one would you think is easy for others to learn and get the hang of it?

 

[tearsofthenight]

Famitracker love messing with chiptunes!

 

[Bloodmorphed]

I like Fruity Loops the best. But I also dig Caustic.

 

[Commotion]

I personally was thinking of getting FL studios (since i have pc) but it looks so complicated, and I have no experience in music industry   

 

[ThatMaestroGuy]

Nah...FL Studio is certainly the easiest thing I've ever tried using. It looks intimidating at first (as most new programs do), but look up a basic tutorial or two on youtube, and you'll be pretty much set to go. Good luck! =D

 

[Simon D. Aelsi]

Nah...FL Studio is certainly the easiest thing I've ever tried using. It looks intimidating at first (as most new programs do), but look up a basic tutorial or two on youtube, and you'll be pretty much set to go. Good luck! =D

Keep in mind that ANYTHING is easy when you already know how to do it. ;D

As for me personally, Finale (Until my various trial runs expired) and FL Studio. ALL my music I've made was made in FL Studio.

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to Program and Utility Discussion (where this topic has been brought up several times already). Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[deilin]

I use a mix of Sibellius and Music Creator (Cakewalk) for music, beyond my vocaloids,

Sibellius is really exspensive, and a resource eater, but it does a lot, has a large library built in. While you have to mix volume in other software, Sibellius responds to music markings like ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, fff, sf<, <, >, and even ds/dc al coda/fine.

Both program allow music creation 'one note input.' Since I'm not a great keyboard player, the manual input leads to less notation errors for me.

I'm not realy a sequencer fan, though the vocaloids are that format.

 

[Ms Littlefish]

Finale. Works perfectly for me. Interface is a giant piece of sheet music. Aw, yis. That is my language. And the various symbols and markings can have a lot of controls mapped to them. Perfect. Samples work in Finale as well and respond to these controls. 

I don't really have a favorite DAW; I sort of use whatever. I've used Reaper and I've used LMMS. They seem fine for me and I haven't really hit a wall with them yet.

 

[LostFonDrive]

FL Studio is the only answer. It's damn good.

 

[cybrim]

$60.00- Sony's Acid Music Studio. ****/***** Worth it!

             It is very easy to use. You get 1 free sound pack when you buy it, you can adjust pitch for every instance of every sound by clicking + or - when you have the sound selected. You can shorten & extend each sound by click dragging the edges. You can drag sounds directly into existing channels or drag beneath them to create new channels. You can export directly as .ogg, .wav, .mp3 and a few others. For complex users go buy a MAC, for those without time/patience/comprehension this is perfect.

Free- Audacity. *****/***** Mandatory!

          Completely free & somewhat complex, very adjustable. the help file tells you where to get the "Export as .mp3" format utiltiy.

Free (+Premium)- Soundation Studio (www.soundation.com/studio) ****/***** Completely worth it!

                             I am talking about the free version, the premium has a lot of amazing features, but I do not subscribe as it relies solely on the internet & I don't trust internet companies with how long the legal contracts are, but this website has many free sounds to combine and each audio channel is adjustable, you don't have to sign up for anything to use the free version.

I don't use many other utilities for music and sound effects the others are long gone from memory, these keep me happy.

 

[orlando]

removed

 

[txtk]

I used to download a bunch of music software to my computer. I uninstalled them over time. After all these years, only 2 left: Anvil Studio and Audacity. They are easy and simple to use. Very userfriendly. Audacity is great for mixing, cutting and combining music files. The cons of Audacity is it doesn't works well with Midi file.

 

[taarna23]

The cons of Audacity is it doesn't works well with Midi file.

Well, that would be because midi files aren't actually music - they're just sets of instructions. Proper handling of midi to any other format is to use an editor capable of exporting to wav, or playing and capturing the audio.

 

[EnMod]

Zynewave Podium is my go-to.  Great VST/VSTi host and DAW, with support for a ton of options, while remaining relatively simple to use.  Pricing is very good too, you pay a one-time cost of $50 that comes with a year of free updates which are extended if the dev feels he is slowing down too much on developing the software.  Multiyear update periods result in cheaper costs.

Check it out here, you can grab a demo to try it out: http://zynewave.com/podium

 

[AnthroMP]

I use a mixture of LMMS and FL studio.

 

[Rukiri]

I can't say I'm "good" at making music, but like FL-Studio's interface especially version 12!

 

[EBroxas72]

I like to use a mix of Beepbox *http://www.beepbox.co/* which is a chiptune software that you can use in your browser.


Audacity. And I've made cool music in Audiosanuna But that soft ware is driving me Nuts.Think it has NO undo or redo buttons anyware. so I am looking for something more usable so that is why I am in this treed


seeing what you guys like to use so I can see where I can get some Awesome software with a undo button.

 

[kaukusaki]

i still use magix music studio 2004, band in a box 2004 and ms music producer. It still works on win7 64 bit so woot. if i don't feel like pulling out the big boys, i crank out my midis with anvil and refashion them to other formats with audacity. i like to keep it simple.

 

[Phonantiphon]

I used to use Reaper, but now I use Caustic on my tablet, as that can export to .OGG format, and then I use Audacity.


I've got a copy of Cubase LE for if I want to make "real" instrument music, but I tend to keep it simple nowadays...