How do I do anything?

[JoeMorrisNG]

I have no idea how to even start any audio thing. What's the best one to use? How do I use *something*? What do I do? Everything from start to finish = No f*cking idea

[Mich]

Not another one...

Anyway. I hope you're willing to read a bit.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/2584 21

That should help you get started.

[Khuskan]

Without trying to be incredibly blunt, if you've got absolutely no idea where to start, you're probably not going to be able to get into music production very easily. Best thing for you would be to get the Fruityloops demo and look at some tutorials to see how well you do before investing in equipment and software.

[karlkoolkid1999b]

ill give you the koolkarl tutorial

1- download fl http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents /download.html
2- once installed new > new from template > whatever type of song you want to make
3- you will be given some default instruments, can add more by going in Packs> Choose ur instrument > insert track
4- you make squares where you want a beat for drums and u should bring uppaino roll 4 the ones u wanna change pitch
5- I probly 4got stuff so hers some more resources:

ask ninjakoopa
use this topic : http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/2538 82/115

[Mich]

How can you give advice when you just started a day ago, and were even too lazy to watch a vide about the basics? Please, don't bother giving advice in audio if you have no clue what you're talking about.

[vanguard182]

lol i thought he did pretty good

[karlkoolkid1999b]

At 5/21/09 01:16 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 5/21/09 10:44 AM, MICHhimself wrote: How can you give advice when you just started a day ago, and were even too lazy to watch a vide about the basics? Please, don't bother giving advice in audio if you have no clue what you're talking about.

Seconded. You ought to be banned already for your trolling antics and giving honest noobs shitty advice.

its good simple advice. if ican learn in 1 day with that, hell be making sick beats like me in no time!

[Mich]

At 5/21/09 05:56 PM, karlkoolkid1999b wrote: its good simple advice. if ican learn in 1 day with that, hell be making sick beats like me in no time!

What are these sick beats you speak of? Or do you mean beats that make you sick?

[karlkoolkid1999b]

At 5/21/09 06:03 PM, MICHhimself wrote:

At 5/21/09 05:56 PM, karlkoolkid1999b wrote: its good simple advice. if ican learn in 1 day with that, hell be making sick beats like me in no time!

What are these sick beats you speak of? Or do you mean beats that make you sick?

my song im making and the one i submitted is aight

[kristofori]

Lol, I'm new as a user to NG, but not to audio. This thread just made me laugh xD

How do you do anything in audio? How did you learn to walk? Learning audio is kind of like that, except once you learn to walk you have to learn to run, jump, kick, punch, and basically eventually be ninja and fly.

I think I'm about at the point where I'm learning to run up a wall and do a back flip... metaphorically of course.

But I started on Fruity Loops, I'm now on a ProTools LE 8 rig. I think FL is a great way to get into MIDI, but from what I can tell by reading these forums so far make sure you have the faintest idea of what the crap you're doing by taking some basic music theory lessons or else you'll probably get rejected by the audio nazis.

That is all.

[sumguy720]

I started waay back with Garage band 5 when my school was handing out free laptops that the state bought us. As far as I'm concerned, Garage band is a great place to start if you have no idea what to do. Most people can just pick it up and go with it, and if you spend some time exploring, it can be relatively powerful because of the built in, midi-like editor.
If you don't have a Macintosh, you might be tempted to go for a program like mixcraft, but it doesn't provide for the growth that garage band does. Instead, I'd go for the trial of Guitar pro. It's only for making midis, but it's really good for learning how different notes can work together, timing, and other basic composition skills.
Personally FL studio was too overwhelming for me to start out with, and it's always good to be able to save your work to an editable format, which you can't do with a trial of FL.
I'm not the best audio artist on newgrounds by far, but that's how I started. You've really got to practice though. I've been at it for maybe four years and I feel like my music has finally crossed the threshold from 'butterscotch, yo!' to 'I'm gettin' down to this!'

[vanguard182]

i really really like the name of this thread

[iCrashednebula]

At 5/21/09 08:02 PM, vanguard182 wrote: i really really like the name of this thread

It made me laugh quite hard when i saw it

[BigRed]

Well, to be a true musician you've got to start with trombone lessons. All musicians know how to play the trombone.

[karlkoolkid1999b]

At 5/21/09 08:56 PM, tingtonger wrote: Well, to be a true musician you've got to start with trombone lessons. All musicians know how to play the trombone.

lies, i dont

[ninjakoopa-33]

At 5/21/09 08:56 PM, tingtonger wrote: Well, to be a true musician you've got to start with trombone lessons. All musicians know how to play the trombone.

No no. You are mistaken. To be a true musician, you gotta know how to play the trumpet! I'm sure sorohanro would agree here! :P

[karlkoolkid1999b]

to be a true musican u gotta be able to rap

[Kaizerwolf]

Not to be a thorn in anyone's side, but koolkarl, you need to shut the hell up. You are of NO help to this topic what-so-ever. And, im aqssuming that the one-post accounts made today and yesterday are both alts by someone.

I say, /thread. The OP hasnt posted again.

And, koolkarl, what "sick beats" do you speak of? I dont see/hear any.

[kristofori]

At 5/21/09 10:19 PM, Kaizerwolf wrote: im aqssuming that the one-post accounts made today and yesterday are both alts by someone.

If you were referring to me, I assure you I'm real, I promise. I don't have any other account. I'm waiting for my first track to be approved so I can upload more of my commercial music on here. I'm also working with a flash animator on here for their next project. I was going to help him with the power of three contest going on but since I'm new and the programmer doesn't have a trophy that ain't happening any more.

So I thought I'd just start posting to replies in the audio forum. :) No harm done, right?

[Kaizerwolf]

That's very good, but we dont need to hear about that in this topic.

/thread. That means end.

[Gorgorothx]

At 5/21/09 09:00 PM, karlkoolkid1999b wrote: to be a true musican u gotta be able to rap

Sorry Kaizer, but I just have to throw in my two cents and say that this ^^^ statement is utterly false. False in so many ways I can't even begin to describe.

[Kaizerwolf]

Yes, i have to agree. I wanted to put that in my previous post, but i forgot. Thanks. :)

Now, we can /thread.

[HaltSounds]

Well, heres my 2 cents.

What I've been told by professionals like zircon. Go try out demos of different DAWs, FL, REAPER(Cheap non-commercial license, and powerful)

Look around to see if Cubase, Sonar, Logic, have demos. Reason does not. Find out whats best for your workflow, it will be much easier to have a DAW you work best in. So go out and find it.

FL was the only demo I tried, and I work great in it. Bought the Producers Edt after a few months, and love its free updates for life I get :D

[Zeviron]

but....Jools Holland is such a god musician, and he most defiantly can't rap...

[HaltSounds]

At 5/22/09 08:37 AM, HaltSounds wrote: What I've been told by professionals like zircon. Go try out demos of different DAWs, FL, REAPER(Cheap non-commercial license, and powerful)

Look around to see if Cubase, Sonar, Logic, have demos. Reason does not. Find out whats best for

I take that back, REASON does have a demo.. on another note, can you edit your posts?

[Gorgorothx]

At 5/23/09 12:03 AM, HaltSounds wrote: I take that back, REASON does have a demo.. on another note, can you edit your posts?

No, you cannot. And please for the love of all things good and true, let this thread die.