Electronica Idea!

[howtokillamonster]

Hello fellow newgrounders,
Obviously this topic is about electronica music, i am not asking if you enjoy it, nor am i asking you anything about it really... i have an idea and i want to know if it will work.

recently i just bought my new laptop, it's a toshiba (the newer model).
i want to know of a program to download that will make some good electronica beats very easily...
i have fruityloops already, but if there is any better ones (that are free) then please tell me.

back to my idea, well obviously fruityloops is a midi intergrated program, you make your beats through a midi sequence. my thought is that if i make a beat (with my mouse, as i do not own a midi keyboard), and then i plug a microphone into the laptop, and run my laptop through performance speakers, will i get the sound of my beats through the speakers, and is it possible to while the beats are playing and the microphone is plugged into the laptop, could i start the vocoder, and synth and run my vocals through it while singing to make my voice vocoded?

thank you very much!

*remember i am also looking for a [b]better[/b] program, so if you know of one, please post it!

[DragonsGrief]

You won't get the best possible sound quality from a laptop.

And FL studio isn't as MIDI dependable as Reason or Cubase. It's the best you can get, since you obviously don't plan on doing anything more complicated than a drum beat and vox, just use the demo.

[Khuskan]

At 5/4/08 03:21 PM, howtokillamonster wrote: back to my idea, well obviously fruityloops is a midi intergrated program, you make your beats through a midi sequence. my thought is that if i make a beat (with my mouse, as i do not own a midi keyboard), and then i plug a microphone into the laptop, and run my laptop through performance speakers, will i get the sound of my beats through the speakers, and is it possible to while the beats are playing and the microphone is plugged into the laptop, could i start the vocoder, and synth and run my vocals through it while singing to make my voice vocoded?

Short answer: No
Long answer: Sort of yes but still mostly a no anyway
You can do a live vocoder using Rewurshel (part of Asio4All) and Reason 3 or 4, however to get it to work effectively you would need to have the following:

-A very fast processor - At least a dual core
-A quality microphone with a low gain to reduce feedback, plugged into a fast audio input device
-A midi controller to give some playing ability
-Anything other than laptop speakers.

Even then, you're still going to be getting at least 2ms of latency between saying things into your microphone and them coming out the speakers, which can be very off-putting. Also, Asio4All uses up so much processor power, you are unlikely to be able to use the same computer for playing backing audio.

[ericdrebin]

Yeah, I've tried doing what you wanna do, and it sounds like crap.