I have bought a PC & need the name of a good music program to make/create music with? Can anyone help?

Question

Need some sort of creative music program so i can use it on my PC to work on my music etc......

Thank you

Answer 1

Propellerheads Reason, anything by Native Instruments. Be sure you have ASIO drivers available for your soundcard.

Answer 2

The software you buy is dependent on what kind of music you want to make and how professional you want the result to be. I will guide you toward the more professional stuff.

If you are looking record the playing of your own instrument and subsequently manioulate it with echoes, EQ, filters, etc, I recommend SONY SOUND FORGE. Get the full edition from a music specialty store like Guitar Center rather than the $100 pakcage from Best Buy or Circuit. The program also allows you to cut and paste portions of music together. This is ONE TRACK editing.

LEt's say you are going to record yourself playing guitar AND drums and want to mix them together. A good program for this is SONY ACID. Again invest in the full/professional version rather than the scaled down version. This program allows you to paste multiple tracks/channels and adjust volumes to appropriate levels. You can also set envelopes if you want a track to temporarily fade and come back. You can also adjust pitch without adjusting key.

SONY ACID is also used for loop editing. You can purchase myriad CDs separately that are loaded with pre-recorded instrumentation designed to be pasted together into one orchestration. This is a method commonly used to create a lot of hip-hop music or music with repetitive beats and rhythms and sampling.

CAKEWALK SONAR combines the abilities of both the previously mentioned softwares into one suite. It work very well with keyboard/synth to create tracks.

Any of the software you purchase will only be as good as the sound card hardware on which it relies.

Answer 3

To begin with -- you could download and install". Limewire".
Not only can you download music off this program, but movies as well.
Also setup your computer with a good "firewall", and "virus" program--- before you use this program.
Be careful on what you download onto your computer ---- for you might ,with-out knowing , download a "bad guy"(virus/trojan horse/tracking cookies) along with that song/movie,etc. This is very possible , so always maintain tight security, on what you allow in.

Answer 4

Check on http://www.download.com and you can find Free programs along with try before you buy programs. That way you can look at all of the different types that are out there and see which one best suits your set up and your needs.

Answer 5

I have found that adobe audition works well as a multitrack editor and is great for editing wave files. I also use fruityloops, pro tracks plus and absynth.

Answer 6

Windows media player

Answer 7

Cubase is still pretty good.

Answer 8

i have adobe audition.. pretty good

Answer 9

dunno