![]() (I'm looking for software in this area too because I haven't found anything without its drawbacks yet.) If you are able, I would first and foremost suggest doing it by hand. However, if you're composing music intended to be played with actual instruments, here is my advice. If you want to do electronic music, I can't help you because I have no experience in that area. This actually depends on what you're looking for. Good Paid DAWs: (extremely expensive) Cubase Reaper Logic FL Studio Ableton Live This is disorganised, but it should help (a bit). Ignite especially would be good for beginners, although it only comes with keyboards, and i don't think it can be used without one. Useful idea: buying midi keyboards often comes with good software free- i have an Alesis Vortex Wireless ketar controller, it came with Air Music Tech Ignite and Ableton Live 9- both of which are brilliant. it is a notator- for producing classical notation as midi data. use soundfonts for acoustic instruments you don’t have. more: visit kvr audio leaderboards for more vsts. ![]() VST Plugins (paid- extremely expensive): Visit the Native Instruments website. It is worth starting with a lot of VSTs and cutting them down once you find ones you don't like much. VST Plugins (free): Best must have's: Synth1 Tone2 firebird DSK techsynth pro Piano one Orchestral strings one also: mda effects collection visit the odo synth OneDrive page and get everything. Note on DAWs- expect to spend at least a year getting good with your chosen DAW and finding a good set of VST plugins that make the sounds that you want and need. Very good, i have it but i can't use it to save my life. Meant to be quite good famitracker- first ever open source tracker to emulate the first soundchips. OpenMPT- uses a tracker system, as opposed to a nice accessible piano roll. something acid-related is free though, but i've heard it isn't great. Ardour- not for windows Acid express- no idea. Garageband- useful as sketch software, or as a full on DAW. Demo limitations- you can save, but not open again afterwards. A piece of DAW software (Digital Audio Workstation) A collection of VST Synthesizers (VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology- you get lots of good free ones, look on the LMMS website for some good links to start you off) A collection of VST effects Also would be good: Previous knowledge of a real instrument Soundfonts (usually free) Kontakt player (free) some nice headphones A midi keyboard (google them- you can often find good ones relatively cheap) some notator software (musescore) DAW Software (free): LMMS- free equivalent to FL Studio FL Studio Demo- Brilliant Daw, my favourite, is brilliant for most genres including soundtrack, minimalism, orchestral rock, electronic, dubstep, and basically anything else possibly apart from pop, rock, metal jazz and blues). If you haven't already, go research it and get some. Hi, as an experienced musician and user of this stuff, i should be able to make a good list (should as in ‘if i can’t i've not only failed people here i've failed miserably myself) Stuff you'll need: Sound recording software (Audacity) Music theory knowledge.
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