there is definitely one thing that can define wether ornot the music will be good, that is definitely the person using it. it doesn't make a difference what you are using, if you are creative and work hard your music will shine regardless. having better equiptment and software is always nice but i k...

personally, i take each track in steps of progression and bus them out seperately as wav files and then normalize them in sound forge. i'll pick pieces of tracks to play on different channels and just drag and drop, layer effects and go nuts. it's actually a riot man and will give you alot of new id...

i definitely agree, as a software base producer i have started to appreciate the value of recording effects and synths leaving imperfections and not quantizing everything to 16ths. a natural feel in a stongly sequenced track can give alot more depth and believability to a track. -see you soon Tom :w...

what a great topic for discussion, seriously this should be an excersize for everyone. if you can read how other ppl find ways to express their musical thoughts the best producers can learn from the begginers and vice versa. -I treat all of my sampling and writing as seperate entities. when sampling...

there really is something to be said for each program named so far. my suggestion is, if you have access to all of these programs, get them all. i use reason 3.0 (wich is a great improvement from 2.5) for alot of my patterns. however, getting caught in loop mode is a hard thing to break out of with ...

and by the way pheek, you are the man your releases have had my head spinning for the last few months

thanks fellas, i'll try to dl some updates and when i get a minute i'll check and see if i blew the firewire port.

i recently purchased a new sony vaio and an m audio firewire 410. i loaded the drivers and hooked everything up and it was working perfectly, as of last night i cannot get the computer to acknowledge my firewire input, i've unhooked it and rehooked it and restarted it many times. if any of you compu...