i'd suggest picking one synth in any of those software packages and learn it for a month or two and then make a decision.

and yeah, if you need hardware i'd personally reccomend getting analog sources and not VA's

Bro, what about buying an issue of CM ( Computer Music Magazine ) ??? I buy the odd issue here and there, and juggle between that, FM and Music Tech mag, depending on what samples are advertised on the cover DVD. Thing is, the CM mag has a huge array of free ( well sort of free - in that they are e...

i skimmed that link.

nikola tesla was a supporter of pythagoras. there's alot of interesting literature from that time period with lots of weird musical code embedded into the text, reason being it was outlawed, pythagoras was running most of the time

hydrogen wrote:If this is really the case we are all fucked because for years we have been listening to tunes at different pitch because we like to match our beats.

yeah but the relative intervals of the music won't change from pitching up and down

music has progressively gotten sharper over the years. in the 80's they used like 434 for middle A i use pythagorean intervals almost exclusively. it's not secret, it's the perfect fifth 3:2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tuning it's not a simple as moving up in steps, check the maths wher...

try reducing the kick 3db to start before eqing heavily.

mp3 is perfectly fine for referencing the spectral balance of a track.

kind of an odd question. have you not considered buying a track you like off beatport and using it?

steevio wrote: if you carefully construct your instrument with intelligent design, then composition is acheived the same way it always has been, by being in the moment with sound.

intelligence