ohh no im not saying dont try before you buy! im just saying that for a fresh 100% newcomer it will be hard to pick between different DAWs. i mean someone above said that they started with reason but they found it had a shite EQ etc, im never gonna notice that if im new to production, even if i demo it.paravrais wrote:Yeah course they are all gonna seem scary but you will be able to recognise what kind of workflow they each offer and try out the in built effects/synths when you demo them. Personally I wouldn't spend £300 on anything I hadn't already tried to make sure I got on well with it.snick01 wrote:i agree with everything paravais says apart from the above. in theory this is good advice, but tbh if you are just starting out you wont be able to do anything in any of them so they will all seem as scary as each other! it will be impossible to decide between imo. pick one thats affordable, commonly used, covered regularly in magazines and you should learn that one inside out. if any of your friends are into production too, maybe get the same DAW as them so they can help you/help each other.paravrais wrote: DAW <<< Obviously you can't make any music without it so this is essential, I would recommend downloading the DEMO versions of as many as you possibly can before buying anything. Understand that you won't really be able to do anything in any of them at first but there should be one or two you 'click' with more than the others, that's the one you wanna shell out the cash for.
just my opinion of course! good luck with it all, dont expect to be pro in 6 months!
Personally I can't work with FL, it gets right on my tits, something about it's workflow just totally rubs me the wrong way. Imagine how screwed I'd have been if I'd bought it without demoing it just because I heard lots of people talking good about it on here or something.
Same goes for synths too, imo everyone should have a goliath of a synth that they turn to for their bread and butter synth needs but far too many people just go and buy massive because they hear datsik fanboys talking about it without actually researching it themselves. Maybe a lot of those people, if they had done the proper research, would have ended up with Alchemy or FM8 or Zebra or Circle etc etc
Always try before you buy.
I dunno, it is a tricky one, i picked FL Studio purely because it was the first thing i heard of. in fact, thats a lie, after music 2000 for the PS1, i got a copy of Magix music maker! then after about a month of hammering that, i realised that there must be something more, thats where FL came to my rescue haha.
