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Last weekend I was at my friends dorm and he had garage band set-up on his mac with some wobbles and some bitcrusher effects and he had his keyboard hooked up via USB and man was it sick. I am currently attempting to make it on my PC with FL Studios 9 but it's the first time I have messed with anything but a guitar. There are sooo many effects and knobs and options I have absolutely no clue what it going on. Does anyone know of a good way to learn or even a place to begin. It is so confusing I am completely lost!

Even watching tutorials I am totally lost, I will perhaps have to watch a LOT of the very beginner videos on using the software. I've watched a few but I have barely even scratched the surface on understanding the program. Are there any simpler programs out there to start on?

Those effects and knobs are there to be turned mate! Just open up a project and mess with stuff, pay attention to what each knob and effect does to your sound. The only way to really learn is by experimenting. Also creeping DSF.

As far as beginner videos, I'm subscribed to this guy and he's wicked: http://www.youtube.com/user/ste1438

1. Read the production bible.
2. Youtube tuts
3. Muck about with stuff in FL.
4. Repeat

aureliu5 wrote: 1. Read the production bible.

elemento1991 wrote: Are there any simpler programs out there to start on?

I've been producing for 2 years and still don't undestand FL. Different people's minds work in different ways so you gotta find the software that will suit you best. *Personally* I use Ableton and Reason, both of which I think are quite user friendly. Especially reason as it's so all inclusive and everything flows really nicely. Try the demos of them and if neither of them clicks with you either then just go through all the big names, reaper, renoise, studio one, sonar, cubase, logic (if your on a mac) etc etc

Eventually you will find one that suits you well, my advice is look at reason first and take things from there.

Reason. People will hate on it all of the time... whatever. I'll never tell anyone that they should be working reason exclusive once they're getting comfortable with producing and their workflow (unless they wanna be, in which case fuck ya), but I'll pretty much ALWAYS recommend it to start with.

I agree, def start out using reason it will help alot.

Welcome to Dubstepforum.com!

The production bible can be found at ---> http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=159713

Lots of useful info, particularly the bit in the synthesis section about basic synthesiser controls.

Another useful thread is the one that lists all the common music production effects.

Patrick

OP my advice would be to try them all. In my case FL worked well for me. Idk things just click easy and its not hard for me to modify a certain parameter to get a certain sound. I'm just not big on the automation. I tried Reason but couldn't get my head around it... same with reaper as well. Its all about finding what you're comfortable with. You're not gonna learn this stuff in a day, week, or even a month so finding something that seems relatively easy for you to use is essential. All DAW(Digital Audio Workstation)'s essentially work the same and no daw has a better sound than another.

I would encourage you to make your mind a sponge and soak up everything you can from tutorials, articles, forums, youtube videos etc. One day everything will click and you can put out a banging tune

the best way is to just slowly start using everything and figuring it out for yourself. eventually you will remember what everything does and how to do it. when you have a specific question search it online and you can usually find it. also doesnt help to look up tutorials for certain things your trying to do to give you some insight.