Well I have been listening to music for a fair while now and I have decided that i want to try my hand tune making (i.e. techno). Now I have reason 2.5 and I am not willing to go out and buy a $1000 bucks worth of equip just to find out its not my thing. So how do I get into the whole techno making biz w/o having to put a substantial amount of money into it?



ps. tutorials of any kind would be very helpful.

Right on - go for it!! :D



Now that you have Reason, all you need is a keyboard with midi ports and a set of midi cables to access and help you utilize the sounds in the Reason sound bank.



The keyboard doesn't have to be anything fancy (mine is a Yamaha PSR500 and I got it about 15 years ago - that keyboard and Reason is all I've used to create music). And the keyboard doesn't even need to be full sized. You can pick up a cheap one just about anywhere and most if not all of them nowadays have midi ports on the back.



You're 2/3 of the way there without blowing a wad of cash - get yourself a modest keyboard and go to town!

yeh def man - within reason u basically got a music studio but a software version, people make great tracks on it.



try the evolution range of keyboards, there pretty cool or if u want portable the oxygen 8 is class - fully usb as well :)

allright im fairly sure i can get ahold of a keyboard but i have no idea how to use reason i have played around with it a little but for some reason i can only use the sampler track and cant get access to all the sounds on the other 2 cds.



i tried looking at the reason help and google reason tutorial and didint find much.Do you know were i might find some tutorials on it?

Check out www.computermusic.co.uk for some tutorials, though most assume basic Reason comprehension and ability and deal with version 3.0 (though most of the advice still holds).



Other sites to check are www.combinatorhq.com, www.propellerheads.se, www.reasonstation.net.



I've got 3.0 but it's on a computer I don't currently use and I never learned very much myself thus I can't offer personal advice at this point.

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yeh def man - within reason u basically got a music studio but a software version, people make great tracks on it.



try the evolution range of keyboards, there pretty cool or if u want portable the oxygen 8 is class - fully usb as well :)

You mean that's recommandable? Ok i'll try that on my new hell machine i bought some weeks ago . . . Can you tell me about the features as an experienced user?