What is the best electronic-music-creation software in the 50-80$ price range.(preferably with a very large built-in bank of sounds)

Reason i like it but i dunno the price outside of uni here its about �190.

lol, that converts to round 300$ here which is a bit out of my price range

actually more like 350$

just save up and get the best you can, why bother fucking about with something cheap thats going to limit you later on.

fruity loops is in that range.



www.fruityloops.com



oh ya. marvo ging is the best song on the new album.

Get an M-Audio Audiophile soundcard, it comes with Reason and Ableton Live cut-down versions for free!



The soundcard is �60, but I think it's $60 over there coz stuff is cheaper

Cutdown versions come with next to no included sonds, Acid 2.0 came with my comp but not a single sound included, plus i think my sound card is better than that any way.

What sound card have you got????

The Audiophile is amazing!!



It is true that they don't come with a huge amount of sounds, but Reason has a subtractive synth!!! Make your own god damn sounds!

i have like an 80$ Turtle Beach. Say... what kind of sounds can this subtractive syth make(what is it?)?

Chemicalfan! was that ur 1000th post?

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What kind of music do you want to make? Loop based or everything original? A good program for loops is ACID Pro 5. Reason is just the best thing there is on the market but it's expensive and as a newbie you need to have a lot of spare time to 'get it'.

Reason is so much fun to play with. After a short while I found it very intuitive, actually. But yeah, you're right. There are so many possibilities within the program, it's like an archelogical dig, it can take a while to figure everything out.



I saw a brochure for Reason 3.0 and *that's* gonna be awesome!

http://www.kvraudio.com/

It was my 1000th post! Kick ass!



FlamingDead, I haven't heard of a Turtle Beach, I'll look later, but I'm assuming the fact I haven't heard of it means that it's not industry standard in the pro audio world. The Audiophile is, so that's why I suggested it.



A subtractive synth, is the same as most other synths. Other great sub-synths were the Roland SH-101, the Minimoog, the Oberheim Xpander, the list is endless! Basically, if you want an artificial synth sound (as in, not an accurate recreation of say, a string sound or a brass sound), like most of the sounds the Chems make, you want a subtractive synth.



Download SimSynth 1.0, it's free, and you can use it on it's own. That will give you an idea of how subtractive synthesis sounds and how it works.

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What kind of music do you want to make? Loop based or everything original? A good program for loops is ACID Pro 5. Reason is just the best thing there is on the market but it's expensive and as a newbie you need to have a lot of spare time to 'get it'.

The thing is about downloading it off bit torrent is that its illegal!



Therefore if you get a problem with something you have downloaded for free you wont get any support from the manufacters, thats why people who buy it like me have registered with propellerheads to get free support and upgrades!

Try checking out Buzz:



www.buzzmachines.com



Once you get your head around the editor, it's a great program (completely free too). James Holden even makes tunes with it!

I used to have a very complex hardware septup (revolving around an MPC 200XL for sequencing and a yamaha AW4416 for digital recording and mixing) but I just moved to software (running on a powerbook). I have a M audio Firewire 410 soundcard (well, it's more of an audio/midi interface) which is just "above" the audiophile (the audiophile is fine if you don not plan on sequencing external harware or mixing on an outboard desk), and you've got reason adapted and live adapted with it.



I haven't tried the live thingie yet, but reason adapted is complete enough to start building simple tracks. of course there are a lot of limitation, but if you are just beginning it will probably be sufficient for you. Yes, there ain't to many sound, but i xouldn't describe it as "next to nothing", and if you can work your way around the sound design, you'll be able to create you own sounds, which is far more interesting.



As far as I'm concerned, I do not even use Reason because I happen to own (I mean I actually PAYED for it...) Logic Express 7, which is a great software. I think the Brothers use Logic (probably the Pro verison too... but express is just as efficient, and waaay cheaper)



I got it for about 200 Euros (that's US$200 to US$240, or around �130) off the apple store, but it's more like 300 Euros in music stores (greedy people!)



I strongly advise you to get a USB midi keyboard unless you want to do some wuantised rigid minimalist crap. Evolution, Edirol, M Audio make some cheap ones.



Keep it up, And let us know if you write some cool tunes.

I got the MIDI keyboard and cables :D