Music Programs for Electronic music.Need suggestions

I am looking for good electronic music programs.What do you people suggest?
So far I ve tried Fruityu Loops but I couldnt get accustomed to it.The tutorial didnt help much and the sounds arent that good.It also takes too much of the CPU.
I ve been told that Reason is one of the greatest but its too expensive to buy.It worths more than $400 :eek:
Tried to "steal" it from p2p programs but there is still a long way to go since I am using a 56k modem and its 1.2 GB .

Any other recommendations?

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Get a job and buy \' Reason\', you bum.

lol Thanks for the help

I use Cubase and Sound Forge with a Ensoniq ASR-X sampler/re-sampler.


Pretty much all you need. Don\'t listen to all the dorks at guitar center. You only really need one program for sequencing, and one program for editing.

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Or you could be creative and just whistle.
Gee, bet that never occured to you. did it? DORK!

Hmmm cubase.A friend of  mine gave me Cubase.He didnt know how to get it to work.I couldnt either.The thing doesnt write any notes

Do you know where I can get tutorials on it?

Btw:I found out about Reason in a forum about electronic music..I did a search and found the official site.It seems many people see it as the best program available.Even a member of the Prodigy band thinks its the best(or probably an effort to creat some hype).I downloaded some samples to see what it can do and I must say.This is one powerful program.

Ofcourse nothing beats playing on a good synthesizer.

I d be glad to hear recomendations about good synthesizers as well .I might find a job soon and collect some money to get one.

Unicron,
you might wanna visit OTS

OTS labs

I use their Ots CD scratch 1200 ; virtual turntable software and it\'s free and only about 1.3 mb  :cool:  Scratch along your fav tunes !

They have other nice audio software too.

Thanks.Cool programs.I am definitely going to try them out.
Although I prefer creating from scratch

Originally posted by Unicron!
Hmmm cubase.A friend of  mine gave me Cubase.He didnt know how to get it to work.I couldnt either.The thing doesnt write any notes

Thats cause Cubase doesnt write notes, it plays them. You need to be using something WITH Cubase, like a synth or a sample or something.


Cubase is a sequencing program, you tell it what your useing to make the sounds, or where the sounds are, and it plays them in the song where you tell it to.

Do a Google search for Cubase tutorials, you should be able to find something. Although there have been many, thick books written on how to use Cubase.

It\'s a super powerful program.

You mean I have to connect something to my computer which will give input to the Cubase to play?

Yeah pretty much. Basically Cubase doesnt really make sounds, it just plays the sounds from an outside source.

The outside source can be anything, from a synth you have running into your PC through MIDI to a drum loop sample you have on your computer.

oooooohh now I get it

without INPUT, no OUTPUT !  

I thought my keyboard and mouse was enough input

OK here. Reason, is by far one of the best quality programs you could use. If you dont want that (or to fork up all the cash) Fruityloops (newest version is 4.something i forgot). It takes a while to learn how to use it properly and to get quality out of your music. I use that the most.

Id be more than happy to post my music but alas we cant load them up here and i dont know how the hell to have them hosted on a website. Whatever you do, dont get Acid Pro if you want to make ORIGINAL music. All you do there is take sliced sounds and organize them into your own thing.

As for other tools etc. Sound forge is ok, you might want a beat slicer (cant think of the name) because some of the programs dont come with them. Uhmmm.... i know i have more but i dont remember them all. Cakewalk used to be really popular but i havent heard much about the new ones if there are in fact new ones.

Any other questions that need detail you can pm me. I remember talking about this sort of thing a long time ago but nobody knew much so it just bombed.

EDIT: ok i didnt see that you tried Fruityloops but seriously you just have to learn. The sounds may sound shitty but you just have to learn how to work them into perfection. They keep them unrefined so that you can do more of your own touches.