help on making electronica trippy music

[ondesMartenot]

hello. i am very interested in making electronic rock music . i am looking into a microkorg for the synths and wicked sounds. but what about the beat and rythms?

software beat generators like the emu or fruityloops could be manipulated thru the computer and midi keys. would i be able to use the microkorg as a midi controller with electronic beat making softwares? but these softwares cost a bomb.

i would only want to use a multitrack software sequencer arranger/recorder Cubase , cakewalk sonar or albeton live to arrange the recorded music ive created.

would using the hardware route like making use of a hardware sampler to make beats be better for my preferences in terms of cost?

please do offer me some ideas to make a right decision on buying the correct equipment for me to get started on my sonic quest to make trippy beat music like thom yorke's the eraser and portishead's dreamy ambient samples and beats.

peace.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

imho, only

microkorg can be used as a midi keyboard indeed. I tried it with ableton live to play around with the vsti patch inside. But its a bit wasteful to use as midi controller thou. I was using it for a while coz no money to get a real midi controller.

Anyway, within abletone live, already got lotsa thing to play with, from ambient sounding effect to trippy beat, just need to play around with the midi programming thingy in it.

a midi controller be useful, then find as many vsti/vst stuff available, thru the computer with the program you mentioned, you can do lotsa sound with it

 

[widdly]

Don't bother with a hardware sampler as they are pretty much obsolete. The VSTi samplers are miles ahead in sound and usability.

Check out shortcircuit, it's a free software sampler that will beat just about any hardware sampler out there.

There are some much cheaper options than cubase, fruity loops or abletone. Check out can Reaper and Energy XT. These will let you run synthesizers, make beats and do arrangements.

If you want to get into making really strange sounds and don't want to spend too much money then checkout plogue bidule, puredata and audiomulch. Thom Yorke uses a lot of Max/MSP and you can do the same thing for free with puredata. Four tet recorded his first album using nothing but Audiomulch and a soundblaster live. These are all pretty heavy programs to learn though.

Oh yeah and you should check out Foorius, it's the greatest VSTi ever made.

 

[utano]

for electronic music you can try the all in one propellerhead reason 4.
check it out at www.propellerheads.se