First I wanted to safe for a Roland frx1 piano accordion. Than I thought about an alternative and got myself a keyboard. I still have a mixer and monitors. I just need to buy little equipment like microphone and cables. As software I use something free. I chose “reaper”. What is your experience, are music studio complex and complicated ? How long will I take to learn to use it ?
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The keyboard I ordered just doesn’t seem to get delivered. A Roland E-X10 keyboard. I got a laptop, mixer and monitors. All I need are a microphone and connection cables. I think I will use cakewalk as music software cause it’s free and good for beginners.
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Reaper is really good but the learning curve is like getting hit in the head with a brick. Tonnes of quality YouTube tutorials for it. It’s Old Skool as DAWs go if I remember right. I like FL Studio a lot more, it’s what I use.
The Roland is sweet, I hope it arrives. I’ve got some older M-Audios but they’re doing great.
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The keyboard still haven’t arrived yet. I ordered it on good friday eastertime. It’s frustrating. Sometimes parcels come too early or too late.
The keyboard looks cool. I looked it up on Sweetwater and I can imagine it will be a lot of fun.
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Yes, the keys are touch sensitive which gives a better expression of the music. I considered a hammerkey keyboard but I was too costly. The cables to connect it all, the mixer, monitors, microphone are costly. I was hoping I could buy it from the payment coming up, but I have to wait another two weeks. Wish we would get paid monthly to make bigger purchases from the pay. The fortnightly payment forces me to save for bigger purchases and I am not good in saving.
Try the Demo fully first. Reaper has a tough UI but is a poor man’s alternative. I liked Presonus Studio one for newbies, after trying the Demo. Bottom line is Native Instruments, and IK Multimedia are excellent plug in bundles. Esp. T-Racks.
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Cables multiply on their own when you leave them in a box in a cupboard. They are also an expense that you can never really get back by selling on. Good thing most audio cables are the same connectors largely since the 1970s. My advice would be keep things simple. I see some YouTubers setups that look like the console of the space shuttle. You will appreciate it when you get older or come back to something you did 6 months ago.
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I’m not even using cables now. All in the DAW.
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The keyboard I ordered on good friday (Easter) still hasn’t arrived yet. I done the tracking and it’s at our airport for 5 days now. There is no number I could call.
Sounds very good. Making music is very therapeutic.
Hopefully your keyboard turns up.
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Music is food for the soul. Yes, it’s awesome when you push the keys and get a tune out
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My keyboared arrive on wednesday. Its exatly what i expected. All good, buttons and keys. Just didn;t came with the midicable. Anyway, next step is to get a microphone and stand plus the connection cables. Till i save the money up for that i have plenty of time to practise. I want to publish my music here on the musicproduction thread.
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