Best music making software?

[Prez]

I'm wanting to get into making music, and I'm wondering what the best software is. Right now, I'm looking at Magix, but I don't know if it's the best one to use.

 

Anyone have experience with making music? What do you use?

[Barber]

Audacity.

[Metal]

I'm going to say two things.

 

1. Vocaloid.

2. I forget the name of it but my friend has been using it for years now.

Something called beatbox or something.

 

I'll try to find out.

[ColdWar]

do you mean programming pretty much everything, or are you wanting to record yourself playing a guitar or keyboard and vocals?

 

there might be better software if you are programming synths and such, but for mixing guitar tracks and such, i use Sony Acid Music Studio. They make a cheap version ($50) and then one thats a few hundred bucks. i have the cheaper one and it works out perfect for doing what i do. id recommend starting out with a cheap or Lite version of some software, and when you start getting really good at it, buy something with a big more plugins and post-processing features.

 

I know a lot of people use Audacity like barber mentioned. Ableton Live is another pretty good one that i have a little experience with, but for now im going to stick with sony acid music studio. the industry standard is Pro Tools. I know there are different version of that, cheap to really expensive, but I dont have any experience there.

 

if you want, i can take a screenshot of what acid studio looks like and i can briefly explain some of the things about it?

[Dirty Sanchez]

What exactly are you wanting to do? I've used FL studio and loved it.

[Chobber]

Ableton Live 8.

[Mad Dogg]

I recomend FL studio.

http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents/whatsnew.html

You can realy make music with it.

And you can find so many tutos about it from youtube.

[AndreiD]

Ableton, Logic or Cubase, the others are just a waste of time.

FL studio is okay for beginners.

[b0red]

My friend made some sick beats with Ableton.

[floffypus]

ye. Fl studio 9 is the best i have tried.

 

Here is a track me and a friend made in Fl Studio 9 5zSOOEoCDT0