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Windows 7 is $100, about the same as your DAW budget. Spend $100 on Windows 7, then use REAPER (which is free indefinitely until you want to sell your music). Dude FL isn't anywhere near what it was a decade ago. X_X Just go look at some pictures. It wasn't even a DAW. Check it out:

Guitar Rig 5 Pro is great, especially with the new amp models that make high gain tones much easier to create without the horrible ear-bleeding zinglezabby of "too digital".

Your $100 is better spent on a proper operating system. BUT I'm not a 100% douchebag (more in the 80 range) so I can recommend you (for MIDI composition) to get FL Studio Fruity Edition (which is also 35% off this month), which will give you all the MIDI composition tools you'll need, without the more expensive features of producer edition. Producer includes audio recording, wav editing, and audip clip/samples editing/insertion. If you want to work a lot with MIDI, don't do REAPER. Please. (Unless you want to save the money, which is fine.)

:banghead: A Digital Audio Workstation by definition: FL Studio's grand piano sample has nothing to do with its ability as a DAW. You need to understand what you're asking so we can understand what you're asking. Are you looking for the virtual instruments or the software you use to write for them?

This is basically what I said a few pages ago.

You guys do realize that they're not infringing only on the remixers, but on the composers for the OST? This situation isn't at all different from if the remixers themselves sold the songs. What I'm saying is we should notify the OST composers as well.

Or maybe the fact that it's so much faster and allows for 32GB on the recent motherboards? AMD Bulldozer couldn't even beat Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge will run way more efficiently than SB with lower power consumption as well.

rI can recommend my guitar, the Ibanez RG3EXFM1. It's a discontinued Ibanez you can get for $150-$200 (reg. is $350). Fantastic build quality, low action, great pickups and it stays in tune (it's hardtail too). I got this guitar back in November, and I've developed more guitar skill in the past 2 months than I have in the prior 2 years because this guitar plays so comfortably and correctly. Let's just say I didn't develop much skill at all prior to this guitar. I got this axe for $130. The same price as a cheap quality First Act toys r us guitar which I bought NEW. Never buy a new guitar, it's a waste of money. :/

Dude wtf are you on it was totally the Byzantine Templars

Get some 8GB sticks, yo. Also, always go Intel. AMD Bulldozer just doesn't measure up to Sandy Bridge in processing power, plus Ivy Bridge is right around the corner at more power and heat efficient and the same price. Never compare processors by their GHz speeds or their listed specs. Always look up benchmarks.

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There was a mario 64 Got Milk commercial.

HD 280s are closed design, AKG k240s are semi-open. Some people tell me semi-open are better.

Very well then. You are incorrect, it does hold back your musical development.

Being good at music doesn't mean you're not being held back.

MIDI's a crutch. I only use it to transcribe solo's when I'm too lazy. But I don't really remix lazily unless it's for a competition. So yeah, only every half year in the Mega Man compo's do I do it. The rest of the time? All ears. Been doing it for years, I didn't even know you could read MIDI's until a couple years after I started.

That's just Romney.

Music is only for the rich!

License gives you no DVD's.

I would so jump on this, but I haz no money. I used to have money then I took a massive studio shopping spree to the knee.

Marxism rules supreme.

ASIO bypasses Windows.

This is bad practice to develop as a composer. I mean, for maybe really fast sections, but if you can't figure out the most simple passages in songs, MIDI files won't help you (won't help develop skill, they'll obviously help tell you the notes for the song). You should practice doing things by ear. Hum the melody (yes, hum it) out loud really slowly. At the first note, keep humming that note until you click all the keys in the piano roll from C to the next C. When you find the matching note, move on to the next. A great shortcut in this process is to learn intervals. I haven't had formal training in theory, so I'm going to leave someone else to answer how to do that. But basically if you know your intervals and you know what note you started at you can get a good idea on what the next one will be. Or, eventually down the line you can just recognize note patterns that composers like to use and put them down without going through each note. @OP: It's not "poor taste", a lot of people do it, but doing things by ear helps you so much more as a composer.

$1000 to the guy who can incorporate ALL THE THINGS and have it not sound like a medley.