I'm trying to get myself into the "learning phase" of how to make music. I checked out the guide on this forum, read reviews of different types of hardware, and I thought I was ready to get started, but I'm not.
Ultimately I landed on getting an Arturia MiniLab as a sort of entry point for music composition though I wasn't fully aware of what I'd be limited to doing. It comes with the Analog Lab software which has 5000 really high quality sounds on it which was its big selling point to me as well as some recordings I had heard.
But the problem is that I can't, or at least I don't think, I can record a song with just this. It seems the purpose of the keyboard and analog lab is just to give you a huge sound bank, and an input method with a way of modifying those sounds with ease.
So what I'm asking is what do I need to go with this? How do I get started?
Do I need an additional recording program? Also, do I need additional hardware to record background beats and rhythm? In youtube videos I keep seeing boxes next to people's keyboards that they can hit buttons on to play pre-recorded beats.
