Getting Started.

[steelrunner]

C.T. Steelrunner here,

I'm a fresh musician, play guitar, piano, etc.

Now, I wanna start a recording studio so I can start writing remixes and my own music.

I'm just wondering what you veteran musician's use to record/write your music.

Especially software, and equipment.

Any help would be apprectiated so I can begin my music journey

[Zephyr]

We appreciate your enthusiasm and your view of us as veteran musicians, but we can help you a lot better if you research it a little on your own, and then come to us with a more structured question.

Some of the more common Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)are:

Reason

FL Studio (PC Only)

Cubase

Sonar

Logic (Mac Only)

Try out the demos and try to find one that suits your workstyle.

A good DAW can often be all that you need to get started as far as software goes.

[DarkeSword]

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=29

Please check out our Guides and Tutorials forums.

[Yoozer]

Since this topic might be locked until further notice (e.g. you finished reading the sticky topics), specify a budget. "Cheap" or "not too expensive" does not qualify - give us a hard number of dollars, euros or pounds.

[KaelitioN]

It's going to depend on whether you'll be recording live instruments or using softsynths or a combination of both , and what you're budget is. Everyone is different and you need to do alot of research for yourself first , but it's always a good idea to start with an audio interface that can playback and record 24bit-96000hz with good ASIO driver support , then a USB/MIDI keyboard to control softsynths , plus a DAW to record to and play the softsynths from ( the most affordable and easy to use DAWs right now are FL Studio and Reaper I think). Try them out to find one you're most comfortable with.

I play piano and guitar as well so for software I can't live without Synthogy's Ivory and Native Instrument's Guitar Rig. These are awesome programs and aren't too expensive , and if you want realistic drums you can't go wrong with BFD or EZDrummer (these might break your budget though , depending on what you're budget actually is). If you want everything free , a good piano would be 4Front Piano VST , and there's some interesting freeware amp\cabinet models around the net.

check here

http://www.kvraudio.com/

you can search for any free VST that exists (almost)

the rest is google and playing around with what you can find , and read the other threads here at OCR , they are for your convenience

Good luck!