Which is the best music production software? ?
Ableton Live – Useful for both music production and live dj performance. Makes it very easy to mix samples and loops together with tracks on the fly allowing you to get creative very fast. Supports MIDI input and output so you will have no trouble plugging your synth into your soundcard and patching it into Ableton. It will record your keystrokes and parameter adjustments as MIDI commands (PC & Mac) Cubase – Serious music production software for PC & Mac. The first version came out in 1989 and has been one of the market leaders ever since. Requires a little more hard work than Ableton, but is a much more powerful program. May be a bit too advanced at the moment if you are just looking to smash around with your synth. Logic – For the Mac faithful only. Amazing piece of software, but again, has a steeper learning curve than Ableton. By the sounds of it, Ableton would best suit your current goal of quickly getting some sounds together and seeing what you can come up with.
Depends on your level of software editing experience. I won’t lay claim to having heaps of experience, but I would say I’m more than adequately capable of creating and editing music under my own steam (this doesn’t mean it would take me years to run off a decent track, it just means I can do these things quite comfortably without any kind of guidance!). Fruit Loops is good, but then it is a bit more complicated in terms of user friendly capabilities. It can be a bit daunting for a noobie software musician. Magix Music Maker has plenty of user friendly aspects to it, but it is STILL as buggy as hell, BUT it does have solutions you can find if you go looking for them (particularly on youtube – which helped me personally no end!). Your best bet is to download demos of the software mentioned already, see what you make of it, and go with what you think you’d be most comfortable using. The unfortunate thing with a lot of music software (at least the sort you’d create any tracks yourself with
