This post will answer these four questions -What is music production? How to start? What do you need? and in the end, Can everyone do it today? Also my opinions and recommendations. So let's start!
Music Production?
- By music production, I mean writing and playing music for yourself or for others. Honestly, today music production is a sampling of sample samples of samples, in better cases recording your own instruments which are more organic and better. But for now, this is not important. It is important that I introduce you to the beginning of music production.
How to start and what do you need?
- To get started you need a laptop or computerand buy one of the daws (download it for free). Daw is a digital audio workstation. Something like a digital studio on your computer. In the beginning, it doesn't matter which one you choose, all of them work on the same principle, just a different look and workflow. I personally recommend Ableton Live, especially if you are interested in live act and live mixing. I've been using it for the past 2 years. My friend @antminer use StudioOne which has a different flow but works just as well as Ableton Live. So choosing DAW is your first decision.
This may help you : Top 20 DAW software
- Second thing that you need are headphones or speakers/monitors. It would be nice to have some good pair of headphones or monitors but for the beginning anything is good. At the beginning, I used some cheap speakers I got with the computer and iPhone headphone. Now I use Audio-Technica ATM-m40x with Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 audio interface. I recommend headphones because you can hear everything you do at any time of the day.It is important that they are flat and don't have any bass boosts to know exactly what you are playing. If you buying headphones or monitors you will need external audio interface.
- The third thing you need is the midi keyboard / controller. It would be great to have some keyboards in the beginning and start learning how to play it, makes workflow better and easier and also encourages more creativity. But while you don't get it, you still have a computer keyboard and a mouse with which you can do a lot of good things cause all the notes, chords, beats can be drawn with a mouse or played on the computer keyboard too. For producing and live act I use Novation Launchkey mini 25. Now I need to expand the equipment but for the beginning, it was very good and useful.
This may help you to choose your first midi : The best budget MIDI controller keyboards in the world today
Can everyone do it today?
- YES! I mean everyone can try at least, even if you have never played any instruments before with today's technology everyone can do it.
I hope I motivated you to start making music. The first one or two months will be difficult until you figure out basic of your daw software, after that it becomes easier and more interesting so don't give up too fast.
This is it for the first post about music production, next one will be about Ableton Live- Basic thing you need to know about.
PEACE!
