Before you can begin, you'll need a piece of software to do all of your musical work in. Somewhere you can have multiple tracks of audio or sequenced MIDI notes, where you can apply effects and have everything musically in time. This is a Digital Audio Workstation.
In the DAW, these are your tools to create and modify sound.
How do you decide what notes to use? What sounds go together? How long should each part of the song be? That's what music theory is for, so dive in and find your inspiration.
Sometimes it helps to have people show you the ropes
Sometimes it helps to just get inspired!
Lyrics, you can't have singing without em.
Written guides for songwriting and mixing
Lots of other resources to help you with music!
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Bandlab Cakewalk
LMMS
Garageband (Comes with MacOS)
MuLab Free
Ohm Studio
Podium Free
Pro Tools First
SoundBridge
Waveform Free
Trial version available
Ableton Live
Bitwig Studio
FL Studio
Mixcraft
Reaper
Reason
Renoise
Waveform Pro
Less than $100
Ardour
Mixcraft Home Studio
Podium
Reaper
MuLab UL
Renoise
Mixcraft Recording Studio
Ableton Live Intro
FL Studio Fruity
Reason Intro
Cubase Elements
Less than $300
Waveform Pro Basic
Studio One Pro
Mixcraft Pro Studio
Waveform Pro Standard
FL Studio Producer Edition
Logic Pro X
FL Studio Signature
More than $300
Cubase Artist
Reason
Bitwig Studio
Ableton Live Standard
Cubase Pro
Waveform Pro Extreme
Pro Tools
Ableton Live Suite
FL Studio All Plugins
Pro Tools Ultimate
In the DAW, these are your tools to create and modify sound.
VST instruments are plugins you can load up and sequence notes with.
Here are some presets to use with the instruments, as well as sample packs for sample players that work in pretty much the same way.
Audio effects! Also useful if you're just mixing covers!
Sample packs: like an UTAU voicebank but for instruments. Usually for drum sounds!
And some other stuff you may find useful, like websites hosting many different kinds of plugins you can also check out.
DSK Music
Sforzando (sfz/soundfont player)
T-Force Alpha Plus
Sonigen Modular
TranceDrive
Synth1
Dexed
SpicyGuitar
Iowa Flute
4front Bass
Orion Sound Module
Kong Audio
Virtual Playing Orchestra
smpld
Beat Zampler
bigcat Instruments
Magical 8bit plugin
Famisynth
SocaLabs 8-bit Treats
Proteus VX
EastWest Composer Cloud
Sforzando (sfz/soundfont player)
T-Force Alpha Plus
Sonigen Modular
TranceDrive
Synth1
Dexed
SpicyGuitar
Iowa Flute
4front Bass
Orion Sound Module
Kong Audio
Virtual Playing Orchestra
smpld
Beat Zampler
bigcat Instruments
Magical 8bit plugin
Famisynth
SocaLabs 8-bit Treats
Proteus VX
EastWest Composer Cloud
Here are some presets to use with the instruments, as well as sample packs for sample players that work in pretty much the same way.
Trancedrive
Tonius 1
Tonius 2
Over 10000 Synth1 patches
Musyng Kite (soundfont)
Karoryfer Emilyguitar (sfz)
Multisampled electric guitar (sfz)
Multisampled bass (sfz)
Tonius 1
Tonius 2
Over 10000 Synth1 patches
Musyng Kite (soundfont)
Karoryfer Emilyguitar (sfz)
Multisampled electric guitar (sfz)
Multisampled bass (sfz)
Audio effects! Also useful if you're just mixing covers!
Sample packs: like an UTAU voicebank but for instruments. Usually for drum sounds!
And some other stuff you may find useful, like websites hosting many different kinds of plugins you can also check out.
How do you decide what notes to use? What sounds go together? How long should each part of the song be? That's what music theory is for, so dive in and find your inspiration.
Learning Music
8notes
UTAU-Based Classes
Chord Progression Generator
Hooktheory
Websites for guitar chords
http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/ - Reference
https://jguitar.com/chordname - Enter strings/frets and get chord name
https://www.jamplay.com/tools/guitar-chords - Reference
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/ - Reference
8notes
UTAU-Based Classes
Chord Progression Generator
Hooktheory
Websites for guitar chords
http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/ - Reference
https://jguitar.com/chordname - Enter strings/frets and get chord name
https://www.jamplay.com/tools/guitar-chords - Reference
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/ - Reference
Sometimes it helps to have people show you the ropes
Sometimes it helps to just get inspired!
Lyrics, you can't have singing without em.
Written guides for songwriting and mixing
Lots of other resources to help you with music!
