Sanjeev
09-11-2005, 03:04 PM
Hello folks -
I'm a beginning singer, and I'm about to invest some money in hardware and software. I'm wondering if FruityLoops could accomplish the following:
What I'd ideally like to be able to do (at home) are:
- cut up/edit a friend's guitar tracks
- record my own vocal melodies and basic keyboard tracks
- combine all of above into simple audio "rough drafts" of songs.
The goal isn't a professional finished product. I'd like to be able to say to my guitarist friend, or a band, "This is what I'm thinking for a song, these simple keyboard melodies in the background are place-holders for better guitar tracks and chords." I'd also like to be able to upload the tracks to a website so I can convey my skills/interest to other musicians.
I already have some good advice on the relevant hardware. Do you have any advice on the ideal starter software might be to accomplish this?
My computer:
PC, Intel Celeron 1.8 gigahertz processor, 1 gigabyte ram, 20 GB hard drive.
More details:
My guitarist friend records track/riff ideas and emails them to me. I'd like to take parts of each track and turn them into repeating loops, etc. ("This part sounds great to accompany a repeating verse, etc") Then I could fashion an extremely rough song by combining repeating guitar loops for verse and chorus lines, adding vocals and keyboards, and then emailing a combined audio file back to him for more collaboration.
Thanks! A quick software recommendation would be very helpful!
-sanjeev
I'm a beginning singer, and I'm about to invest some money in hardware and software. I'm wondering if FruityLoops could accomplish the following:
What I'd ideally like to be able to do (at home) are:
- cut up/edit a friend's guitar tracks
- record my own vocal melodies and basic keyboard tracks
- combine all of above into simple audio "rough drafts" of songs.
The goal isn't a professional finished product. I'd like to be able to say to my guitarist friend, or a band, "This is what I'm thinking for a song, these simple keyboard melodies in the background are place-holders for better guitar tracks and chords." I'd also like to be able to upload the tracks to a website so I can convey my skills/interest to other musicians.
I already have some good advice on the relevant hardware. Do you have any advice on the ideal starter software might be to accomplish this?
My computer:
PC, Intel Celeron 1.8 gigahertz processor, 1 gigabyte ram, 20 GB hard drive.
More details:
My guitarist friend records track/riff ideas and emails them to me. I'd like to take parts of each track and turn them into repeating loops, etc. ("This part sounds great to accompany a repeating verse, etc") Then I could fashion an extremely rough song by combining repeating guitar loops for verse and chorus lines, adding vocals and keyboards, and then emailing a combined audio file back to him for more collaboration.
Thanks! A quick software recommendation would be very helpful!
-sanjeev