Hello studio, on Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007, 06:03:19, you wrote:
> Also , Ambient Grains was fun , but I'm still looking for something > which I can use ,to create from scratch, ambient or trance quickly > and easily . Still , Amb-Grains is a quick and easy way to "create > original" stuff quickly . Trance seems out though . > http://www.ambientgrains.com/index.html > I loved the original E-Jay (demo), but now there are 5 flavours > of it - not sure which one is the one I need. http://www.ejay.com/ If you want to create some sounds from scratch, why not take a look at Orion Platinum <http://www.synapse-audio.com/>? At the moment they offer a special Christmas gift: Orion Platinum for only 149 Euro, incl. 19% VAT! The advantages of Orion Platinum are: 1. Easy to use interface. 2. Ships with professional sound generators and effects. I have looked at many music production programs. FruityLoops, Traktion3, Magix Music Studio, energyXT2, ... Orion Platinum is for me the best. Its part based. Each part can have its own length. So its possible to create an easy percussion set with a parts length of 16 steps. Create some of them with variations and combine them in the pattern list. Put on top a melody layer where each part has a length of 64 steps. Then put on top of that an ambient layer of 256 steps. If you have a recorded singers voice or a real guitar, you can simply add them as an audio track to the pattern list. If you have a basic understanding how music works, how pattern based music programs work and how VST works, you don't need the manual! Youll consult only the manual to better understand the sound generators of the effects. Take a look at the piano roll. To transpose all notes, you simply use the cursor keys. If you want to transpose only some notes, you select it before using the cursor keys. With the cursor keys its also possible to roll the notes around. Very easy, intuitive and fast. The direct concurrent program is FruityLoops. But FuityLoops is more complicated and doesnt ship with this nice sound generators Orion Platinum does. The sound generators are so good, that FruityLoops has licensed Wasp XT. But you have to pay extra money for it. Wasp XT directly ships with Orion Platinum and you can use it right out of the box. There exists many professional music makers who uses Orion Platinum to create Goa-Trance and something like that. Why not downloading the demo and test it? Best Christmas wishes, Yogi Marc Michael
