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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    well from what i've read i dont even have enuf money for a decent drum machine How much do good programs cost, like you talked about Acid? I have a free program called Hammerhead, which is good for free but only has 6 channels and only one kit. so i'm probly gettin the keyboard but i dont know...
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    connecting mics to comps

    i read on this site that you should never plug any kind of mic into the mic input for any serious musical recording. i was just wandering where you would put it then? get an adapter and connect it to the joystick/midi input? just curious oh yeah and those $20 "vocal mics at circuit city suck...
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    is ESS AudioDrive playback (220) a good soundcard?

    i'm not sure if thats even the name of my sound card but i cant find the name in the owners manual and when i adjust my comps sound levels it says that the device used is ESS AudioDrive playback(220) and the device used for recording is ESS AudioDrive Record (220) do yall know if thats a good...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    well this comp is my mom's and i dont want to open it while she's home cus she'll probly freak out. But i asked her what kind of sound card it had and she looked on here and she thinks its "ESS AudioDrive Playback(220)" because that's what kind of device it says i have when i adjust the sound...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    okay i found out that my joystick thing is also midi input, so that is good. Now i've looked all thru that User's guide and i cant find nothing about my sound card. I dont know if any other manuals came with the comp, but i cant find any Do i really need to know what kind i have, because i...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    alright, i guess you were right about paying, i can see why it should cost money. But right now, i'm trying to find out what kind of sound card i have and if my joystick input converts to midi. all i know is that my comp has a yamaha XG 128 VoiceWavetable Sound i dunno if that is the sound...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    you paid $400 for cool edit pro? man you should have went to rapmusic.com's forums they give out links for the crack, at that site you can get cool edit pro with all the filters and every possible add on you can get, cool edit 2000, and all kinds of drum machines and sound editors that usually...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    well i found some yamaha personal keyboards at synthony.com and some of them had those built in 3.5" disk drives but i didnt see prices on any of them well what else do yall suggest for a beginner, besides a keyboard, for making hip hop beats i know that i'm getting a keyboard and i have a...
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    is Yamaha XG 128 Voice Wavetable a sound card? if so is it any good

    it says that on a sticker on my comp, i dont know if that is the sound card or not and i'm new at this can i plug a keyboard into my mic input? or do i have to plug it into my keyboard input? they are both located in the back but someone said i had to connect it to a midi interface what do i...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    my budget is cheap because i don't want to invest a lot of money before i know if i am going to get really into making beats or not now i'm not sure what kind of sound card i have on my comp there's a sticker that says i have a Yamaha XG 128 VoiceWavatable Sound i don't know if my sound card is...
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    cheap keyboards, please respond

    i've been lookin at cheap keyboards at wal-mart(lol). brands like casio and whatnot & brands dont really make a difference when you get down to the $100 range do they? and some of them have computer hookup capability(midi) but do i have to put it in the keyboard jack or can i put it into the...
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    thanx for all your help, especially the last guy who responded.. well i'm gonna shop around for a while and see what i can get. i know for sure that i'm getting a cd burner for christmas, because even if i can't do anything with beats, i'm still good at mixing haha, or at least that's what my...
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    on this site somewhere i saw that an fx box has reverb, flanger, echo... etc. is that what it is? and i don't know if yall know who RZA is, but he produces all the beats for the Wu-Tang Clan, and he says he uses analogs to make his drums sound "dirty".. is that something that is essential? oh...
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    oh yeah and that one dude that said i need to get a shemp and curly, whats that? and he said an fx box.. i kind of have an idea.. but what exactly is an fx box?
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    oh yeah, and in the trading post, i saw a used casio dum machine for $65. Do yall think that would be a good idea to get?
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    well like i'm getting a keyboard for christmas and i don't want to spend more than $150 on it. I know i probabaly can't get a professional keyboard with it, but i'm just gonna try to get one from wal-mart, you know with like 100 instruments, and i'm gonna make sure it at least has a drum kit...
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    i'm just getting started .. someone please help me out here

    i'm a former emcee(rapper) so i have a little experience with music because i used to mix my vocals with instrumentals and burn em to cd. But now i'm getting into producing hip hop beats. What should i do first. I've been looking at cheap keyboards at walmart for some percussion, string and...
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