How to actually start production?

[jguitar_tm]

hmm
I know its quite hard to get my music sold and its even hard to make music especially when i am too small!
NO chance of me not loving music.......
I am learning music since my kindergarten and its in my blood!
I absolutely appreciate your opinion sir.
But i read an article on the net that says that a successful artist is a person who is actually able to get in the market.
I DO NOT want to prove anything here.
I just got my inspiration from Alex Goot. He started his music on YouTube and i Still wonder how his video song got a million views?
Anyways what i want to become is a successful artist!
Thank You very kindly sir for your opinion.
I think i need some marketing techniques though which i have found after searching on the net!
Most widely used is the Social Networking , but besides it what else do i need to do?

Have rational expectations for yourself. My band's first project: we loved doing it and we love being a band and playing music together, but our first project did not go anywhere. But boy was it fun. I do recommend you shell out the money for a decent setup, though, because recording is one of the funnest things you can do. But expect to keep at it for a loooong time if you want to be "successful" (that depends on you definition of success).

 

[jguitar_tm]

hey guys once again....
so i am here with a small query. Today i went to my music teacher (guru!) to ask about the octapad he has. I told him about the band and album stuff.... He said it would be a little cheaper for us to purchase a sampler as compared to a drum kit or an electronic pad like he has.
Just curious to know how a sampler works. I dont have even a pinch experience in sampling. I searched a bit for an hour and found that sampling was done using a software (i saw the ableton live being used) .
I found that novation launchpad is there at amazon at an amazing price. Is it the same kinda device?
I am really sorry i could not do more research.....
and i found that it is not actually a drum kit or a pad. It is used to only trigger beats. So it is done using ableton live. Have no experience in it , so could anyone tell how it is used?
Do u put kit in pc and play it using a sampler?
or a sampler has kits in it which produce beats upon pressing the buttons?
Please be patient and tell me how this thing is done.......

I dont know anything about a sampler, but do you have a good actual drumset? If it's a high quality drumset, why don't you just try micing it? (you can find good drum mic kits online) The only catch is you would need an interface with enough inputs for all your drum mics. Are you guys a rock band? If so, I don't think a sampler would do you much good.

 

[Toastedgoat]

ie, I used to record live drums at my home studio, now I use an electronic kit and do multi tracks of midi to capture the hits,played by me or another drummer. I might also record the electronic kits sounds too.

Then I would assign each track a sampled sound.. the midi kick drum would naturally be assigned a sampled sound of a kick drum (ez drummer/ addictive drums, or some other sample I might have).
I do this through out all the midi tracks of the drums, kick, snare, hihat, toms etc.
the same thing can be done for keys, strings, ambient sounds, pretty much anything you can think of . all of this is of course recorded through a midi interface into a computer.

You don't have to have the electronic kit though, you can manipulate sampler software sounds within the midi tracks of most DAW's. you don't even have to have an outside midi trigger device to manipulate sampled sounds.


I have probably just confused you even more. but look at programs like EZ drummer/addictive drums,
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in the end though, the best music is done by musicians, not samples or programs.