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Rickrack
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Hey everyone,
As you can see, this is my first post. I am 25 yrs. old and have always had a strong interest in music. I love listening to house and vocal trance music (techno) if you will and have a good ear for music. Anyways, what I want to do is eventually be able to create a CD with a selection of songs of my choice and be able to mess around with them. For example, I would like to choose a song(s) of my liking and add beats, sounds, and take some of the lyrics and maybe put them to a different tempo etc... I am totally clueless and new to this sort of thing, so I don't know the correct terminology for a lot of things, but that is why I am here (to learn). I guess what I would like to do is to be able to take an older song and make a remix of it with an entirely different beat, but still have a similar sound to it as the original so you can still tell what song it is. I am not interested in creating songs from scratch,(I don't write songs, sing or play instruments) but looking to change/customize existing music. I have been looking around online to see what my best option would be to be able to do what I want and came across Adobe Audition, formerly known as Coll Edit Pro. There is a DJ online that I like who has made several compilation CD's with Cool Edit Pro (I beleive) and would love to be able to do the same. I am not looking to spend crazy money on a program because I am not looking to make money doing it professionally (not yet anyway). It will be more of a hobby for me. I am VERY picky about music and would like my work to have a good quality sound to it and be able to mix song #1 into song #2 smoothly without sounding horrible and so on and so on. I know this is not going to be easy to learn, but it has always been something I've wanted to do, so I am willing to put a lot of time and effort into it. My question is: what is the best software to be able to do what I want. I know everyone will have their different opinions on what is the best, but I would like to hear everyone's opinion. Any advise you could give me would be appreciated whether it is what I should be using, literature, other websites, etc.. I just don't want to spend my money on something that I will grow out of quickly and get bored of, but I do want something fairly easy to use since I am clueless to creating music. Everyone really seems to know a lot around here, so hopefully you can all help me out. Thanks in advance.
~Rick
As you can see, this is my first post. I am 25 yrs. old and have always had a strong interest in music. I love listening to house and vocal trance music (techno) if you will and have a good ear for music. Anyways, what I want to do is eventually be able to create a CD with a selection of songs of my choice and be able to mess around with them. For example, I would like to choose a song(s) of my liking and add beats, sounds, and take some of the lyrics and maybe put them to a different tempo etc... I am totally clueless and new to this sort of thing, so I don't know the correct terminology for a lot of things, but that is why I am here (to learn). I guess what I would like to do is to be able to take an older song and make a remix of it with an entirely different beat, but still have a similar sound to it as the original so you can still tell what song it is. I am not interested in creating songs from scratch,(I don't write songs, sing or play instruments) but looking to change/customize existing music. I have been looking around online to see what my best option would be to be able to do what I want and came across Adobe Audition, formerly known as Coll Edit Pro. There is a DJ online that I like who has made several compilation CD's with Cool Edit Pro (I beleive) and would love to be able to do the same. I am not looking to spend crazy money on a program because I am not looking to make money doing it professionally (not yet anyway). It will be more of a hobby for me. I am VERY picky about music and would like my work to have a good quality sound to it and be able to mix song #1 into song #2 smoothly without sounding horrible and so on and so on. I know this is not going to be easy to learn, but it has always been something I've wanted to do, so I am willing to put a lot of time and effort into it. My question is: what is the best software to be able to do what I want. I know everyone will have their different opinions on what is the best, but I would like to hear everyone's opinion. Any advise you could give me would be appreciated whether it is what I should be using, literature, other websites, etc.. I just don't want to spend my money on something that I will grow out of quickly and get bored of, but I do want something fairly easy to use since I am clueless to creating music. Everyone really seems to know a lot around here, so hopefully you can all help me out. Thanks in advance.
~Rick