Price tags aside... MPC1000, Reason, or Fruityloops for beginners?

[quietb03]

The question im asking is, for a beginner who is wanting to learn how to make beats, which would be the best/easiest route to go, nevermind the price tag differences. Give some reasoning behind your thoughts.

 

[ethos]

easiest route, software.
Reason or fruity loops.
I suggest reason, been using it for over a year now, and still love it.

 

[jibran]

Easiest- get a MPC.

But instead of a 1000, get a used 2000/XL or 60. If you need to know where to find one, PM me.

-The Deen

 

[jibran]

Most powerful-

Reason, it's like having a huge rack with multiple samplers and synths.

-The Deen

 

[Fieva]

All of them would have somewhat of a learning curve. I'm biased because I use Reason only. The MPC might be easier to use, but I think with Reason you'd see more quality results in your work quicker.

My vote is Reason specifically because there's ungodly amounts of tutorials on it if you look in the right spots to get your beats to a good sound.

 

[jibran]

I couldn't really pick so I recommended both. They're all good, though Reason is more powerful.

Quietb, you'll be doing fine with any of the choices.

For MPCs, there are countless videos and tutorials on the internet- plus you can get into using one without even reading the manual.

For FL, there are also countless videos and tutorials- also, on this forum, Red Cross has experience with it. You can listen to "9th Wonder" beats for inspiration.

For Reason, pretty much what Fieva said.

 

[tone_aot]

I'd recommend either one. I've been usin fruity loops for years and i create a new way to use it everytime i use it. I've loaded fruity loops to the rim with wav sounds, soundfonts, vst/dx instruments, and custom tweaks. I've implemeted my own sounds and use midi also and i think fruity loops is very powerful, if you know how to move beyond the manual and discover your own techniques. Also, i think anyone that is just getting into beats needs to learn some music theory and listen to some old school to see how music evolved. Then, when they get to the beats, they'll make a quality production. Good luck!

 

[jibran]

Y'know, I ain't try this myself but I have an idea for a dope combo.

What if someone ran E-mu Emulator X2 through FL's vst client? That would make it almost like Reason in a sense since you can buy software versions of the famous E-mu sound racks and you'll have a E-mu sampler w/ effects loaded in FL as well.

Anyone try that?

 

[quietb03]

i think ill just start off with fruityloops and get a cheap $200 midi controller and learn from there....maybe if i get good eventually get a turntable for sampling lol

 

[ssscientist]

I have all three and Fruity Loops is the one I started on, FWIW.

I agree with you --- a midi controller and FL is all you need to go a loooong way...

 

[jugalo180]

I have all three and Fruity Loops is the one I started on, FWIW.

I agree with you --- a midi controller and FL is all you need to go a loooong way...

I'm with you on that minus the MPC I haven't had the pleasure of owning any of those machines yet. I still utilize both Reason and FL Studio and I enjoy cracking open anyone of them to make a beat, Reason has more straight out of the box advantages, but FL Studio with Kontakt, Waves Diamond, Battery, SoundForge, sampleTank, Absynth, Great SoundFonts....can be just as powerful if not more. I also started with FL Studio and I agree that a $100-$200.00 controller and $99 FL Studio is all he needs to get it cracking.

 

[jibran]

I agree with you --- a midi controller and FL is all you need to go a loooong way...

I disagree with you. You can't go a loooong way without samples. So if you add a turntable to the controller and FL, then I agree wholeheartedly.

 

[Cyanide-Depende]

REASON!!!!!!

REASON!!!

can i say that enough?

reason!

get reason, reason is the way to go, because in reason you can do anything, everything you could possibly imagine as far as sound creation can be done in reason, so my vote is reason, you need to get reason..

lol

-C$

 

[Fieva]

I disagree with you. You can't go a loooong way without samples. So if you add a turntable to the controller and FL, then I agree wholeheartedly.

I chop all of my samples that I'll use (this is rare for me) in Cubase and then save them as soundclips that I can throw in a beat anytime, anywhere or loop it to add to the beat...anyone else go that route.

I still stand by Reason though.

 

[quietb03]

Thanks for all the feed fellas, I think Ima go with fruityloopsand a midi controller, maybe a MPD16 drum pad down the line

 

[jugalo180]

I chop all of my samples that I'll use (this is rare for me) in Cubase and then save them as soundclips that I can throw in a beat anytime, anywhere or loop it to add to the beat...anyone else go that route.

I still stand by Reason though.

I go that route but with Soundforge.

 

[Artikulate]

I've never used an MPC but I imagine the learning curve would be a bitch. Easiest learning curve and probably most "user friendly" would be FL.

 

[50cal]

MPC is extremely easy...

 

[quietb03]

i guess its all a matter of opinion and skill

 

[jibran]

I go that route but with Soundforge.

I go that route as well but with Audacity.