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Hello Everyone,
I need some help. Could someone point me in the right direction to a easy to use music making software. One that will allow me to create music beats and attatch vocals to the same track.

I am searching for software and also a good home microphone to record on.

My goal is to produce electro pop.
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Hello Erik, :)

Your question is somewhat difficult to answer without knowing what operating system you are using. As most software is not written for all operating systems. It's also helpful if you can provide your system specifications.

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I have a dell thats operating on windows XP.
I have Acid Pro...

But wasnt sure if thats the best to start out on.
Im some what confused, on how to make the music.

Im not sure if I just use samples, and fit them to form what i am looking for. But ultimatly i would like to make my own music, my own beats. I hope that helps some.

That's a fairly broad question. There are various DAW's you can use to record and work with your tracks. Then you have virtual instruments and other plugins on top of that.

Give Ableton a try. http://www.ableton.com/downloads

If you need some help getting the hand of things try http://www.cosm.co.nz/ and http://www.groove3.com/str/ableton-live-training/

If that's not to your like pop back in and someone can reccomend something else like Cubase or Reason.

when you refer to making your own beats, would you prefer to work with samples only or with MIDI. most DAW's allow for a combination of both.

MAGIX Samplitude 15 is fairly inexpensive ($99 US) and comes with a couple of drum machines.

other than that, i would give a +1 for Abelton Live.

I run Logic Pro on my mac, but since you are running a pc, you should look into FL Studio (Fruity Loops). That's probably one of the best out there for pc. If I were using a pc that's what I would start out with.

The great thing about your set-up is you can use Fruity Loops AND Acid Pro!! D/l Fruity Loops and play around in it. It's great for making beats. You can export everything that you make in Fruity Loops straight to Acid. They are made to work together. There is definitely a learning curve, but if you use the help feature and read up online, you'll find that it's not that difficult. This is the set-up I use. Beats=Fruity Loops, Vox and other recording and mixing = Acid Pro 7.0

Fruity Loops is great to learn with but get Native Instruments Maschine for 'Beats' and use Ableton for recording/editing. They are the best. That's why they are the most expensive. Reading anything online will definitely help but try out each thing as you read it so you can weed out the useless and misleading info. Always record everything clean. It is easy to apply and remove effects from a clean source but sometimes near impossible to pull them out from a 'mud' source.

Ableton
And then you rewire Reason 4 or FL Studio to it.
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