Get started making music

I always liked listening to edm and when I first got to know that you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks the idea of becoming an edm artist sounded exciting and glamorous to me. (like alan walker, martin grx)

I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats (https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos). Before I spent too much time on it I released it's actually less about making catchy beats and more about the marketing, connections in music industry etc. Now, I'm writing code again.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by HamburgerEmoji » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

Pretty cool. If you like Ableton but would prefer to use a more obscure underdog for some reason, there's Bitwig.

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Post by lelandfe » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 10:21 AM UTC

jerrygoyal wrote: post #6

I always liked listening to edm and when I first got to know that you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks the idea of becoming an edm artist sounded exciting and glamorous to me. (like alan walker, martin grx) I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats ( https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos ). Before I spent too much time on it I released it's actually less about making…

> it's actually less about making catchy beats and more about the marketing, connections in music industry etc

If you make good music you can throw a couple tracks towards a small, local label and stand pretty decent odds of getting signed.

Getting on a tiny little label with some people you like isn't going to be enough for it to be a career, but it's definitely a lot of fun and can be creatively enabling.

Coding can still pay the bills, though!

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Post by adamnemecek » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

I’ve been working on an IDE for music composition https://ngrid.io. Launching soon.

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Post by andy_ppp » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

jerrygoyal wrote: post #6

I always liked listening to edm and when I first got to know that you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks the idea of becoming an edm artist sounded exciting and glamorous to me. (like alan walker, martin grx) I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats ( https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos ). Before I spent too much time on it I released it's actually less about making…

It’s about the same as building a startup I’d say. Luck plays a huge role (and there are lots of people trying to divine rules extrapolated from their lucky experience to help you) but I’d also say the music (product) really does need to be incredibly good for you to make it. But maybe it isn’t needed initially as long as you get feedback and develop product market fit for your music, but that would be considered very uncool in the music industry.