His posts dont have much informational value - he says in a 5 minutes what he could say in 3 sentences. Still he kinda says whats in the title. Somebody could like his wacky style. JiggyWig: Good point. Al least he sholdve point out he doesnt use it that way. Apparantely he produces dance music. So do i so i dont care.;)
In case anyone needs it, here's a couple notes just for clarification, since I was also really confused the first time I started reading into this stuff: > That Ableton Push 2, for anyone who's wondering, is what's commonly referred to as a "Control Surface." Definitely not absolutely necessary, as Mult already said, but it's considered a good *workflow* option for those of us who find moving a mouse around to be a tedious waste of time. If you don't wanna constantly move the cursor around to select or solo or arm tracks, change volumes/levels, move virtual knobs with your mouse, etc etc, this is basically what a control surface does. It's a hardware extension of your "in-the-box" (software) controls. They come in a ridiculous variety of forms, and choosing one seems to generally depend on your DAW of choice. --> Some keyboards or midi controllers also have some functionality like this, a-la the knobs at the top of that Native Instruments keyboard shown at around 6:00. "Workflow" is the key word here. It's really more about convenience than anything else. > The audio interface is also useful for getting sounds *into* the box. (into the computer.) Notice those XLR inputs on the front of the focusrite? That's where you'd throw in a decent microphone, turn on the phantom power if you need it, and get sound in that way as well. (I'm pretty sure there are also a couple 1/4" in/out jacks on the back, too.) These also come in ridiculous variety, and your control surface or even midi keyboard/controller might even have some interface functionality, depending on the SKU. Midi ins-outs, onboard mixing, etc. A midi interface falls under this category as well, if you need an alternative way to hook up a (compatible) keyboard/controller or offboard modular synths, etc, but that's something I'm still reading into and can't really say too much about just yet. Audio production is a wild world....the functionality on all these devices overlap in so many ways it's almost impossible to tell the difference sometimes.
Actually an audio interface makes a big difference considering audio latency. I'd say that piece is even more important than a MIDI device like a keyboard or so, because as you said, there is already a way to input MIDI data using the computer keyboard. Velocity can still be changed afterwards. About the layout: asdfg and so on are white keys, we-tyu-op are black keys. So the layout is basically the same as on some small MIDI keyboard.
I have ADHD, and I also bounce a lot, but you show me all the corners of the room. I even totally destroyed my PC, while seeing your video. LOL Thank you friend, for this speed course. You go with the speed of light through your explanation. But it's good that I can follow you, because I'm relaxed like you. LOL Tony
I don't know if you don't know this, or if it just escaped you. It's not really about mixing at high volumes with headphones you need a soundcard for. It's if you soundcard can't power your headphones enough so that you can reach mixing volumes even at the max. Or rather if you have to turn the volume to max, the sound will still be distorted, so even if Max is enough, if you have to go there, you need a better souncard for your headphones. And most "pro" headphones will need Max volume on most computers. And of course, there aren't many if any mics that are even ok, that can be connected directly to the typical input on a computer (if it has one), so for recording vocals or other instruments, a soundcard is needed. For someone that doesn't even know the basics of piano playing a piano-keyboard is not necessary. Pad options, and there are cheaper ones than the Push 2, could be much more useful. And if they play another instrument, the inputs offered on a soundcard is much more important than a piano-keyboard. I play the piano, at least a little, and if I could get only one device to play notes in to the computer, I would probably go for one of the good budget pad solutions rather than a piano-keyboard.
This was a great video, thanks for making it. I'm currently on the fence of if I want to start making music or not. I mean, I do want to start but this is a pretty expensive thing to get into- or no- from your video it's not expensive to get into but to get all the sounds you want so you have the option to make music with more variety, then it gets more expensive. Either way I've played piano all my life so I've got one ready and waiting for this- just have a converter cable on the way. Also I used to work in video production so my computer is up-to-snuff since I believe rendering out complex VFX and the like would be more taxing than making music, but maybe not? I don't know, hopefully when my wire gets here I have a good first experience with FL studio and am able to actually do what I'm looking to do with it. I'm kinda glad you said all you really need is a mouse and keyboard though, I was legit going through amazon for some of the stuff you were talking about here. I still need a good mic though for samples of me booty clapping as a base line, I hear that red box you dropped makes the biggest difference in audio inputs rather than what it gives back to your headphones.
having monitors as well as headphones is that monitors give you a better dynamic feel for your stereo seperation and panning its alot more noticable hearing from monitors.
Audio interfaces are also designed to operate with lower latency (lag) than the soundcard you have in your computer. When you're layering tracks in a DAW, or listening to the output as you play, audio interfaces can make that a better experience. Better audio interfaces have lower latency in general.
To make most electronic music, WITHOUT using a PC or MAC (some of us still like hardware only!), at the very least you will need a hardware sequencer, a sampler and a synth (or any combination of these, such as will be in an Electribe),. You could then consider a MIDI keyboard, Plug each of 'em in to a mixer, using standard cables, and from that you'll be outputing straight to a a high quality recorder - you could, e.g., pick up a second hand Boss BR600 for around 60 on the auc sites. Optional extras include extra effects units. The good news is that even if you part with the best part of a thou, with careful choice of used equipment, you will be able to recoup your costs later, should circumstancs change and you need to sell. BTW, the DAC he uses above will be completely unnecessary if you're using a h/w setup. Nor are monitors strictly necessary whlie you have high end headphones. You will need excellent headphones, partly because you won't be able to hear all the nuances of the music you create, if you use average phones. hth
Btw people are hating on you for how you present your information, but I don't care cause you really did help me understand the true work to be put in and what's needed
I think all this really depends on what type of music that you want to play - and wether you want to/can play it live. Playing 16th notes can be tricky - and straneous, and stressful... So for certain types of music, and/or people, sequencers can be the only way of making the type of music that one wants... And then a soundcard would come before a keyboard... For people with enough interest for music, i highly recommend "Reaktor" from Native Instruments (200 euro), and the "Bome MIDI Translator Pro" software (69 euro), which can make a very limited MIDI controller thousands of times more powerful (it can take a decent amount of work, depending on your controller and goals - but its usually a one time thing that you go through, and then its set up)... I used it with my Akai Advance 25 keyboard, with only 8 knobs, and a bunch of buttons and pads, which i used as "shift buttons" for the 8 knobs - making the keyboard able to control over 1500 parameters, on each of 6 tracks..! Theres usually a maximum of 128 "cc commands" on each of the 16 MIDI channels - which gives a maximum of controlling 2048 parameters, no matter how awesome your controller is. With Bome, you can create "virtual midi ports", and use the full spectrum of MIDI information, on several different tracks.
The point of an external sound card is to eliminate electro static interference that's produced by the components in your computer and provide your vocals or MIDIs a clearer and higher end result free of static noise.
Most people who buy a soundcard really have that written in stone but to be honest mobos are pretty good at eliminating noise on their own. I have midrange mobo and tbh I hear practically nothing different when i have a card vs when i dont. If you're tight on cash or just bedroom producing, soundcards really arent that big of a deal.
not at all. The main point of External sound card in music production is all about latency. Of course high quality audio interface (from focusrite scarlett and up) will help with the electrically induced noise (if you plug a guitar make sure you use top quality cables, that actually are shielded to cut off noise).
interfaces do a whole lot more than just headphones stuff, they record mics for vocals, and guitars and some keyboards, and good interfaces can help with latency which is basically the time thats past between what you played and what you heard, low latency is best!! he probably should've mentioned that lmao
A good dac and amplifier make a whole lot of a difference compared to a standard computer / laptop headphones out. A few percent? I would say you don't know what you are doing if you listen to a laptop jack, you simply cannot hear it. But you are right, you can do music production with a computer and 25$ of headphones.
For audio interface I would humbly suggest the Behringer U-Phoria umc404hd, it is on par or cheaper ($100) with the Focusrite, but has 4 inputs, and 4 outputs, whereas the Focusright here only has 2 inputs and a quite a bit less control (like pass-thru monitoring, gain pad for all four channels if you don't need as much pre-amp, separate controls for headphones and main out, which is handy if you have both plugged it). The behringer also have much more diverse selection of output jacks, and also does midi in and out, if you need that for whatever reason. I honestly feel like it is a steal at $100
I would say, the only annoying bit was that I once had issues installing the driver for Windows 10, but it did not take too much time to resolve it. (It worked flawless on my linux and mac installations though, no driver needed)
wauwsestrauses multiplier you are the best! i have 7€ headphones and they have done the job well 8months. only you have to know your equipment how they have balanced the sound and you can mix that whole crap whit it.
I think speakers are more important than headphones. Everything sounds good on headphones when mixing but you need the speakers to really get good quality. If you can get good sound out of your speakers your headphones will sound good by default but not the other way around. I only use headphones when I do reference mixing or recording. If you don't use speakers you will get super bad mixes that only sound good on headphones.
Thanks so much. The sound for your voice is fantastic! So clear and crisp. I need a pro mic like that, I just got the Nokia 8, it's mics are good, but can you suggest a better mic that will work with the Nokia 8, please...thanks so much, great demo! :)
I have a M-audio prokeys Sono 61, is that a good midi keyboard? And are the parrot zik 2 good headphones? And i have a 13 inch mid 2015 macbook pro is that good? and i have the M-audio studiophile AV 20 speakers (im not a cool kid) is that good?
Dude this is my first time watching you and damn!! I already love you man, you make it easy to learn (for me) the other audio people here on youtube are quite boring thanks for your awesomeness mate :D
I know right. I almost clicked away. He spent like 30 seconds on the fact that the audio interface is broken. Im just sitting here like " i get it!!! its broken! please move on!!!!"
Dude you are just f****** crazy. As classic mail said below this will long 5 minutes. But you know what, I watched the whole damn thing and you covered the topic with no mouse. Cheers Man.
don't know why everyone's trying to give this lad a hard time. He was in depth and repeated and phrased things for everyone to understand. He's passionate and clearly very good at what he does, this video helped a lot, thanks :)
I like you, but you got the description for what an Audio Interface does partly incorrect. An Audio Interface takes inputs (from microphones and guitars) and converts and amplifies their analog signal into a digital signal, then sends that digital to the computer (A->D conversion). That is their main purpose, though most Audio Interfaces have Headphone jacks, those are mostly to monitor the level of the inputs without the delay of converting and sending the inputs to the computer. Of course, things evolve over time, so more features are added.
Also, "Sound Cards" are historically not the same as "Audio Interfaces". Sound Cards generally have some sort of signal generator like a synthesizer (Modern ones have Digital Signal Processors) and are used to create sounds. Back in my day, you had to buy a separate Sound Card and plug it into your computer in order to get sounds like music, stereo or midi. Modern computers have Sound Cards built into the motherboard and thus it is not necessary to purchase one to generate music (although you can buy an external one similar to buying an Audio Interface). So, basically Audio Interface = Sound converter... Sound Card = Sound Generator.
Ngl, fuck the haters 😭😅 I have ADHD and the way you explain this kept me entertained and I actually learned what I wanted to learn. Thanks man! Peace n love
This is one of the funnies videos i have watched on youtube. Love the enthusiasm. After reading the comments it just made it even funnier while watching. I had to check to see if everyone was thinking what i was thinking.
so far the only major benefit I see to using midi is to record notes of a piano and allows one to replay piano notes onto a different piano (like the old days when you saw the punch card equipment that allowed the piano keys to move /play without the person playing the music. So I know there must be much more to midi because there so much to it with synthezisers , mixers ,...etc as well so its a confusing thing to me.
cute vid but just wanted to mention that I use the focusrite for my guitar interface as well as live recordings...the monitor is a secondary function....absolutely need it for recording digitally.
this guy is fuckin awesome. as someone with a very high paced thought process it was actually really easy for me to understand what this guy was communicating and funny as hell. thanks guy
Thanks! If you make another video, would you consider demonstrating some of the features? For instance, on the Ableton Push I would have loved to hear how the buttons play a minor blues scale when you set it up for that. It's all completely new for me. Cheers!
I am hopeless Luddite , for some reason inspired to wrap my head around recording . But watching this video , I am 5x more confused than before, and I didn't think that was possible . Nothing about sticking actual music into compuer ? Plugs for electric instruments , mics for accoustic ? Or even a vocal ? Soundcard ? He keeps waving around a Scarlet , calling it a Soundcard . What little I have absorbed from my more knowledgeable friends , they're telling me those type of things are an Interface . A soundcard is a card I had to get almost 20yrs ago , back when computers didn't have sound from the factory. What's with all the obsession with various keyboards ? While I do know a professional Keyboard player , I can't play no piano , and have no desire to record any .
Sorry how do you use the headphones again? I dont have a masters so i need some clarification Thank you and please proceed with the wonderfull lecture!!
love your energy! this was really helpful and easy to follow. i'm a total beginner and only grew an interest for learning how to produce music a few months ago. cheers
There's a difference between a DAC and an audio interface. A DAC transforms a computers digital output into analog signals for headphones and speakers. An audio interface does that AND converts several types of analog audio signals(which differ in specification between dynamic and condenser microphones, guitars, the odd 8 track cassette deck etc.) into digital signals for your computer and the DAW running therein. Here ends the lesson. You are, as many have said, a nutter, but as with many such people, you are nonetheless at least obliquely charming, somewhat as I might imagine Sherlock Holmes on needle days, if I were given to imagining such days. P.S.: You mention the Focusrite is broken. I've long had a suspicion that the 2i2 isn't nearly of the same production quality as Focusrite's more expensive models. People talking at speeds similar to you have told me there are Focusrite burial sites in New Jersey, on Staten Island, just a few kilometres outside of Shizuishan, (formerly Shizuizi) in the People's Republic of China, and of course under the Isle of Wright entirely dedicated to the 2x2 model, each hundreds of metres deep and larger in acreage than a typical pro football pitch with associated parking areas. On the other hand, I'm given to understand that high failure rate of these units, usually timed to within a few minutes of the expiry of warranty is not actually a failure, but the first intimations of consciousness awakening within the box. Students of Arrighi have suggested that having been subjected to long pain filled hours of rank musical amateurism, the 2i2 units have joined in a legless walkout against the deplorable conditions of their worksites. A contrarian analysis has come to light in recent months (first published simultaneously in the TLS and the NY Review) noting that these supposed failures are not a commentary on the taste of rank amateurs pretending to be music producers in their bedsits between engagements with badly shaven strangers with "birthmarks" looking suspiciously like chancres, but that against all expectations these burial sites are actually droid reanimation centres being established in anticipation of an approaching Sith attack. In appearing to fail, these units are in fact serving Queen and Country whilst joining the skill of British engineers to the rising technological troubadours of the People's Republic in an important gesture of transhumanism and righteous indignation against the clearly inferior Sith who dare threaten our very way of brewing a good cup, both at home and in the People's Republic. P.P.S. The term soundcard refers properly to a third party internally rail mounted audio production device meant to overcome the nauseatingly bad audio capabilities of most pc motherboards.Save for the most expensive of such devices, these cards usually fail as many of the problems inducing listener nausea have their origin in the generous supply of semi-random magnetic fields and electron leakage consequential to the most common design paradigms of motherboard, power supply and rail design in the Windows/Linux box world, probably as a result of the influence of regional Chinese Opera on the designers.As the actual signal remains pristine so long as it is passed in digital form, external DAc's and Audio Interfaces have largely supplanted sound cards save in the already deaf gaming community, for whom pristine audio is understood as skull baking volume. Artists enamoured with "video art" also continue to embrace internal sound cards, a position made reasonable by the sound reproduction quality of the typical television. Video screens that typically paired two inch "woofers" and piezo "tweeters" are finally being supplanted by 3rd party soundbars where 2 inch "woofers" are ganged in groups of 2, 4 and even six units per channel in an acoustically resonant plastic frame work designed to buzz in imitation of low frequency response. The collapse of the soundbar market in recent years is currently attributed to American and Japanese housing and the lack of alternate spaces to hang Christmas, birthday and bereavement cards other than taped to the lower edge of the primary family television -- a space typically given over to a professionally installed soundbar...... Regardless of the result of this contretemps, I enjoyed your video. .
All you need to start as absolute beginner is a medium price headphone win 7 torrent vst and buy midi controller later, that is when you can actually play a keyboard
The thing I see the most is people with MIDI keyboards on their so called home studios, not using them, Start doing your stuff and buy only what you really NEED and WILL USE
Thanks for explaining audio interfaces. I hear people always telling others to get them but no one really said how much better they are compared to the sound cards that already come on your computer. Now I know that they do improve sound but they aren't really necessary unless you want to perfect the sound. Which is good because I would rather not spend a minimum of $100 on something that won't make an instant improvement in whatever I'm doing.
This guy didn't explain an audio interface correctly. On top of clarity, it's going to also help in processing, it allows us to use microphones/instruments and also allows us use of studio monitors..... so an audio interface is actually, in fact, absolutely necessary for producing and recording. You can play catch up all you want tho.
Some computers have bad soundcards. And if you use a good pair of headphones, chances are that the built in soundcard can't power them properly, so they don't sound like they should. If you don't really need any connections, there are cheaper external soundcards out there, that are not Audio interfaces for studio work, but that are still better than what is built in.
I use a Presonus Digital Interface and a Roland Intelligent Synthesizer MIDI Keyboard (Full Length) and of course some other equipment, but I'm not going to list everything.
Nah this is the proper order: 1. Computer 2. DAW 3. Monitors 4. Microphone (and mic pre if you mean business) 5. Audio interface (spent $1000 on an SPL Crimson 3 here. It bears heavy on sound quality that's why the pros are willing to fork out $4000 on a Prism sound Titan 6. headphones 7. Midi keyboard . For me though, I spend more money on mic, mic pre, interface and then monitors in that order. A computer is no brainer cos you know you need huge RAM and smooth ROM. DAW is just a matter of choice ...and you do need the right software to get the right sound you know. on the flipside, can you send that MacBook Pro?...i can repair it you know
too much coffee ?
i probebly think some druggs... coffee doenst do this.. now all thea drinkers think coffe drinkers are like this
MrSyntraxx coffee is a drug. (Sry couldn’t hold myself)
well i know where you going at ...but i was refering to... speed? or that kind of stuff but i guess you got the picture when i posted it
Had to stop the video ... the guy is fucking annoying.
probs a 40mg line of adderall
This guy sounds like he can't wait to poop
Tim He no likes goofy😂
He probably already did!
It's all that coke.
Holy crap :o
*SNARF* I think I just pooped laughing at this comment.
"I found A Computer" - 0:28
He says while sitting in front of a computer...
Think he's trying to say most people have laptops now but he seems off so might be wrong
So you need a compyuta
underrated
Audio Interface make much more sense for inputs; odd that you totally skipped the idea of recording external instruments/synths/vocals etc....
Dude is a total Idiot really... that it's nothing but a big studio-trolling video..total disgrace..
His posts dont have much informational value - he says in a 5 minutes what he could say in 3 sentences. Still he kinda says whats in the title. Somebody could like his wacky style.
JiggyWig: Good point. Al least he sholdve point out he doesnt use it that way. Apparantely he produces dance music. So do i so i dont care.;)
software is shit nothing works except for computer keyboard, dns errors on all support contact and no live chat support dont buy this
Exactly what I was thinking. He basically uses a 150 dollar interface as a fancy, red headphone jack...
garry phillips what software?
this guy has more energy than ill ever experiance in my whole life aha I love this dude
Laptop and headphones. Done.
K100 that is complete bulshit.
no its not :P its all you NEED it might not be fun but its true
K100 same
Yeah I’ll see you guys on the big stage
You'll get frustrated with the latencies, unless you use an external audio interface that complies with ASIO on windows (no need on OSX)
In case anyone needs it, here's a couple notes just for clarification, since I was also really confused the first time I started reading into this stuff:
> That Ableton Push 2, for anyone who's wondering, is what's commonly referred to as a "Control Surface." Definitely not absolutely necessary, as Mult already said, but it's considered a good *workflow* option for those of us who find moving a mouse around to be a tedious waste of time. If you don't wanna constantly move the cursor around to select or solo or arm tracks, change volumes/levels, move virtual knobs with your mouse, etc etc, this is basically what a control surface does. It's a hardware extension of your "in-the-box" (software) controls. They come in a ridiculous variety of forms, and choosing one seems to generally depend on your DAW of choice.
--> Some keyboards or midi controllers also have some functionality like this, a-la the knobs at the top of that Native Instruments keyboard shown at around 6:00.
"Workflow" is the key word here. It's really more about convenience than anything else.
> The audio interface is also useful for getting sounds *into* the box. (into the computer.) Notice those XLR inputs on the front of the focusrite? That's where you'd throw in a decent microphone, turn on the phantom power if you need it, and get sound in that way as well. (I'm pretty sure there are also a couple 1/4" in/out jacks on the back, too.)
These also come in ridiculous variety, and your control surface or even midi keyboard/controller might even have some interface functionality, depending on the SKU. Midi ins-outs, onboard mixing, etc.
A midi interface falls under this category as well, if you need an alternative way to hook up a (compatible) keyboard/controller or offboard modular synths, etc, but that's something I'm still reading into and can't really say too much about just yet.
Audio production is a wild world....the functionality on all these devices overlap in so many ways it's almost impossible to tell the difference sometimes.
Actually an audio interface makes a big difference considering audio latency. I'd say that piece is even more important than a MIDI device like a keyboard or so, because as you said, there is already a way to input MIDI data using the computer keyboard. Velocity can still be changed afterwards. About the layout: asdfg and so on are white keys, we-tyu-op are black keys. So the layout is basically the same as on some small MIDI keyboard.
*I love how he said "Fruity Loops" and waved his hands lmao*
I took that personally
I feel offended, but probably for good reasons 😅
he's a master at making 10 minute long videos
I have ADHD, and I also bounce a lot,
but you show me all the corners of the room.
I even totally destroyed my PC, while seeing your video. LOL
Thank you friend, for this speed course.
You go with the speed of light through your explanation.
But it's good that I can follow you, because I'm relaxed like you. LOL
Tony
"And it does that... because thats what it does."
xD
Thanks bro. You may wanna switch from coffee to a chamomile tea...lol. Good comedy. Very useful info.
i wish you were my teacher for every subject in my school, i would actually like studying in school
If you could keep up woth his speed of course :DD
@YOU WERE BORN TO SING zero chill
I don't know if you don't know this, or if it just escaped you.
It's not really about mixing at high volumes with headphones you need a soundcard for. It's if you soundcard can't power your headphones enough so that you can reach mixing volumes even at the max. Or rather if you have to turn the volume to max, the sound will still be distorted, so even if Max is enough, if you have to go there, you need a better souncard for your headphones. And most "pro" headphones will need Max volume on most computers.
And of course, there aren't many if any mics that are even ok, that can be connected directly to the typical input on a computer (if it has one), so for recording vocals or other instruments, a soundcard is needed.
For someone that doesn't even know the basics of piano playing a piano-keyboard is not necessary. Pad options, and there are cheaper ones than the Push 2, could be much more useful. And if they play another instrument, the inputs offered on a soundcard is much more important than a piano-keyboard. I play the piano, at least a little, and if I could get only one device to play notes in to the computer, I would probably go for one of the good budget pad solutions rather than a piano-keyboard.
"Imagine i can talk" Made my day.
This was a great video, thanks for making it.
I'm currently on the fence of if I want to start making music or not. I mean, I do want to start but this is a pretty expensive thing to get into- or no- from your video it's not expensive to get into but to get all the sounds you want so you have the option to make music with more variety, then it gets more expensive. Either way I've played piano all my life so I've got one ready and waiting for this- just have a converter cable on the way. Also I used to work in video production so my computer is up-to-snuff since I believe rendering out complex VFX and the like would be more taxing than making music, but maybe not?
I don't know, hopefully when my wire gets here I have a good first experience with FL studio and am able to actually do what I'm looking to do with it. I'm kinda glad you said all you really need is a mouse and keyboard though, I was legit going through amazon for some of the stuff you were talking about here. I still need a good mic though for samples of me booty clapping as a base line, I hear that red box you dropped makes the biggest difference in audio inputs rather than what it gives back to your headphones.
so much broken equipment
I really wanted to stop watching this but I couldn’t. Kept on getting better and better. Made my day.
Is this good for my first setup?:
HP i5 6GBRAM Laptop
Akai MPK Mini MkII
Beats Solo³
FL Studio 20 Prod.
Better than mine so yuh
Boris Simeonov aren't Beats pretty heavy on the low end?
@Boris Simeonov wow 😂😂they're not even that bad
@@logannordhoff5583yeah they are, I think people overhate on beats but I think its mostly due to the build quality for the price which I get
JΛMΛ yeah, they aren't bad, but you can get much better for the same price.
This video was too fun to watch. You're a natural comedian. 😁
instead of describing the keyboard that you're blocking from view in great detail, you COULD just kinda move a little outta the way lol
having monitors as well as headphones is that monitors give you a better dynamic feel for your stereo seperation and panning its alot more noticable hearing from monitors.
You forgot about a mouse (;
trackpad (;
deadmouse
haha the best reply i ever heard XD 😂😂😂
Here is the best music production software online: hootsong.blogspot.com
***** :p 😂😂😂
Audio interfaces are also designed to operate with lower latency (lag) than the soundcard you have in your computer. When you're layering tracks in a DAW, or listening to the output as you play, audio interfaces can make that a better experience. Better audio interfaces have lower latency in general.
headphones? Pfft, I use the built in laptop speaker 😎
To make most electronic music, WITHOUT using a PC or MAC (some of us still like hardware only!), at the very least you will need a hardware sequencer, a sampler and a synth (or any combination of these, such as will be in an Electribe),. You could then consider a MIDI keyboard, Plug each of 'em in to a mixer, using standard cables, and from that you'll be outputing straight to a a high quality recorder - you could, e.g., pick up a second hand Boss BR600 for around 60 on the auc sites. Optional extras include extra effects units. The good news is that even if you part with the best part of a thou, with careful choice of used equipment, you will be able to recoup your costs later, should circumstancs change and you need to sell. BTW, the DAC he uses above will be completely unnecessary if you're using a h/w setup. Nor are monitors strictly necessary whlie you have high end headphones. You will need excellent headphones, partly because you won't be able to hear all the nuances of the music you create, if you use average phones. hth
ha ableton push 2 is 700 bucks
yeah maybe later
XPeanuhBudderX rrrrrrrrrrh
Downloading the pro version of FL20 from PirateBay is free
American musical supply my friend. You can make payments with no credit check
I have a launch pad does that work?
Found a second handed one for 250 lol
Btw people are hating on you for how you present your information, but I don't care cause you really did help me understand the true work to be put in and what's needed
I actually like this guy
Why are you gay?
I think all this really depends on what type of music that you want to play - and wether you want to/can play it live. Playing 16th notes can be tricky - and straneous, and stressful... So for certain types of music, and/or people, sequencers can be the only way of making the type of music that one wants... And then a soundcard would come before a keyboard... For people with enough interest for music, i highly recommend "Reaktor" from Native Instruments (200 euro), and the "Bome MIDI Translator Pro" software (69 euro), which can make a very limited MIDI controller thousands of times more powerful (it can take a decent amount of work, depending on your controller and goals - but its usually a one time thing that you go through, and then its set up)... I used it with my Akai Advance 25 keyboard, with only 8 knobs, and a bunch of buttons and pads, which i used as "shift buttons" for the 8 knobs - making the keyboard able to control over 1500 parameters, on each of 6 tracks..! Theres usually a maximum of 128 "cc commands" on each of the 16 MIDI channels - which gives a maximum of controlling 2048 parameters, no matter how awesome your controller is. With Bome, you can create "virtual midi ports", and use the full spectrum of MIDI information, on several different tracks.
I literally have that same Mac and a pair of headphones for my setup 😂
Sonny Jennings yeah, thats all that u need.. but if you want more, then get an audio interface, and a midi keyboard (if you make melodic stuff) :)
I have the same mac, headphones, and midi keyboard lol
Sonny Jennings what kind of Mac is it?
Gera Escobedo 13 inch mid 2009 macbook pro
The point of an external sound card is to eliminate electro static interference that's produced by the components in your computer and provide your vocals or MIDIs a clearer and higher end result free of static noise.
Most people who buy a soundcard really have that written in stone but to be honest mobos are pretty good at eliminating noise on their own. I have midrange mobo and tbh I hear practically nothing different when i have a card vs when i dont. If you're tight on cash or just bedroom producing, soundcards really arent that big of a deal.
not at all. The main point of External sound card in music production is all about latency. Of course high quality audio interface (from focusrite scarlett and up) will help with the electrically induced noise (if you plug a guitar make sure you use top quality cables, that actually are shielded to cut off noise).
He sounds like he is bullshitting his way thru a tutorial without having any idea whats going on, yet this is very informative...
cool
= charisma
What I do on every presentation😂😂
interfaces do a whole lot more than just headphones stuff, they record mics for vocals, and guitars and some keyboards, and good interfaces can help with latency which is basically the time thats past between what you played and what you heard, low latency is best!! he probably should've mentioned that lmao
U clearly don’t take care of ur gear if u just shake ur Mac laptop wen there’s somethin loose in it that’s probly important
Puddy
A good dac and amplifier make a whole lot of a difference compared to a standard computer / laptop headphones out. A few percent? I would say you don't know what you are doing if you listen to a laptop jack, you simply cannot hear it. But you are right, you can do music production with a computer and 25$ of headphones.
Just found your video, and I like you already.
In terms of MIDI controllers, technically you don't NEED Amy hardware. You could draw your notes and automations all with a mouse.
Whys half of all your shit broken lmao
Look at the way he handles it lol
For audio interface I would humbly suggest the Behringer U-Phoria umc404hd, it is on par or cheaper ($100) with the Focusrite, but has 4 inputs, and 4 outputs, whereas the Focusright here only has 2 inputs and a quite a bit less control (like pass-thru monitoring, gain pad for all four channels if you don't need as much pre-amp, separate controls for headphones and main out, which is handy if you have both plugged it). The behringer also have much more diverse selection of output jacks, and also does midi in and out, if you need that for whatever reason. I honestly feel like it is a steal at $100
NonLogical is there anything you dont like about it?
I would say, the only annoying bit was that I once had issues installing the driver for Windows 10, but it did not take too much time to resolve it. (It worked flawless on my linux and mac installations though, no driver needed)
NonLogical thanks for answering👍
I need Mr. Giraffe the most right now
jep, I wonder where I can grab my own Mr. Giraffe. Have you already found a shop that sells 'em?
Awesome video, really useful information. I'm looking to start learning production! Thanks :D
wauwsestrauses multiplier you are the best! i have 7€ headphones and they have done the job well 8months. only you have to know your equipment how they have balanced the sound and you can mix that whole crap whit it.
I have an IPad Pro 12” I have got it during a Thanksgiving after sale and at a bargain price.(
I thought it was funny and informative, 🤣🤷♂️
I think speakers are more important than headphones. Everything sounds good on headphones when mixing but you need the speakers to really get good quality. If you can get good sound out of your speakers your headphones will sound good by default but not the other way around. I only use headphones when I do reference mixing or recording. If you don't use speakers you will get super bad mixes that only sound good on headphones.
Don't use HD25 headphone for making music those are made for dj needs they are very good at it but just not accurate at all to produce music .
Manyfold is that a brand of headphones or type and what should we aim for
aaron withthehoodie get monitor headphones. They're specifically designed to give you the audio that you're creating in its exact form.
Marmalade forsure
Thanks so much. The sound for your voice is fantastic! So clear and crisp. I need a pro mic like that, I just got the Nokia 8, it's mics are good, but can you suggest a better mic that will work with the Nokia 8, please...thanks so much, great demo! :)
I have a M-audio prokeys Sono 61, is that a good midi keyboard? And are the parrot zik 2 good headphones? And i have a 13 inch mid 2015 macbook pro is that good? and i have the M-audio studiophile AV 20 speakers (im not a cool kid) is that good?
PierreCam's Playlists yes that is ok. :)
I like the way you break everything down man, this vid will really help out some beginners. keep doing your thing dude.
How is he still breathing !! haha
what hardware do you need for music production?
-a computer
-a way to listen to that computer
-a way to control that computer
that's it
Thought it was Markiplier 😂
same lmao
Dude this is my first time watching you and damn!! I already love you man, you make it easy to learn (for me) the other audio people here on youtube are quite boring thanks for your awesomeness mate :D
Jesus christ so difficult to listen to this that was a very frustrating video to watch, very poorly communicated
I know right. I almost clicked away. He spent like 30 seconds on the fact that the audio interface is broken. Im just sitting here like " i get it!!! its broken! please move on!!!!"
I agree with your opinion. But I realized almost at the end that he was trying to be funny while teaching.
yet you watched it you ungrateful twat
Dude you are just f****** crazy. As classic mail said below this will long 5 minutes. But you know what, I watched the whole damn thing and you covered the topic with no mouse. Cheers Man.
5 seconds in... *subscribe*
don't know why everyone's trying to give this lad a hard time. He was in depth and repeated and phrased things for everyone to understand. He's passionate and clearly very good at what he does, this video helped a lot, thanks :)
I use my Apple earbuds lol
Akg headphones are really good the ear buds make ur 808s sound so good
I like you, but you got the description for what an Audio Interface does partly incorrect. An Audio Interface takes inputs (from microphones and guitars) and converts and amplifies their analog signal into a digital signal, then sends that digital to the computer (A->D conversion). That is their main purpose, though most Audio Interfaces have Headphone jacks, those are mostly to monitor the level of the inputs without the delay of converting and sending the inputs to the computer. Of course, things evolve over time, so more features are added.
Also, "Sound Cards" are historically not the same as "Audio Interfaces". Sound Cards generally have some sort of signal generator like a synthesizer (Modern ones have Digital Signal Processors) and are used to create sounds. Back in my day, you had to buy a separate Sound Card and plug it into your computer in order to get sounds like music, stereo or midi. Modern computers have Sound Cards built into the motherboard and thus it is not necessary to purchase one to generate music (although you can buy an external one similar to buying an Audio Interface).
So, basically Audio Interface = Sound converter... Sound Card = Sound Generator.
Ngl, fuck the haters 😭😅 I have ADHD and the way you explain this kept me entertained and I actually learned what I wanted to learn. Thanks man! Peace n love
This is one of the funnies videos i have watched on youtube. Love the enthusiasm. After reading the comments it just made it even funnier while watching. I had to check to see if everyone was thinking what i was thinking.
so far the only major benefit I see to using midi is to record notes of a piano and allows one to replay piano notes onto a different piano (like the old days when you saw the punch card equipment that allowed the piano keys to move /play without the person playing the music. So I know there must be much more to midi because there so much to it with synthezisers , mixers ,...etc as well so its a confusing thing to me.
cute vid but just wanted to mention that I use the focusrite for my guitar interface as well as live recordings...the monitor is a secondary function....absolutely need it for recording digitally.
I loved how he was twirling the audio interface around and said oh it’s ok this is broken! Lol I wonder how it got that way. You are funny dude
this guy is fuckin awesome. as someone with a very high paced thought process it was actually really easy for me to understand what this guy was communicating and funny as hell. thanks guy
You miss out on a very important fact about audio interfaces: They let you connect input sources like microphones, guitars and synthesizers.
love how you keep it all real!! mad love
I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure that velocity is a measure of speed. I think the term you were looking for is 'applied force'.
Absolutely brilliant video! Great info but the energy is unparalleled
Thanks! If you make another video, would you consider demonstrating some of the features? For instance, on the Ableton Push I would have loved to hear how the buttons play a minor blues scale when you set it up for that. It's all completely new for me. Cheers!
Highly caffeinated, but good information! Cheers for putting this up!
Great video informative,humor,content
Your way of teaching is awesome I got a lot of information out of that
How I miss Play School.
Just listening to you brings back memory’s. “This is one I made earlier”
I would recommend for people who have no idea where to start 👍
I'd say the heart of any recording studio is the audio interface
I am hopeless Luddite , for some reason inspired to wrap my head around recording . But watching this video , I am 5x more confused than before, and I didn't think that was possible .
Nothing about sticking actual music into compuer ? Plugs for electric instruments , mics for accoustic ? Or even a vocal ?
Soundcard ? He keeps waving around a Scarlet , calling it a Soundcard . What little I have absorbed from my more knowledgeable friends , they're telling me those type of things are an Interface . A soundcard is a card I had to get almost 20yrs ago , back when computers didn't have sound from the factory.
What's with all the obsession with various keyboards ? While I do know a professional Keyboard player , I can't play no piano , and have no desire to record any .
Sorry how do you use the headphones again? I dont have a masters so i need some clarification Thank you and please proceed with the wonderfull lecture!!
HAHAHAHAHA at 12:54 I was waiting for that to happen or was going to slap it out of his hands LOL
thanks pal, the important thing is to know the hardware that we need , thanks
Hey! Nice video! Since you spoke about essential hardware, what kind of software do you think is necessary?
love your energy! this was really helpful and easy to follow. i'm a total beginner and only grew an interest for learning how to produce music a few months ago. cheers
There's a difference between a DAC and an audio interface. A DAC transforms a computers digital output into analog signals for headphones and speakers. An audio interface does that AND converts several types of analog audio signals(which differ in specification between dynamic and condenser microphones, guitars, the odd 8 track cassette deck etc.) into digital signals for your computer and the DAW running therein. Here ends the lesson.
You are, as many have said, a nutter, but as with many such people, you are nonetheless at least obliquely charming, somewhat as I might imagine Sherlock Holmes on needle days, if I were given to imagining such days.
P.S.: You mention the Focusrite is broken. I've long had a suspicion that the 2i2 isn't nearly of the same production quality as Focusrite's more expensive models. People talking at speeds similar to you have told me there are Focusrite burial sites in New Jersey, on Staten Island, just a few kilometres outside of Shizuishan, (formerly Shizuizi) in the People's Republic of China, and of course under the Isle of Wright entirely dedicated to the 2x2 model, each hundreds of metres deep and larger in acreage than a typical pro football pitch with associated parking areas. On the other hand, I'm given to understand that high failure rate of these units, usually timed to within a few minutes of the expiry of warranty is not actually a failure, but the first intimations of consciousness awakening within the box. Students of Arrighi have suggested that having been subjected to long pain filled hours of rank musical amateurism, the 2i2 units have joined in a legless walkout against the deplorable conditions of their worksites.
A contrarian analysis has come to light in recent months (first published simultaneously in the TLS and the NY Review) noting that these supposed failures are not a commentary on the taste of rank amateurs pretending to be music producers in their bedsits between engagements with badly shaven strangers with "birthmarks" looking suspiciously like chancres, but that against all expectations these burial sites are actually droid reanimation centres being established in anticipation of an approaching Sith attack. In appearing to fail, these units are in fact serving Queen and Country whilst joining the skill of British engineers to the rising technological troubadours of the People's Republic in an important gesture of transhumanism and righteous indignation against the clearly inferior Sith who dare threaten our very way of brewing a good cup, both at home and in the People's Republic.
P.P.S. The term soundcard refers properly to a third party internally rail mounted audio production device meant to overcome the nauseatingly bad audio capabilities of most pc motherboards.Save for the most expensive of such devices, these cards usually fail as many of the problems inducing listener nausea have their origin in the generous supply of semi-random magnetic fields and electron leakage consequential to the most common design paradigms of motherboard, power supply and rail design in the Windows/Linux box world, probably as a result of the influence of regional Chinese Opera on the designers.As the actual signal remains pristine so long as it is passed in digital form, external DAc's and Audio Interfaces have largely supplanted sound cards save in the already deaf gaming community, for whom pristine audio is understood as skull baking volume. Artists enamoured with "video art" also continue to embrace internal sound cards, a position made reasonable by the sound reproduction quality of the typical television. Video screens that typically paired two inch "woofers" and piezo "tweeters" are finally being supplanted by 3rd party soundbars where 2 inch "woofers" are ganged in groups of 2, 4 and even six units per channel in an acoustically resonant plastic frame work designed to buzz in imitation of low frequency response. The collapse of the soundbar market in recent years is currently attributed to American and Japanese housing and the lack of alternate spaces to hang Christmas, birthday and bereavement cards other than taped to the lower edge of the primary family television -- a space typically given over to a professionally installed soundbar......
Regardless of the result of this contretemps, I enjoyed your video.
.
All you need to start as absolute beginner is a medium price headphone win 7 torrent vst and buy midi controller later, that is when you can actually play a keyboard
Hearing him talk, makes me feel less alone. I'm a mess. But yes thank you for providing this useful information. ^___^
Bro forget about the negative comments, I liked this video and is was helpful and I appreciate u going into detail for every item
The thing I see the most is people with MIDI keyboards on their so called home studios, not using them, Start doing your stuff and buy only what you really NEED and WILL USE
Thx Mate!,Helped Me Out Alot. You're Really Funny btw, idk what the comment section are on about. But uh Yeah :) Keep Goin :)
Thanks for explaining audio interfaces. I hear people always telling others to get them but no one really said how much better they are compared to the sound cards that already come on your computer. Now I know that they do improve sound but they aren't really necessary unless you want to perfect the sound. Which is good because I would rather not spend a minimum of $100 on something that won't make an instant improvement in whatever I'm doing.
This guy didn't explain an audio interface correctly. On top of clarity, it's going to also help in processing, it allows us to use microphones/instruments and also allows us use of studio monitors..... so an audio interface is actually, in fact, absolutely necessary for producing and recording. You can play catch up all you want tho.
Some computers have bad soundcards.
And if you use a good pair of headphones, chances are that the built in soundcard can't power them properly, so they don't sound like they should.
If you don't really need any connections, there are cheaper external soundcards out there, that are not Audio interfaces for studio work, but that are still better than what is built in.
He didn't explain it correctly like the guy above me said. Plus you will most likely run into latency problems without one.
I use a Presonus Digital Interface and a Roland Intelligent Synthesizer MIDI Keyboard (Full Length) and of course some other equipment, but I'm not going to list everything.
Clear and simple tutorial easy to understand. Thank you. If it wasn't illegal I would have post you a pack of hash.👍👌
This guy is classic .... loved this video
i got a novation impulse 49 key. really nice as i has auto map to ableton 😊
2:05 "Oh wow this is an Aspen, you can tell that it's an Aspen tree because of the way it is. Wow!"
very well done, you explained everything a beginner needs to know
This video is great. I'm studio is just as nice I think... but our video execution is great.
Nah this is the proper order: 1. Computer 2. DAW 3. Monitors 4. Microphone (and mic pre if you mean business) 5. Audio interface (spent $1000 on an SPL Crimson 3 here. It bears heavy on sound quality that's why the pros are willing to fork out $4000 on a Prism sound Titan 6. headphones 7. Midi keyboard . For me though, I spend more money on mic, mic pre, interface and then monitors in that order. A computer is no brainer cos you know you need huge RAM and smooth ROM. DAW is just a matter of choice
...and you do need the right software to get the right sound you know.
on the flipside, can you send that MacBook Pro?...i can repair it you know