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Hi! I wan't to build a pc to start my dubstep creation and electronic house music. I was trying on my little portable pc and it didn't work out very well. So I tought maybye I could have some help.

What program will it be the best,Reason ?

If I build my pc, what component will I need ? What do you suggest me ?

And a little thing, de you have some electronica house music to propose me ?

A big Thank you.

Zebras

You don't need a super special computer to make music, at least not at first. Just something with a reasonable amount of RAM, and a fairly speedy hard disk. A sound card might be relevant, but there's a lot of downloadable drivers that work well. I like ASIO4ALL. And some good speakers or headphones, o'course. Reason is great, but has a steep learning curve. FL studio and ableton live are a lot better to ease into - the amount of youtube tutorial video coverage is considerable.

But I'd take it easy before you start buying anything. Get some software, fool around with it until you have a grip on the interface, and start producing from there. I don't think it's a kind of hobby where you immediately need to buy anything extra. How much experience do you have with the genre?

P A N

i would suggest getting an external sound card/IO interface. it will far exceed the capability of your computer's native sound card, making the idea of adding many tracks a lot less worrisome. it will also give you the added advantage of having ports nearby that your can plug stuff into, and a volume knob that you can physically shut a haywire situation down to zero volume with. that sh*t can freak a motherf*cker out!

reason is an incredibly powerful program. it doesn't work like other programs in a lot of ways, so it can be kinda weird to get into. one reason it's being used so much though, is the combinator. the combinator allows your to take pretty much as many different virtual instruments/samplers/effects as your computer can handle and turn them all in to a single instrument, layered and routed to whatever effect you want. this has the ability to make insanely huge sounds. you gotta know your sh*t though, cuz it might sound good coming out of your speakers at home, but if you don't know how frequencies work, take that track to a club and it might destroy their sound system... or just sound terrible, which is embarrassing.

i would get reason for the sole fact that you can open it as a plugin inside...

FL Studio. i've been using FL Studio since its inception. the creators of it wanted to make a program that anyone could make music with, no matter what level of ability they had attained. by all counts, i would say they've quite succeeded in that endeavour. i've used a lot of different programs, and i always come back to fl studio. i also find it to be the easiest on the eyes, on top of being extremely intuitive. and like Zebras said, you can find a lot of tutorials online. you can also find a lot of tutorials on Reason though. they're just weirder.

the one main thing i really want to suggest though, is DON'T BUY A MAC. unless you have a sh*t-tonne of expendable cash. with a pc you can find ripped versions of pretty much anything you're after, try it out first, and then if you end up using it a lot you can buy the real release, which comes with some perks like automatic updates and tech support.

EDIT: i said getting reason to open in fl studio was a good idea because using reason alone to record and sample and arrange is a pain in the arse, but if you just want to use the instruments and effects in it, that can be done without having to bother with reason as a sequencer. just clearing that up.

EDIT #2: having two or three monitors will greatly increase the fluidity of your workflow. making music in a DAW can get pretty hectic with all the little windows you might have to open up, so being able to spread them over several monitors is a huge plus. i would pretty much call it a bare necessity.

Atramentum Cor

Is it better to build my own pc, or buy one and put things that can boost him ?

I know that the power supplie might be a problem with the pc boost but I know it could help me get to the point earlier.

And big thank you, very nice of you guys, you know what you are talking about

P A N

i would way rather build my own pc than buy one from a store. you end up getting more bang for your buck in most cases and you get the added bonus of putting whatever you want in there. with most builders it really doesn't take that long to get you your product either. what's a week or two wait-time, when you get a superior product in the end?

and another thing you should consider is a solid state hard drive. i haven't had the pleasure of putting one in my own DAW yet, but i've talked to a few people who have and they say that with enough ram and a solid state hard drive you won't ever have to worry about latency again. i don't know if you've ever made music on a computer, but latency is the devil.

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Yeah I tried, on my 500$ pc and didn't work, like NATHA. 3-4 fps max... And was really hard to make something with the program I used to. I was using Magix (Its big sh*t don't ever use that) and the problem was always the latence really simple to use program, and really easy to make srap out of it to.
I know building a PC is real easy stuff, I have a friend that assemble pc's so I have no worries.

So my needs :

-Maybe at least 16gb RAM ?
-Solids States Drives
-Reasonable Sound Card
-At least 2 Monitors, maybe 3.
-And If I want to go a little bit further: Reason and tutorials.
-I will download Fl Studio, try it and if I like, will pay for the support.
Is my list done ?

Oh and by the way, on Fl Studio you can create your own sounds ?

Zebras

I like the ideas there, but I would downsize the list by at least half to start. My suggestions would be:

4 or 6gb RAM
solid state drive, doesn't have to be too big.
A good sound card
Just one monitor for now
Don't bother with reason yet. A middle-range FL-studio (that is, not the beginner or ultimate versions) should do just fine.