I use TabIt, and love it pretty much for the same reasons arlen does. What I make in it usually isn't actual guitar or rock stuff, more orchestral, but I like how even though TabIt is designed for guitar stuff, I can do my kinda thing anyway.Heh, I was gonna add Anvil to the list, but I forgot if that's really what it was called. :o
I've got no need to look for any other tool, seeing as I have the tools required to take the simple MIDI output from TabIt and make it sound awesome. I've wrote a guide (http://slyph.org/index/content/view/40/44/) answering most of the questions I was asked about it.
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+Sticky, seeing as this is a general intrest thread.
I use a real guitar its called a Chevelle.Hmmm. This post seems quite inflammatory. As if you're saying "who needs computer programs, I write music on my real guitar."
Double posted because I have no idea of what else to do...Where can I get stuff like Tab-it and Finale, REGISTERED, (as in, do you have one I could steal from you?) and quickly? I'll wait on it to download for a pretty long time if I HAVE to, but I would rather not...
I use garage band which is not up there because i think your a bunch of retarded fucktards.
lol i do not really mean this, im just probly high off this pen cap, which has ink that i have been inhaling into my system.
Wow, this really enjoyable, even though I have short pains in my stomach.
Oh my god. Why the hell does a notation program have a "Use a separate channel for each staff" option? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
edit: thx
Where do I get Finale, I'm trying to get all of the good programs. (And any others that are good and not named Tabit or Synthfont, I have those all ready.)
I've used FL before and I don't like it. It encourages the repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, loop, loop, loop, start over but with another repeating thing over the top, go again, go again, go again, etc type of music I really don't like. It even has a thing where it'll just slap in random notes for you.
My brother uses it and every time he sends me something he's made in it, all he wants to know about it how it sounds with fancy synths and electronic beeps and stuff. When I send him stuff I make, I want opinions on how it's composed.
FL is great for that type of music, sure. But it bores me. But when you think of "respected" music, you don't think THUD THUD THUD THUD LOOP LOOP~
[edit] what he said^
Most of the other programs on that list, say for Reason, are based on MIDI, or don't have the freedom to create MP3 tracks that are incredibly complex and featuristic (one or two I have not heard of before, so spare me)
Yeah, but do you know the range of a violin? The different sounds of a flute or bassoon? The different playing techniques of a string section?
Does Frootyloops?
Finale does, with the GPO add on (That Halo seems to be rather fond of).
That's all I'm saying.
Also, soundfonts are MIDI, you know. So, yeah, that's MIDI-based.
I don't like tabs, so I don't use TabIt, but I know several members here do, and they're very talented (arlen, Silverline in particular), and they seem to know they program very well, and they get very creative with it. Someone may have to correct me here, but yes, you have to record the mp3's yourself... and I'm not sure if it's soundfont compatible, but that's all just an extra step, so it's not that big of a deal.
Yeah, but do you know the range of a violin? The different sounds of a flute or bassoon? The different playing techniques of a string section?
Does Frootyloops?
Finale does, with the GPO add on (That Halo seems to be rather fond of).
That's all I'm saying.
Also, soundfonts are MIDI, you know. So, yeah, that's MIDI-based.
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Lol, I make my loops myself, I never use external ones. It ain't fun that way.
He was all like "you didn't actually compose anything because you're just using someone else's work (the loops) and arranging them!"
I've been using FL for over 3 years now (I haven't nearly touched for a year, BTW... -_- ), yet I STILL don't know all of its features and possibilities.
Whoever thinks that electronica is fake and music that isn't is real should be shot. Actually no, I'd rather them murdered brutally.
decided if I start something like this at the age of 13 I'll learn quicker.
QuoteLol, I make my loops myself, I never use external ones. It ain't fun that way.
Well... you wouldn't kill me if I said I use the default plugins, downloaded soundfonts and the usual stuff you find in "Packs > Dance" now would you? Besides even if you use a default loop in the dance area you can still edit it to make it sound different that what you'd use them for. I was told by someone to never use a preset on FL (as in preset effects, plugins) and I agree, always mess around a bit, tweak with the knobs - experiment and you'll find that some stuff you can make out of them is really amazing (this excludes DX10 Tinkle, that synth is pure pwnage - I haven't been able to think of anything to make where it fits though, besides my latest IDM Experiment).
QuoteI've been using FL for over 3 years now (I haven't nearly touched for a year, BTW... -_- ), yet I STILL don't know all of its features and possibilities.
I've learnt so much within one year my head feels like it will explode - finally my stuff is starting to make me say: "Yeah... I really like that."
And anyone who uses FL doesn't use it to loop loops. But to use the synths. Am I right? Besides FL has some really good effects, combinations are endless.
You lucky bastard. You do know that younger people can learn faster, do you?
Also, you should start a thread for your stuff =)
I would love to see Halo and Blizzard collaborate on something. You know, where Halo writes some arrangement and Blizzard adds some synths and beats to it.
Rather and randomly adding notes, I want to actually learn how to compose with more than one track and different instruments.
Tabit is for guitars
its MAINLY for the guitar
Also, Finale won't tell you when you're out of an instruments' range.
There is no such thing as piccolo tabs, or french horn tabs.
There is no such thing as piccolo tabs, or french horn tabs.Course not Holk (<3), but making it in the guitar tab form, just expresses it in the tabulure thingy, if you get what i mean...err which you probably dont.
I've always wanted to compose my own music... which program is best for starting out?Depends on your type of moozik too you know, i use tabit, and its not so tough, you just need sense and a keyboard, you just gotta enter numbers.
Fruity Loops can be good if you get good at it, but it eats up way too much RAM.
Wow, that actually uses up more CPU and RAM than Finale. Unless you use GPO or something with it. But still, that's worse than I thought, and Finale is a resource hog. :o It might not be that high when compared to other programs one might use, but for a music program, it's pretty bad.
@Halo: It was pretty heavy with effects to get things to sound right though but I'll stop talking about it now. We all know FL is CPU-heavy well... apparently (according to others anyway and in comparison to Finale / TabIt / WHATEVER).
I started using Noteworthy Composer, which is better than most people think. If you can read standard notation anyway. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy and you can do almost anything you'd need to for a MIDI with it.
Now I use Finale, which does everything. Even if you can't read notation, you can just write in tabs, or a combination of both, or whatever. I'm actually teaching myself to read tabs this way: just write in notation, and then copy and paste it into tabs, and then I know what the notation would be if it were written in tabs. And you can do the pitch bends and modulation on instruments, like mentioned before. It also plays the music in a certain style, for example Rock. It will then play the song with all the
But does it show the note? Or the string/key? Because if it shows the note, I'm good to go.
FL probably uses the map system, where it's basically a huge excel sheet of notes and positions in time and you just like mark it with the pencil tool, lol.
But does it show the note? Or the string/key? Because if it shows the note, I'm good to go.
How do you mean?
And FL is nowhere near anything like standard notation. It's about as similar to standard notation as a brick.
(also, anyone know if it's possible/how to import your own loops in Garage Band?)
What's the best FtU, and PtU music program?It has been cracked. No exceptions. Everything in theory should be FtU.
FtU= Free to Use, PtU = Pay to Use.
Merged with the stickied thread.you piece of shit, you killed the poll!
I wish I could switch to Sibelius, but it doesn't meet my needs, so I'm stuck with Finale. ;9
hopefully a digital drum kit if I can talk my band's drummer into letting me borrow his :)
Oh yes, it is slow and chuggy.I found my old external soundcard recently. It loads soundfonts at the hardware level instead of the software level, I guess, but yeah, I just use that now.
But it's free.
However, I haven't had your problems with actually loading em up- it just takes a while with some of em. Why was that do you think?
(And what do you use instead, if anything? Roph gave me a cool program, but it doesn't like some of the things I do in tabit.)
- I don't even use Reason as a standalone, anymore. It's really more like just another instrument plugin.
Music of old was never that complex, you know. Most classical music is simple, I V I IV V I, clean cut, no dissonance, really easy to listen to music.
Past classical music, though ... eh ...
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that it's not impossible for most musicians to hear complex things in their heads, but when it comes to writing it down, I find it to be much faster to use a computer and play it back.
But I'm sure composers holding rehearsals of unfinished works, and make changes to them before releasing them isn't unheard of...
Ugh, but this is getting out of hand. How the hell am I really supposed to answer the kinds of questions Manatee's asking me? Jeez.Lololol. But it was a nice read. I understood, like, 69%.
This is all his fault.
Too true. I suppose I need to specify what I refer to.I lol'd again.
Well, either way, I write stuff out on paper before I throw it into my mac.
I think that would be pirating
AND WE DONT SUPPORT PIRATING AT RMRK :V
You should give Finale a try. I used to hate it, but once you actually figure out how it works, it's very effective. And it comes with Garritan Personal Orchestra, which is a very nice orchestra sound library.I'll give it a try.
I use GuitarPro. Very easy to use and got some really good features.LOL WUT. For a tabbing program, it's the worst considering you need to put in the rests.
My school has Sibelius. We use it for our theory class. ;8 Is it really that good? o_o
On further inspection, it seems the main difference is that FL Studio comes with generators and auto-creation stuff, so the composer has to do less ... actual composing. Is this true, or am I misunderstanding something?