It's music not surfing or learning to ride a bicycle with training wheels where you can outgrow your board or bike. It's true that poorly arranged, badly sequenced compositions are gonna sound bad whether you're using the best of the best or the worst of the worst, but I'm a victim of this frighteningly common mentality that if you're inexperienced, you should start with the low-end stuff and work your way up. Spend the most amount of money on the highest quality stuff you can afford right now or save up a bit to get the highest quality stuff you can then. I agree with everything Gar says except the first half of this. Each library has it's own learning curve and method of developing a realistic performance so it's going to take more time than you might expect to get all the details down. If you decide you want to start playing around with a sampled instrument start with one or two you know you are going to need to achieve what you want and learn each of them one at a time. Poorly sequenced/mixed samples aren't going to sound any better than poorly sequenced/mixed soundfonts or synth patches. Of course you don't actually own any of them so when you stop paying all of your projects are going to break if they are not bounced to audio.įYI samples can be a hefty investment so it might be better to start off with NI's Komplete so you have something useable to learn with. You can bypass much of the collecting by going with East West's Composer Cloud which gives you a ton of samples for a low monthly fee. I've spent years amassing my sample collection and figure i've easily spent over $3,000+ to get everything I need/want (this is ONLY counting sample libraries and sample based synths).
(also need to learn some equalization and masterization, so info on those topics is welcome too)Īlmost all free samples are going to be either crap or require you to give some personal information in exchange for some small instrument. If there's a thread or discussion with this information that I didn't see, please point me to it.Īll help is appreciated, thank you for your time and I hope to share my remixes soon. My music doesn't have a genre in specific, I have influences from classical, latin, electronic, rock, pop, and more, so I'm looking for sounds from all "popular" instruments like brass, woodwinds, strings, bass, guitars, and of course synth and electronic sounds too. I would like to ask for help, if someone could point me to the best free sounds or samples available. Of course I'm looking for the free stuff because I don't have the money to spend and because I'm just starting to seriously try to produce my music. I did some research on google and on the forum, and I'm overwhelmed with all the results and sounds, samples and stuff available, from free to expensive ones, I don't know what to do.
My question here is, where to start regarding music samples and libraries? Logic pro has some sounds that come with it, but they don't sound awesome except for the drum sets (in my opinion)
So I finally was able to upgrade to a more decent laptop and I'm moving from garageband to Logic Pro X (choose logic because of similarities with garageband)