Found It (to be impossible)

Drums. Guitar. Repetition. Slightly electronic.



It just took an hour of listening to the first ten seconds of a few discographies.


Fetid: There is no conceivable reason why I should not buy one of these with my money.

.....BUT WHICH ONE? They all have their separate uses. Do I want a 25-key velocity sensing keyboard, a 12 pad MIDI controller and X/Y pad, or a 9 knob/slider track controller?

In all probability this will sit on my desk and frustrate me to no end, but the annoying thing is that to make any kind of electronic or hip hop music you need real hardware. Hundreds of dollars of hardware. And you have to start somewhere.

I just have absolutely no idea where to start. It is nothing like learning an instrument, you know? You can go out and buy a guitar, and a book of chords, and go from there.

You can't do that with this kind of music. You have to have a massive library of music and sounds to sample from, a sequencing program and the accompanying knowledge and skill to operate said program, and the hardware to make the music and software interact. And it's impossible, all of it is impossible.

It's like saying "I want to Art, please. I've downloaded Photoshop and I've purchased a tablet and there are a million tutorials on DeviantArt and I'd like to learn how to Art please. Where do I start?"

In fact, it's strikingly similar to that.

Ahh, I go through this every few months.

Here is my dilemma in a nutshell: I watch videos of this nature


And I simply do not know how much of that is the original sample, is the personalized piece of hardware, what software he's running that through, and/or him randomly rubbing his damn thumb on some squares. Somehow he makes a great, if rudimentary, breakbeat sound. No idea.