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What is the best software to produce soca music other than reason,fruity loops, and pro tools????????????

Digital performer (mac) Cakewalk sonar (PC)

lol...I see this convo has come back....Personally I feel Pro Tools and Reason are the best.....

There are other good ones though notably Mac's Digital Performer, Cubase, Cool Edit Pro and Sonar...


But in the end, if you can afford it and all the plug ins, nothing beats Pro Tools.

Trixx I agree wid you. Protools is definitely the best. There aint nothing you cant do wid that programme. I use sonar for all my midi stuff them import it into protools.

I have yet to demo that software to be honest...I d/l it and used it for like 2 weeks, but I am stuck in my old ways.....I must try it....

You gotta try Reason for MIDI though...that shit is SICK!!!!!!!!!




yeah yeah my new endorsement for 2k5....I need to start makin money off of this shit.

well i using fruity loops 4 for my soca beats and they sounding mad sick head nah good even i have dance beats on this machine fruity loops u jus got kno how to prgram ur beats on timing sweet i can do a soca beat from scratch in 5 minutes

I am also stuck in my old way. For years I've used cakewalk6,8,9, and now Cakewalk Sonar. Im so confortable with it that I find it extremely hard to change. You can close your eyes and work wid it. When I dump my drums I send them through my MPC2000xl as audio files into protools. For Keyboard tones I use a JV1080 or my proteus 1000 modules.

i jus open my lil studio i going to invest in a mpc2000xl and a mixing board and a korg triton workstation keyboard hook everything to this computer my speakers are coming during the week so they coming piece piece

Dont forget you definitely need a good sound card in your system. If you have a good sound module with good drum tones you dont really need the MPC. The MPC is gonna sequence just like the Triton would. What kind of speakers did you order?

MPC IS STILL GOD OF ALL DRUM MACHINES

I agree definitely, but Im sure that you know that without the right tones the MPC aint happening

DO you use an 808 kick?

just like everything else....Fruity Loops, Reason and Triton wouldn't be worth the money without the tones....But what I like about the MPC, especially the MPC60 is that raw analog sound u can't seem to get anymore in the newer models or even the computer sequencers....I believe they emulated tube compressors in that model....


All hail the MPC.

i jus bought a new sound card real nice i order 2 300watts sub woofers

i use an 808 kick nice decent kick