I love music of all kind, and I need to upgrade my computer, maybe buy a new one...
what are the basics to create music with your computer?
With my current computer for example I can record samples... is it RAM, is it the sound card or else or both?
does it depends on the style of music you want to do?

I would appreciate something like basic specs, tips and advice.

thanks

electroclectic

well, post your specs.

i used to make music on an amiga ;)

...and the ST could also belt out a decent tune or two.

Now you need a top spec machine with half a grands worth of software - Cubase VST.

any new computer you get these days will be good enough - more ram is nice, just replace the sound card with a higher spec one.

you can get equivalent software for free, try reading a mag called 'computer music' (not winding you up!!) - you can get it from gt news in the peaks or wh smiths on fargate - and there should be loads of useful info in there...... actually, they have a web site - google for future publishing.

thanks

well I don't even know what I really have, but I think it's a 333Mhz, PII I guess. I ve been told, that except the tuner and the burner I can chuck the rest...

don't worry about the software, but for the hardware I can have a basic configuration and add say 256 of RAM and a good sound card and that will do? that's good thanks RPG.
does a good soundcard has "converter" from analogic to digital ( i.e. create a sample from any instrument or sound thanks to a mic)?

I had an amiga as well, I had to buy an upgrade to play street fighter, which ****** my mum off...

anyway thanks, I'll go on this mag website now.

interested to know how you got on ; )

There used to be a guy called Rob Hubbard who was a legend for his music on numerous C64 games.

Originally posted by Lickszz
There used to be a guy called Rob Hubbard who was a legend for his music on numerous C64 games.

Rob Hubbard did tunes for Spectrum games as well, notably a lot of games for Manchester based outfit of the 80s Ocean Software.

Some of the tunes on the 128k Speccy versions of games back then were as good, if not better than some of the musical offerings in today's games IMO.

Originally posted by Rich
Rob Hubbard did tunes for Spectrum games as well, notably a lot of games for Manchester based outfit of the 80s Ocean Software.

Some of the tunes on the 128k Speccy versions of games back then were as good, if not better than some of the musical offerings in today's games IMO.

Well said. Glider Rider was a favourite of mine. Did you ever hear STRACK IV? You can get it from www.worldofspectrum.org It features twenty of the best Spectrum 128 tunes.

Going back to the PC. We are currently selling our old school music PCs. They were only P2 266s with 128Mb RAM, a Soundblaster Live 5.1 and Windows 98 and that, coupled to a synth, did quite a good job.

The Last Ninja on the C64 used to have brilliant music.

Some of the best Speccy music was in the 128k versions of Codemasters' Dizzy series IMO.

They should do updated versions of the Dizzy games on consoles, especially online enabled for Xbox, but do them as 2D platformers in the original style, 3D platformers tend to suck.

Originally posted by Rich
Some of the best Speccy music was in the 128k versions of Codemasters' Dizzy series IMO.

They should do updated versions of the Dizzy games on consoles, especially online enabled for Xbox, but do them as 2D platformers in the original style, 3D platformers tend to suck.

Dizzy is one of the few games that you can't download freely for the emulators legally.(I have forgotten the term for freely accessible games of a certain age). Dizzy and sequels were certainly one of the best games of that era,.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
Dizzy is one of the few games that you can't download freely for the emulators legally.(I have forgotten the term for freely accessible games of a certain age). Dizzy and sequels were certainly one of the best games of that era,.

It's called freeware I believe.... And yeah it is a shame you can't legally download the Dizzy games, they were indeed classics of their age.

Shows me age though being able to remember games from as far back as 1984, yeah... The original Dizzy was released by Codemasters on various 8 and 16 bit formats in 1984, entitled Dizzy: The ultimate cartoon adventure.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
Dizzy is one of the few games that you can't download freely for the emulators legally.(I have forgotten the term for freely accessible games of a certain age). Dizzy and sequels were certainly one of the best games of that era,.

Abandonware?

Yes I think that is it abandonware

Originally posted by Skatiechik
Dizzy is one of the few games that you can't download freely for the emulators legally.
I have a DOS version of a few dizzy games lying around on a floppy disc somewhere, let me find them and i'll share if i can.

Chris.

Abandonware isn't technically legal though. It's just so out-dated that nobody particularly cares anymore.