Hi, IMO around Black Friday - Cyber Monday etc.. is often the best time to buy tech unless you find a deal savings can be substantial during that period. The sky is the limit when it goes to computers - personally my purchase two Black Fridays ago I think is my current main audio system, it was a ...

Any modern processor will be more than enough for all but the most demanding tasks. The AMD processors tend to be more power efficient and hence run cooler under load. I would bump that memory up to 32G mind you. And use NVMe drives. You can put everything on one drive really, though two is tidier ...

I'm building a low to medium-budget pc for music production. And I'm thinking of buying Ryzen 5 9600x. Can't afford the Ryzen 9. https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/9000-series/amd-ryzen-5-9600x.html Ryzen 7 9700x has only one advantage, and that it has 2 more physical cores ...

I have had a good experience with my nectar impact 61. My set up is similar to what you envision. The nectar is my light, cheap, thing to move around and tinker. The knobs/faders are occasionally handy but they are not a needed in my workflow (more of a mouse and keyboard guy). I have a Yamaha P60 ...

Ahh, well I can't speak from experience with the Nektar but I do own a number of Arturia products, both hardware and software, and I'm very happy with all of them. Here is the SoundOnSound review of the Arturia, in case you've not read it already. The only thing that I'd be mindful of is that the ...

If learning to play piano is an objective then I think you would be better off with a weighted (or at the very least, semi-weighted) keyboard even if it doesn't have as many controllers on it as others. Controllers are nice to have but are not essential for music production, and you can always pick ...

If you’re going to replace in a couple of years, I wouldn’t get either of these. I’d go for something cheap, like the M-Audio 88 semi weighted, you can’t go wrong with these, good value for money, and cheap enough to have kicking around for gigs and stuff, when you upgrade. Thank you for your sugges ...

Hi Everyone, Hope you all are doing fine :) I'm just new into this but I really want to learn Music Production. I've read a lot over the internet and also here on SOS. Now I want to begin. I really want to learn Piano and also want to learn EDM Production. But because of stupid covid I'm on a very ...

Hi Again :D So after keep searching over internet for couple of hours I ended up with one more option Arturia KeyLab Essential 88 It's even little bit cheaper than Yamaha P-45 and also has got really good review and has more features too and also has aftertouch What do you guys think about it? https ...

There is a difference between an instrument and a MIDI controller. The M-Audio Keystation 88 is a MIDI controller. It has no onboard sounds of its own and relies completely on soft-synths and/or other hardware synthesizers to provide actual sound. There is a place for MIDI controllers - I have a ...

The main disadvantage of just a midi keyboard is that you always need to have a sound source hooked up and there may be latency through a computer. If you just want to sit down and practice it can be a pain. I'd suggest getting the piano and a cheap synth action midi controller or old synth and ...

The main disadvantage of the digital piano when using it as a MIDI controller is that it doesn't have any controllers for pitch bend or expression. If you want a piano feel on a keyboard that includes controllers then take a look at something like the Studiologic SL88 which is about the same price ...

Hi everyone hope all are doing well I'm from India and from very small town so it's becoming hard to find advice about this into my town. Thankfully I know the power of internet. Now I wanna learn music composition and production. I've read some articles so I know that I need PC - DAW - Audio ...