What is the crowd's opinion of Soundation Studio?

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I'm going to second what sli said and recommend Ableton Live. It's a very intuitive way to get into loop-based electronic music and it's very powerful and deep as well. The nice thing about it is the complexity isn't immediately overwhelming for a beginner like it is in Reason or Logic. In fact, the built in tutorial walks you through everything you need to know to put together a track. It's beautifully constructed.

The good news is that because it's very much a loop-based piece of software, you can use all kinds of commercial free loop collections to create kick-ass tunes in a short amount of time. Check out the sample collections from Sample Magic. They sell a lot of top quality sets designed specifically for house producers.

Now, the bad news is that if you really want to create your own music, you're going to need to learn about music and music production. That means making your own beats, creating some themes and chord progressions and learning how to mix and use dynamic processors like compression and equalization units. This takes time, but it's worth it.

If you don't want to spend any money, or can't quite decide what to get, check out the free web-based sequencer Soundation. This will give you a feel for how most of this software works as well as access to some loops that you can play with. Free is the best price when you're not sure what to buy, right?

Good luck!

Too sad, yes. Wish we knew why. 😞💔

Head's up, the #WayBackMachine version doesn't allow for proper saving purposes.

It's only now good if you want to write down your work and then use Audacity or some equivalent to.tecord the playback as a ,wav for future reference, when you're still stuck re-writing your entire piece from scratch.

So IOW, not great for complex-structured compositions, ONLY good for quick "memo notes" of reference material that you'd like to build on at a much later time, using different software.

In the meantime, www.soundation.com seems to so far be a best equivalent to OS. With more options (like effects sampling & loop intehration).

The midi portion however, leaves much to be desired however, in that you are "guessing" at each note you place on their midi playback board.

OS was great in that you could physicallt hear the notes and tones RIGHT AWAY, when you placed them. Whereas #Soundation leaves that part a ,"mystery" so that you have to keep on playing back your sequence in order to GUESS which notes got placed wrong, by accident. (That part is a waste of time, if you ask me.)

Otherwise, it may be a viable alternative in the meantime for you...unless you have settled into an alternative, by now.

Cheers & best wishes,

--'N.

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I'm actually using a dock/radio the Pure Contour 100di a pretty old dock which has been discontinued, they have newer ones which are very similar, however these start at around £200.

I'm not sure about IOS but on Android "Alarm Clock Xtreme Free +Timer" is a free app that allows for volume fade in, there is also a paid version of it which I think removes the adds.

Alternatively you could add a fade in to a song manually using any music editing software. Soundation here is a free online tool that allows you to do this, and you don't actually need to make an account to use it. If you have a mac then you can use GarageBand which is free. These can be quite difficult to use if you have never used any music editing software before, so I would recommend just downloading the app.

Hope this helps.

Um, don't you already have Garageband on your Mac?

If you for some reason don't and can't get it (thought it was standard), check out Soundation. It's a very good way to learn the ropes and you have access to their free library of loops.

Seriously though, look for Garageband in the Applications folder. If it's not there, check the system disks. It may not have been installed as it might be considered an "extra."