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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verdigris" data-source="post: 1091716" data-attributes="member: 13151">With all due respect to previous posters, I disagree that this type of thing will cost you "big bucks". As an electronic studio musician who has basically scrounged my stuff together from scratch while paying for grad school, I have a couple of recommendations:1. Cool Edit Pro was (I believe) a shareware 64 track studio featuring track editing and sequencing. I use an older version of it and it is highly intuitive, versitile and extremely fun. A way you can produce the sounds you want is to obtain a copy of "Audiograbber" (another freeware program) which allows you to take commercial CDs, turn them into easy-to-manipulate formats, and then copy them, distort them, rip them apart into samples or whatever. Once you have lifted what you want, you can drop it into Cool Edit and mess with it however you want. Its quite easy. I'm sure an older version of Cool Edit can be had for very little money off of Ebay.2. The program "Fruity Loops" is often used to create electronica and euro-trance music. Don't be fooled by this reputation: it is actually a very powerful and easy to use sampler and studio. I've found its (also very) easy to use step-sequencing capabilities to be extraordinarily fun and cool. This program comes with *thousands* of pre-recorded samples as well as original sound generating soft[ware] synthesizers: in other words, it will keep you happily creative for years without being frustrating. I use it to make standard blues and country music as often as electronica, and it can certainly do the wierd atmospherics you're looking for. It costs $99 or so.3. For atmospherics I reccomend Native Instrument's "Absynth". I can't get the thing to make a simple tuba or piano sound, but it can produce some of the scariest, trippiest, eeriest, and most unusual synth stuff around.4. I am an ignoramus when it comes to my equipment. I hate endlessly fighting technology to make sound, so if I was you I'd forego complexity and "professional" anything in favor of ease. Fruity Loops and Cool Edit are about as easy as it gets and they can produce outstanding sound if you've got a good soundcard.5. I cannot in good conscience recommend that you do what 99% of electronic musicians do when they start: obtain pirated copies of their software. That would be immoral and would deprive the good code-crunchers of the world their well-deserved salaries.(I can blab endlessly about this stuff, so if you find yourself needing more advice, just holler. )</blockquote>

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