5 things to start making electronic music at home

How to get your studio started according to professor snackerelli

Hopefully this helps!

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Time stamps!


1. DAW 0:54
2. MIDI 3:31
3. Interface/Monitors 5:10
4. Real instruments 7:20
5. Samples 11:02


Hope that helps!

[dos_mas_]

Prophet and Mini Moog...BOOM! I love your perspective on the use of incorporating real instruments. I am a longtime musician, but fairly new to this style of music and production. I have to say that you and Andrew Huang are among the top of my list for young producers because of your foundation in playing actual instruments.

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

You are easy to understand and get to the point. I like stuff like this where the speaker doesn't talk forever without getting to the point. Looks like you have lots of fun gadgets in that room!

[danopticon]

I misheard “One … a _dog!”_ and I nodded vigorously in agreement! 🐕❤️😀

[nathanksimpson]

Why doesn't this channel have more followers? Amazingly insightful for beginners.

[dn]

..by far the best and most useful intro to the world of electronic music production on YouTube - straight to the point, perfect balance between the basics & essential detail. Thank you @badsnacks, I've learnt more from this 10-min video than days of research.

[ayezik]

This was actually really helpful and informative! Thank you! Literally just got interested into producing about week ago and have been experimenting since with no real direction. This is such a big help so thank you!

[bobc]

I discovered your channel by accident, and what a find! I really like all your videos. I see how much people really admire your music and producing skills and I agree. But I want to compliment something else: I think you're brilliant at explaining things on video. Your tutorials are so straightforward and easy to understand. I really like your straight-ahead communication style; you just show us how you do things, step-by-step, and you provide simple explanations. Fantastic!

[LastMinuteAndy]

People are sleeping on REAPER... best daw I’ve used hands down.

[JayAyers]

I just came out of a concert thinking "I want to my my own music" and then you uploaded this video. You're reading my mind snacks.

[lorenzopagano]

Thank you so much! This was super useful for me, as I'm about to get started with attempting to make electronic music. When you don't have a background in this stuff it can be fairly confusing, but you broke it down really clearly. Much appreciated!

[DanFingermanOctopus]

For anyone considering FL Studio, it might have a bad reputation in some circles, but I can highly recommend it. The piano roll and extreme automation possibilities are amazing. If you can think of it, you can automate it. For example, you can change the tracks an audio recording plays on with automation.

[onelovetao]

you not only a good producer but a better teacher. great info for beginners

[seanconnors]

Much appreciated, as a fellow violin player who is missing the connection with modern music, this has been awesome to watch, and gives me so much inspiration!

[davmar]

I greatly appreciate anyone that takes the time to share their informed opinions and experience on the subject. I do think you are starting off with a greater degree of complexity than is really necessary for "getting started". Re: DAW's. There are a number of these, in particular Cakewalk by Bandlab, that are as capable and sophisticated as any DAW on the market, and it is completely FREE! Ditto, there are hundreds of completely free VST instruments and FX software plugins.


A MIDI keyboard controller/synthesizer is very useful, but unless you are a keyboard player, small MIDI only units with a limited keyboard range (but with sliders and knobs that can be programmed to control the DAW mixer and software synthesizer parameters) are entirely adequate and, as you pointed out, readily available used on, e.g., eBay.


As I'm sure you are aware, much contemporary music production is entirely electronic, thus acoustic instruments, microphones and digital audio interfaces are optional and those items can be among the more expensive studio equipment. Even if you aren't recording a microphone output (requiring an A/D converter, i.e., audio interface) you will still need some type of D/A (digital to analog) converter to output the sound from the computer to the amp/speakers. If you are on a really tight budget you can just use the analog speaker outputs on the computer to feed the monitors. Absent live recording of acoustical instruments, that also means that you don't have to worry about an acoustically appropriate studio space. That subject is a whole other level of complexity and, potentially, expense.


A decent set of monitor speakers, either self-powered or passive (which requires a separate amplifier) is a pretty universal requirement and I agree that it is worth obtaining the best quality that your budget allows right off the bat. If you use headphones only to mix and master your music you end up with a result that sounds good - when using headphones. It is generally suggested that you preview your end results on as many different sound systems as you readily have access to, e.g, home and car audio, stereo equipment of friends and family, etc., before a final release. I might also mention that there are also very good free music score creation and editing software applications, e.g., MuseScore. Thank you again for your contribution to the community.

[genepozniak]

Many midi controllers and keyboards come with Ableton Lite for free, and it's pretty damned useful.

[braptrap]

Very appreciative for videos like these, even for those of us with a setup already. Gotta love fundamental reminders 🙌

[nosleepclique]

Bad Snacks, i just wanted to let you know that you're straight up inspirational, your music is fucking awesome, and i learn something EVERY TIME I WATCH your videos. Thank you for the good music and thank you for the good information.

Also, Neat Tape was SICK :D

[kobrah]

Acoustics for beginners is not a must have, but, it will help listen that true flat sound from the monitors. I learn that the hard way. I read once an article stating that no matter how expensive or good the monitors are, without acoustics, is like not hearing the whole full spectrum. But if you know the sound of your monitors like the back of your hand and you can make it work in post-production /mastering knowing that your mixes are translating well on other sounds systems; keep doing it. Acoustics will help with the workflow of mixing and mastering, making it easier and faster to identify which sounds of the track full spectrum need to be tweak. Again not everyone that is starting will have money for acoustics, good reference headphones will help be the substitute for that, but again is a completely different thing mixing and mastering on headphones vs studio monitors. A lot of nuances that I learn when i started in music production. I think I went off subject, being the video for starting at home. Again is my humble opinion.


Sorry again for my English.

[Silent-Lucidity]

You are amazingly articulate! Both, in your speech and your lesson plan! Great work!