Things needed just to do Music

Life has gotten better these days, anyone who can afford a $1,000 macbook these days can have easy access to super easy midi sequencer called GarageBand.

Garageband is the most versatile recording software for amateur users; it has presets for podcasts, scores, and also regular sequencing. Right, for a person who does music for fun or hobby garage band is perfect.

Well, funny thing is Garage band does not even have an oscillator:)

Here is the list for necessary necesseties.

• A 88-key master keyboard.
• Audio Card (firewire for Macs)
• Monitor Speaker
• Logic Studio 2 or other professional softwares like Protool 8, FL Studio, Reason, etc

and since I’m using a crappy macbook (not even a pro one), I need to upgrade my system to

• at least 4 gigs of ram
• additional 250 gigs of hard drive

Those are just the most most necessary stuff needed to compose in a modern way. I currently possess only one of them, Logic Studio.

Mi madre promised to buy me those equipments if I got good grades, but I kept on failing her expectations. Shame.

Just getting those list up there in average price reach over $1,500.

If I get the best equipments, and all the other fancy stuff, price will rise astronomically, and you’ll end up getting yourself a professional studio. Well, a super fancy tech keyboard alone costs more than $2,000 at least. The linked keyboard is nearly $4,000. Average family like mine can’t simply afford. Not being able to do what you really want to do because of lack of money is the saddest thing. It’s like getting accepted into Harvard and not having any money to pay.

It would be nicer if those stuff were just a little cheaper, so any individual can afford equipments of decent qualities.

Things are expensive, and it would be pretty if one doesn’t succeed after buying all those equipments. Expensive equipment itself is a pretty strong motive to work hard.

Good thing is that I found a mini studio near my place, I’ll try to figure something out there. hopefully.

Until then, for computer stuff, I’ll have to work like a minimalist, or use an acoustic instrument. like this.

This is a piece of score I sketched for the video yearbook. It’s just a sketch, I am going to touch this thing in computer soon.