the main thing with laptops is you will need a good external USB sound card. The internal one will be too noisy and probably lack a line in anyway as they are now only intended for business powerpoint presentations and VOIP telephone calls, neither of which need hi fi audio.

Also, laptops often are stacked full of bloatware as well as windows or OSX, such as “battery monitors” , hard disk monitors, and other things to dumb down the setting up of hardware such as wireless networks. Why these sorts of things are put there as well as Windows control panel etc beats me…

These take up memory and can cause all sorts of odd issues when doing time-critical stuff like recording long audio streams.

Sony VAIOs are particularly bad for this (and far from cheap either).

Some years back now a friend of mine got a ACER with an outboard soundcard which he succesfully uses for a lot of audio production, both electronic and multitrack recording. From what I remember of it it wasn’t that expensive, robust and worked well.

Another friend uses a Mac – these are nice but expensive.

I would say you get more for your money with PC’s provided you are willing to learn a bit about computers.

I’d advise you to also be prepared to spend a fair few weekends sat in learning stuff and just getting the damn thing configured and working straight (sometimes stimulants help :wink:) before you make any decent tunes…

Learning music production is not easy to master, for it can take an enormous amount of time on your parts to even learn how to understand producing music just right. However, with the right learning method, you should well be on the way to jamming to some of the top charts in no time at all. Nevertheless, what learning production system would be the right course to realize your dream?

The answer would naturally be attending a music production course. You can find a lot of online production workshop created by professional music producers who know what they are talking about. Just have a look at a program content that could be enough to kick some serious ass at production. The workshop should cover an entire scoop of different performances and studio production secrets. Therefore, you should be able to learn all the best strategies to succeed as a top Music Producer.

A program that contains performances of various styles of music, could open your mind to understand how to mix, to take recording, to make beats,loop and more. Learning every style of performance, production and composition could give you a deeper insight into the music world.

Music producer job is not for the faint hearted. For mastering every aspect of music production you should keep a a steady regiment of practice but at the end of it, you are able to create any style of music production, programming your brain virtually with unlimited pattern combination and allow your creative production juices to flow.

Nevertheless, the fun of learning music production you should be able to learn to compose and play any piece of music very quickly. Producing music allowing you to imply your creativity journey easily. With some hard work on your parts, you should be able to do more than just learn to produce any music style; you should be able to literally create your own music with your unique signature on it, now that’s something!

@know_hope 552922 wrote:

at least as difficult as checking a date it would seem

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