Hi everyone, is there any dude composing and arranging music?
i'm thinking to learn since i always have passion to make the melodies inside my head out , not only by jz write it down on paper or plain recording with voice and instrument, but also to make it inside computer and arrange it by adding some effects or virtual instruments' sounds.

I've surfed down the posts but seems cant find topic relavant to composing and arranging?
example like Music Computer setup - Recording/Composing and Arranging Environment Set Up
with all plug-ins and other necessary equipments etc

every musician pro/expert/lover, i need your help to enlighten me for some clues
Thanks =)

go here --> http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...music+recording

i'm was an arranger and composer.

firstly you need to state what kind of environment you want, and how serious you want your workstation to be?

like mine, it was just a very simple bedroom workstation - a set of PC, pair of hi-fi (real hi-fi, not mini hi-fi), sound card, double LCD monitor, and a midi keyboard and off i go, and have been doing so for 5 years.

if you already have PC, then you can start to think of a pair of good speakers, good soundcard, and midi keyboard, they're going to cost you around RM4000 (speakers RM1500 soundcard RM1500 keyboard RM1000). then you need to look into midi sequencing softwares, try reaper, free download and it's a shareware but you can use it forever for free, though, you should pay $50 license fee for personal use, or $200 for professional use.

if you die die want to save as much as you can, also no problem. if you're using audigy, download the KX driver, or chaplang soundcard, download the ASIO4ALL. these are generic ASIO drivers for consumer soundcards to let them communicate with the CPU directly without going through your OS. then you can of course use your whatever speaker you want, best use a good headphone which probably will only cost you RM100+. as for keyboard, you can use some cheap casio keyboard as
mini controller but it's always better to buy something better.

owh wow, a long list to go
Thanks for ur link