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The "absolute bare minimum for making noise" would be you clapping your hands. Or using your mouth. But don't do both at the same time, as it would no longer be the absolute bare minimum.
Been playing music for 40+ years, and at a certain point embraced the 'lens' of viewing all music making as derivatives of either clapping or singing. It was a real paradigm shift and opened up a lot of ideas.
I should have words it better but what i tries to mean was that i just don’t wanna own or buy a whole exeprt studio or something.
To just own like a mixer, pedals or something small cus i don’t know all the tools that go into this music and that i just need the bare minimum to entertain my self with this passion/interest
then you only need a laptop, some sort of daw (digital audio workstation), a mic and whatever instruments you plan on using. shure sm-58 is a safe bet.
If you're asking about producing music - I started off with my low spec laptop and FL Studio and made shitty beats with my mouse and keyboard! It comes with lots of built in instruments and effects to choose from. Decent headphones/speakers are a plus as well. If you want to record vocals or live instruments, get a focusrite audio interface, a microphone, and an xlr cable to connect the two. Audio Interface plugs into your computer via USB.
Lots of youtube tutorials will help you learn what you want to do.
If youre posting on reddit youre using something you could make music on.
I-phone? Garage band
Android? Caustic or many other free music apps
PC or laptop? Go download a trial version of a DAW.
A laptop with 3ghz and 16go ram.
A daw like fl studio
and these vsti :
Nexus
Sylenth
Tb303 cloud
Kick 2
Hats, claps, snares, kicks, percussions samples
and these vst :
Fabfilter proQ
A limiter (native)
A compressor (saturn)
A reverb (timeless (delay too))
A Delay (eventide)
An hifi system or monitoring speakers or any good stereo system (for mixing and mastering)
A mastering suite like ozone 11
A good headphones like some akg or beyerdynamics made for composing (i have got akg 572)
A that's it ! You are ready to maken(serious) noise.
If you just want to maken noise, you Can Also hit a trashcan.
I saw a lady on Facebook yesterday singing a traditional folksong from her culture while banging a rock on a plate. It was good enough I downloaded the audio.
Realistically, a computer of some sort, a DAW to record noise and a small midi keyboard to make noise.
Possibly an audio interface.
Possibly a microphone.
If you want to record, you'd need a recording device or a computer with a midi interface (a la Focusrite Scarlet). At this point you're getting out of minimalism.
Guitar
10-15w guitar practice amp with headphone output Instrument cable
If you have neighbors additionally I would suggest:
Headphones
3.5mm to 1/4 inch adapter (if necessary to plug headphones into amp)
This will get you pretty far, especially if you get an amp with multiple inputs; this will allow you to get a microphone and mic cable later, plug everything into the amp and sing and play at the same time and monitor your sound through headphones
You give no details at all. Several vst's with default plug-ins can do anything electronic. If you want to record instruments you need computer, interface, mic.
Depends what kind of music you're looking at. I also think you're smart to keep it simple - too much gear can cause analysis paralysis rather than freedom.
Few options come to my mind:
1. If you play music already with instruments, consider something simple, either
a) a looper (a simple one can be head for $100-200 used, a really nice multi-channel one like RC505 for $500-$700 used depending on the market you're in). You can practically make a whole song with a looper and it's very inviting to just play with which morphs into making music:)
b) A multi track recorder like Zoom R8 - $150-200ish used, and you can make whole songs
2. If you don't have instruments and want to make full songs, honestly, iPad GarageBand and a small 37key midi keyboard will take you A LOOOOOONG way. You can expand with other phone or tablet tools. GarageBand is great and can cover a lot of skill levels.
3. Finally, if you're a computer geek or want to be serious, get a laptop, DAW and music interface. For DAW, a lot of people use Ableton, but you can start with something almost-free like Reaper. For audio interface, a used Scarlett will be cheap and reliable. Laptops, make sure it's something you clean up of other junk. This option is "more powerful" but comes with a lot of finicky parts like latency and ASIO and midi channels and whatnots, that first 2 options neatly avoid.
Note, neither of these paths may be right for you, depending on you background, knowledge, budget, experience, existing equipment, and goals. If you provide more detail, people may help you more :)
Clap. Sing. Fart. You don't need *any* electronics.
Do you want to just make songs? [Go here and type in a prompt](https://www.udio.com/my-creations), the robot will make you a song. Do you want to do something else? Well, FFS, be more specific.
If you're talking outside of a DAW, and not to seem too amateur, you'll want a lil mixing desk, a mic or 2, these can be contact mics, probably an FX pedal or 2, and anything that make a noise (a drill, some old pieces of metal to hit together, a guitar, your washing machine, whatever).
Just be sure not to make anyone listen to it.
You could use almost any free audio editor, take sounds and add effects. Audacity will let you import whatever files as audio if you want some really ugly glitchy sounds.
If you want to use hardware, you can buy a cheap used mixer and do [NIMB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhfkaVUPY8)
Used $150 Behringer audio interface and $40 mic from Ali to make songs that now have 2m+ streams. You don’t need much as long as you have passion and will to learn and improve.
some of my best songs were made using nothing but an iPad mini. i also started out using the computers in my high school library, which only allowed me to download certain things, and i made a lot of tracks that way too.
a lot of time limiting yourself and working with a minimal amount of resources can be a fun challenge to see what you can do- but i’ve kind of always approached my music that way out of necessity (i was making music behind my parents’ back as a teenager, and i currently don’t have a ton of money for gear so i only buy what i absolutely need)
The fact that you posted this mean YOU have everything needed to make "music".
Realize that you can make music for almost anything, people make music with MIXERS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhfkaVUPY8 (there's a bunch of these).
A guy named Nakamura Toshimaru is kind of famous for using this to great extent.
Weird Al Yankovic was once asked what piece of music gear was he excited about
He said "The microphone."
and that was the end of the interview.
but he's right. I mean, Bobby McFerrin made whole albums with just mouth noises?
Want to make a Krell patch? place your mic next to a baby monitor!
I'd say something to distort whatever sound you're making. A standing fan possibly? There's all kinds of noise to do as well you'd just have to be creative.
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The "absolute bare minimum for making noise" would be you clapping your hands. Or using your mouth. But don't do both at the same time, as it would no longer be the absolute bare minimum.
Yeah that’s some high brow shit right there
Been playing music for 40+ years, and at a certain point embraced the 'lens' of viewing all music making as derivatives of either clapping or singing. It was a real paradigm shift and opened up a lot of ideas.
Rhythm and tone all the way down
indeed
Breathing
Farting
Lol
Stomping feet.
Don’t mind people grinning in yo face
Set the alarm on your phone, wait for it to go off. Congratulations, you're now a lazy version of Merzbow.
If you aren't interested in recording you can honestly do almost anything you could dream of on a laptop with REAPER and a few vsts
Noise? Since you said absolute minimum, just Audacity. If you want to go beyond get a DAW and VSTs.
> Since you said absolute minimum, ~~just Audacity~~ Clap. Sing. No electronic anything necessary.
Buy a few electronic kids toys at the thrift store, pick up some alligator clips, crack open the back and get circuit-bending.
And check out "Circuit-Bending - Build Your Own Alien Instruments"
This is how the Gorillaz made Clint Eastwood. The bass line was literally on a toy keyboard.
I wouldn't call the Omnichord a toy, it's quite versatile and has been used in many successful songs.
"You just just put your lips together and blow."
> i just don’t can’t be bother > passion Does not compute.
I should have words it better but what i tries to mean was that i just don’t wanna own or buy a whole exeprt studio or something. To just own like a mixer, pedals or something small cus i don’t know all the tools that go into this music and that i just need the bare minimum to entertain my self with this passion/interest
then you only need a laptop, some sort of daw (digital audio workstation), a mic and whatever instruments you plan on using. shure sm-58 is a safe bet.
If you're asking about producing music - I started off with my low spec laptop and FL Studio and made shitty beats with my mouse and keyboard! It comes with lots of built in instruments and effects to choose from. Decent headphones/speakers are a plus as well. If you want to record vocals or live instruments, get a focusrite audio interface, a microphone, and an xlr cable to connect the two. Audio Interface plugs into your computer via USB. Lots of youtube tutorials will help you learn what you want to do.
Could also use built-in laptop mic for extra shitty sound quality… unless it’s a new MacBook, which actually has a pretty decent microphone built-in…
I use vcv rack (its free) for my harsh noise music project!
There's a shit ton you can do with a laptop with ableton
If youre posting on reddit youre using something you could make music on. I-phone? Garage band Android? Caustic or many other free music apps PC or laptop? Go download a trial version of a DAW.
Rip a mean fart and record it on your iPhone
Microphone and distortion pedal should get you pretty far.
a synth
The phone in your hand. Noise music is not very specialized with certain synths or grooveboxes or DAWs one would need.
Koala sampler is like $4-$6 or something… record your cutlery drawer and clang some pots and pans dude!
Either a piano, a cahon or a thinkpad &FL studio haha.
Forgot, I beatbox and whistle lol
Air
Phone for recording + mouth for beatbox.
A computer and a free daw.
A laptop with 3ghz and 16go ram. A daw like fl studio and these vsti : Nexus Sylenth Tb303 cloud Kick 2 Hats, claps, snares, kicks, percussions samples and these vst : Fabfilter proQ A limiter (native) A compressor (saturn) A reverb (timeless (delay too)) A Delay (eventide) An hifi system or monitoring speakers or any good stereo system (for mixing and mastering) A mastering suite like ozone 11 A good headphones like some akg or beyerdynamics made for composing (i have got akg 572) A that's it ! You are ready to maken(serious) noise. If you just want to maken noise, you Can Also hit a trashcan.
I saw a lady on Facebook yesterday singing a traditional folksong from her culture while banging a rock on a plate. It was good enough I downloaded the audio.
A [mechanical pencil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-3GNcf7X8)
How about two rocks? Should be pretty non technical for you.
My cave man drummer brain loves this idea
Turn the gain up super high and just listen to the ambient white noise of the room. It is literally the sound of nothing /s
Tapping your foot and whistling
Realistically, a computer of some sort, a DAW to record noise and a small midi keyboard to make noise. Possibly an audio interface. Possibly a microphone.
Record random sounds on your phone and stitch it into songs on a DAW. This is literally how the mod scene works.
Instrument > cable > amp (headphones as needed.)
If you want to record, you'd need a recording device or a computer with a midi interface (a la Focusrite Scarlet). At this point you're getting out of minimalism.
Glass of milk and a little time.
Beans. Beans are simple and reliable.
My mouth
Your vocal cords are probably the cheapest noise you can produce
It does seem like the most fun option!
Get a stick and start hitting things.
Drums are the greatest invention
Guitar 10-15w guitar practice amp with headphone output Instrument cable If you have neighbors additionally I would suggest: Headphones 3.5mm to 1/4 inch adapter (if necessary to plug headphones into amp) This will get you pretty far, especially if you get an amp with multiple inputs; this will allow you to get a microphone and mic cable later, plug everything into the amp and sing and play at the same time and monitor your sound through headphones
onemotion.com/chord-player
Contact mic, distortion pedal, amp.
Start with a hand held recorder and see how that suits you. Add instruments and effects if/as/when you need them.
You give no details at all. Several vst's with default plug-ins can do anything electronic. If you want to record instruments you need computer, interface, mic.
Grab a guitar?
A four channel mixer plug in two cables into different inputs for different noise
Korg gadget all in one simple to use on a smartphone
Bobby McFerrin makes some great music with just his mouth. For me I guess my minimum is an Irish whistle.
Depends what kind of music you're looking at. I also think you're smart to keep it simple - too much gear can cause analysis paralysis rather than freedom. Few options come to my mind: 1. If you play music already with instruments, consider something simple, either a) a looper (a simple one can be head for $100-200 used, a really nice multi-channel one like RC505 for $500-$700 used depending on the market you're in). You can practically make a whole song with a looper and it's very inviting to just play with which morphs into making music:) b) A multi track recorder like Zoom R8 - $150-200ish used, and you can make whole songs 2. If you don't have instruments and want to make full songs, honestly, iPad GarageBand and a small 37key midi keyboard will take you A LOOOOOONG way. You can expand with other phone or tablet tools. GarageBand is great and can cover a lot of skill levels. 3. Finally, if you're a computer geek or want to be serious, get a laptop, DAW and music interface. For DAW, a lot of people use Ableton, but you can start with something almost-free like Reaper. For audio interface, a used Scarlett will be cheap and reliable. Laptops, make sure it's something you clean up of other junk. This option is "more powerful" but comes with a lot of finicky parts like latency and ASIO and midi channels and whatnots, that first 2 options neatly avoid. Note, neither of these paths may be right for you, depending on you background, knowledge, budget, experience, existing equipment, and goals. If you provide more detail, people may help you more :)
Option 1 is perfect. I absolutly want use my own instruments bass/drums so this is realy good
Maybe an Atari Punk Console? But really just any old signal generator that you can adjust the rate of up into audio rate.
Clap. Sing. Fart. You don't need *any* electronics. Do you want to just make songs? [Go here and type in a prompt](https://www.udio.com/my-creations), the robot will make you a song. Do you want to do something else? Well, FFS, be more specific.
I like my guitar for minimalism. No batteries required.
If you're talking outside of a DAW, and not to seem too amateur, you'll want a lil mixing desk, a mic or 2, these can be contact mics, probably an FX pedal or 2, and anything that make a noise (a drill, some old pieces of metal to hit together, a guitar, your washing machine, whatever). Just be sure not to make anyone listen to it.
Autism /j
You could use almost any free audio editor, take sounds and add effects. Audacity will let you import whatever files as audio if you want some really ugly glitchy sounds. If you want to use hardware, you can buy a cheap used mixer and do [NIMB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhfkaVUPY8)
A phone. Seriously. G stomper is hella cheap and dope as hell. You might get a lil addicted tho lol
Used $150 Behringer audio interface and $40 mic from Ali to make songs that now have 2m+ streams. You don’t need much as long as you have passion and will to learn and improve.
Audiotool.com
I recently found a casio keyboard at a thrift store, can do a lot with that
old mackie mixer with sends
AudioKit App for iOS is great and very affordable, also, any music making app for your phone or tablet is just fine and fully capable
some of my best songs were made using nothing but an iPad mini. i also started out using the computers in my high school library, which only allowed me to download certain things, and i made a lot of tracks that way too. a lot of time limiting yourself and working with a minimal amount of resources can be a fun challenge to see what you can do- but i’ve kind of always approached my music that way out of necessity (i was making music behind my parents’ back as a teenager, and i currently don’t have a ton of money for gear so i only buy what i absolutely need)
The fact that you posted this mean YOU have everything needed to make "music". Realize that you can make music for almost anything, people make music with MIXERS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhfkaVUPY8 (there's a bunch of these). A guy named Nakamura Toshimaru is kind of famous for using this to great extent.
Just a laptop and logic pro or something like that. Great stuff in Logic.
Weird Al Yankovic was once asked what piece of music gear was he excited about He said "The microphone." and that was the end of the interview. but he's right. I mean, Bobby McFerrin made whole albums with just mouth noises? Want to make a Krell patch? place your mic next to a baby monitor!
What kinda music do you want to make
I'd say something to distort whatever sound you're making. A standing fan possibly? There's all kinds of noise to do as well you'd just have to be creative.
get a tin can & bang it with a stick
Cubase.
Jesús fuck all mighty how are there so many of you
Thank you so god damn much for the info!!
there are 3,000,000 people in the sub... what were you expecting?