so i'm going to do a bit of a different type of video for me today
normally i'm doing a tutorial or recommending some plugins
or checking out a piece of audio gear well today is more of an
inspirational video i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and in today's video
i'm going to answer a music production for beginners question that i see pop up
quite often it's do you need an audio interface to
make music and the short answer is no
you can make music on your laptop or desktop computer or even a tablet
without an audio interface as long as you're working primarily
inside the box meaning you're not really recording anything in
you're just going to be using samples and loops and maybe some virtual
instruments and you can technically still record in the quality
just might not be the greatest depending on the sound card that you have in your
computer so yeah you don't need an audio
interface to start making music so if that's an excuse that you've been
giving yourself just get past that and start making music with what you
have the first song that i ever recorded on a computer i didn't have an audio
interface i had a sound blaster audio card in my computer
and i created a melody in magix music maker
and then i connected the line out of my digitech
guitar pedal into the input on my computer
and recorded some guitar in i mixed it up i posted it on
myspace that's how long ago this was myspace was still a thing
and i actually got some decent feedback people started to like the song
and i even had an independent movie director contact me
and want to use that song in one of their movies i thought the song kind of
stunk but i didn't want to let any obstacles hold me back and the
feedback that i got after posting that song
really pushed me forward to create more music
the point that i'm trying to get across here is if you have a laptop or a
desktop computer or even a tablet you can start making music
right away grab a free daw and i'll post a link in the description below so you
can check out my free daw recommendations
learn the program that you decide to go with and just
kind of master that program start making music in it start releasing music you
can release your music through bandcamp and youtube or even go through
the amuse service which is free and you can get your music on spotify
and itunes and all the popular online stores there might be people out there
wanting to hear what you're creating and even if you don't get a single
listen on your first song you still got the experience of going
through that entire process and that's going to transfer
into the next song that you start recording the more experience you get
the better you're going to become at creating music so if you've been coming
up with excuses for not getting started or maybe you thought you couldn't get
started i want you to start making a song
today now it doesn't have to be the greatest song
but i want you to try to finish that song in a week
and if you do finish it post it somewhere then share the link with me
if you go to audiotechtv.com/community that will take you to
a free facebook community that i created it's a facebook group
and you can share the link in there i created that so people could share their
music with me because if you share it on youtube sometimes
youtube thinks it's spam and it goes through a spam filter but if you post it
on there i get a notification and i can easily check your song out on
there so check that out audiotechtv.com/community
post your song links in there and i will check them out i really look forward to
hearing what you come up with also if you want to keep yourself
accountable for finishing this song you can put a comment below saying
you're starting the song and you're going to finish it by
whatever date just choose a date that makes sense for your schedule so if you
can't do it in a week maybe you can do it in
a month or a month and a half just give yourself a realistic deadline to finish
your song and if you put that in the comment below
sometimes making things public like that it holds you accountable and you'll be
more likely to finish the song that you started now if you want to check out
some free music making software that i recommend
click up here or click down here to see what youtube thinks you should watch
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane
keep creating and we'll talk soon