How do you get involved?
Well to start out, one needs to start familiarising themselves with audio editing software. Things you’ll need a computer, a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), and something to listen to your work (headphones). Without these elements, you will not be able to create any type of music. Your music lives within the DAW. In a DAW, you are able to create and manipulate whatever sounds you are trying to create. Once you establish a production home base, you can start getting familiar with different software, such as Audacity, Protools, Acid, even Garageband can work depending on what you want to create. Next, you are going to need a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) interface. Without an interface, you are not going to be able to record the sounds directly in the DAW of your choice.
An additional step is to start venturing into songwriting. Writing your own songs and producing them is taking the first initial steps into music production. Writing can be anything you want it to be from writing down lyrics and creating melodies, or taking what you hear in your head and transposing it into a beat in your DAW.
These basic fundamentals are just the start of music production. At home recordings and productions are great for someone who is just starting out but they cannot even begin to compare to working in a proper setting like a recording studio. When creating at home there are many limitations, which is why it makes for such a great startup, but in the end, being around proper gear in a studio is really going to help rising Music Producers to unlock their full potential.
