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how do I become a "techno pop star" using my bedroom computer? First of all if you feel the need to become famous to justify your existence or avenge yourself on your ex-lover then your effort would be more usefully expended on improving your personality. Read "the art of loving" by Erich Fromm particularly chapter 4 "The practice of love". If you are genuinely interested in expressing yourself using one of the most flexible and powerful music tools since proto humans started banging sticks on brontosaurus skulls then read on... Almost all computers can make music of one sort or another, presuming they have a speaker. I can remember a friend of mine telling me that he had a "computer music studio" and the dismay on his face at my less than impressed reactions to his Commodore 64 bleeping stairway to heaven at me. In the 80's a music computer meant that you have an Atari or Mac or PC with a midi port that can make some external boxes play the timbers or patches that you have programmed into them. Today a music computer usually means a computer with a pro-sumer sound card and some software synths that play samples from sample CD's and the internet. In the coming weeks I will flesh out this article that describes my sojourn thought the (for the outsider confusing) world of creating music with computers. From how much music power do I get for 500 bucks (what the various levels of computer are capable of) to where do I find an audience for my masterpieces.
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