5 things to start making electronic music at home 

Time stamps! 1. DAW 0:54 2. MIDI 3:31 3. Interface/Monitors 5:10 4. Real instruments 7:20 5. Samples 11:02 Hope that helps!

Prophet and Mini Moog...BOOM! I love your perspective on the use of incorporating real instruments. I am a longtime musician, but fairly new to this style of music and production. I have to say that you and Andrew Huang are among the top of my list for young producers because of your foundation in playing actual instruments.

I misheard “One … a _dog!”_ and I nodded vigorously in agreement! 🐕❤️😀

This was actually really helpful and informative! Thank you! Literally just got interested into producing about week ago and have been experimenting since with no real direction. This is such a big help so thank you!

You are easy to understand and get to the point. I like stuff like this where the speaker doesn't talk forever without getting to the point. Looks like you have lots of fun gadgets in that room!

Such great content! Being in the middle of understanding all the technical aspects of music your videos are so perfect. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your knoledge. Keet it uuup!

This was extremely helpful and I'm so glad that you're sharing some knowledge with us and your opinions on what worked for you. I really want to look into midi controllers and the list you have def made the search much easier. Thanks and hopefully one day I can sign up for the classes.

Thank you so much! This was super useful for me, as I'm about to get started with attempting to make electronic music. When you don't have a background in this stuff it can be fairly confusing, but you broke it down really clearly. Much appreciated!

Really appreciate this video: thanks for taking the time to do it! Love what you do!

Thanks for this informative video Prof. Snackerelli

Awesome video, super helpful! Thanks Snacks!

Great video, glad to see you back again!

Very appreciative for videos like these, even for those of us with a setup already. Gotta love fundamental reminders 🙌

This answered so many questions i had about things i've seen on the internet but didn't know about. Thank you.

Just bought your Neat Tape sample pack! I've always felt like a beginner producer, but I already feel a massive improvement after watching your videos and learning more about sampling. I now have a pretty expansive library which is really motivating and helps to inspire me whenever I'm on a creative high. Keep up the great work!

As someone who's been trying to get into production for a year or so now, this was so helpful. Cheers prof. Snackerelli

..by far the best and most useful intro to the world of electronic music production on RU-vid - straight to the point, perfect balance between the basics & essential detail. Thank you @badsnacks, I've learnt more from this 10-min video than days of research.

super helpful and appreciate the detailed options within each of the 5. Makes me feel like I could actually do this.

Thank you so much for the shopping tips. You are so right. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in buying new gear. And you forget to look for great used gear. Great video!🔥

Yay! Learning from one of my favorite producers! 😁🌈

Awesome video! Found all the information really useful - definitely going to be putting it to good use soon, hopefully!

Much appreciated, as a fellow violin player who is missing the connection with modern music, this has been awesome to watch, and gives me so much inspiration!

Definitely appreciate the links for the sample packs, for sure going to pick some of those up!

I'd love to chill with you on a rainy day while listening to your own tunes. You're amazing, lots of love from portugal

Oooooh I’ve actually kinda been hoping you’d make a video like this! Love your take on it.

I’ve definitely had some of these questions. Thank you!

You give good advice, openly and very helpfully. Thanks!

I have been floating around your channel for a bit, your gear choices are super dope/inspiring.

Love your studio set up! Very versatile. Thanks for the tips for us beginners

Saw the organelle at a used music shop and had to cop it! So many beautiful sounds! Awsm video 🙌

This is an incredibly helpful video. Thanks!

amazing tips! Thank you Sensei Snacks! :D

Why doesn't this channel have more followers? Amazingly insightful for beginners.

Great video for new composers. Keep it up!

Loved this video. Things are unexpected and suddenly clearer for me now...

you not only a good producer but a better teacher. great info for beginners

Wheeeeeee! Can't wait to watch this on the way home tonight. Listening to Until the Quiet Comes atm and I can totally hear how this album influenced your music btw. You're making amazing tracks - keep it up!!

Really helpful tbh! So much info and great explanations! Got a new subscriber! 👌🏻

I discovered your channel by accident, and what a find! I really like all your videos. I see how much people really admire your music and producing skills and I agree. But I want to compliment something else: I think you're brilliant at explaining things on video. Your tutorials are so straightforward and easy to understand. I really like your straight-ahead communication style; you just show us how you do things, step-by-step, and you provide simple explanations. Fantastic!

Wonderful video - very good summary.

Good video. I went to your bandcamp page -- very nice-sounding stuff!

Good video!. I followed the same progression regarding DAWs. Ableton's workflow is just a wonderful fit.

I knew all that, but kept the video going while I clean around the studio. I liked it. Good job!

I just came out of a concert thinking "I want to my my own music" and then you uploaded this video. You're reading my mind snacks.

Thanks for the great video--very helpful indeed. I'm still a beginnner--though I am really enjoying learning synthesis on a few instruments I recently purchased (including the Subphatty). Love your music too--thanks for those links!

I love to make music, so thanks for wishing us "Happy Music Making" , same to you.

I just discovered your channel (through Zee Bashew), and I’m very glad I did! You certainly make some amazing music and you’re also charismatic which should be useful for a RU-vidr. Thank you for inspiring me and keep on rocking!

Many midi controllers and keyboards come with Ableton Lite for free, and it's pretty damned useful.

Great video! Keep on killing it!

Thank you for this video. I was about to ask for it.

These tips were very helpful. You give me inspiration

Good finds. Also the plants look complementary.

Bad Snacks, i just wanted to let you know that you're straight up inspirational, your music is fucking awesome, and i learn something EVERY TIME I WATCH your videos. Thank you for the good music and thank you for the good information. Also, Neat Tape was SICK :D

Thank you so much gurl ❤️ with what little bit I know atm starting I agree on several points you made here. Love this vid ,😀 also much love on that third eye sticker you got back there I have one tatted on my arm and heart chakra on the other. 💓

Thank you for this video. I always wanted to get into it because of all the cool sounds I could volition in my head but I always said one day. This helps a lot. It may still be a one day - but I have a roadmap to what needs to be looked at. Your bad snacks - oh shoot blew me away. I want to create things like that. Awesome video : )

First 1hr with the organelle. Instant love. Just purchased it after watching this video, finally caved after years of "should !..." I did and now I haz heaven! Just got it today after posting up the windows for the mailman for about 4 hours. Keep doing what your doing. BTW, them there beat tapes on spotify are great! Blasted those on a road trip to philly a few weeks ago.

People are sleeping on REAPER... best daw I’ve used hands down.

Truly help for beginners , thank you！

Loved this video! Hope to see more videos like this which inspire me and teach me at the same time. :)

Great tips -- thank you!

This is one of the best videos to get an overall understanding to enter to the world of producing electronic music. Thanks :D

Such a helpful video for new starters. I was just working on a video like this for my subscribers too. I like how you broke it down for everyone. I could learn from this type of organisation tbh 😂

Super helpful, thank you!

Ok, i just came here to say that because of watching a lot of tutorials on yt, I came across the video on Huangs channel about one song - 4 producers and I have to say that i f*ckn love your style. Peace!

Great vid, helped me a lot thank you!

Hi Bad Snacks! I met you at the Berklee Workshop this summer, just checking your videos right now, ready to learn 😊

Awesome tips, thank you

Oh, a new channel to sub to! Great video, keeeep up the good work

I was waiting for a video about this :D

Great Job, thank you for sharing 😃 😃

Nice introduction into edm, with nice teacher!)

I absolutely love your music

Thanks for this. I'm definitely not just getting started but I realized I've had the same workflow for over 10 years now and I only chose that workflow because I didn't have money for the proper gear at the time so I had to make do with what I had. But now I see I would do well to get a controller so that I can actually play the parts which will make my production like a thousand times better. I hate clicking in Melodies and rhythms

Thanks for the video!

You are very special, thank you.

i really enjoyed the organelle and atmegatron when i came across them in a store, they felt like they filled something in my soul.

Getting real instruments to start with is definitely a great idea! You're so cool for bringing it out to. It helps out creatively being able to focus on just one instrument in front of you and the tactile feel + immediacy of sound makes you develop musicianship skills quite differently than using just a mouse for everything.

Great video llike alot good work

dope giving lightfoot a shout

Very good points! I want to mention Studio One as a alternative DAW as well, it has steadily built its reputation and user base since its inception and with the really cheap artist version and the newly added focus on tools for beatmaking it's a excellent DAW for beginners.

Great video!

Very useful. Thank you.

Outstanding video, thanks for posting, much appreciated. New sub : )

You are amazingly articulate! Both, in your speech and your lesson plan! Great work!

I love you haha. Amazing content! You should do a video about acoustics and acoustic foam :) Your monitors will be way more accurate if you put some on the wall behind your monitors. Sound still travels out the back of the monitor and reflects off the wall behind it causing it to double up with the audio coming out of the front of the monitors. Makes the less accurate. Also, put foam in the areas on the side walls and back walls where the speakers are aimed at. Also, Basstraps in the corners if you are in a small boxy room. Can never have enough bass traps in a small square room. Once I did this my mixing game pretty much tripled. It's awesome having nice monitors but it also helps to hear them in the best environment possible. You should do it to your studio and make a video about it :)

alright everything is kool, nice and all most nice presentation aspect I found is the aura of a pretty school teacher vibe. maybe its just some nostalgic memory hmm ~ nice seeing ya

i paused your video in about 1 min, and wrote an awesome track! thanks:-)

I guess a DAW and a few samples are enough to get going. Great video!

I’d love to see you do an episode dedicated to the Organelle and your favorite patches. I’ve got one on the way and am excited to learn more about it.

This is really good!

Acoustics for beginners is not a must have, but, it will help listen that true flat sound from the monitors. I learn that the hard way. I read once an article stating that no matter how expensive or good the monitors are, without acoustics, is like not hearing the whole full spectrum. But if you know the sound of your monitors like the back of your hand and you can make it work in post-production /mastering knowing that your mixes are translating well on other sounds systems; keep doing it. Acoustics will help with the workflow of mixing and mastering, making it easier and faster to identify which sounds of the track full spectrum need to be tweak. Again not everyone that is starting will have money for acoustics, good reference headphones will help be the substitute for that, but again is a completely different thing mixing and mastering on headphones vs studio monitors. A lot of nuances that I learn when i started in music production. I think I went off subject, being the video for starting at home. Again is my humble opinion. Sorry again for my English.

Dope video fam!! 🌊

Really well explained and broken down. I sort of wish I learned on Ableton but I got really good at GarageBand so Logic was the...Logical choice.

I greatly appreciate anyone that takes the time to share their informed opinions and experience on the subject. I do think you are starting off with a greater degree of complexity than is really necessary for "getting started". Re: DAW's. There are a number of these, in particular Cakewalk by Bandlab, that are as capable and sophisticated as any DAW on the market, and it is completely FREE! Ditto, there are hundreds of completely free VST instruments and FX software plugins. A MIDI keyboard controller/synthesizer is very useful, but unless you are a keyboard player, small MIDI only units with a limited keyboard range (but with sliders and knobs that can be programmed to control the DAW mixer and software synthesizer parameters) are entirely adequate and, as you pointed out, readily available used on, e.g., eBay. As I'm sure you are aware, much contemporary music production is entirely electronic, thus acoustic instruments, microphones and digital audio interfaces are optional and those items can be among the more expensive studio equipment. Even if you aren't recording a microphone output (requiring an A/D converter, i.e., audio interface) you will still need some type of D/A (digital to analog) converter to output the sound from the computer to the amp/speakers. If you are on a really tight budget you can just use the analog speaker outputs on the computer to feed the monitors. Absent live recording of acoustical instruments, that also means that you don't have to worry about an acoustically appropriate studio space. That subject is a whole other level of complexity and, potentially, expense. A decent set of monitor speakers, either self-powered or passive (which requires a separate amplifier) is a pretty universal requirement and I agree that it is worth obtaining the best quality that your budget allows right off the bat. If you use headphones only to mix and master your music you end up with a result that sounds good - when using headphones. It is generally suggested that you preview your end results on as many different sound systems as you readily have access to, e.g, home and car audio, stereo equipment of friends and family, etc., before a final release. I might also mention that there are also very good free music score creation and editing software applications, e.g., MuseScore. Thank you again for your contribution to the community.

awesome job

Great video. Have been looking to get into this, have played in bands years ago and im quite technical. It was either a business in IOT or try to get into sound production thanks for sharing

Yay, thanks for this, I know what I want now :)

super helpful, thanks!

I got myself a scarlett 18i20, i use a lot of outboard stereo effects, just extremely awesome.

U are awesome!