From my experience, which involved buying budget speakers only to replace them within that year, you will need better monitors.

I had some Alesis Elevate 5s cus they were cheap. Sounded great, or so I thought at the time. Since ive upgraded to JBL LSR305s, Im hearing things way better. The bass is way more accurate now. And I actually found my pair on Amazon for $200 new. That should fit into the budget you laid out.

Now depending on your setup and room, maybe the LSR308s are better since they would be 8" vs 5" woofer. I've also heard great things about yamaha. Never had them myself but lots of people love them.

What about the Rokits KRK RP5G3 Rokit 5 Generation Monitor - Pair? Which is is better or is there another brand that would be good if not better?

So the my question is if I should buy some monitors to have a clearer definition of the music I'm composing/producing or wait a bit longer and work on my cheap 20 buck monitors for desktop which isn't good at all....I ask this because I feel like I need a better understanding of sound and how it work before I got out and spend said money on monitors or am I wrong? I have a sounder that I believe is 80w the sub on it is not bad the speaker it's self is good but I feel like I'd get a different animal with actual monitors. I'm not a beginner in music but neither am I an ammeter since I haven't made something I'm proud of yet I'd say I'm 2 steps above beginner and one below average, I guess I'm "below Average" still learning tho but any advice? If I should get monitors what kind should I get? I want the best bang for my buck I'd say the most I'd spend for one is like 160 so a total of $370 I don't want cheap monitors that don't provide the sound quality that I want, I'd rather spend an extra 70 bucks than spend $80 on cheap none reliable ones I mean if there good than, I'd consider them but yeah Do you think it will also step my game up as far as sound quality goes if I do get  monitors as well?

Exactly! Here's a good little exercise to help you understand it:

• Make a simple drum pattern at 70 BPM - kick on the 1 and 3, snare on the 2 and 4. Listen to that on loop a few times. First with the metronome, then without.
• Change the tempo to 140, and put it so you have a kick on the one and a snare on the three. Listen to that on loop a few times. First without the metronome, then with.

Notice anything?

okay can you explain to me what I have to notice, cause what i hear is the 70bpm one has a sort of much faster flow to it than the 140 bp one but still kinda carries itself to have almost like a kick star kick snare except at a distance apart?

Oh alright I understand now okay it's all making sense to me now then see I was confused and was under the impression that you had to have that many amount of notes hit  in that specific time span. So even if you don't have anything hitting technically you're still getting those amounts of "hits" even if there is no sound hitting right? Because with every 4/4 note the metronome is still "hitting" something even if there is no sound

So I'm going back to square one in terms of understanding music so I can producer better music but in BPM for example if with 60bpm there has to be 1 beat every second and with 120 bpm there has to be 2 beats every second does that mean there has to be 240 beats in that one minute (for the 120bpm)? Or is bpm just a device to govern tempo of the entire track and really shoulden't force you to hit a certain kick or notes at a certain pace or amount of times within the span of that one minute? Can bpm also relate to notes of chords or is it specifically for percussive's? Does it mean I have to have a certain amount of note percussive or both sounds within that one minute? Also would it matter when I have "the beat" hit? like instead of every 1/4 can i have ever 2/4 or 3/4 to fulfill the bpm? please correct me if i'm wrong or help me understand temp better thanks. Also I think my math is wrong lol but whatever I've never been fluent in numbers

Would you say you've improved? When did you start? Are you at the pint you want to be? Do you think you'll improve in time? Do you see yourself as wine getting better and better after years? I've been making creating music for about 2 years I don't call myself a producer yet because I feel I haven't earned that right because I hardly finish tracks cause I get bored with them or I get stuck I just feel like it has to be good or it won't get put out so I just buried them If I don't have fun with them anymore.

My first year of producing was when I was 17 which I hardly call producing was when I would get mdi files from garage band and stick them in and just think I was making music get audio files didn't care about keys or sound and the arrangement look like a huge long dragons tail with no layers lol along with I was learning how to use a new program I got like Logic 9 then moves to logic  X Then my second year was all about knowing how to properly construct a track still not very good then how to design sound still not good but I'd say my arrangement now has gotten better and better looking more organized I now layer also in the span of my second year I got a piano and now  year has passed since I got my piano I'm learning to play it better, I'm now am learning more in detail of how to build chords 2nd, 4th 5 major7 diminished dominant's etc, I'd ay I know where to go with my chords a bit better and how to progress them to a sound I like I haven't made chords that sound beautiful because I'm under the impression that chords have to end on beat tho I know that's completely wrong and this isn't the way it is in real life or how it should be I use pitch bend more now, velocity now I take a lot more into consideration  & experiment more now then actually produce tho I try to build tracks but still can't due to my lack of skills in sound design I'm stuck with maybe 4 VST's that I think are good tho I know all are good if you know how to use them I'd say I've improved in last 2 and half years my piano skills have gotten better and etc.

It's just sound design and how to progress a track and bridge it to a nice build then a main melody thats my problem also my chords want to resolve but I don't know how to resolve them so I'm trying to figure all of this out but I'm happy with the progress tho sometimes a lot of times actually it feels like I just started yesterday and I won't progress with my tracks or music in general so I give up and comeback tomorrow but this happens more than I'd like because when I here people like Mat Zo, Nero, Porter, Above & beyond, Kidswaste and people on Monstercat then go back to mine I feel completely demoralized and feel like crap so then I give up on my tracks anyways

How far have you come? Do you like your progress? what have or are your problems? are you still beginning? do you have some years on you and gotten to the point you want for now? do you believe in yourself to ever make beautiful music in time? What's your story? What do you want your story to be? I'd like to make it on Suicidesheep one day or monstercat and make a dream out of this into reality I dropped college for this what do you want to do with music? This is just a thread to let people know there are others like you such as myself that feel like garbage when they make music sometimes I hope to inspire and get inspires anyways yeah thanks also Don't ever give up on your dreams maybe all you need is time, patience, but you & I definitely need to put in work and read theory and fail learn to enjoy the process be it good or bad learn to fail and feel like shit, Don't give up. =D

I have a variety of artist like, Porter, Flume, WRLD, Above & Beyond, Alex Vargas The Knocks, Draper, Madeon & I'm sure there is a lot more I'm leaving out
But I would have to say more inspiring is the track that they create, the sound they infuse in the tracks their real life backstory of struggles & how they come across dilemmas that we amateurs  do or even how they started of with nothing but a keyboard & worked they way up to the top, Them saying how they disliked their music but improved in time because effort work, study got them to where they are & they haven't given up on their dreams so now they're living their dreams. All of these for me. Or I also sometimes listen to a track of theirs and fill images in my head of love story or sadness depending on how the song sounds stuff like that

So this happens time & time again maybe it's because I lack knowledge on how to build chords with variety or how to build chords at all but I can't seem to push this recently started track forward. Like I'm stuck on how to make it sound good nice etc, I have no real set genre on mind but i what I'm aiming for is emotional & future bassish if it doesn't fit the style i'll change it but, I don't know how to move on with this track, I don't have vocals because I want to teach myself to carry on song without any vocals maybe a tiny samples here and there but no real vocals as the lead, I want it to get real emotion with a synth later but any advice? it's still in it's beginning by the way

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