Getting started...(HELP!)

[posterchild]

What up! I'm looking into producing and beatmaking as a career, and pastime. I have a strong passion to do this. I'm very serious about this and want to have a flawless setup.With that said, I have some funds saved up so whatever it takes to have a dope setup is cool with me. My plans are currently:
1) To get a Korg Triton Studio
2)To get Reason and Protools for my imac
3)To get an mpc 2000xl

Now, I want to ask is there any reason not to get this stuff?
If so, what should I get instead?
I want to incorporate live music and record live music as well. Do I need a digital recorder for this?
And finally, I got some turntables...will the products I mentioned let me incorporate these?

Thank you for taking time out to read this...and thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer...
Later!

[N.U.G.]

With that setup you'll have the potential to make really dope beats. If I had the cash I'd buy exactly what you are getting as well, so I'd say go for it.
As I don't have the products you mentioned I cant really answer with confidence about your more specific questions, but I would say all you would need to record live music would be a decent MIc pluged into your Mac and just record it into Pro Tools.
Should be able to plug turntables into Mac pretty easily as well although you might need some special cords or something to run it through. Someone else might be able to answer this.

peace

[HaZwaiOh]

why reason and an mpc? those are "basically" the same. get an mpd16, which is nothing but the drumpads of the mpc and play reason with it. you won´t be able to controll reason through your mpc or the other way around. you would basically waste money. get reason and an mpd16 or just an mpc. if you feel that your stuff is incerdibly hot and your equipment is limiting yourself, go and get more equipment, but don´t spend too much money when starting out! Protools is considered to be very good, but once again i find it very expensive and limiting because it only runs with certain hardware that is quite expensive too. i don´t know too many products for aple, but i think there is a thread where they describe equivalents to cool edit pro. vitaminman can probably also help you. p´s

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Also if you want to save money get the triton rack mount instead of the keyboard and a midi contorl keyboard and hook it all up to the mpc2000xl and you can get cubase sx for your computer it's an expensive but you can also get it for free....I have it and it works just fine....you can get almost any program for free even pro tools le but like HaZwaiOH said you need hardware and that's just wasting money

[milLion]

well your question has been answered -- so i won't need to go any further but to say -- yes you can use your turntables with the equipment

[posterchild]

Thanks for the advice guys...

So it seems like an mpd16 ran through reason and a triton rack on a midi control keyboard would be the best...

Or should I replace reason with Cubase?

And a midi control keyboard...what exactly is this?

lol

thanks guys... peace

[Fade]

A MIDI controller keyboard is a keyboard with no sounds on it, all it does is play what you have hooked up to it - like a sound module, or soundfonts, etc.

This might also help you:
http://www.illmuzik.com/articles/tutorials/bpcrecording/bpcrecording1.php

And check the FAQ:
http://www.illmuzik.com/faq.php

[HaZwaiOh]

if you want a triton you won´t be able to sequence it through reason, because it has no midi output option. might want to get cubase too (if cubasis supports rewire this will also do it (only 99 $)but i´d seriously leave out the triton until you have been around for a while ...

[K.O.]

You dont need the korg triton studio thing i have the korg triton le and its just fine!