Snakehips Software

the DAW you choose will have little effect on your sound.... your sound comes from your instruments (synths, guitars whatever), your sample library, and most of all your skillset and aesthetic....

DAWs like FL come with a lot of plugins and synths that if used exclusively, especially if you are a preset junky, give them a sound. That said, adding 3rd party synths and effects as well as creating your own samples and recordings pretty well negates this 'soundalike' tendency.

This stuff you posted is VERY sample-based as well as having layers of 8 bit 'video game chip' timbres and while any DAW can handle those tasks, the big name for easily creating this kinda loop-based music these days is Ableton's software. When I was coming up it was Acid, but times change.... for the crappy TR808 sounds, Reason is probably a surefire bet, but at this stage of the game any DAW can work for this sort of music, really. It sounds like a lot of their samples are coming off of vinyl so you will need a good set of turntables if you don't already have the and you will wanna hit the record exchange in your hood and look for vintage, no-name-artist LPs in the dollar bins. You will need a solid stereo DI to sample from your turntables, Radial Engineering makes something with a built in phono pre, but any quality DI should do the trick if you don't care about signal to noise ratio OR you are willing to solder up a couple of FETS into your own preamp and line-matcher.... I noticed some very 'Philly International' DI guitar rhythms in one of their cuts, so a good DI will help to achieve that 70s soul sound too.

For your 8 bit fixation, download any number of 3rd party VSTi plugins that simulate the old SID chip-synth from the commodore 64 and also get yourself a good bit-reducing plugin to degrade your samples. I have a few of each and I promise you they were ALL FREE and sound great.

I suggest you try a number of different DAW demos and see which ones have an interface that sparks your creativity and makes the workflow efficient for you, you can tweak the sounds as you go. Just stay away from ProTools. Its great and all, but its not geared towards what you want to do.

Wow thanks a lot^^ i mean this will help me a lot,because i was afraid i had to buy a software in particular especially when some of them look really complicated like Pro Tools, just my opinion.

Any road,i'm off to buy a turntable perhaps a hundred of vinyl, do a lot of research and work hard until i get what i want!

Thank you^^

sure, any time... I am going to say this, before you spend any money think really hard about whether you want to be an imitator and an amature or if you have something unique to say with music, whether you are an aspiring professional and an originator... I remember growing up as a guitarist (I was a little jerk, by the way) I used to always say to people "Wow, that was a great Clapton impression, man. But I heard there's a guy who always does Clapton a little bit better and his name is Eric fucking Clapton. Now play something from the heart or stop wasting my time."

Yeah of course! i definitely don't want to be a "Snakehips sound-alike",or make type beats for the rest of my life, but i've been practicing instruments for years now (15 years) and when i decided to produce my own music i thought by listening artists that i can relate to and being able to understand how their song were produced,could help me in creating my own style.

we've all got influences, no offence intended of course... just start accumulating gear, get a handheld recorder to sample sounds from the world around you, get a good technics turntable and a ton of obscure vinyl, buy some under-the-radar synthesizers to dicker with and maybe a couple old off-brand tube amplifiers from the 50s or 60s and a bunch of cheap 80s guitar effects too. Get a couple differently voiced microphones, a DI and a reamp too. Then write some tunes and go to town.