| So, you are trying to get into beat making? Whether its | | | | the best beats. Well, my ego got to me and it was |
| trance, hip-hop, rap, ambient, whatever kind of music | | | | way too complicated for me to understand. So I set |
| you want to make, I am going to cover the basics of | | | | about searching for the best program for a beginner |
| making your first beat. I am not going to go all the way | | | | to get started making their own beats in no time. |
| into making an entire song, because songs are usually | | | | Well, not too long after that I was signing up for a |
| the same beat repeated over and over except | | | | membership at the Sonic Producer website. Instead of |
| tweaked slightly in some cases. Ok first off, you are | | | | taking up a gigabyte of space on my harddrive, Sonic |
| going to need a program to make your beats in. Now, | | | | Producer is a beat making program that runs in your |
| you can go buy all the REAL audio equipment to be | | | | browser! Thats right, you don't have to download a |
| able to make beats professionally, and do live | | | | thing! Actually, the only thing you download are your |
| performances. That is if you have a few hundred | | | | beats when you save them to your computer |
| grand extra lying around. You don't? Didn't think so. | | | | as.mp3s! That's my favorite feature of the program, it |
| There are many programs out there for beat making. | | | | allows you to save your own beats to your computer |
| When I first got started making beats, a friend | | | | as mp3s. I really can't tell the difference in quality |
| recommended I buy a program called Cubase, that | | | | between the beats I make with Sonic Producer and |
| that was what all the pros used. Well, I shelled out a | | | | the beats I hear in the Wayne song I have on right |
| few hundred dollars thinking if I buy the best program | | | | now. |
| that would somehow mean I would be able to make | | | | |