| Hip Hop Software hasn't been around for very | | | | for someone who is new to making beats to spend |
| long...just over ten years I'd say. First it started out just | | | | this much on a new hobby? |
| as a sequencer program to sequence midi hardware | | | | 3. Lack of Creativity: Many people who are new to |
| with, like synths and samplers. But these days | | | | making hip hop beats have no idea how to take the |
| computers have advanced to a point that modern hip | | | | creative energy that lives in their brain and translate it |
| hop software is like an entire studio that happens to | | | | into the physical realm of sound. This has a lot to do |
| live inside your computer. | | | | with point 1, the learning curve. As a rule of thumb, the |
| The problems that seem to crop up involving this | | | | smoother the learning curve...the faster it is to get the |
| current spurt in the popularity of music software is: | | | | creative juices flowing. |
| | | | 4. Piracy: Sort of the opposite of point 2...the |
| 1. Learning Curve: Much of the current hip hop | | | | developers get underpaid and have difficulty financing |
| software currently on the market is not meant for a | | | | their business. As a result, bugs exist to irritate the user |
| beginner. There are oodles of menus and other | | | | and frustrate them. Fortunately, there exists a piece of |
| technicalities to slow down your learning process. | | | | software that virtually eliminates the learning curve. It |
| Several beat making software programs look less like | | | | also happens to be one of the cheapest pieces of |
| musical tools and more like a spreadsheet software! | | | | software available. It also just happens to contain |
| 2. Cost: Why software developers insist on such a | | | | some of the phat test samples around...so you know |
| high price for a piece of technology that has no | | | | your beats will be of the highest quality. Also, it just |
| physical dimension (other than the disks they're | | | | happens to come packaged with all the beat making |
| distributed on) amazes me to no end. One of the more | | | | tutorials you'd ever need to get started making beats |
| "industry standard" type piece of hip hop software | | | | right away. |
| retails for a little over a thousand dollars...is it really wise | | | | |