Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Beat Making Software

By Jerry Jones

There are plenty of beat making softwares available that picking a great one may require plenty of trial and errors. Some might have what you want and lacking in other features and some the opposite.

Throughout my experience over the years with all these software, I want to share with you a few major components and features that an effective beat creating software must have.

First look at the music sequencer of the software. There must be around 16 tracks with each having its very own individual volume control. This is important. If you were getting beat maker that has only 8 tracks, you may have issues producing high quality beats but restricted to create only easy beats. In other words, the more sequencer tracks that the software has, the better.

Next, check for the software beats per minute (BPM) control. This is where you are going to adjust and tweak the tempo. A few beat making software may not have this feature and defaulted to the standard 4/4 tempo. So, it can be really frustrating and will severely limits your creativity to make hot music beats.

You also need to make certain that the software comes with a virtual keyboard. Well, it's not the major component if you are making hip hop beats, but you don't want to lose out that feature do you? Having a virtual keyboard gives you the ability to add piano elements into your beats easily.

A great beat making software must also have a huge sound bank; drumbeats, snare drums, percussion, electricbass, bass guitars, piano, organ, orchestra, timpani, tabla, combos etc. Well, what does that mean? The more variety and the bigger the sound bank is, the more unique beats that you can make.

Last but certainly not least is the saving ability of the beat creating software. I have had the experience spending 2 hours to make a hot beat just to find out that the software can only save the beats in a file format that was only readable by that beat maker alone and no other media player. This is frustrating because I cannot burn my beats on CD or iPod, whatever.

So, pick a beat creator that lets you save your finished music beats in MP3 format which is among the most popular music format that can be played on all media player. This way, you can easily share your beats with friends and even upload it online.

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