Kamis, 15 Maret 2012

It's Obvious Your Beat Creator Isn't Legitimate When...

By Donovan DeAngelo


Are you in the market for a beat creator that doesn't create more haters and discouragement for you than beats? Well, you'll probably have to go through dozens more of them before you come across one that actually gives you the beat making toolset to match your ambition and natural talent...Unless, of course, you can identify the four signals that your beat creator ain't respectable.

1. Your Beat is Defective Before You Start Making it

If your beats are made on sand, they simply can't stand. What's sand? Sand is sounds and kits that are second or third generation compressed mp3s. Make a beat with these and it doesn't matter how hard it bangs, it's going to sound flat once it hits speakers. Furthermore, using wav samples and exporting to anything other than wav format is just as lost of a cause. If you beat maker doesn't value broadcast quality, it's about as useful to you as a Toys R Us purchased studio.

2. It's On the Loopy Side

Seriously important distinction here for anyone who would like to create banging beats, as opposed to a tiresome banging sound equivalent to construction work: a beat looper loops one bar, whereas a beat creator creates patterns of bars. If your beat creator falls into the second category, you might as well just pick up a cheap tape recorder and record someone pounding nails into their fence or something - seriously. There's no point. If you're steadfast about producing serious music, on the other hand, get a program that enables you to grow your bar count to 16-32 bars minimum.

3. You Need to Navigate Off TV Commercials Just to Use it

If your beat creator insists that you successfully answer a bunch of low IQ testing questions anytime you want to create a beat, causes you to stay up late into the night while importing your sounds and saving kits, and lags any time you try to record and play back, it's an online beat creator. If it's an online beat creator it's not a desktop program. If it's not a desktop program, it's not genuine and almost unquestionably falls into the two categories of impropriety above. Got any questions?

4. It's Ridiculously Simplistic

Granted - a beat creator can't be expected to replace a palatial recording studio. But it should be expected to try. If your beat maker is just a sequencer, maybe with some volume leveling (hopefully on individual tracks, but most likely not) it's not fooling anyone, except maybe you. To produce beats with the punchyness and memory mounting melodies and basslines you get from the best producers, you're going to require something to substitute for the MPC and synth (and all sorts of additional crazyness, probably valued at more than your car) that they're using. You're going to require, put simply, a beat creator program with individual drum and keyboard panels, in addition to a decent sequencer. You should be able to drop and drag bars and switch kits and sounds snappily. And, if you're really wise in your selection, it'll allow you to bang out your beats on the exact keyboard you type English papers on (potentially saving you big bucks on midi hardware).




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