Beat Making Programs
Music creation, at one time something to be done exclusively in a studio setting, is now able to take place anywhere thanks to computers and beat making programs. The now portable solution to beat making allows a would be producer to strike when the iron is hot.
Allowing installs on Macs, desktop PCs, laptops and smaller and more portable netbooks, beat making programs have shifted an entire generation of musicians into a more comfortable and accessible area of creativity.
Even though desktop computers are stationary, beat making programs have overcome this minor detail. Making music professionally no longer requires a user to have an expensive or space-consuming set up in a sound proof and secluded room. Producers can now take the show on the road with as little as a laptop and a pair of headphones and be able to work with everything that a traditional recording studio provides.
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One of the main features that sets many beat making programs apart from their hardware based counterparts is the sequencing.
Sonic Producer, a popular solution to computer based beat making, uses step sequencing to make beats.
Step sequencing features visual representations of 4 bar patterns and can be expanded at the leisure of the user. The visual steps allow a user to precisely click, and activate a note or drum sound on the selected step.
Step sequencers also feature swing parameters which give a “live” sound to any computer sequenced drum pattern.
On top of simpler sequencing methods, beat making programs have piano rolls, or some other visual form of a keyboard that can be played in real time with the proper MIDI controllers or used to lay an entire melody beforehand at your own pace.
Beat making programs also include a plethora of other features that make beat creation easy to begin and understand in no time.
Time clocks for tempo can be manipulated by numerical input or mouse clicks and many programs also feature time stretching capabilities which allow you to fit a sample to the exact tempo you wish.
Beat making programs also allow you to work on the fly and for however long as you like. Once a project is started (and not necessarily complete) programs allow you to save your packages in order to come back to them later and edit single notes and drum sounds without having to start a pattern from scratch.
While hardware offers the same feature, beat making programs allow a user to come back to the file and edit single notes or whole patterns; hardware requires that you replay and re-sequence an entire pattern if you want to change a drum pattern or melody.
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Computer programs also allow a user to edit octaves and placement of notes and chords by selecting the desired section and sliding it along the sequencer all the while maintaining the rest of the tracks independent of the others.
From their earliest and primitive forms to the advanced tools of music production they are today, beat making programs offer a lot in the way of not only music generation, but instruction and simplicity as well.