Making beats and other music

As far as hip hop/urban. Alot of people in the industry stick to primarily using hardware like mpcs, audio keyboards, groove makers.

If you can get a good keyboard (I'm running a yama portable grand piano) with some descent software, you can put out some pretty cool stuff. Alot of the keyboards come with lots of different instrument/voices to work with, so gives you alot of options.

As far as software: One of the industry standards and is recognized in alot of studios is 'ProTools'. Also, Reason 3.0 is great. One downside of these programs is that they have a pretty large learning curve and definitely aren't easy to pick up on to.

For starting out, Acid Pro is a great program to use and is pretty user friendly. Fruity loops is another program that is good and is even more geared towards techno/trance/electronic if you want to go that route.
 
What GD said is generally right, but producers now are starting to combine hardware/software. Things like Acid Pro and ProTools are mainly set up for recording into and for using midi instruments. Things like Reason and FL Studio are for drums and general computer generated instruments.
 
i have magix music maker i think its pretty sweet thats what i use all the time. 9th wonder who makes beats for murs and made a beat for jay-z on the balck album uses frooity loops(sp.)
 
ye this kid knows what real talent consists of....GD is at home crying, deleted a bunch of posts. can't handle internet.

"abilities annihilates the techs while I rip the microphone!" E and A
 
this kid asked a legitimate question and I'm trying to keep it on point.

If you would like to bitch and moan feel free to send me a private message or start up a hate thread on me in the appropriate category.
 
But he doing something he loves and does really well. If you listened to some of his music you know that it takes alot of time to make tracks like he does. Also, he is giving all his music to us free. Why the hell are you complaining when he is making music(which he obviously loves to do)?
 
pro tools is the primarily used recording software....but in terms of composing I would say its definitely the Logic Pro family
 
umm. are you fuckin stupid? it takes tons of talent! How does it not make sense? takes more talent then playing around on the computer or keyboard. Thats probably the dumbest comment i've heard on this site yet.
 
You are a fucking tool. Technics don't make beats, drum machines and computers do. There is no way around that. So face the facts and shut the fuck up.

P.S. I will go into detail if I really need to prove my point.
 
"You are a fucking tool. Technics don't make beats, drum machines and computers do. There is no way around that. So face the facts and shut the fuck up."

your even dumber than that other kid, I didn't say you make beats on turntables! hahaha how do you get that outta what i said, your good at making shit up outta nothing. You should go fist yourself!
 
I recently got into making music through electronics. It's a lot of damn fun.

If you're getting into making beats, I'd recommend Fruity Loops 5.

I created my first song through FL studio 5 and it took about 18 - 20 hours in total. (I first had to learn how to use the program)

The funny part was I barely even scratched the surface of the capabilities of the program. I mean, I learned a lot, but the program has a tons of depth.

My first attempt at electronica music:

http://stw.ryerson.ca/~mbalaban/callisto.mp3

Tell me what you guys think.
 
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