Making beats on the computezor
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Making beats on the computezor
Does anyone do this?
What do I use? I've seen a couple of pieces of software floating around but don't know what I should pick up?
What do I use? I've seen a couple of pieces of software floating around but don't know what I should pick up?
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Get Traktor by Native Instruments. If you want to go all out and spend lots of money you can buy final scratch and connect to your exisiting vinyl decks to use time-coded vinyl which manipulates digital media on the computer in realtime. It's very cool, I used to play around with it.
EDIT | Oh... and we'll have only good beats
Broken Ones 
EDIT | Oh... and we'll have only good beats
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FinalScratch + Cubase VST are my usual spots.
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I'm thinking there is alot more to than that I know about.
Two things are I don't have a record player or a keyboard, I want to be able to do everything in one or two pieces of software.
^^
I don't really know anything about this, or music, but I decided I need to start trying to find new hobbies. The only thing I do anymore is code!!!! ...and drink, lol.
Two things are I don't have a record player or a keyboard, I want to be able to do everything in one or two pieces of software.
^^
I don't really know anything about this, or music, but I decided I need to start trying to find new hobbies. The only thing I do anymore is code!!!! ...and drink, lol.
or you can do what im about to do.....go get yourself one of these babies and call it a day
....geez i cant wait for tax time
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Get a subscription to "Computer Music" great mag I've been subscribed since about issue 14. Alas no more as I'm a web dev now but I was going to write electronic soundtracks for a living at one stage.
Anyway for beats I'd recommend Native Instruments Battery, seriously good, or any good ROMpler. You'll need a VST host to run it in Reason and FL studio are good choices or you can go for one of the big boy sequencers like Sonar (my favourite by miles, windows only), Logic (Mac only) or Cubase. There are plenty of freeware seqs out there and some are pretty good in fact.
If you want to save some money I'd suggest buying just any old issue of Computer Music because the cover CD has about 10 separate pieces of free software that the editor had written especially for the mag over the years and all of it is absolute great. Not pro quality stuff but loads of character and plenty to play with.
Anyway for beats I'd recommend Native Instruments Battery, seriously good, or any good ROMpler. You'll need a VST host to run it in Reason and FL studio are good choices or you can go for one of the big boy sequencers like Sonar (my favourite by miles, windows only), Logic (Mac only) or Cubase. There are plenty of freeware seqs out there and some are pretty good in fact.
If you want to save some money I'd suggest buying just any old issue of Computer Music because the cover CD has about 10 separate pieces of free software that the editor had written especially for the mag over the years and all of it is absolute great. Not pro quality stuff but loads of character and plenty to play with.