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Learn how to make beats with FL Studio
This guy will give you a quick run through regarding making beats with FL Studio. If you need a place to start, and you have or can get FL Studio, then check this out and learn how to make some beats.
Tags: beats, FL Studio, production, tutorial, video
Beat Making Tutorial with Hardware & Software
This guy has got a great video tutorial that shows how he makes beats with various hardware and software. He uses a lot of different gear and mixes it up well. Watch and learn!
Tags: beats, production, tutorial
DAW software from Propellerhead on the horizon?
I found this to be some interesting news:
While Reason is the only way to work for many – with a history of innovation and groove based music creation, as well as being flexible enough to create many other styles of music – one criticism is that it just doesn’t do the regular DAW thing – that is to record regular audio in true DAW style – adding vocal tracks, live instruments and all that.
Rumours are surfacing that there is a totally new dedicated DAW about to surface, to be uncovered at the upcoming Propellerhead Producers Conferences to be held simultaneously at various worldwide locations on May 9th.
I’ve always enjoyed using Propellerheads Reason to produce rap beats, it just works so well. A bit of software from Propellerheads for audio recording would go very nicely with Reason, especially for sampling. If this new DAW software has features to make it run smooth with Reason, even though it’s going to probably be standalone – it could really boost studio productivity for Reason users.
“This will not be an update to Reason, which will retain its own product category, but will be a new standalone product that will have full-on audio recording capabilities.”
I like the sound of that.
Tags: DAW, production, Propellerhead, Reason, sampling
A simple way to make some raw beats
To me, the best raw beats are from the 19080′s and 90′s when rap artists and producers used a lot of samples (lots of FUNK samples I should say).
Why do I like that era so much? The beats were raw and unique. How can you reproduce those raw sounds without having to sample vinyl? Go out and do some field recordings of local musicians you know.
Do you have a friend that likes to play drums, and who can bang out some good beats? Grab a recorder, digital or otherwise, and go over to your friends place and record 15 minutes worth of drum sounds and beats. All of these sounds will be raw with interesting room acoustics and reverb, and the recording might even sound borderline bad – but that’s what you want!
You can do the same with other instruments as well. Have a friend jam some guitar riffs for you (you can direct them towards different types of styles as well) and record them, then sample from those recordings and mix in the instrument sounds.
It doesn’t take much…
Take those sounds and layer them into your beats. If your beats sounds a little sterile and need some life, adding a few raw and reverberated samples into the mix can go a long way to “dirty” it up a bit and give your beats and tracks a unique feel.
Tags: funk, production, raw