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Rap Beats: Making a Club Banger with Sonic Producer
Watch this quick demo of how to make a club banger style of beat using Sonic Producer.
Sonic Producer gives you the instant ability to make beats. Learn more about it here.
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What hardware do you need to make rap beats?
None!
Well… except for a computer.
That might sound like a simple and smart-ass remark, but it’s true. You really don’t need any hardware these days to make rap beats. Have you seen photos of the big studios with rack-mounted hardware and huge mixing boards? You don’t need that to just make rap beats. All you need is a laptop computer (or desktop computer), a pair of headphones and some software.
Well then, what software do you need?
Get Reason.
It’s the cheapest way to get everything you need for producing rap beats. Some might argue with me, but that’s fine. There’s other good options for cheap software out there to sequence and produce some beats. But Reason seems to stay on the top of my list, and has for many years now.
So, once you get Reason running on your computer, you should feel that you’ve got everything you need to make some rap beats. It’s all up to you at that point to come up with something creative. It’s kinda like having a bunch of pencils and paper, you still gotta know what your doin if you’re gonna try to draw some pictures. The tools are easy to come by.
Tags: beats, Propellerhead, Reason, software
Propellerhead Record: It’s Alive!
In a previous post about a possible Propellerhead DAW, it was being speculated that Propellerhead was coming out with a piece of audio recording software. I liked the possibility of this because it would probably making recording audio and dumping into Reason a little more easy.
Here’s the official announcement of the Propellerhead Record release:
Propellerhead today unveils its brand new software, Record, which combines effortless recording and a stunning software mixer console with a limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized.
I like the sound of that… so it’s conceptually similar to Reason, but for audio recording instead!
Built for independent minded musicians, Record is supposed to have the feel of a million dollar recording studio with the streamlined simplicity of a tape deck.
Simplicity is good, I can dig it.
The bad news is that no third-party plug-ins seems to be supported, but it can be ReWired. As with Reason, Record is a “closed system” but that allows the code to be very CPU efficient.
I don’t think that’s bad news at all, mainly because of the efficiency. I see myself probably running Reason rewired with Record, putting them in sync and running them both efficiently and not sapping CPU processing as much as some other software out there. Sounds like a good thing to me!
Tags: DAW, Propellerhead, Reason, Record, recording, Rewire, software