How do u make beats with keyboards

[Atlsdiamond]

How do u make beats with keyboards

[The Green Hornet]

Yo 8 carats:

You buy a drum machine, or drum program, and set up a pattern or pick a pre sent and record drums/keyboard. The drum box sets the beat without a click track.

Then, overdub bass, if needed, and whatever else you want. When you say "keyboard" I assume you're talking about a synth?

Some synths have drums built in but I have always used a drum machine.

Some synths have sequencers and that opens up another world and type of recording tracks.

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Green Hornet

[noisewreck]

Originally Posted by Atlsdiamond

How do u make beats with keyboards

That's easy! You press the right keys at the right time

[Atlsdiamond]

Originally Posted by noisewreck

That's easy! You press the right keys at the right time

lol aight den

[bigwillz24]

Originally Posted by noisewreck

That's easy! You press the right keys at the right time

WoW

[Dags]

Only way to make beats with a keyboard is to ensure that the keyboard has drumkits built into it.

Its up to you how you want to create the beats, but using a sequencer is the easiest way of recording and constructing grooves.

Dags

[ericlingus]

do you guys record each drum separetly? Like first bass, then snare, then high hat etc? I like to record the bass and snare at the same time in the sequencer but then how would I be able to pan it? I would have to do it individually wouldn't I?

[Pinachi]

Yes you must do them seperatly if you want good results.You'll be able to EQ them,pan them,compress them if needed and so on.So make a beat and export track by track by muting the other tracks.
I usualy record kick first on one track,then a snare on the other,then some hats on thirs and what not.All midi on seperate tracks.Yes its worth it.

[ericlingus]

so you're saying I should use MIDI when programming my drums beats? Couldn't I just connect my synth in the line in of my audio interface and record them as an audio track?

[altitude909]

Sure, but unless you have sub millisecond timing they wont be of much use

[ericlingus]

oh that's right. I can only quantize MIDI. You can't quantize audio can you.

[noisewreck]

You can, but it's much easier to work in MIDI.

[Pinachi]

To quantize the audio you will have to do some major chop chop vs click quantize button

[ericlingus]

oh okay. I guess i'm afraid of MIDI because I havent really worked with it. Well I have a little bit in my triton's sequencer. But never tried turning it into audio or anything.