Programs

[Dj17]

What is the best program to produce rap beats in your opinion? What are you using? How does it work for you?

[Dj17]

btw... anyone ever used reason 2.0? or do you know what well-known producers use? thanks a lot

[miccontrol]

Fruity Loops is a pretty cool program. You can get it hella cheap too.

[L'espion Noir]

hardware: i've only used my keyboards ( maybe that's the problem)

software: battery from N I

[Devilfire]

Heres My List
1-Reason
2-Fruity Loops
3-Acid
4-Project 5

L'espion Noir:
How do you use battery, i have it and i dont even know how to use it !!

[SPINSTERWUN]

Originally posted by Devilfire
......How do you use battery, i have it and i dont even know how to use it !!

You can use it to hold and layer your samples. Then, you can use an external controller to trigger the samples. I use my MPD-16 for the purpose of triggering the samples I've loaded in Battery.



spin

[Hi_D_Ho_Man]

Battery is a pleasure. All my drums and sound fx are triggered though Battery these dayz.

BTW I'm using Cubase 5.1. i checked out a demo of SX, its so different from 5.1 that i didnt even give it a real try.

[jugalo180]

sx is cool, but you have to go to the site and check out all of the complaints about it. users of 5.0 have to get adjusted to the new layout. i worked with it for a small time and liked it. the joint has an azz load of vst plugins for you to work with. i choose to stick with sonic foundry because it's simple and to the point.

[ridl]

fruityloops into acid

use soundforge to tweak the sounds if needed

I loved reason but I prefer fruity's interface

[jugalo180]

i have the exact same setup ridl

[L'espion Noir]

how i use battery

i use my mpd-16 to play the drums samples on my keyboard basically just registering the notes
then from sx i load battery as a vst and if the kick was played on the keyboard's D#1 key i load a kick that i want on the D#1 cell of battery et voila

did that make sense
SPINSTERWUN do you use either battery or the mpd as a stand alone