Making beats

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What's up guys,
Once again, it's the newbie Jin and well, I got another question for you guys. What do I need to make beats? Do all I need is just a keyboard? Or like what. Because I've found out all the equipment for recording, but not making beats. If anybody can suggest me some ideas, that would be great. And don't worry, it won't be 60 posts like last time. :) Thanks.

-Jin
 
You need a looping program like Fruity Loops or Acid Pro.
 
you can do it in reaper with the piano roll if thats the DAW you are sticking with...you can either paint them in with a mouse or tap them in with a keyboard....


another option is to get a pad controller...i use an mpd24, was pretty cheap used...but korg and akai both have small cheaper versions that are portable and are fine as well..


m audio's axiom has keys and pads...and these are always up for sale somewhere..Ive used and axiom 25 and the PCR, it has smaller pads but they work just as well plus it has faders even on the smaller keyboard...


there are loads of free samples to use out there...two of the best are Goldbaby which has outstanding freebie TR 606 tape saturated samples and Wave Alchemy which has some kick samples for free :)
 
Again KC to the rescue.
Man you are like a super hero or something.:D



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Thats cool .....
But now we have to work on a theme song for you.



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moresound said:
Thats cool .....
But now we have to work on a theme song for you.



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i have a costume designed already :o


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Now there you go!
What does the staff do? besides keeping the kilt down.



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Oh yeah ....the kind you can twirl above you head to attract the gals.
Then belt it up side the heads of your foes on the battlefield.



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I just use a keyboard and play them. I've tried drum pads, a Kat controller, step writing and pretty much everything but just playing them on a keyboard is what I like best.

I'm not big on drum loops, I like to custom make the drum track for each tune.

One of the main things is to play the track slower than it will be in the end, but that's a trade off that works sometimes and not others. If you really know what you want that works, but you have to be careful that the feel doesn't go out the window when you do that.
 
i feel guilty for clowning in the thread so heres some links to freebie software for drums...should get you started Jin :)



a good sequencer (and for free) is Hydrogen...meant for the Linux OS but seems to work solidly in Windows...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hydr...9.exe/download



Arachnid is a free 8-channel stereo drum sampler.
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3441.html

2D_Drum3264 Drumcomputer is a free drum synth VST instrument.
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3446.html

Transistordrums is a sample-based drum synthesizer module
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/4154.html

ErsDrums consists of ten (10) drum sounds:Two Kicks.Two Snares.Two Blipps.One Clap.One Claves.One Hihat (Open/Closed).One Crash
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/367.html

DigiDrum Pro is a five part drum and percussion VST Plugin suitable for most genres of digital music production
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2606.html

My Drumset is an acoustic drum module. It consists of several hundred 24-bit samples of a Ludwig drum kit placed on velocity layers and routed via 12 separate outputs
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3851.html

SuperDrumFX (SDFX) is a freeware software drum sampler with advanced possibilities. You can make your own sample based drum sets and play it by e-drum or DAW
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3141.html


DSK mini DrumZ is a "Drum ROMpler". It includes 20 kits featuring the sounds of the following drum machines: Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Kakehashi's pre-Roland sound drum machine. Akai XE8, the 1U rack mount unit with 16-bit drum samples. Akai XR10. Alesis HR-16, one of Alesis's first drum machines. Boss DR-55, first drum machine from Roland with the name Boss. Boss DR-220, typical mid 80's digital drum sounds. Fricke MSB512 Kawai R50, 12 bit 32K sampled drums. Korg DDD-1
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3031.html


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http://www.drumcore.com/TemplateMain.aspx?contentId=65


(thanks to Mr Sounds too)
 
I have nothing ....I just record full drum sets. But I think KC gave enough for the both of us. :D sorry




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