Creating Beats - You can do it as well

By Adam Finer

Those individuals hoping to create and record your own music can now do it sitting at home. Music creation programs allow you to create, record and edit music expediently. Not just this, there are programs that cater to different ages, from musically inclined youngsters to the more advanced music making software for adults.

Morton Subotnick's 'Creating Beats ' for newbies

This is a tutorial and fun software for youngsters. Created by Morton Subotnick, a prize winning composer, Creating Music permits youngsters to have a simple and delightful beats composing experience. Designed to be kid-friendly, the software has 'animal building blocks ' that permit children to make their own unique tunes. Rhythm and pitch can be altered by lining birds up on a wire, like beats notes. The software also permits children to select any of the sixteen instruments on the computer screen and listen to the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other exciting and fun games include testing youngsters ' musical sense by asking them to hear 2 tunes and judging whether they are different or similar.

For ambitious musicians

With its acceptance in Europe soaring, Beats Maker from Magix permits ambitious musicians to form beats regardless of if they don't have prior knowledge of beats composing. This beats making software allows users to make a choice from one or two thousand pre-created samples and loops from different musical instruments, digital beats files and CDs. The samples, loops can be previewed, dragged and dropped on screen. The software allows users to make more than ninety different beats tracks. Other important features of Beats Maker include augmented modifying tools, a top quality drum machine and a tuner that creates a total choir from one recorded voice and also corrects recorded vocal samples immediately. The musical pieces can be exported to files and played on Windows Media Player.

Using Microsoft Songsmith, you can create songs by choosing acceptable music to go with your vocals. You start by selecting a particular song style and setting a tempo. You'll then have to sing the song into the mike in perfect harmony with the percussive beat. When you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, choose the chords and play the song again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.

DUB Turbo is another quality beats creating software using which you can create hip-hop, house, jungle and modern beats pieces. Sonic Producer is also a formidable beats composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.

Advanced beats creating software

Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are top of the range, advanced beats creation and editing software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They can be employed with a computer keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based preparing as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some fascinating features offered by Cubase.

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