This is the fifth song I made on Acid Pro. It’s kind of interesting…not as good as some of the other stuff I did in my opinion.

• Now provides nearly 60 hours of continuous recording!
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• Stores 16 different playlists containing up to 99 songs each

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• 8 Touch Sensitive Drum Pads
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Are you looking to get started in the world of making your own hip hop beats? I’ve known many people who have caught a passionate interest in creating their own beats. They were people with a little bit of, but not much music experience who just wanted another way to express themselves. Before long they were making hip hop beats just as sick as any I heard on the radio.

Myself, I’ve been making my own hip hop beats and instrumentals for years now. I started when I was 18 years old my senior year of high school. I got a program called FL Studio and I toughed out the learning curve and figured out how to do a few things. If I could go back, I would have started with a membership to a website called Sonic Producer. It’s a website that lets you make your own hip hop beats online.

The best part isn’t just that you can make your own hip hop beats online, it’s that the membership is a one time fee of $29. This is revolutionary in the world of music production, where making your own beats used to mean at least $5000 at the studio or $500 on desktop music production software. Even I spent $150 on FL Studio back in the day.

The problem with desktop music beats software is that it’s highly technical and very difficult for beginners to get started making their own beats. The learning curve for these programs is very steep. Sonic Producer’s music sequencer is top of the line: 16 tracks, 8 dj pads, piano sets, adjustable tempo, huge preset beat and loop library, and mp3 export. It has all the most important features, but leaves out the extraneous technical fluff that only 1% of users will ever use.

What if you decide you don’t want to make your own beats anymore, that its not for you? Well if you buy desktop software you’re out of luck, whereas if you go with a membership to Sonic Producer you can get a full refund if you are unsatisfied. Especially in today’s economy, I like to get the most value for my dollar, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t either: for $29 Sonic Producer is the ultimate solution to making your own hip hop beats online.

• Audio Warp: Realtime Time-Stretching and Pitch Shifting
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• New In-place Editor supports ultrafast direct MIDI event editing
• New MIDI Device Maps/Panels support direct access to external MIDI hardware
• User-definable Workspaces (window layouts) help organizing your desktop

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1. Simplicity
The program you use to your make beats online should be simple to use. If you have an idea for a song or a beat in your head, you should be able to at least get a sketch of the song programmed quickly and easily. An intuitive interface is important for this. If you have to click many boxes and hit “ok” buttons for every change you want to make things will go slowly and tediously and you’ll really lose momentum and inspiration. Most beat patterns are programmed in to a timeline where each sound goes into a certain “slot”. Putting beats in those slots should be as easy as clicking a box or pushing a button. It should be just as easy to change those beats once you’ve programmed them. 

2. Timing control
You should be able to adjust the timing. Most programs have a grid with the timeline going left to right and the sounds being triggered listed from top to bottom. This should be customizable. Can you make the pattern longer or shorter? Can you easily adjust the tempo speed to faster or slower? 

3. sequence
Songs have different parts and you will need the ability to string different patterns to each other in sequence to for a linear structure. This is something you should be able to control through the grid. 

4. Lots of sounds
You must also make sure the program has a large bank of sounds if you want to make beats online. Certain styles of songs call for certain sounds and you will need as many different sounds as possible to use. The program should have many different drum sets with multiple types of sounds for each drum. Twenty different snare sounds is a good start. Ten or twenty different bass kicks is also a good start. You will also want a lot of accompaniment. Horns, pianos, guitars, strings, crash hits, and other sound effects are all things you should have in a decent sized sound bank. 

5. Versatile Input Control
You should be able to control these sounds easily as well. Just like clicking boxes to put a beat in a certain spot, it should be possible to do the same with instrument sounds. Better yet, there should be a way to “play” out notes in an octave with keys like a piano has. If you have an external USB keyboard controller you can just play what you want to program on it, but if you don’t have a controller you should just be able to “click” the note on the keys just like on a piano. There should also be pads for “hitting”, just like on a physical drum machine. Maybe you’ll want to tap out a drum sequence on the pads with your mouse clicks that is just too tedious to program in to slots. That’s where the pads come in. 

6. Volume and Panning
Some sounds should be louder nd some should be softer in your patterns. The bass may be distorting or the hi hats may not be too quiet. You’ll want to be able to increase the sounds with a mixer of some sort. The same goes for panning left and right for stereo effect. True separation is what makes stereo sound so interesting and you need to be able to change volume and pan parts for better isolation. 

7. Save it!
If you are going to make beats online, you are also going to want to share those beats online. You should be able to export or download your songs and beats into an mp3 or (other audio file) so you  can play them with another program. You must be able to save it on your hard drive for later use in case you choose to edit or play it for others on an mp3 player.

There should be no loss of sound quality when exporting and downloading either.  

8. Affordability
The program should also be affordable and available. The whole point of needing to make beats online is to bypass the expensive musical and audio equipment that does the same thing as a good program. 

9. Support
Your beat making program should have good support. If this article doesn’t make much sense to you then by all means make sure the program you use has lots of instruction, support, and tutorials to get you started and answer your questions. 

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• 24-bit, 48 kHz high-end A/D-D/A conversion thru USB – recording software included
• 2-XLR mic inputs with 48V phantom and 2-1/4″ balanced line inputs that can accept guitar level signals
• MIDI Input/Output and 24-bit S/PDIF I/O for direct digital recording
• Dedicated four segment signal/clip LED meter on both channels
• USB powered with low power usage – no external AC power supply necessary

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Designed as the ideal Audio/MIDI companion to notebook computer-based recording environments, the iO|2 USB has a compact form factor that can easily fit in a laptop case or small backpack. The iO|2 USB features durable aluminum casing, USB power (eliminating cumbersome external power supplies) and is optimized for minimal laptop battery drain. The iO|2 provides 2-channels of pristine 24-bit/48kHz audio directly to your computer via the integrated USB interface an… More >>

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GO TO: Beats.FatMastering.com Twitter Twitter.com Beat Online – How To Make Beats Online – Beat Maker Software. Watch how quick it is to make beats and instrumentals with SonicProducer. I promise you won’t leave your computer for 4 days straight. You will make thousands of beats and you don’t even need to be a professional musician or have any experience, we made it super user friendly to make your own beats and you won’t believe the quality of the sounds we packed it with. In addition to …