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Online Beat Making: What tools to use
You may be wondering what tools you should use for online beat making. There are a number of tools out there now for online beat making. When appropriately combined with the right offline tools, you can create the best sounding original beats possible.
The best part about online beat making is that membership to online beat makers often includes free lessons on how to make beats online. These lessons can prove invaluable because as you start making more advanced beats, you will often have questions on how to implement a certain effect or use a certain loop. This is why I like the online beat making program called Sonic Producer. Membership to their website includes free online beat making lessons. The membership over there is worth it just for access to the tutorial videos, but when you add on the beat making software it just can’t be beat.
For cutting up samples, audio tracks, and other small audio work I’d suggest using the open source tool called Audacity. This is completely free and lets you do basic audio editing which will be important, especially if you use an online beat making suite like Sonic Producer, because you can use the audio you edit as samples in your beats.
Finally, you may want to use an instrument if you have one. Sonic Producer lets you do keyboard sets and integrate them into your beats. Keyboards and instruments can be invaluable to online beat making because you can set certain samples to keys,
and this lets you play live DJ sets if you ever feel like. It works out nicely when you can export to mp3 (which you can with SP), burn your beats to a cd, and play a live set with your samples at a party. To learn more about online beat making, check out the links at the bottom of this article.
To learn more about online beat makers visit Beat Makers Online:
