Studio Beat Maker
As a professional ‘roadie’ and tour manager you gain experience of dragging kit and equipment into rehearsal and a Studio Beat Maker just to enable the base and drum tracks to be laid down in a really professional manner.
Yet, the process is often flawed because it doesn’t enable you to mix just that right rhythm for the right occasion.
We’ve found a piece of ‘out of the box’ software that lets you do it all without those expensive multi-channel mixers, the pro-drum kit (and a drummer) and a bassist – its called Dr.Drum, yes that is ‘Doctor Drum, and it is a really inexpensive way of laying down a beat that will captivate the clubber and get those limbs moving to the beat.
It comes with everything you might expect, runs on both ‘Windows’ and Mac OSX and is so simple, yet incredibly sophisticated that venue operators will be falling over their checkbooks to hire you as a DJ.
The box includes a 16-track sequencer, a twelve-pad drum machine and a four octave keyboard plus tutorials, export capability down to 44.1 stereo in .wav format and a way of selling the ‘beats’ that you create – outstanding value for less than the cost of a good meal for two!
Many DJs fight shy of gizmos such as this, simply because they sound so cheap, well Dr.Drum may be inexpensive but it isn’t cheap, you won’t need anything else to set you on the road to DJ Stardom.
Times are few and far between when you can download a package, install it, have it up and running in minutes and be producing pro-quality output from ‘day-one’.
There are, as far as we can see, no catches, no secondary payments or annual license fees – once you sign up you are guaranteed the updates and upgrades as part of your membership package!
Scared of trying something as easy to master, we were, but Dr.Drum quelled all our qualms by offering a full money back guarantee if you aren’t happy within 60 days.
So, how can you grab a piece of this amazing Studio Beat Maker – simply log on to the Dr.Drum website, pay your fee and ‘Hey Presto’ you can be creative in minutes.
Beat Making Machine
It’s hard to beat … Well actually it isn’t because this Beat Making Machine is probably the simplest way for DJs and performers to create and use their own beats and to develop great sounds.
Having tried almost every route to making beats that work and get the audience moving has almost driven us crazy. Be it Garage Band or Pro-tools or any other software-based tool the problem is one of cost and complexity and results that work. It’s the same too when you use a hardware based solution using drum, bass and keys to create and then try to mix them down. Not any longer!
Dr.Drum is a solution that does ‘what it says on the tin’ – it’s a suite of programs that enable the budding, or pro DJ to download it, look at some great video tutorials and be up and running within hours, no matter what your level of expertise.
The program is compatible with PC and Mac and will run on both Windows and OSX, is so highly sophisticated yet incredibly simple to understand and play with and the creators are so confident it its capabilities that if you aren’t creating great beats within 60-days of purchase that they will give you a full, no quibble refund – can’t ask for more than that.
Whilst it is a download and normally stuff like this is a one off purchase, what you are buying into is a membership program whereby you can continue to download upgrades and updates.
In the box you get a huge array of electronic ‘hardware’ in the form of a 16-track sequencer plus a full 12-pad drum machine and a keyboard synthesizer capable of a four-octave range.
Add to that the capability to export beats in a recognized 44:1 WAV format and you will have venues and other DJs crying out for your services – unless you want to keep it for yourself.
Some beat creators are concerned that product like Dr.Drum can’t be any good because it is so ridiculously cheap – but that’s its beauty.
It outperforms many products up to ten or twenty times its ticket price – around $40 for a full working Beat Making Machine– something you just can’t beat.