The Top 3 Beat Makers Today
Top 3 beat makers available today
Have you considered making beats for a living? Or maybe you’ve just got some beats in your head that you’d love to hear coming out of your speakers or your friend’s speakers?
With modern advances in music technology you can be a music producer from your own home without the need for fancy or expensive equipment and without needing to rent expensive studio time.
Modern Beat Makers today can be powerful and often inexpensive, but they can also be lacking in key features if you make an unwise purchase decision. To make sure you don’t cripple your beat making career before it’s done you’ll want to purchase the right beat maker.
Here are the top 3 beat makers available to you today:
1) Dr Drum
Dr Drum is a new beat maker that comes full of features. It has a 16-track sequencer, a 12 pad drum machine, 4-octave keyboards for guitar, synth, piano, strings & FX and can create professional tracks using the WAV file format.
Dr Drum’s best feature is its extensive collection of high quality samples you can use to create your own beats; this is complimented by the intuitive interface that can make beat-making feel easy. When you’ve installed Dr Drum you’ll soon be creating your first beats within minutes.
2) Sonic Producer
Sonic Producer is aimed at beginners new to beat making. It does this job well but not better than Dr Drum, which has an exceptionally easy to use interface.
Sonic Producer is let down by its limited variety of sound and instruments available in its samples library as well as by lacking some key functions that users of Dr Drum will take for granted.
3) Beats 365
Third place goes to Beats 365. Beats 365 comes with many beats pre-made and if you’re looking for a source of ready-made beats this is an excellent choice. Beats 365 simply does not have the range of production tools you’ll need to create your own beats to a professional standard so if you want to move beyond listening to beats and into producing them this might not be the option for you.
Verdict
While Sonic Producer and Beats 365 are fine pieces of software neither of them can come close to Dr Drum. Available for less than $40 and with a 60-day satisfaction guarantee you can be creating your first beats in minutes.
Beat Making Apps
The latest in Beat Making Apps, Dr Drum, has just been released and with its marketing campaign generating literally millions of views on YouTube as well as great reviews it’s fair to say that it has made an immediate impression on the beat making community.
But looking beyond the marketing campaign and initial hype just how good is its set of features, and can it really help you create professional sounding beats?
At the heart of Dr Drum is a powerful library of samples. As few people getting started have the equipment necessary to produce their own samples most beat makers live and die on the quality and quantity of samples they come packaged with.
Many Beat Making Apps fall into the trap of either having too few samples in their library or having samples but of their being too low quality to be of any real use. We avoid both these pitfalls by having an extensive library of professional quality sounds in the 44.1 WAV format (as opposed to the lesser-quality MP3 format some cheap beat makers use).
Overall Dr Drum’s sample collection is quite a way ahead most other beat maker’s collections.
Still, a great collection of samples is not worth anything if you can’t do anything with them so let’s look at some of the other features of Dr Drum.
With a 16 track sequencer allowing you to fine-tune the volume, low-tones, medium-tones, high-tones and pan of each track Dr Drum allows you great control in creating your beats.
This is complimented by a drum machine featuring an excellent 12 pads per kit and 4-octave keyboards for piano, guitar, synth, strings & FX. One very clever feature is that if you import a sample into Dr Drum it will automatically scan it, find out what note it is, and then uses it to create all the other notes necessary to fill out your 4-octave keyboard meaning one sample soon turns into a whole horde of samples.
As well as all these features Dr Drum uses a powerful but easy to use interface that will have you dragging and dropping beats within minutes of installation.
And should you get stuck there is a member’s area full of videos designed to help you get creating beats as soon as possible.
It’s easy to see why Dr Drum has been getting such good reviews with its blend of powerful tools with an interface even a complete newcomer will find easy to use.