Creating Music - You can do it as well

By Adam Finer

Those of you wishing to create and record your own beats can now do it sitting at home. Beats creation software packages permit you to create, record and edit beats handily. Not just this, there are software packages that serve different ages, from musically inclined kids to the more advanced beats creating software for adults.

Morton Subotnick's 'Making Music ' for amateurs

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 selecting suitable beats to accompany your vocals. You begin by choosing a specific song style and setting a speed. You will then have to sing the track into the mic in tune with the percussive beat. After you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, select the chords and play the track again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.

DUBturbo is another quality music making software using which you can create hip hop, house, jungle and modern music pieces. Sonic Producer is also a magnificent music composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.

Advanced beats creating software

Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are top-end, advanced music creation and revising software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They can be used with a P. C. keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based organizing as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some interesting features offered by Cubase.

About the Author:

Want to creat beats yourself? Visit my site about dubturbo now...