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 'Creating Beats ' for beginners

This is an educational and fun software for kids. Created by Morton Subotnick, a prize-winning composer, Making Music permits kids to have an easy and enjoyable beats composing experience. Built to be kid-friendly, the software has 'animal constituents ' that permit youngsters to form their own unique tunes. Rhythm and pitch can be modified by lining birds up on a wire, looking rather like beats notes. The software also permits kids to select any of the sixteen instruments on the computer screen and listen to the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other thrilling and fun games include testing children ' musical sense by asking them to hear 2 tunes and judging whether they are different or similar.

For ambitious musicians

With its recognition in Europe exploding, Beats Maker from Magix permits aspiring musicians to create beats even if they don't have previous knowledge of beats composing. This beats making software allows users to choose between several 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 form more than ninety different beats tracks. Other significant features of Beats Maker include reinforced editing tools, a top quality drum machine and a tuner that creates a total choir from one recorded voice and also corrects recorded vocal samples mechanically. The musical pieces can be exported to files and played on Windows Media Player.

Using Microsoft Songsmith, you can create songs by selecting appropriate beats to accompany your vocals. You begin by choosing a selected song style and setting a speed. You may then have to sing the tune into the microphone in harmony with the percussive beat. Once you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, select the chords and play the tune again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.

DUB Turbo is another quality beats creating software using which you can create hiphop, house, jungle and modern beats pieces. Sonic Producer is also an impressive beats composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.

Advanced beats creating software

Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are top of the range, advanced beats creation and editing software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They can be employed with a computer keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based preparing as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some fascinating features offered by Cubase.

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