what do you think the best beat making program?

depends on the user…as mention cubase and protools are high end, but niether is noob friendly…Fl studio is great for noobs but has a horrible default sound library…Reason is my personal favorite because it has amazing sounds but i hate the sequencing of it…

Just depends, but if ya just starting, FL studio is where its at

fl is rather simple to use…if you play with it enough, it will become simple to ya…Thats how I learned it…Just fuck with shit and you’ll get it after a while…plus you can youtube for a lot of helpful tutorials

imixbetter15 wrote:

is there any trials for cubase or protools?

i think their is for cubase but it is pointless getting becuse it will come with no or very few VST’s which is what it gets sound from, Pro Tools their is no trail because it is a Professional program and only works on a Mac and u must have an M-Box to run it, i would say get a stand alone program like Fruity Loops or Reason. You can get Fruity Loops for about £95 and Reason 4 has just come out this week so Reason 3 should be cheap and you can get a trail for Reason

and in answer the Best Program for beat making is Pro Tools because it is the most professional program and is found in most studio’s

yazza187 wrote:

[quote quote="imixbetter15":55pyfuiv]is there any trials for cubase or protools?

i think their is for cubase but it is pointless getting becuse it will come with no or very few VST’s which is what it gets sound from, Pro Tools their is no trail because it is a Professional program and only works on a Mac and u must have an M-Box to run it, i would say get a stand alone program like Fruity Loops or Reason. You can get Fruity Loops for about £95 and Reason 4 has just come out this week so Reason 3 should be cheap and you can get a trail for Reason

and in answer the Best Program for beat making is Pro Tools because it is the most professional program and is found in most studio’s[/quote:55pyfuiv]

Pro Tools does work on pc. don remixs and album dis way 2 month a go.

I use cubase and reason and love them, have also used logic a bit, but like the way cubase does things much better. Not sure when you said beat making if you were talking about making songs in general or actualy making drum beats. drum machine wise I really like battery or the one in reason is also quite good.

REASON!!!!!!!!

reason works well for me.
especially when its rewired

I use cubase 4.1. Its quiet good.
For beats i just got Battery 3 and i like it a lot 100 kits & it loads rex files & just about anything you like.
mike001

I like FL

FL studio is wicked for making beats, once you get the hang of it you can pump out loops rapido style… try downloading some loops you like and loading them into the slicer

For beats? You could use any daw of course but I’d recommend like so many others you look into FL Studio. It started out as a pure beat sequencer. Personally though, I’m very used to working in Logic so that’s what I use. Just get anything to get started with. I began with just a really simple sequencer, can’t remember the name of it now, though.

Ultrabeat in logic is pretty fun and intuitive

I come from a long hardware (ASR, MPC, Korg machines) mostly hip hop, production history, and have made the switch to Reason in the past year. I’m on Reason 6.5 currently and I feel like there’s nothing I cant do. I hear that Ableton is the best out there, but I honestly don’t see a need to step it up any more as a hobbyist. Everything can be manipulated and automated and now you can insert audio (ie vocals, guitar, whatever) and manipulate and run effects on everything just like the internal sounds. For instance an acapella off this site can easily be input as a track, then edited (I convert to .WAV). Loads of refills available, and the software has not messed up on me ever. Sounds a little cheesy, but Reason made music fun for me again.