Creating Music Is Easy

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 an instructional and fun software for children. Made by Morton Subotnick, an award winning composer, Doing Music allows children to have a straightforward and pleasurable music composing experience. Engineered to be kid-friendly, the software has 'animal fundamental components ' that allow kids to create their own unique melodies. Rhythm and pitch can be changed by lining birds up on a wire, resembling music notes. The software also allows youngsters to choose any of the 16 instruments on the PC screen and hear the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other fun and exciting games include testing kids ' musical sense by asking them to listen to two melodies and judging whether or not they are dissimilar or similar.

For expectant 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.

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 music making software

Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are high-end, advanced beats creation and modifying software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They may be employed with a PC keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based arranging as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some engaging features offered by Cubase.

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