Beat makers unite !
 

PLease state what equipment you use : hardware and software

music genres you create for

influences that made you get into this.

do drums count? lol

yah, one of my hobbies is to play keys but not really into just making beats. i have an alesis sr18 i use for looping drums.

i used to make beats with my friends brother. he used to produce for local rappers. i would just mess around or sometimes help with drum stuff for him.

considering a lot of beats are now sampled loops, that's cool you can play drums and make your own samples. :tup:

thank you :tiphat:

that said, i use logic (the basic one) for beats sometimes. otherwise ARX01 and logic to make some original loops.

yah, it's different when a real drummer makes beats vs some keyboard player thinking he can make beats off a drum machine. the groove and soul.

i am scared to actually get on a beat machine like a MPC one. i may not stop playing with it for days lol i've used a cheap one before and i came up with ridiculous stuff lol

if i was to get new equipment, i would probably just do NI and a faster MBP. should be plenty.

:rofl2: yah, MPC is good stuff. i like those hybrid partial software/hardware setups. once i get something cool, just sample it.

you guys check out that new nord beat machine thingie? pretty cool. too bad i dont now how to play drums.

i would just get a higher end MPC and just play all day and strive to do anything as crazy as araab muzik. not even a big rap fan but the skills that guy has is insane.

yah, akai makes great stuff.

btw, have you check out the Maschine? it's very cool.

Native Instruments - Software And Hardware For Music Production And Djing

I use the Maschine Mk2, and also ableton live + launchpad mini , and acid pro for when I'm doing a quick mashup or remix

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that is skill. wonder if thats how skrillex made his originally lol :p and he's only 24. think he made dipset's beats starting in like 2006? lol

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Cool guys ! I using a triton and asr-10 now, building a mpc 3000 which is almost done. drums count, especially sampling them to be creative, wish i could sample some hits from you on my mpc 3000.

anyone using waves vst plugins with ableton ? I can't get the program to pick them up..

no im not currently, Got a Asr-10 as well, have really messed with it, but i think im going to sample into it first and then move samples over to 3000.

anyone using a mpc, triton, ensoniq, or any hardware ? Love vintage machines !

Here is what I use right now with my current setup -

2010 Macbook Pro Uni 13.3"

Software -
Ableton Live 9 for Live Sets, Simple Production Looping and Sets for Dubstep
Logic X - Mastering and Sampling along with Final Production
FL Studio - Trap/Hip Hop/ R&B Beat Making and creation
Reason Studio for Phase Shift and Linear Trance Loops and creations
Pro Tools on some occasions

Hardware -
Ableton Push Controller
Ableton APC 40 Controller
Novation Launchpad Mini
AKAI MPC 500
Novation X station - For piano keys and rhythm production
Sonus 8 Line DSP Controller
Crown 4 Channel AMP
KRK Rokit 5 Studio Monitors and Mackie Monitors with M&K 700 Watt Sub

Thats just my minor studio in my front of my apartment. And i know that i'm forgetting some things there and there, misc hardware and old software. I know that I have at least 3 Blue Microphones, 2 Shure's and a few field placement mics for non directional capture (used for like drums and such)

i can make fapping noises

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How do you like the logic x for sampling !

That machine studio from n.I., looks pretty awesome. Heard the mk2 is still good too.