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Great Tips on Making Rap Beats Using DUBturbo

November 18th, 2010 Jiffy 9 comments

How To Make Rap Beats with DUBturbo Online Software

It used to be you needed hundreds of thousands of dollars in music recording studio equipment to be able to make professional quality hip hop beats.  That is not the case anymore. With today’s technology and online beat maker software, anyone can learn to create.

I have played around with many of the best music software online. My favorite so far has been Sonic Producer, but lately I have been spending a lot of time learning how to make beats with DUBturbo beat making software.

What is DUBturbo?

DUBturbo is is a Digital Audio Workstation (or DAW). It lets you do music composition and includes everything you need to make and export your own songs. It comes with a huge library of sound samples, special effects, and drum kit sounds for making your beats. DUB turbo has an easy to use point and click interface with many shortcuts so you can do everything from keyboard commands for controlling the software. You can trigger sound samples, drum beats, play keys easily.

Rap Beats Sequencer

DUBturbo sequencer interface

The Features

Use the individual track sound selectors to choose each sequencer track’s sound. Keys, drums, sound samples, mic, or even import WAV files for any sound you want for your hip hop beat.
DUBturbo comes with a huge assortment of sounds for making your own rap beat.

On the fly editing lets you loop through your song and create and modify each track in real time. You can even draw in notes, beats, or samples right into the sequence editor window.

The 16 channel mixer let’s you edit each channel separately as well as mute or solo tracks in your beat loop.

The on-screen drum pad and piano style keyboard can be triggered by your computer’s keyboard or an external musical keyboard. Making it even easier to lay down sounds.

DUBturbo Drum Machine

Expanded Drum Machine

The drum kit is very easy to use when I’m making beats. There is a lot of control here and so easy to make songs.

There Is Even More to this

The member’s area on the DUBturbo website is packed with demos, tutorials, bonuses, and upgrades.

Thousands of professionally mastered samples and drum kits for you to pick from – updated so your beats never sound stale!

Check it out and you can make rap beats in 20 minutes. Click here to see their website

Tips on how to Make Rap Beats

November 3rd, 2010 James 2 comments

Make Rap Beats

I love to make rap beats. I have been making beats for a long time now. With a little bit of learning and practice, you can make your own rap beats.

Any hip hop beat making software will have an interface that should be easy to understand and not cluttered so you can use the tools to make your own beats.

This beat making software is an example:

make rap beats

You can see it is the computer version of a studio mixing board with drum machine and other music making modules added in.

Most often, you have a song sequencer that loops at the time you set while you cycle through making your own beats. I like to let the sequencer loop and start by adding my bass drum beats. When I’m happy with the bass drum, I add the hi-hat cymbal track. After that I keep going adding snare drum and whatever other hip hop beats I think sound good.

Once you have your song concept started, you can add all kinds of sound samples and synthesized musical instruments.

Choose the hip hop beat maker software that allows you to let your unique style flow to make your own beats on the computer. Something that does everything you want it to do… and more. That way you have room to expand your music style.

Make Rap Beats That Are Money

People actually make money by making their hip hop beats for sale. There are a lot of options if you make your own song. You can make rap beats for product websites, commercial jingles, video game soundtracks, even for rap beats download online to be used as beat samples in other peoples music.