To create rap beats with today's latest innovations in technology has been made less difficult and far more easily accessible for today's aspiring beat makers, those who have little to no experience in audio production, and people who merely have the flair and interest in making music.
It used to just be about the juxtaposition of a multitude of sounds from various different musical instruments, thus entailing a huge chunk of your time and an investment of your hard-earned money. But now there are a lot of tools on the market that top hip hop producers use on their tracks and there are a ton of software products available online for making rap beats for those who are just starting out and making their way towards a career in the music industry.
Most of today's songs are not boxed into one musical genre alone. The continuous evolution of music make it easier to create a diverse palette of sounds to mix and match with a variety of other genres from hip hop to pop to funk to metal. Nowadays, you can hear Dirty South elements fused with jazz or Crunk combined with soul and R&B in a wide range of music hybrid compositions. All you need to achieve this is a good ear for music and the right kind of equipment to create hip hop beats. Your creative imagination supported by your unique style will help in setting you apart from the crowd in defining your original sound and potentially innovative producing techniques.
The following are a few of the best tools and software that most producers are using these days for creating some of the music industries chart topping hits:
Korg Triton One of the leading innovators in hip hop, this is a favorite among top producers like Neptunes.
Roland Fantom X6 Workstation Color LCD screen and 16 drum pads make the Roland Fantom a great investment. This was used in the track "Ether" by Nas.
Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 7 XL Standard Among its features are unlimited MIDI tracks, multi-input audio interfaces, 2GB of loop content, 64 audio tracks, a vast selection of applications, synths, recording and mixing tools, and effects.
FL Studio Create rap beats easily with this software, which was used by rap producer 9th Wonder to make the track entitled "Threat" by Jay-Z. This is a program that is fairly inexpensive and user-friendly.
Today's technology allows anyone with a computer to produce beats on their own, provided they have the right kind of software to help them do so. But it's more than just combining pre-programmed sounds. It takes skill to turn simple beats, samples and loops into a fantastically superb song that moves listeners to inspiration and motivates them to want to spend their money to buy it. So get crackin' and start practicing now on learning the skills to make great music and to hone your talents to create hip hop beats that can compete in the modern world of music producing and song writing. You just might be the next Jay-Z or Dr. Dre.
