If you're looking for a way to make hip hop and rap beats on your computer, I think I have just the thing for you. If you need to make your own instrumental beats, this is it. After reading many reviews of Sonic Producer, it looks like a lot of people are saying that it's the best rap beat maker out there for the price. Here are some things I've learned from reading other people's reviews of it.
The Pros
Sonic Producer is a membership website that you pay $30 to become a member of. That means there is no complicated beat making software download to get through. You don't have to worry about any virus infecting your computer or even having any downloads to deal with. You become a member and begin making your own beats. How simple is that?!
The drum machine sounds are professional and are even on par with most expensive drum machine and synthesizer sounds. You won't even be able to tell that you're not using a professional music studio to make your hip hop and rap beats. Sonic Producer has thousands of samples and sounds for you to choose from too.
Everyone wants to have a large number of sounds to work with, and they are all available here. From many different types of drum sounds, to pianos, keyboards, basses, guitars, and sound effects, you'll have plenty to work with and will never run out of ways to get your ideas in to your songs.
The interface is simple to use. You put the sounds where you want them in the timeline of the beat measure. If you make a mistake all you have to do is take that beats or note out of its time slot and put it where you really want it. You can adjust the tempo, use the mixer to change the volume of certain parts, and string many parts together to make a song.
If this is all over your head, don't worry, any beginner can use Sonic Producer and be a master at it with a little practice. And if you get stuck or lost the members are has many tutorial videos to explain exactly how to do what you want.
When you're done with awesome new your song and want to save it, there is even an option to convert your song to an MP3 file and save your beats on your computer hard drive. From here it's your to do whatever you want with, you can burn it to a CD, upload it to a website, share it with others, or import it in to another program to edit it further or have somebody spit some flow over it.
The Cons
I've read a lot of people saying that video quality of the tutorials isn't all that great. Apparently the video quality is less impressive than the beat maker, and since the guys who started Sonic Producer are professional musicians and not movie makers, who can blame them . Maybe we can get them to do some better videos in the future.
