In combination to the plugins we suggested, all the DAWs mentioned above have their own plugins. Some of the most important plugins that we suggest are: You can use the plugins through the DAWs and they will provide you with huge libraries of effects that you can apply to your music productions, such as compressors, multi-band compressors, equalizers, stereo wideners, noise gates, distortion effects, reverb and delay processors and limiters. Next step is to acquire some very useful plugins. Your best option is to test them all and decide which one offers the most convenient environment for you to start creating music and purchase it. There are a lot of DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) available for you to choose from. Next step is to acquire your music software. What you need to make sure is that you have a PC or a laptop, a decent pair of studio monitors and an audio interface in order to be ready to start creating music. Midi keyboards and drum pads are not of major importance the first days you start making beats, but they are pretty cheap and they will be very useful in certain parts of the music production process, such as creating bass line with the midi keyboard, or a drum loop with the drum pad controller. Here is a list of the equipment you need: That means that you can buy only the absolutely necessary equipment, and to be fair that is all you need in the beginning. Assuming that you are just starting, you might be on a tight budget. Equipmentįirst of all, you need to have the appropriate equipment. It is advisable that you listen to as many records as you can to understand the basic structure of rap songs, how the music productions sound in general, the parts that sound similar between rap beats and the techniques producers use.Īll these will help you acquire a better understanding about how to start structuring your beats, the ways you could use your samples and drum loops and the main idea behind rap music productions.

To be able to create your own music, you need to have a certain level of knowledge about the music genre you are about to enter, in this case hip hop music. Let’s take a look at the steps you have to take in order to create a rap beat.

The person that creates the rap beats is called the beatmaker, and he is the person responsible for the main idea of the beat, the structure and arrangement and sometimes even the mixing and mastering process.

Most of the times, it is a one-man situation. The main difference of rap beats from other music genres, is that it relies mostly on electronic equipment such as samplers, drum pads, computers and midi keyboards rather than instruments. Making hip hop music, and specifically creating rap beats for rappers and lyricists is a very sophisticated form of art, and has its difficulties like every other music production process.

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