Best Programme.

[raynoruk]

What is the best programme for a begginner to start producing Niche Beats aka Dubstep?

[Littlefoot]

Niche Beats aka Dubstep

gtfo

[FSTZ]

that is a secret

[raynoruk]

Niche Beats aka Dubstep

gtfo

gtfo what the hell does dat mean yo better not be steppin to me bruv all i wanna know is whats the best programme for making 4x4 beats!

[az]

for first post

Niche Beats aka Dubstep!!?????!!!!!

First you gotta shut down your browser, then go take a good long hard look in the mirror, then ask your self;

"why do i want to make music?"

If the answers are any of the following

"cos dem banging 4x4 baslines are hottin up tha galz dem"

"That new ministry of sound advert sounds sweet! Im gunna go torrent that shit, then copy exactly what they've done"

"That shit sounds easy, and girls love nothing more than a musician!"

Please go kill your self!

If however your answers are more like:

"Im feeling that scene, wonder what i could bring to that?"

"I just want to make music, move people, express myself"

"Ive got loads of cash to burn "

Then look out for reason 4, Ableton Live , Cubase 4 or if your on a mac, Logic 8 or Pro Tools LE. There are plenty of recources online and if you dont ask noob questions were all willing to help. 1st post so took it easy on you, but PLEASE never refer to Dubstep as niche

[az]

Wheres the Ham?

[auan]

Wheres the Ham?

He hasn't said the magic W...

Here's a thought that's been flopping around my brain for a few days. Probably worthy of a new topic, but fuck it, this is a thread worth hi-jacking. Would it be selling your soul to start making a style that you didn't exactly like, just because you knew that you could do it? Say I started making bassline house, because it seems such a formulaic piece of piss to make - bassline, 4x4 beats, chipmunk vocals - just for cash, because it obviously sells, going by the Ministry of Sound advert. Then I spend my spare time making dubstep or dnb or breakcore or whatever the fuck else I wanted to do, making music that I enjoyed, just for the fun of it.

Blur did this, they claim, they made a few cheesy, chart-friendly Britpop albums to get attention and finances to make the album they always wanted to make (the one with Song 2 on it) and go on being an 'intelligent' band. I'm not a fan, just pointing out that the idea isn't original. Blur probably aren't even the first band to do it.

All purely hypothetical btw. This is like the antithesis to two oh one's thread.

[drifterman_]

FRUITY LOOPS

[thesynthesist]

Best Threadde...

[slothrop]

Wheres the Ham?

He hasn't said the magic W...

Here's a thought that's been flopping around my brain for a few days. Probably worthy of a new topic, but fuck it, this is a thread worth hi-jacking. Would it be selling your soul to start making a style that you didn't exactly like, just because you knew that you could do it? Say I started making bassline house, because it seems such a formulaic piece of piss to make - bassline, 4x4 beats, chipmunk vocals - just for cash, because it obviously sells, going by the Ministry of Sound advert. Then I spend my spare time making dubstep or dnb or breakcore or whatever the fuck else I wanted to do, making music that I enjoyed, just for the fun of it.

Blur did this, they claim, they made a few cheesy, chart-friendly Britpop albums to get attention and finances to make the album they always wanted to make (the one with Song 2 on it) and go on being an 'intelligent' band. I'm not a fan, just pointing out that the idea isn't original. Blur probably aren't even the first band to do it.

All purely hypothetical btw. This is like the antithesis to two oh one's thread.

I don't see how it's much worse than stacking shelves at Sainsburys if it doesn't impact on your main interest more than having a normal day job would. Obviously the danger, assuming that you could make stacks of cash doing bassline or whatever, is that you'd start to get caught up the temptation to spend more and more of your time banging it out. I get the impression that a number of big DnB DJ/Producers are doing this.

Also, I'm not sure how well you could produce a genre you genuinely don't like tbh. Even if it looks easy, it'd be quite hard to write tunes that really work on the dancefloor unless you know what it feels like to get caught up by a tune on that dancefloor. So it'd have to be something you were sort of into anyway.

[alphacat]

Anyone care to tell a dumb Yank wtf a "niche beat" is?

[FSTZ]

[drifterman_]

NICHE=4x4 BASSLINE
http://www.myspace.com/wittyboy4x4
IF UR A SHOWERMAN
PUT UR DARKERS ON
FOLD UR ARMS
SKANK ON SIGHT

[pupstar]

Anyone care to tell a dumb Yank wtf a "niche beat" is?

chek the second tune on the player www.myspace.com/pups89

[alphacat]

Ah, right. Thanks y'all.

(A rookie could easily get something like this sound by alternating between some presets, no? Just play the same bassline over and over on yr. Casio or whatev and hit the "Next Patch" button...)

[ferrotype]

indeed your not wrong there

[djake]

all of them do the same job and get it done

[wub]

Here's a thought that's been flopping around my brain for a few days. Probably worthy of a new topic, but fuck it, this is a thread worth hi-jacking. Would it be selling your soul to start making a style that you didn't exactly like, just because you knew that you could do it? Say I started making bassline house, because it seems such a formulaic piece of piss to make - bassline, 4x4 beats, chipmunk vocals - just for cash, because it obviously sells, going by the Ministry of Sound advert. Then I spend my spare time making dubstep or dnb or breakcore or whatever the fuck else I wanted to do, making music that I enjoyed, just for the fun of it.

Blur did this, they claim, they made a few cheesy, chart-friendly Britpop albums to get attention and finances to make the album they always wanted to make (the one with Song 2 on it) and go on being an 'intelligent' band. I'm not a fan, just pointing out that the idea isn't original. Blur probably aren't even the first band to do it.

All purely hypothetical btw. This is like the antithesis to two oh one's thread.

I know of a couple of underground hard dance producers (who shall remain nameless) that release some fucking diabolical electro house shite on a regular basis on labels like Ministry/Data/All Around The World under a variety of different pseudonyms. They get paid a shedload for it though, and it finances their studio and live PA show for their underground stuff.

I've also got a mate who's a shit hot hip hop DJ, scratching and all that stuff. There's little call for it where he lives, so he's the resident DJ down the local meat market on a Friday and Saturday night, cutting up commercial house and RnB tracks. Picks up £300 a shift for it, and pays for all his hip hop flavoured activities.

[COURT]

If you love expressing yourself through MUSIC.
Express yourself through music.

The pigeon hole is for the looser.

[drifterman_]

Ah, right. Thanks y'all.

(A rookie could easily get something like this sound by alternating between some presets, no? Just play the same bassline over and over on yr. Casio or whatev and hit the "Next Patch" button...)

NA NOT REALLY ALPHACAT

BUT HEY

IF UR STILL ON THE CASIO DO UR TING RUDEGIRL.