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Folks aspiring to create and record your own beats can now do it sitting at home. Beats creation software programs permit you to create, record and edit beats conveniently. Not just this, there are software programs that minister to different ages, from musically inclined children to the more advanced beats creating software for adults.

Morton Subotnick's 'Creating Beats ' for beginners

This is an instructional and fun software for children. Made by Morton Subotnick, an award winning composer, Doing Music allows children to have a straightforward and pleasurable music composing experience. Engineered to be kid-friendly, the software has 'animal fundamental components ' that allow kids to create their own unique melodies. Rhythm and pitch can be changed by lining birds up on a wire, resembling music notes. The software also allows youngsters to choose any of the 16 instruments on the PC screen and hear the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other fun and exciting games include testing kids ' musical sense by asking them to listen to two melodies and judging whether or not they are dissimilar or similar.

For ambitious musicians

With its acceptance in Europe soaring, Beats Maker from Magix permits ambitious musicians to form beats regardless of if they don't have prior knowledge of beats composing. This beats making software allows users to make a choice from one or two thousand pre-created samples and loops from different musical instruments, digital beats files and CDs. The samples, loops can be previewed, dragged and dropped on screen. The software allows users to make more than ninety different beats tracks. Other important features of Beats Maker include augmented modifying tools, a top quality drum machine and a tuner that creates a total choir from one recorded voice and also corrects recorded vocal samples immediately. The musical pieces can be exported to files and played on Windows Media Player.

Using Microsoft Songsmith, you can create songs by selecting suitable beats to accompany your vocals. You begin by choosing a specific song style and setting a speed. You will then have to sing the track into the mic in tune with the percussive beat. After you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, select the chords and play the track again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.

DUB Turbo is another quality beats creating software using which you can create hiphop, house, jungle and modern beats pieces. Sonic Producer is also an impressive beats composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.

Advanced music making software

Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are high-end, advanced beats creation and modifying software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They may be employed with a PC keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based arranging as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some engaging features offered by Cubase.