Make Beats With Freeware DAW And VST
Categories: Featured, Stuido Written By: Frank
So, you want to learn how to make some beats for free? I found a great tutorial. They chopped up a drum break in classic hip-hop style, use a sampled bass and use an organ VST for some chords over the top.
You’ll Need
LUNA – The best freeware DAW software. Probably. A freeware alternative to Cubase, SONAR, Logic etc.
Audacity – This program is great for recording audio, as well as editing audio files. A free alternative to Sound Forge or Adobe Audition.
Grizzly – Free drum machine VST plugin like Battery or Guru.
NuBi LE – Nice Hammond-style organ VST.
HighLife – Sampler VST.
Kjaerhus Classic Series – Great series of VST effects, we’ll be using the compressor, chorus and delay.
What’s a VST?
There are two types of VSTs, instruments and effects. Basically, you’d load up a VST instrument plugin into a program like LUNA and make a MIDI sequence for it to play. VSTs are usually in a kind of synthesiser style, meaning that you can change all of the knobs, dials etc. to change the sound. For example, on the NuBi LE VST we will be using, you can actually move the drawbars like on a real organ. This means that with some good VST plugins, you can get all of the sounds and flexibility of synthesisers, samplers and other instruments, right there on your computer. VST effects are put on audio tracks or VST instrument tracks. Another great thing about VSTs is that there are heaps of good quality free ones floating around the internet. For a huge range of free VSTs, check out KVR Audio.
Read the rest of the tutorial, “Making beats in LUNA” over at Grandfiles.com it’s got images and is well explained.
