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 ...

Here is a checklist that will maximize your chances of getting heard and respect the listener's time. 1. Never send more than three songs unless specifically requested otherwise. Demo listeners like watching the "in" pile diminish and the "out" pile grow as quickly as possible. If the listener has a limited time to listen, which is usually the case, the tendency is to listen to a tape/CD they know they can complete. // So if you send a demo with ten songs on it and someone else's demo has one song, you can bet that the "out" pile will grow quickly with one-song demos. There's also the psychology that implies, "I've sent you the song you need!" This is particularly true in pitching songs to producers for a specific artist. Along those same lines, most people resent getting tapes/CDs with 20 songs and a letter that says, "I know you'll like at least one of these, so just pick out what you want." They want you to do that and send them three songs or less. Songs you totally believe in. If you're not far enough along to be able to decide, you're not ready. When sending CDs with more than three ...

If you have been recording or producing music via a computer, you may have heard the term VST. What is VST and how does it figure in to playing, recording, and editing music? What is VST? VST, Virtual Studio Technology, is an interface standard for connecting synthesizers and effects to audio editors and recording systems. Invented and developed by Steinberg, makers of the Cubase audio recording programs; VST replaces traditional audio recording hardware with software equivalents. So instead of having to route your audio out of your computer into your hardware effects units and then back into your computer, all the routing is done internally. If you have a powerful enough computer, you can do real time effects processing, utilizing either a MIDI controller or through envelope tweaks using MIDI. // There are 2 different types of VST plug-ins, with thousands of different varities, making it the most widely used plug-in type. The 2 main types are: VST instruments – Also know as a VSTi, they take the form of synthesizers and sampler units. They can be played in real time, or also used in conjunction with MIDI for live performance. They are basically a software version of a piece of hardware. I have ...

What You Need: Asio4All Plugin: Audio Stream Input/Output is a computer sound card driver for recording professional quality audio on your computer. No hissing and click sounds are produces because the sound from what ever you plug in goes to the sound card directly. Windows does not process the sound back and forth to different components. Read more about this fantastic ASIO plugin here. Audacity: Is the best free audio capturing and editing software Tape Player: with head phone jack or RCA output jacks Cable: To plug tape player to computer or 3.5 male to 3.5 male stereo connector or auxiliary input cable (RCA) Mini twin jack (if using Acc cable) Connect Tape Player To PC First I installed the Asio4All plugin. It works on all sound cards and what it does is send the audio directly to the sound card without processing it back and forth in your pc. The audio recorded is the same quality as the tape. I have a cheap tape player with only a head phone jack. I connected the black 3.5 male to male cable in the tapes headphone jack. I connected the other end in my PC’s line in jack. Please note that if you use the mic jack it will ...

Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer soundcard driver protocol for digital audio, providing a low-latency and high fidelity interface between a software application and a computer’s sound card. Whereas Microsoft’s DirectSound is commonly used as a stereo input and output for users. ASIO allows musicians and sound engineers to process their audio via Windows computer software instead of external hardware. // ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from the user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software, so that the application connects directly to the soundcard hardware. Each layer that is bypassed means a reduction in latency, the delay between an application sending sound to the sound being reproduced by the soundcard. In this way ASIO offers a relatively simple way of accessing multiple audio inputs and outputs independently. Its main strength lies in its method of bypassing the inherently high latency of operating system audio mixing kernels (KMixer), allowing direct, high speed communication with audio hardware. Unlike KMixer, an unmixed ASIO output is “bit identical”, that is, the bits sent to the sound card are identical to those of the original WAV file, thus having higher audio fidelity. Interface support is normally restricted to Microsoft Windows, since other ...