The trouble with a lot of beat making programs these days is
that they seem to demand extensive study before you can get to grips with the
really cool features.
You can’t just go through a few simple tutorials and start
making beats; you have to wade through PDF documents and find instructional
videos on YouTube before you can make anything that sounds vaguely musical. Dr.
Drum is a new, beginner-friendly program that aims to address these issues and
open beat making up to a wider audience.
Audio quality is often an issue with more affordable,
beginner-friendly beat makers. Most export your lovingly crafted creations as
MP3s, which although are common for consumers, can get you laughed out of an
industry professional’s office. MP3s are compressed, and the process chips away
at the quality of the audio.
Dr. Drum exports all of your beats as .WAV files in 44.1
stereo quality - or in other words - the industry standard quality. As well as
this, the samples you use to create your songs are professionally mastered, so
every element of your beat is pristine and perfect.
To us beginners, professional mixing desks are an
incomprehensible mess of dials, sliders and buttons that require technical
wizardry to operate.
Dr. Drum takes all of this functionality and repackages it,
so beginners can use all of the features without an internet-based crash course
in music production.
The functionality is simple; the pencil tool is used to add
elements, and the eraser is used to get rid of them. There are also
instructional videos to help you out if do you get stuck.
Dr. Drum is made up of three distinct elements. The 16 track
sequencer is the main screen, and it’s used to arrange the elements of your
song and build up your beats.
You pull in different samples from the program’s extensive
collection, place them in your desired position and then press play to see what
it sounds like. If the pre-recorded melodies and beats aren’t good enough for
you, you can use the 12-pad drum machine and the four-octave keyboard to make
your own.
Both of these have vast collections of sounds for you to
play with, so you aren’t confined to a few basic drum kits or keyboard tones.
In my experience, more affordable beat makers are low on
options for tweaking your sound. Dr. Drum has managed to break the mould by
providing options for adjusting the volume of each track, emphasising different
frequencies and panning different elements of your beats into designated
speakers.
The program gives you a feeling of ultimate control,
manipulating elements of your mixes like a pro in a high-end studio.
Overall, the value for money, audio quality and creative
freedom provided by Dr. Drum isn’t matched by any other program on the market.
Somehow, it’s managed to cram the features and quality associated with
top-quality, expensive beat makers into an affordable and user-friendly
package.
Whether you’re looking to make some beats for fun or trying
to make it to the big time, Dr. Drum is the only program you’ll need.
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