A music sequencer is the division of bars and measures in a matrix like grid. Each slot in the grid acts as a trigger which plays sounds when the timeline reaches that part of the sequence.
Software to make beats usually start at a 4/4 with 1/16th quantizing default which means that for every bar of music, the bar is split up into 4 small pieces, and in each of those 4 pieces, there are 4 slots open to drop sounds into on the grid.
There are 16 sounds in a bar. These sounds are played one after another in sequence along a time line. Filling up all 16 slots, will result with a machine gun sounding repetition. Similarly, placing a sound on every fourth slot, will get you a house music thump.
Each layer has its own sounds and 16 slots per bar. For instance one layer can be a snare, the next layer can be a drum or a highhat.
You can open up a separate panel on each of those 16 layers where you get 10 more layers for the bar. There are a collection of 10 sounds that compliment each other well in a drum kit.
Although the drum kit is one bar on one layer, it has 10 layers within it which makes 16 slots horizontally with 1/16 quantizing and 10 layers vertically that has 10 sounds per kit. This gives you a grid of 160 spots to place sounds. You can achieve to make any beats you want with the drum kits when you choose the proper tempo and arrange them right.
Software to make beats also utilize keyboard simulation where instead of having a kit with 10 layers or sounds, your bar opens up a keyboard panel with 16 slots and 4 octaves to work with. The grid turns into 768 spots for one bar alone which is 48 keys x 16 spots per note. This is huge and explains why most musicians like to work with 1-2 bar chunks at a time.
So just like a real piano, the keyboard triggers the same sound and scales it up and down the keys. It will also be possible to manipulate sounds on a real piano like scale, including the sharps and flats when you assign instrumental sounds or record your own on any note and import them.
This means that when you make beats with software, you can assign individual drum sounds to your keys. You can scroll through a drum kit, as a category, instead of choosing a piano category, and pick a drum you want to scale up or down the keyboard. Choosing a good software to make beats, will help you making your first few beats happens fast.
Software to make beats usually start at a 4/4 with 1/16th quantizing default which means that for every bar of music, the bar is split up into 4 small pieces, and in each of those 4 pieces, there are 4 slots open to drop sounds into on the grid.
There are 16 sounds in a bar. These sounds are played one after another in sequence along a time line. Filling up all 16 slots, will result with a machine gun sounding repetition. Similarly, placing a sound on every fourth slot, will get you a house music thump.
Each layer has its own sounds and 16 slots per bar. For instance one layer can be a snare, the next layer can be a drum or a highhat.
You can open up a separate panel on each of those 16 layers where you get 10 more layers for the bar. There are a collection of 10 sounds that compliment each other well in a drum kit.
Although the drum kit is one bar on one layer, it has 10 layers within it which makes 16 slots horizontally with 1/16 quantizing and 10 layers vertically that has 10 sounds per kit. This gives you a grid of 160 spots to place sounds. You can achieve to make any beats you want with the drum kits when you choose the proper tempo and arrange them right.
Software to make beats also utilize keyboard simulation where instead of having a kit with 10 layers or sounds, your bar opens up a keyboard panel with 16 slots and 4 octaves to work with. The grid turns into 768 spots for one bar alone which is 48 keys x 16 spots per note. This is huge and explains why most musicians like to work with 1-2 bar chunks at a time.
So just like a real piano, the keyboard triggers the same sound and scales it up and down the keys. It will also be possible to manipulate sounds on a real piano like scale, including the sharps and flats when you assign instrumental sounds or record your own on any note and import them.
This means that when you make beats with software, you can assign individual drum sounds to your keys. You can scroll through a drum kit, as a category, instead of choosing a piano category, and pick a drum you want to scale up or down the keyboard. Choosing a good software to make beats, will help you making your first few beats happens fast.
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