Software for Making Rap Beats

Video Transcript

"This is Jose Caban. Mac OSX, Reason, and Q bass are registered trademarks of their respective companies, and I am in no way affiliated with Apple, Propellerhead, or Steinberg. Okay, now let's talk about software. Software is anything you can't touch. It's something in a program inside your computer that you're going to use - in this case, we're going to be using music and audio software - that you use to create your music, create your beats, create your art. Okay, we're going to be using primarily today Q bass and Reason, although there are many, many other choices. Q bass we're going to use as the overall mother of all the other applications. It's going to hold everything together; everything will go through it. It is going to be responsible for pulling the audio together, pulling the MIDI together, pulling all the other aspects of this together. It's going to hold them all together, sequence them, and basically be the workhorse for us. It will communicate with any other devices we have hooked up to it. Reason, although it's capable of much more, we're going to use today primarily as a sequencer and as a sampler. We're going to use the sequencing aspect of it to make our drums. We're going to use the sampling aspect of it to, I don't know, make a violin or something. And I'll get into explaining to you how the difference between sampling as opposed to real audio works."