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How to Make Beats Like Dr. Dre on FL Studio

Make Beats Like Dre

If you want to make beats that sound like other rappers’, FL Studio is a great tool. In fact, many famous songs, like Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” were made on FL Studio itself. Many classic beats can also be recreated.

Castillo Beats

This guy makes some pretty sick beats – you can check out this little tutorial of him making a Dr. Dre style beat on FL Studio. He has lots of other video tutorials on his Youtube channel.

He uses a Yamaha PSR E403 keyboard, FL Studio, Cubase, Reason, and some VST plugins.

How to write lyrics

You’ve downloaded all of your plugins; you’ve made all of your beats; now you need to write your lyrics. Writing your own lyrics may be no easy task, however. Thinking of topics to write about can be difficult, or perhaps you’ve come across a word that doesn’t appear to rhyme with anything else. These situations can be frustrating, but luckily sites likeĀ http://www.rhymezone.com and http://www.songwritingfever.com are available to aid you.

Rhymezone

This website can come in handy if you are stuck with rhyming a word. For example, if you type in the word “explanation” into the search bar, 1,171 words and phrases that rhyme with “explanation” will be displayed including “relaxation”, “crustacean”, “corporation”, and many more.

Best Free Fl Studio Plugins & VSTs

Best Free Fl Studio Plugins and VSTs

Finding good free vsts is often difficult. We’ve gone ahead and compiled some of the best ones for you.

The Plugins

Synth1 by Ichiro Toda

This plugin is good because it offers a multitude of options including, 2 oscillators, modulation, 4 types of filters, lfos, an arpegiator, delays, legato mode, plus 128 presets!

You can find it here: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

Padawan

This is a hybrid synthesizer which is used for pad and ambient sounds. One osciallator is based on wavetables while the other is analog style. Padawan has nice effects and all modulation options are synced with the selected tempo.

How to Setup a Midi Keyboard With Reason

In order to use Reason, you need to setup a Midi Keyboard to work with the software. There are plenty of choices when it comes to keyboards, they come in a variety of sizes from really small to full size. If you’re a tech savvy individual who doesn’t want a long and detailed explanation the quickest way to explain this process is to:

(For Macs) Click on the Reason Tab ->Click on Preferences -> Click on the General drop down menu and select Keyboards and Control Services -> Click Auto-Detect Surfaces/ Manually add a keyboard

Use Reason Without a Midi Keyboard!

Have you ever wanted to use Propellerhead’s Reason but don’t have a Midi Keyboard? Well, there is an easy solution. You can use a virtual midi controller that you can manipulate with your mouse or computer keyboard. This is a great way to test out reason before you buy a keyboard or just a good way to save money.

Virtual Midi Keyboard for Windows

This virtual keyboard was designed by Bome.com. There are two components to install this virtual keyboard into Reason. You need first, the virtual mouse keyboard and second, the Bome virtual midi driver. Although the tutorial included on their website is designed for Reason 3, it will also work with Reason 4.0.

FL studio Tutorials for Beginners – The Basics

Learning Fl Studio can be confusing if you don’t know much about music software. Since most people usually start with Fl studio, some basic tutorials on how to use the program may be useful. It may seem daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy.

FL Studio Tutorials for Beginners – The Basics

1. FL Studio Basics in Ten Minutes

This energetic video features an enthusiastic narrator that goes through a detailed explanation of the basic features in FL studio. This is a great tutorial to really discover the basic concepts of the program. Plus the narrator has a sweet accent.