how to format a beat for sell and how to arrange it

In the process of selling my first few beats and already got a couple of buyers lineded up but when it comes down to giveing the beat i dont know how i should do it.I have alot of songs in my keyboard and plan to track each instrument in on there own track in sonar 8 of course but not sure if i should arrange it or just let each track record all the way threw and let who evers gonna mix and master arrange it there own way.And how do i format the beat so who ever is mastering it can have each instrument layed out for proper mastering?Im sure i gotta ask what software its gonna be mastered in so i know who to format it too right?please can anyone help me out?
 
 
p.s.how long are songs so i know were to end the recording?

+1 AT,

Strong beats are currently the foundation of my mixes and sometimes I like to abstract them.  80-90% of beats seem to sound best as combos with minor subtractions; because they are my foundations.

Rap beats have oft been tempo'd in 85-90 beats/minute.

A Beat MIDI synths (like Beatscape and StormDrums2) serve me well.

But a CD library of beat-riffs (wave forms even) would be hot, for me!  They'd be designated by their tempos and meters 2 2, 4 4, 3 4, 6 8, etc .

OTOH: Most of us prefer MIDI performances for our foundations.

Another option is to sell a few 100-1000 multi-tiered MIDI performances that are intended for StormDrums (EWQL).  EW StormDrums seriously lacks Hip-Hop MIDI Performances while having some of the best variety of percussives available.  I'd pay big bucks for more Hip-hop drones and MIDI performances.

That would be a no-brain$ blockbu$ter in the new beat world of most composers.

Another $weet no-brainer: More beats for CW Beatscape: disco, rap, r&b, hip-hop, orchestral and film beats; beats within its 32 measure limit that are more incremental and organic.  Currently Beatscape is generic and difficult (for me) to incrementalize (it crashes Sonar, too, with some editings (I thought I had the latest version)).  Having more beats pre-fabb'd works exceedingly well for my style.

i have no idea what you guys are talking about my question is how do i format a beat so someone can import it in to any other software.Do i mix down each individual track in wave so they will have each instrument on a different track/

You have beats sold? ...and yet the questions you are asking tend to imply that you don't know what to do......hummmmmm.

quote: In the process of selling my first few beats and already got a couple of buyers lineded up but when it comes down to giveing the beat i dont know how i should do it.

It would seem to me, and maybe I'm not seeing the big picture here, but it would seem to me, that first, you learn the process of recording, create a bunch of really cool beats, and then sell them....

just saying......my 2 centavos

Sorry we complexied things ...

"format a beat" ... for instant use?  Here's what comes to mind in Sonar:

1) Freeze (bounce) your synth track(s) individually: Make sure your Options\Global\Audio Data (tab): record and render depth are 16 bit ... and that your Options\Audio Options\General Tab Sampling Rate is 44100 Hz and nothing else (so all players can play your beat samples)

2) Just drag your bounced (frozen) wave-tracks onto the desktop (or a special folder):

Voila!  Instant beat-wave form that doesn't require exportation(s).

how do i format a beat so someone can import it in to any other software

Use wave files in  24bit and 44kHz or in any bit rate the customer suggest.
People like 24bit wave files compared to 16bit, for obvious reasons. If i was to buy a beat, I would want 24bit and 44.1kHz sample rate or 48kHz sample rate.
I wouldn't buy a beat that was in 16bits. Thats means it could have been dithered already and dithering is done at the very last stage of mastering
 
how to arrange them is up to you. You can have separate server, intros and hooks or you  you see it all together as one. Its up to you
Cj

Heck...I wanna know the line you used to sell beats before you even wrote them!

skullsession

dnlfacundo

p.s.how long are songs so i know were to end the recording?

This is the part I can't figure out.

I haven't figured out any of it...

Very normal for hip hop is an 8 bar intro, 16 bar verse, 8 bar chorus then 16 bar verse 2, 8 bar chorus 2, 16 bar verse 3, 16 bar chorus/outro. You have to count the song lenght in bars and not in seconds.

What format is the OP's beats in now? He said he had the tracks in Sonar. I don't understand this.

If you "sell" beats, are you selling just midi data? Or WAVE samples, or both?

If they are WAVE samples, they should be samples you actually recorded and/or created, correct? If you're using sounds off of a keyboard/softsynth/VST or whatever, wouldn't that be uncool or not legal?

To ease the confusion here it's like this: The term "beat" in hiphop does not mean a drum loop-sample. "Beat" refers to a full length instrumental composition that has already been mixed (sadly often even poorly premastered) and rappers later can perform to/record over.

Yea, Legion, I thought that was what the guy was talking about but wasn't sure.  It is confusing for a lot of song writers.  Like I said in my first post, a studio I use does a lot of that work but there was still the shorter form of beats to deal w/.  We got sidetracked, and the op seems to have dropped out.  I guess the "how long should the beat be"should have clued me into the entire song aspect.

good one, Legion.

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Oh I see. So when the OP asked "how long are songs so i know were to end the recording?", the answer could have been - as long as you want it to be... Or 3:30



 

Speaking of the OP ... ???