• SONAR
  • Need to make customized beats. (p.2)
2014/03/06 09:06:28
MarioD
If you are not familiar with drum parts then I would suggest buying some MIDI drum grooves from GrooveMonkee: http://www.groovemonkee.com/en/
They are on sale now and are a no-brainer IMHO.

If you do know about drum parts then I would suggest purchasing a drum pad controller like the Akai MPD 18: http://www.akaipro.com/product/mpd18

I hope this helps and good luck.
2014/03/06 09:49:17
Kalle Rantaaho
dwardzala
 
 
Figure out what is going on with the kick and then program it into the step sequencer or PRV.  Figure out what is going on with the snare, program it into the step sequencer.  Same for hi-hat, toms, cymbals, etc.
 



I'm still trying to find out if the OP can use SONAR at all and the drum (and other) VSTs. He hasn't given us any clue of where he's at, what he has tried, and what is it that keeps him from creating his own drum beats. Does he not know how to accomplish it in SONAR, or does he not know anything about composing drum parts or what?
2014/03/06 12:02:41
CJaysMusic
Who knows Kalle. His question is so broad. If he doesn't know anything, than he is in for a long long long road ahead as it can take him years to understand music theory ,the sonar program, audio engineering and everlasting else.
 
I'm thinking he doesn't know anything as if he did, he would have a specific question.
 
Cj
2014/03/06 15:51:47
denverdrummer
If he's starting totally green, there's plenty of You Tube videos teaching basic rhythm and note values, and other theory.
 
As far as a "easy metal beat", that's pretty open ended as well.  There's blast beats for the thrash metal stuff, then there's all the 16th note double bass stuff.
 
Personally if he's totally new to stuff, I'd recommend he use something like Sony Acid.  It's not anywhere near as powerful as Sonar, but it's great for beginners, and people who don't know anything about music theory.  After you get used to that, it's  easier to step into something like Sonar.
 
Another up and comer that's more of a real basic, beginner DAW is Stagelight from Open Labs.  I think it's like 10 bucks, and you don't really have to have a lot of knowledge to create something basic.
 
Not to take away anything from Sonar, but I think most professional DAWs like sonar are hard to approach if you don't know anything about music, or music technology.  Where stuff like Acid has on screen walk through tutorials.
2014/04/26 21:03:10
Jae
Sorry for the delay. I am green. I expect this will take at least a couple of years to get into the real hearty tech-stuff. The last recording tool I had was a digital porta studio.  I bought this software for a hundred bucks so I thought I was lowering the bar as far as DAW's so you can imagine how overwhelmed i was when I first opened it up. Having posted a few threads I can already tell this is a different language.  
2014/04/26 21:06:50
chuckebaby
this is the jist of it my friend in a nut shell.
this is in sonar, in the PRV, how to create beats, its not that hard but its not that easy either,
this vid makes it look easy though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAnAPR6-hQ
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