having it installed locally). Anyway, the online beat machines are VERY limited, when you export your .mp3 yeah it bangs ok but nowhere close to what it should sound like. Even their libraries are usually pretty cheesy, and you can forget about importing your own sounds (who cares, again it's MP3's, yuk). Nothing against mp3's, like when you're exporting your mastered song into a standard pcm .wav and THEN converting it down to mp3 from that master, BUT to 'start' your foundation of each beat with mp3's is for kids. No serious artist or studio will look at you, and you'll be LUCKY if you can hawk it for $5 on the bargain basement beat sites lol... you've been warned, stick to broadcast quality. So finally after contemplating giving up on anything under $200'ish, I decided to take dubturbo for a trial run.. .... The thing cost me $30 and it covers ALL of the above and more. Really nice mastered libraries, easy to use interface which kinda reminds me of a cross between logic, cubase, and an mpc for their beat machine panel. For version 1.0 even with the few small bugs, I'm extremely impressed with their overdelivery! Importing a few kits I bought recently was a breeze and I ended up making like 4 kits my first night by beatboxing into my mic and chopping up the sounds into my own kits, then seqeuncing them... ... Exporting into a .wav is also easy, and you control the volume of EACH sound, not just the whole kit (each drum kit has 10 sounds, so you can turn down the master of all 10 combined, or turn down just the snare, or turn up just the kick, etc). What else can I say.... Here I know, I'll ask myself a few general questions pretending I'm YOU and I don't know this world yet:
* Best part of the ap and why you use this one instead of the others in it's price range? Yeah I know, the money thing is important, to me more than anyone! So seeing that it was $30 kinda threw me off, so that's probably the best part, is that my mission (my TRUE mission, to make 16-32 bars of WICKED hooks, patterns, and beats with custom sounds and samples - WITHOUT having to get a whole home studio) is becoming a reality! It was a good realization that first time a client asked me "So where's the .wav file I need that for the radio and tv spots too". This is so much more