Download the Beatcraft software by Acoustica to determine whether its innovative approach suits your style. Beatcraft includes dozens of individual percussive hits, such as drums of all types, bells, chimes, cymbals and more. The user then creates patterns using these hits. Each pattern consists of sixteen beats, or four measures of four beats each. A sequencer pane then allows the user to creatively mix the composed patterns into beat songs. The results can be dazzling. The interactivity of the Beatcraft program is easy to learn and most users will be creating beats within seconds of opening the program. The sound kit stretches across many genres to create recognizable patterns or creative fusion beats from a mix of rhythm sources.
Try the Magix Music Maker software. This program is a robust multitrack audio-mixing application that includes bundled software synthesizers. One of these softsynths is Robota, a drum sequencer. The Robota window resembles a virtual hardware drum machine from the 1980s, with classic beat buttons and four instrument panes. Four beat sounds may be produced simultaneously across four tracks within a single instance of Robota. Each beat is sequenced on a sixteen-step sequencer panel that is easily manipulated without any prior knowledge of the program. Robota includes many built-in drum sounds to create a variety of creative beat mixes.
Install Fruity Loops Studio. This advanced audio program has been around for over a decade and continues to evolve to address feature requirements by audio professionals. The program is based on a simple loop-based beat system that debuted during the rebirth of techno-style music in the late 1990s. Current versions of Fruity Loops now expand on that set of tools to provide complex audio-mixing utilities. Like most other beat production applications, the program lays out a series of tracks, each with a step sequencer interface in which beats are individually programmed into sixteen-beat sequences. Unlike other systems, the program also features integration with third-party software synthesizers, and it can also save loops in an "Acid" format for export into other loop-based drum editors.