This is how music is being made.

I love Hip-Hop, but this is one of the reasons it is terrible right now. Where is the MPC, the 808s, keyboards. He made a track just by the click of a mouse.

Computers make things too easy. Let's see him go to the studio and actually learn how to work a fucking synth...

I will serve Lex Luger easily when it come to beatmaking.....Real Talk!

I guess he's not really the Total Package afterall!

I'm sorry You're not a producer unless you've been thrown in a room with a singer, 3 mics, a guitar, a bass and a drumset, if your lucky maybe a baby grand piano.

And where forced to play all the instruments yourself because the musicians you hired kept flaking on you.

This new school of one click producers has got to end.

We need real producers who knows how to mic a drumset as well as get down on an mpc.

Mic an amp.

Take away my computer and I'll still be able to record a song.

these fuckers wouldn't last a day in my world.

Very nice, looks like a Toshiba P750 02Q

Oh you old folks lay off him. Good music can be made with anything, including a computer.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Oh you old folks lay off him. Good music can be made with anything, including a computer.

Unless you KNOW what you're doing with it, of course. Otherwise, no. Though I've seen folks create loops from samples from their computers so there are exceptions.

Damn that "loop" is putting into a coma.

HermesReborn said:

I'm sorry You're not a producer unless you've been thrown in a room with a singer, 3 mics, a guitar, a bass and a drumset, if your lucky maybe a baby grand piano.

And where forced to play all the instruments yourself because the musicians you hired kept flaking on you.

Why would a record company spend a lot of money on hiring musicians, studio time, etc. when they can get a beatmaker that can make a track easily and faster? Especially since a lot of people don't buy the music and download it for free.

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Oh you old folks lay off him. Good music can be made with anything, including a computer.

Unless you KNOW what you're doing with it, of course. Otherwise, no. Though I've seen folks create loops from samples from their computers so there are exceptions.

Exactly. Same with instruments.

MickyDolenz said:

HermesReborn said:

I'm sorry You're not a producer unless you've been thrown in a room with a singer, 3 mics, a guitar, a bass and a drumset, if your lucky maybe a baby grand piano.

And where forced to play all the instruments yourself because the musicians you hired kept flaking on you.

Why would a record company spend a lot of money on hiring musicians, studio time, etc. when they can get a beatmaker that can make a track easily and faster? Especially since a lot of people don't buy the music and download it for free.

record companies will still pay to hire musicians and all that other stuff depending on the genre or feel... beatmakers can only cover so much ground.

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Mdizzles said:

MickyDolenz said:

Why would a record company spend a lot of money on hiring musicians, studio time, etc. when they can get a beatmaker that can make a track easily and faster? Especially since a lot of people don't buy the music and download it for free.

record companies will still pay to hire musicians and all that other stuff depending on the genre or feel... beatmakers can only cover so much ground.

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Plus, for as much as some of the big named beatmakers charge for their beats, you can probably hire an entire band for that amount.

Mdizzles said:

MickyDolenz said:

Why would a record company spend a lot of money on hiring musicians, studio time, etc. when they can get a beatmaker that can make a track easily and faster? Especially since a lot of people don't buy the music and download it for free.

record companies will still pay to hire musicians and all that other stuff depending on the genre or feel... beatmakers can only cover so much ground.

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Ontop of that Record companies don't hire musicians.

Thats the producers job.

Record Companies hire the producer package.

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HermesReborn said:

Ontop of that Record companies don't hire musicians.

Some labels have a house band, although this was more common in the past.

I make all my beats on a laptop and a synth. I can work a drum machine and play keys, but if you took away everything but the laptop, I could still make some hot ass tracks. It's just tools, you can have all the equipment in the world, don't mean shit if you got no creativity.

Lex Luger is fucking dope, love his productions.