A cool DUBTurbo experience.
This is crazy. I was chilling at my cousin’s watching the Super Bowl, when one of his boys mentions that he is looking for some beats. So my cousin, knowing that I make beats tells him to check me. Well I had just, I mean just started making beats again, so I didn’t have much to offer, but I did tell him about DUBTurbo 2.0 which I had been using for all of about two weeks. Well the other day old boy calls me up and he’s playing some hot ass tracks for me over the phone. So I ask him who he got to do production for him and he says that he did it himself with the software that I told him about. Anyway I asked him to send me an email telling me what he thought about using DUB Turbo I could post it here. Here’s what he had to say.
I’m working on my own music project, with the end goal of a 15 track album. Finding a music production program that didn’t compromise quality had been way too much work. I had tried a lot of different options over time and absolutely nothing had given me what I wanted. Everything either sacrificed the final quality of tracks or got way too complex and I lost interest, moving on to the next option. I finally found out that a friend of a friend had been making his own beats a while ago, and he recommended DUBturbo 2.0 to me. I wasn’t hoping for much, but I decided to give it a shot. I’m so very happy that I did.
The first great thing about DUBturbo is that you can download it directly and jump right into the creation process. You don’t have to wait for the software to be shipped to you and you can do it all straight from your computer at home. Downloading it was a breeze and I had it installed in no time. It was definitely the easiest setup of any of the other programs I’d tried.
When I visited the sales page, DUB Turbo promised that it wouldn’t compress tracks and used a better file format than mp3, so I wanted to test that out before I did anything else. I created a quick sample song and sure enough, it was studio quality. With DUBturbo 2.0, you can export all your tracks in a high quality file format that doesn’t lose any of the depth or details in the song. That was a major relief and convinced me that I could actually do this.
I’m by no means an expert when it comes to digital music creation, but I really wasn’t intimidated. The user interface with DUBturbo is pretty easy to learn on it’s own, but I can imagine some new users might be confused at the start. Thankfully the makers of DUBturbo 2.0 aren’t leaving their customers hanging, because some pretty in-depth training videos are included. I watched some of them after playing around with the program a bit, and I learned some great tricks myself. It’s a nice bonus, and it’s always good to know that the people behind a product are supporting their customers.
Music production software like this kind of lives or dies by the samples and kits it provides. If you’re totally new to digital music production, what that means is the actual sounds the program provides for you to use when you create your music. From things like basic drums to vocal elements, software has to have high quality samples if you want to create high quality music with it. I wasn’t at all disappointed by the DUBturbo 2.0 sample kits, and a few even surprised me by how clearly professional they were. There is a lot to work with in this program, and that means you can create some great sounding stuff in practically no time at all.
You can also import your own sounds, of course, and that opens up the options even further. I am about to start building my own sample library, but the possibilities are almost endless. DUBturbo 2.0 gives you so many different options to be creative and ground-breaking. I spent a lot of time just experimenting with all the different sounds I could import, and ended up with some really dope beats right out the gate. The import process is simple enough that you won’t get hung up on it at all.
The user interface itself is just about perfect. All the different functions are distinguishable and easily accessible from the main control panel. If you have the idea in your head with this thing you’ll get the track done. I don’t even have a controller but the great thing about the interface is that it allows you to use your computer’s keyboard like an actual keyboard. By associating keys with different sounds, I was creating songs with nothing more than crazy typing patterns. It makes the song creation process fun, but also gave me a lot of control to fine-tune the sound just like I wanted. Damn I’m wearing the spell check out here.
The program always ran smoothly and quickly for me, and I don’t even have a new or fast computer. No matter how many different beats I was weaving together, DUBturbo 2.0 always kept up, unlike a lot of software I’d experienced in the past. When software problems are interfering with the creation process, it’s hard to get the job done. I haven’t had a problem with DUBturbo yet though. (knock on wood)
I really can’t say enough about how impressed I am with DUBturbo 2.0. I’m well on the way to my first album, and I can see it helping me through quite a bit now and in the future. You can create great music that’s at a professional level, meaning you can produce your own CDs or pass it off for radio play, and no one will know you didn’t have a professional mixer or your own producer or whatever. I have been pleasantly surprised by what I have already accomplished with DUBturbo 2.0.
And the best part of it all? It’s cheap and there’s a 60 day guarantee. I know that made me feel a lot better about making the purchase. But I would gladly have paid even more if I’d known I was getting such a great piece of software at such a reasonable price. I mean, this single-handedly solved all my problems and got me on the way to releasing my first album. I might already be done if I wasn’t such a perfectionist.
DUBturbo 2.0 is allowing me to be exactly that. Perfect.
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