The Pros: Like all services there are good things and bad, but the positive definitely out weights the negative in the case! To begin with, you get professional quality sounds with which you can create astoundingly awesome beat tracks. The service allows you manipulate the beats any way you want, giving you the freedom to compose without constraint. The interface is simple and quick to learn. The playback is instantaneous and offers visual and well as sonic details to let you hone any part you wish to improve. The sound bank available is vast and placing the sounds within your music project is only a click of a button. You can also play the rhythms live, if you prefer, using the on screen keyboard, drum pads, or your own instruments attached to your computer. Once you have created the perfect backing track you can save it to your hard drive and use it immediately! Making beats has never been this fun and easy!

The service’s other features are thumbs up too! Online lessons are available for those wishing to gain the upper hand by advancing their knowledge of theory or performance techniques. Technical help is provided as well so you never have to worry about hitting a snag with what button push or how to finish getting that professional sound. There is practically nothing bad about making beats online with Sonic Producer!

The Cons: There is almost nothing bad about Sonic Producer! I have been using similar software for years and making music for much longer (almost 30 years now!) and the features offered by the service are amazing! The one thing I would say is negative about Sonic Producer is that you cannot save your beat file in any format other than an mp3. I would prefer a WAV of AIFF file to reduce compression issues later, but you do get the option to save to disc using a high bit rate, so working with the files you are able to save is still a great way to go!

The bottom line is Sonic Producer is well worth the price you pay for the service at just under $30. No need to take my word for it, though. They offer a full money back guarantee, so trying it out presents no risks what so ever!

First you simply grab the sample you want to add to your beat from the collection of hundreds of high quality sounds provided by the online service, then you assign it to one of the sequencer’s tracks. Once your sound is in place, just use the mouse to click the one, two, three, or four beats, or any of the beat’s eighth notes, sixteenth notes, or thirty-second notes. The sound you have chosen will now play starting on the beat you have highlighted. Some sounds are longer than others, of course, so you can mix and match the decays of the sounds and create overlapping textures and hocketed rhythms alike. Syncopating the drums or making a complicated jungle or dark step rhythm is not a problem or you can blend sounds over one another to create seamless backing tracks with unbelievably striking results.

The sequencer Sonic Producer provides also has tempo changing capabilities. If you are not satisfied with the sped of your new beat, all you have to do is enter a new tempo and the sequencer will speed it up or slow it down accordingly. Playing back your track is only the click of a button and the sounds will play in the order you have designated. Worried about being confused as to when each sound will appear in your beat? The sequencer takes care of that too: it shows a darkened line that moves across the sequencer’s beat grid displaying when the tracks will sound so you can follow along. That makes the online sequencer easier to use when perfecting your compositions.

Sonic Producer has many other attractive features, including the music lessons and instrument input options, but for those concerned about being able to quickly learn and easily use the sequencer function online, fear no more! The easy to use sequencing feature may just be the best reason to check their online service today!