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Did you know you can make your own beats for free? This list of free and 100% legal beat making software will help you.

Some of the free programs are "lite" versions of existing programs

Digital Audio Workstations

LMMS (linux/windows) Linux Multi Media Studio - it looks like FL studio but is not FL Studio compatible. It can run on Linux and Windows based computers. You can make beats, compose melodies, mix master and more with thise cool little freebie. Free software like this is a welcome find

. ACID Xpress (windows)- This is a 10-track version of ACID Pro software. It can do music recording, editing and mixing. Making beats is easy with this loop based software. ACID Xpress has an excellent ability to matche the tempo and pitch automatically. I was a big ACID Pro user when I first started and it helped me to visualize how audio can be arranged. This is one free software for making music that I will have to revisit.

Kristal (windows) This free beat making software has been around for a few years now. it hasn't been updated in a while from what I can tell but it has a lot of features

Koblo (mac/windows) A very new player on the block. It's another free open sourced software for making music. It has some unique online collaboration features, because it's connected to the Koblo cloud. You'll be able to work together with other musicians or band members across the planet.

Anvil Studio (windows) Can do audio and MIDI sequencing. Looks a little old, but hey of the audio sounds fresh, who cares what it looks like!

Music Studio Independence (windows) has a great number of functions for every part of beat making, such as composition, arrangement, recording, mixing and mastering. It handles MIDI and audio. One awesome looking free beat making program.

Audio Editors

Audacity (linux/mac/windows) This is more of an audio editor but it can do multiple tracks. it's open source and can run on Mac/PC (Windows) and Linux. It has many advanced features and can use plug-ins. This is probably better used a sampler for you beat makers out there. For free music software this is the best wave editor out there.

Wavosaur (windows) is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.

Freecycle (linux) is a beat slicer running on GNU/Linux platform using the QT toolkit, providing amplitude domain and frequency domain beat matching / zero crossing algorithms. It exports sliced audio chunks and generates a MIDI file which can be used to play the sliced loop, or you can jam with it as soon as you’ve made slices using a midi keyboard or sequencer.

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