To start with there is a space for arranging your pieces of sounds to make your songs. In the old days they used multi track recorders. Literally tape decks with two or more recording/play back heads that would let artists assemble songs, one part at a time. The arranging area of music producing software lets you assemble your songs in any way you want, and the amount of tracks you can work with is usually only limited by your computer’s ability to handle them.

Next is how they work with sound files. The actual files can be things you record yourself, or loops you have bought. A loop is a piece of sound, it can be a guitar riff, a drum hit, whole pre made beats, trash can lids banging together, toy sounds, and pretty much any other sound you can imagine, and many you can’t.

Next is volume control. In the old days they had to adjust volume levels using that big table sized thing with all the knobs and slider’s on it. Now you can adjust the volume of a each single piece of sound, adjust the volume of the whole track, and even make very fine adjustments to volume. Volume control is very important in music production.

Lastly the programs also let you use sound effects. Now I am not talking strange sounds, I mean software versions of what musicians use to alter their recordings. Like distortion that gives heavy metal guitar and bass that “crunchy” metallic feel, and compression which helps keep the volume level of recordings even.

While each program has its own special features, which tend to get better the higher the price tag gets, these are the basic features any music production software worth using has.

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