Our Recommendation: If you're looking for affordable beat making software, try Dr. Drum instead. They've got a money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied. But there are even cheaper alternatives for you to use like Dr. If you need to establish your portfolio of beats and instrumentals for paid work, though, and have never produced before this software will still be good for you. You just saved me some money I otherwise would have blindly blown. So glad I read this!!!!
I was almost going to buy dubturbo! I have real instruments, but I want to make house and dubstep! Appreciate the review. Let me ask you this, though: if I bought it for my 14 yr-old son, could he learn the basics of beat-making and music mixing? Would he be able to transfer what he learned by using DubTurbo to a more professional platform later on?
I understand that to a pro, Dubturbo might look like a piece of crap. Would DubTurbo be an OK piece of software for a beginner? I would recommend Reason Essentials over DubTurbo all day, everyday. Also the sample sounds are arranged so erratically i never got my head around the order. You are now 3rd result when googling Dubturbo.. Great review. That said there are some expensive plug ins that do a lot less for a lot more money so it may not be great but its certainly not the worst value in the music making space.
Dubturbo marketing just went to a whole new low by possibly hacking into other companies customer databases. Just got a email from Fxpansion in my spam folder trying to sell Dubturbo to me. KVR Topic on it. Thanks for writing this. I just got an email from Fxpansion offering me Dub Turbo. Until now I thought Fxpansion was pretty reputable but presumably the huge commission has encouraged them to pitch it to their mailing list.
I searched because the email is so badly written I was sure it must be a phishing scam. I did find your review of Dub Turbo easily though so well done. Nice to see an honest review of this awful program. So sad to see all those shills with fake reviews bigging the program up so they can make a few lousy bucks from a referral program. Have they no shame? Thanks for this review. I just received a fraudulent email purporting to be from the good guys at fxpansion. I just wished the affiliates who are promoting this and spamming forums and such knew what the hell they were talking about or even promoting.
Their merchant account is hosted at Clickbank. Email Clickbank and they would give you a refund within 24 hours without even asking any questions. I just learned that just because its cheap and reviews are slapped all over it doesnt mean it is actually gold. If you are going to invest in a career like music or production of music you may have to break the bank of course the slaes team of Dub Turbo will try to convince you that DRE, Skillerx and the other music gurus used their software.
Anyways the refund went well. Got my money back and everything. Although even though I did get my money back I can still use the DubTurbo program. I guess I got it for free. If one ever come out that is. I donno man. In fact, I am so intimidated by those programs, I am attracted to the brain dead simplicity of this thing. If I wind up hating it, so what?
I can ty to get my money back. It looks like a really easy way to noodle around and make some bass. If it comes with a ton of dirty samples and I can figure out a way to make a tune an hour I would be satisfied. There is a way to say things…. So what do you think? You can actually make some good music with these programs, and you can even make your own sound and sample banks. I am not going to defend Dub Turbo as living up to its hype because, as a producer, I would never use it myself.
But you should actually buy the product and try it out before you write a review. I did and there are many things in your review which are incorrect.. For instance, Dub Turbo does work with the full 88 note spectrum.
The keyboard only address 4 octaves at a time, but you can change which octaves the keyboard is addressing. Another distortion in your review is that you can only have 16 instruments. While it is true that Dub Turbo 2. In reality, Dub Turbo can address samples. As a golfer, I can tell you it is all nonsense. You make money off this blog by promoting products that pay you a commission to do so. In other words, you are playing the same game. Plus, if you are really going to be taken serious, you need top-shelve hardware for capturing samples.
If you are trying to go pro, then Dub Turbo is not a good choice and that is because it does not have the capabilities to manipulate samples, it has no MIDI interface, and its effects suite is very limited. NOTE: This is true up to version 2. I wish I had read your review before I bought the program. It only took a couple of minutes before I realized it was a glorified pre-programmed sound player. The ONLY tweaking you can do is hit a different note on the keyboard which raises or lowers the pitch but it also raises or lowers the speed — you cannot change them independently!
So, forget making any music with wubwub or wobbles. You cannot even change the duration of a sound! I could have written a better program in under 5 days.
I am responding because I just paid 35 dollars for something that should be a free online kiddie toy. OMG thank you so much for writing this! You are the only true review I can find about this crappy program. I was seeing a lot of talk about refunds and dissatisfaction, not because DubTurbo wasn't good, but because it wasn't what the buyer expected. I figured I wouldn't encounter any of the surprises or difficulties newcomers were experiencing with DubTurbo.
Also, I needed to whip up a dubstep track for a group EP I was involved in, so I went ahead and pulled the trigger. Here's the reality: We at LedgerNote have no affiliation with DubTurbo and no obligation to make it sound better than it is. I'm going to tell you the full truth about this software in this DubTurbo review so you can decide if it will help you achieve your goals or if you should just stick to a traditional digital audio workstation software.
If you're like me, you want total control over every sound you're adding to your songs. I consider pre-made loops to be cheating. Some care, some don't.
The problem with my approach is that it could darn near take forever to make a dubstep song that way. Let me explain Sitting down to a blank canvas and cranking out a full dubstep track is a monster of a project. Listen to any of the popular dubstep artists and think about how complex every single layer of the song is. To start with a regular synthesizer sound and then manipulate it into a wub-wub or a glitch takes a long time.
And then you have to do it many times over just for that one song, let alone the next song you want to make. Plinking out a one-shot hit on a synth or a longer sustained note is simple. But then to make them sound like the wobbles and glitches we hear in dubstep requires tweaking almost every single parameter and effect with automation including the following:. You might finally create the sound you're looking for, and then realize that that's just your base sound. Now you have to go about chopping it into triplets and other advanced rhythms and then draw the automation for all of the effects.
We haven't even mentioned parametric equalizers, bit-crushers, or parallel compression, let alone a handful of other effects processing you can use.
If the above concept sounds like a total nightmare, you're right. It's more of a technical science than an art after a certain point.
This is the problem the makers of this software sought to fix for the rest of us, as I explain in the following DubTurbo review. When I found DubTurbo, I was skeptical because a lot of the reviews out there are plainly exaggerated just to make a sale, at no fault of the DubTurbo creators.
That's just the nature of having an affiliate program. The truth of the matter is that DubTurbo isn't the end-all be-all of software solutions, but it's definitely not bad either. As a matter of fact, it's pretty slick, as you'll see. But, and take me seriously, this software is not without problems.
And if you're into creating every single sound so that your songs are completely yours, then this is not for you. DubTurbo will let you release unique dubstep tracks, but there are chances someone could come along behind you and make something very similar.
You'll understand why in a moment DubTurbo is like a simplified DAW. You get 16 tracks and access to thousands of sound fonts and loops, organized by a descriptive name so you aren't hunting through them for forever. Then you can use a FruityLoops style beat grid and a Logic Pro style piano roll to lay out your drum rhythm and your synthesizer melodies, respectively.
Or you can find your footing and just get started with the loops, which are fantastic, royalty-free, and very legit. Essentially once you've made the choices above, you've got access to some knobs for each sound that let you change high and low pass filters, panning, volume, pitch, and more.
So basically while you're setting up your sounds, you're mixing your final result at the same time. It's pretty innovative in that sense. You can track everything out stacked up and bounce a mix that sounds great, or you can export each track individually using the solo buttons and then take the stems into a different DAW like Pro Tools and mix it down there, but it's not even remotely necessary.
Like every situation in life, nothing is perfectly designed to make everyone happy, or it would be too generalized and become worthless. The weakness of DubTurbo's generality is the flip side of its strength in specificity. This is what gives it an edge over even the most powerful DAW's when it comes to being a dubstep hobbyist versus a professional. Let me explain. I think one of the most important part of DubTurbo is that as a complete beginner you can hop right in, build a song out of loops, and call it a day.
But also as you grow in skill there's no real limitation. You can switch over to the one-shots and create an absolutely loop-free unique creation that you can take pride in as your own.
There's infinite room to grow here, and like I said you can even bounce the tracks out separately to ship off to a mixer, mastering engineer, or even a rapper or singer across the planet. This is as legit as a music tool gets with a very low barrier to entry while offering unlimited growth potential. It has that level of specificity that makes it a perfect companion to an entire career that accommodates any level of complexity or simplicity in songwriting.
Even if you became interested in creating your own sounds from the ground up, you could learn to do that in another DAW and then export them as one-shots, loops, or your own synth preset. You could then create your own growing personal library of sounds that you import into DubTurbo. The question becomes, at that point would you even need to do that, since you've mastered a more expansive and perhaps the best DAW?
You'd just stay in that software instead. The specificity of providing you with the exact sounds you need is also the problem in my mind. You can only use the sounds loaded in the library. You can add more, of course, including your own. But my point is that everything you use could potentially end up being used by another dubstep hobbyist and even in the same combination.
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