So, I’m going to be straight with you, and present to you an internet first, a negative review of the beat making software Sonic Producer.
But first let me say, I don’t mind giving an unbiased review of sonic producer. In fact, I did a pretty neutral review of it on my site. It’s called Sonic Producer Reviews – The Good and The Bad, and I even point out who would really enjoy this program (yes there are plenty that would). Despite this entry, maybe it’s my bad mood right now, I usually don’t like bad mouthing a program that others seem to get joy out of.
But, man, this program really rubbed me the wrong way.
I know there are a lot of positives with the software, but if you’re looking for a strictly negative review of sonic producer, here are 10 things I didn’t like about the online beat making tool:
- On the sales page, the beat that gets pumped through the demo video is so freaking loud. It literally blows you away. And not in a good way. The beat is distorted as crap!
- Bought the program. You need to save the ID and password page because there is no other login page you can get to from the main menu. Not a big deal, just annoying. Keep all that info handy. Trust me.
- Got the up-sale once I purchased Sonic Producer. Not bad, and I don’t really want to consider that part of my sonic producer negative review, but it just adds to the list.
- Opened the sequencer, excited to make my first beat. I have to say, it’s really really easy to use. But there’s a few quirks with selecting beats. You can’t audition a beat without actually selecting it. It makes auditioning beats a really long process.
- If you are browsing for beats and decide you don’t want one, you can’t just escape out to the main sequencer page. You have to select a beat. Minorly annoying.
- When I played my beat, maybe it was just my internet connection, but I couldn’t get the beat to play consistently at all. The beat would stutter or slow down in the sections where I had a lot going on. Then speed back up for the other sections. Makes trying to hear your beats hard, and trying to record beats while your beat is playing nearly impossible.
- I mixed my track once I had a few instruments in, and saved it online. First, you are limited in the tracks you save online. Not a big deal, so I bounced it down as an MP3. Sure enough, it sounded distorted once I opened it on my computer. I went to mix it quieter, and when I tried to bounce it down again, it wouldn’t save as an MP3 at all.
- I restarted my computer, thinking it would solve the issue, and when I reopened my saved project, all the volume moves were gone. Sweet. And there were tracks missing.
- I bounced another track down, but it didn’t bounce to MP3. I tried again and again, but it hasn’t worked since. I’ll play you the started track I came up with so you can hear what I mean about being distorted. This is about 10 minutes worth of work…
and 10. I emailed support about the issues I was having. It’s been days and there 24 hour or less support still hasn’t written me back.
Take what you want from that information. Again, I don’t want to make it sound too bad because there are others that use and really like the program. But you wanted a negative review of Sonic Producer so, hey, I gave you one.
If you want to see it for yourselves, go to…
Feel free to use the beat listed above for any reason you can think of. It’s yours! I would love to have finished it…
