Serato Studio

Serato Studio is the perfect choice for those who need a tool that is complex enough to allow for music-making experimentation and post-production editings on a plethora of musical styles and diverse audio patterns.

Making your favorite music can be quite challenging, especially for beginners. Serato Studio is an extra-versatile tool that can easily adapt to any kind of user. When opening the tool, you should select the type of project you want to create: you can start making music from scratch or you can choose from a wide range of templates, categorized by distinct genre.

No matter your experience and level of expertise, you still need a program capable of delivering fast results in a quick, comprehensive, and simplistic manner. The tool has plenty of features that will help you spend less time on technical adaptations and more time on music-making — BPM synchronization, preexisting drum setups and patterns, easy key shifting, a versatile mixing channel, and the smoothly-working sample deck and sequencer.

Serato Studio offers a lot of free resources for all those who need to experiment with different styles and sound effects. As a beat maker, DJ, or sound engineer you can choose from a wide range of sound packages from major high-class producers. There are libraries for different music styles, such as trap, electronic dance music, hip-hop, house, and many others.

The tool also has built-in sound effects and ready-to-use kits for many instruments, special loops, sound samples, and drum kits. Serato Studio supports the following types of plugins: VST (Virtual Studio Technology — cross-platform plugins) and AU (Audio Units — macOS plugins). For splendid outcomes, the paid version of the program has incorporated a mastering plugin from iZotope that allows for advanced sound editing and polishing.

To summarize, Serato Studio is a beat maker and a DJ editing utility that can easily be used by both professionals (sound engineers and producers) and beginners/music-making enthusiasts. The tool works smoothly, looks really good, and is super intuitive for the level of complexity it offers. Above all, the program is free and allows for testing, experimentation, resource grouping for fast retrieval, and easy accessing of sound packs and kits.

For those who are totally new to music-making and audio engineering/sound post-production editing/mastering, Serato Studio offers free learning materials and resources that can be accessed here.