Anyone who is looking to get into making beats or starting a home studio on a budget should seriously consider the following equipments.
Personally, when I look into starting a budget home studio, price is obviously a prime factor and MIDI is another one. Presently, more studio are becoming digital and most workstation are done on a computer. Getting a decent DAW, or digital audio workstation and the equipment to control the DAW is all you need to get started.
A MIDI device comes in many forms. The Alesis Q49 is 49 key MIDI keyboard and the Akai MPD 26 is a 16 pad MIDI control unit. Now MIDI devices have no built in sounds in them, just keys or pads that when triggered, sends out a MIDI signal which is read by the DAW. The Q49 and be used to play different plugins in a DAW such as Fruityloops and the MPD26 can be used to play drumkits.
Just starting a budget home studio with these two devices is enough for you to be able to make any beats you want. I personally have both of these devices and it has allowed to be do virtually anything I want and the best part is the PRICE! UNLIMITED potential with such a small budget.
Stick to MIDI and it will save you a LOT of money and stick to a reliable DAW such as Fruityloops, Reason or Cubase. I'd recommend Fruityloops for beginners and hooking up the Q49 and the MPD26 to Fruitloops, I was able to play all of the piano plugins and load in all the drumkits and use the transpose buttons on the MPD26 to record my loops or songs.
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