The 8 Best Beat-Making Software of 2020

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Dollar for dollar, feature for feature, there is honestly no beating Ableton’s Standard edition for the professional DJ or producer. It’s not as bloated, price-wise, as the Suite version, but not as slim on features as the Intro version. In terms of basics, it has everything you’ll need, from unlimited audio and MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) tracks to 12 sends and returns to 256 mixable virtual tracks. You can capture MIDI (and learn some triggers) and they’ve included some complex warp features, as well. There are 10GB of sounds built into the library, containing 1,800 different samples and loops. Get creative with the five built-in software instruments to lay down your own original melodies and beats. Plus there are 34 baked-in audio effects (eight dedicated to MIDI), so those looking for post-production won’t be missing anything. Any DJ worth their salt is most likely using Ableton Live 10.

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Runner-Up, Best Overall: Propellerhead Reason 10
If you ask professional DJs and producers what software they prefer for producing their beats, a lot of them will tell you Ableton. But a smaller loyal group will point you towards Propellerhead’s Reason 10. The full version comes in at a great price point and includes all of the premium features you'll need. With the full version, you’ll get Reason’s 10 tried-and-true software instruments, including the Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer, the Thor Polysonic Synth, the Subtractor Synth and more. The loaded version also gets you a host of exclusive effect plugins, including the RV-7 Digital Reverb, the PH-90 Phaser and the BV512 Vocoder. Of course, you’ll also get unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, VST (virtual studio technology) and ReFill support and anything else you’ll need to produce high quality, completely professional tracks.

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Best Budget: Ableton Live 10 Intro
Ableton Live 10's Intro version serves as a perfectly adequate understudy to the standard version, especially if you're just getting started producing or DJing. You get a large subsection of the features of the standard version for a solid price — a real bargain considering what you get. The major trade-offs? You’ll have to settle for only 16 audio and MIDI tracks, so if your music is expansive, you might need to shell out for the full version. You still get the MIDI capture and learn features, but they’ve slimmed down the audio ins and outs to only 4 of each. Surprisingly, the rest of the numbers aren’t actually that low. The Intro version of the software gives you 1,500 (5 GB) of sounds, four software instruments (only one less than the full version), 21 Audio effects and eight MIDI effects (the same as the full version). So if you can stomach a much smaller feature set and fewer tracks, but love the looping, grid-style interface of Ableton, this might be the software for you.