If you want to make your own beats for free, then you need a few pointers to head you in that direction. A lot of the choices you make are going to depend on your own personal tastes. Like the type of music you want to make, for which you need to match up a software program for.
Depending on your situation as far as finances, this article deals with how to make your own beats for free, but there are many pay programs available to those for who that isn't a problem.
In matching your software also shop the features of the different ones available, and match that against your goals for your tracks. They differ in what they offer, so there may be one that offers one thing you need, and another has something else but not that, and then there may be one that has both. Knowing your music goals will help you in shopping the software.
The first brick in this wall is a good sequencer. Two popular ones are Propellerheads's Reason, and Image-Line's FL Studio.
Sound editor comes next. These you will use for editing wave files, a must when using samples. (Samples are parts of audio tracks used as a foundation for your music).
You can obtain samples from numerous places - CD samples, or old records, etc. You'll see once you start to lay your tracks how invaluable a good sound editor is when making your own beats.
To summarize, this article has given you some good general advice on how to start making your own beats.
