So the first thing I did was
set the tempo to the requested value.
The drum machine of my choice was the Drum Pro 64.
If you notice,
this plugin does not have an option to direct individual 
pads
to different audio channels,
which we will solve later.
First lets make the beat.
The step sequencer for this plugin starts at C5.
Now we need some chord progression.
Uh.., lets try out something with Keyzone
or Keyz One Classic.
Its a really good piano plugin.
Its a free one.
Link will be in the description below.
Arming the track for recording.
Turning on 'chords mode' in my midi keyboard.
Before recording, I make sure that the recording settings
are the way I want them to be.
We can access that either by going to the preferences
or right clicking the record button.
This is gonna give us a headstart before recording.
We gotta quantize that.
Then I wanted to add something repetative throughoutn the 
track.
Well., I think the count in was a little too long.
Ofcourse, I'm going to change this piano sound.
I'm going to get the Komplete Kontrol,
which is a free vst plugin
amazing one
link will be in the description below.
Its high time I introduce some 808's into this track.
First, lets copy the kick pattern.
It cannot be copied from a piano roll
because its a step sequencer data.
So, we recreate the kick pattern somewhere else
 in the piano roll which can be copied
to the 808 midi track.
Oh! and by the way, the sampler I'm using is TX16wx,
which is a free one linked below
Then I introduced a pad.
This is the spitfire audio labs plugin.
Its a free one.
Honestly, its too good to be free.
With real life samples.
The link will be in the description below.
Check that out.
Well, that's not from your PC, it's mine.
Remember, our drum machine cannot direct each drum sample
to different audio channels, right.
Well, we have to implement an alternative method
to solve this issue.
Because each percussion sample,
the kick,
snap,
snare,
clap,
or hats,
whatever it may be,
require different equalizers.
Lets begin by duplicating the drum machine track.
The number of duplicates is equal to
the number of drum samples we need to separate,
in my case 4.
We know that each midi note
triggers different percussion samples.
What we're gonna do is, direct these midi notes
to separate drum machine duplicates.
In effect the audio output of each sample
will be coming out through different midi tracks.
Now I can eq every track and move on to the chorus section.
This is the chorus section with some more percussions.
Now lets move on to the 808 that goes along with this beat.
I wanted a kind of 'larger than life' feel in the chorus 
section.
So, I brought in the labs again for the strings.
Well that's it folks.
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And finalluy, here's the mixed track
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