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FL Studio“I love my FL Studio. It has the best sound engine for drums and my drums are what carry my production.”
Said in Image-Line: Murda Beatz artist interview, October 2018
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Murda Beatz has said he makes his beats in FL Studio, with Gross Beat and the FL Keys piano, and has named Omnisphere and Kontakt for melodies. He told Pensado's Place he mixes on Yamaha HS8 monitors, and he co-built the Murda Melodies multi-effect plugin with Slate Digital.
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Gross Beat“And then for the hook I put Gross Beat on.”
Seen in Genius: The Making of Migos, Cardi B & Nicki Minaj's MotorSport With Murda Beatz, Deconstructed, 2:14, April 2018
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FL Keys“one of my go-to pianos is just the FL Keys plugin.”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
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Spectrasonics
Omnisphere“Right now I'm using Omnisphere and Kontakt heavy.”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
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Native Instruments
Kontakt“Kontakt has some of the most real-sounding stuff out there”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
What studio gear Murda Beatz uses: a sourced gear guide
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Studio
Has said they use
Image-Line
FL Studio“I love my FL Studio. It has the best sound engine for drums and my drums are what carry my production.”
Said in Image-Line: Murda Beatz artist interview, October 2018
Has said they use
Has said they use
Akai Professional
MPK49“traded it in for an AKAI MPK49 keyboard”
Said in The FADER: Meet Murda Beatz, the producer who made friends with everybody, August 2016
Plugins
Has said they use
Image-Line
Gross Beat“And then for the hook I put Gross Beat on.”
Seen in Genius: The Making of Migos, Cardi B & Nicki Minaj's MotorSport With Murda Beatz, Deconstructed, 2:14, April 2018
Has said they use
Image-Line
FL Keys“one of my go-to pianos is just the FL Keys plugin.”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
Has said they use
Spectrasonics
Omnisphere“Right now I'm using Omnisphere and Kontakt heavy.”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
Has said they use
Native Instruments
Kontakt“Kontakt has some of the most real-sounding stuff out there”
Said in Splice: Murda Beatz on his new sample pack and four iconic tracks, April 2020
SponsoredHas said they use
Slate Digital
Murda Melodies“cheat code to making beats”
Said in Sonicstate: New Slate Digital Multi-FX Plugin (Murda Melodies), October 2021
Records that shaped me
Has said they love
Soundgarden
Black Hole Sun“I'm such like a big fan of like grunge”
Seen in UPROXX Sound Check: We Made Murda Beatz Pick, 13:05, January 2026
Has said they love
50 Cent
The Massacre“If I hear "The Massacre" by 50 Cent I remember having to get my parents to go buy it for me because I was young.”
Said in Highsnobiety: Murda Beatz interview, December 2018
Has said they love
Waka Flocka Flame
Hard in da Paint“That's like the reason why I started making beats”
Seen in UPROXX Sound Check: We Made Murda Beatz Pick, 1:03, January 2026
Has said they love
Travis Scott
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight“That's one of my favorite albums I've ever been a part of.”
Seen in UPROXX Sound Check: We Made Murda Beatz Pick, 2:54, January 2026
Has said they love
Black Sabbath
Paranoid (1970)“I walked up to Iron Man.”
Seen in UPROXX Sound Check: We Made Murda Beatz Pick, 4:21, January 2026
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What DAW does Murda Beatz use?
FL Studio. He told Image-Line it has the best sound engine for drums, and he told XXL and Highsnobiety a friend first showed him the program when he was a teenager.
What plugins does Murda Beatz use?
He told Splice he leaned heavily on Omnisphere and Kontakt for melodies, that FL Keys is one of his go-to pianos and that he likes FabFilter. In Genius' MotorSport breakdown he puts Gross Beat on the hook. He also made the Murda Melodies multi-effect with Slate Digital.
What studio monitors does Murda Beatz use?
He told Pensado's Place in 2020 that he was using Yamaha HS8 monitors. Earlier, he told The FADER, he got KRK speakers after his first keyboard.
What was Murda Beatz's first keyboard?
An Akai MPK49. He told The FADER he traded his electric drums for it at Guitar Center so he could start making beats with a piano.
What music inspires Murda Beatz?
He told UPROXX his lifetime anthem is Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun, that Waka Flocka Flame's Hard in da Paint is why he started making beats and that 50 Cent's The Massacre was the first album his parents bought him. He walked out to Black Sabbath's Iron Man at Lollapalooza.
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Murda Beatz is the Fort Erie, Ontario producer behind MotorSport, Nice For What, Butterfly Effect and Pipe It Up. This guide covers the software, plugins, monitors and keyboard he has named in interviews with Image-Line, Splice, Pensado's Place and Genius, plus the records he says shaped him.
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