Archive | March, 2010
Posted on 31 March 2010. Tags: beatmaking, blues samples, chopping samples, funk samles, jazzy samples, making a beat, maschine, Native Instruments, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, rhode samples, soundstosample
Today we checkin out some smooth sounds from SoundsToSample.com In case you didn’t know, this site is run by the creators of Sample Magic…yeah, them. Checkin out some rhodes samples they sent over for review, in a Jazz/Funk style. David knows I like smooth, downtempo, chilled out sounds….so I had to check this one on [...]
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Posted on 29 March 2010. Tags: brass samples, horn samples, making a beat, maschine, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, nova loops, novaloops, string samples
This is just a quick video showing a track I made using some string a brass sounds from novaloops these sounds came from the novaloops Coast to Coast Brass and String Collection leave a comment below, lemme know what you think.
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Posted on 27 March 2010. Tags: akai mpc, maschine, native instruments maschine, ni maschine midi out, propellerheads, propellerheads reason, reason 4, sequence reason from external sequencer, soundsandgear.com
My homie hit me up last night asking how to sequence Reason from Maschine so you can use it as a sound module. It was working, somewhat, but there were issues with the midi triggering everything at once, no matter the channel. I don’t use Reason so I downloaded the demo and played around with [...]
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Posted on 26 March 2010. Tags: akai mpc, beatmaker, beatmaking, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, breakbeat jazz samples, downtempo samples, equipped music, hip hop samples, making a beat, maschine, mc 8000, mpc 2000xl, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mpc 60, mv 8800, native instruments maschine, sample based beat smokers delight
It’s Friday, and I know you hungry for some fish! I had a house full last week so I had to skip big fish friday, but I’m back with something dope for ya If you like that chopped up, jazzy, breakbeat style of music, then you’ll be interested in this review of Breakbeat Jazz. What [...]
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Posted on 24 March 2010. Tags: african samples, asian samples, east west, ethnic drum samples, ethnic samples, ethnic string samples, flute samples, indian samples, middle eastern samples, nick phoenix, quantum leap, sitar samples, south american samples, udu samples
Hey there, back at you again with another instrument from East West/Quantum Leap. This time we’re getting a little bit diverse and checking out some ethnic/world instruments. Today I’m going to be reviewing their monster ethnic instrument RA. What is Quantum Leap RA? RA is perhaps the most definitive rare, world, and ethnic virtual instrument [...]
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Posted on 20 March 2010. Tags: maschine sequencing vsts, maschine triggering plugins, native instruments maschine, presonus, soundsandgear.com, studio one, vst instruments in maschine
Just exploring Presonus Studio One and figuring out how to use it as a vst rack for Maschine, it works out pretty good and it’s easy to setup the interface in Studio One. You must have Studio One Pro to use vsts but it’s all good. It’s also simple to save a template so you [...]
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Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: beat making, beatmaker, chopping samples, dirt south strings, hood orchestra samples, making a beat, motion samples, native instruments maschine, urban orchestra samples, urban string samples
time for some more motion samples today I’m checking out an urban orchestra pack called Hoodlum Orchestra What is Hoodlum Orchestra? a collection of multi sample orchestra based loops. Strings, violins, timpanis, and horns all played in a nice orchestral style, with an urban edge. These aren’t single sound loops, but multiple sounds put together [...]
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Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, funk guitar samples, hip hop guitar samples, soul guitar samples, soundsandgear.com
time for another Big Fish Friday, today I’m checking out a collection of hip hop/soul guitar samples that they sent over for review. this is one of their download paks, so the price is lower than a full sample cd and there are usually fewer samples What is the Hip Hop and Soul guitar pak? [...]
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Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: akai mpc, beatmaking, chopping samples, latin beat making, latin music samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, platinumloops
back again with some more authentic samples from platinumloops this time we taking it south of the border! And no I don’t mean taco bell…. What is Latin Breaks Volume 1? It’s a full authentic collection of rhythms and loops straight from Latin America. Percussions, horns, vocals… all the various sounds you would expect in [...]
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Posted on 03 March 2010. Tags: access virus, hcm synth, nord lead, synth plugin, tone2, tone2 firebird, tone2 gladiator, waldorf blofeld
Let’s get right into it. In the world of synth plugins, it usually takes a lot to stand out from the crowd. In my opinion, Firebird+ offers much more than a “me too” synth instrument. What is Firebird? It’s a nice little synth with big sound and an innovative engine It uses Harmonic Content Morphing [...]
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Posted on 01 March 2010. Tags: beatmaking, chopping samples, euro pop samples, euro rnb samples, eurotronix, hip hop samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, rnb samples, samplified sounds, samplifiedsounds.com, urban electronic samples, urban samples
It’s been a while since we did a review on something from Samplified Sounds but they released a new library a while back that I hadn’t reviewed yet! This one is a euro styled urban pop library. let’s check it out What is Eurotronix? It’s a collection of euro pop infused with rnb! For those [...]
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