Posted on 28 May 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, maschine, motown samples, oldies samples, rnb samples, stax samples, vintage samples
It’s Friday time for another round of Big Fish goodies This week I’m checkin out the old school flavors of Vintage RnB Let’s check it out! So what is Vintage R&B? It’s a library that captures the sounds of that old school Motown and Stax Records. It brings that live, raw, authentic sound from the [...]
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Posted on 27 May 2010. Tags: bloxpander, eareckon, live vst module, vst host, vst rack
Maybe you want to be able to use your favorite amp simulation plugin on stage Maybe you’d rather use your virtual rhodes instead of lugging the real thing Maybe everything you do musically in the studio is done with software instruments and fx, and you want the same instruments on stage with you. Heck maybe [...]
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Posted on 24 May 2010. Tags: ableton live, live 7, live 8, maschine, maschine with ableton, maschine with vsts, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, soundsandgear, soundsandgear.com
Yall know I’ve been working out different ways to use Maschine to the fullest and still have proper integration with my plugin collection. I’ve finally found it! Using Maschine standalone, and using Ableton Live as a rack…but what I also found out, is that you can sync live to Maschine’s clock! Using midi drag and [...]
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Posted on 21 May 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chopping samples, hip hop samples, making beats, ni maschine, soundsandgear, soundsandgear.com
It’s friday, it’s Big Fish time! Today I am checking out something a little different. It’s a construction kit type of product, but with a twist….NO DRUMS let’s check it out What is Urban Inspiration? It is a deep collection of urban/hip hop melodies and loops, no beats, no drums, just the sauce. It’s for [...]
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Posted on 19 May 2010. Tags: Aaron McLain, chopping samples, Dr Dre guitars, making a beat, native instruments maschine, ne-yo guitar samples, p5audio, rnb guitars, usher guitar samples
Back with another soundhound, this time we checking out another collection from p5audio. If you like guitar loops and riffs, you may definitely be interested in this one Billboard Guitar Loops: RnB Edition What is Billboard Guitar RnB Edition? 209 electric guitar loops Usher, R Kelly, Beyonce, Ne-Yo, etc… played by one of Dr Dre’s [...]
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Posted on 12 May 2010. Tags: blazinkits, darkchild drums, hip hop drums, just blaze drums, maschine, pharrell drums, polow da don drums, soundsandgear, swizz beats drums, timbo drums
Time for some more drums Today I’m checking out a new kit from blazinkits.com, whom I’ve been watching grow for years. This time I’m taking a look at “Survival Drums” …… So what is Survival Drums? Like all the kits from blazin kits, this is a more “urban pop” collection… mostly done in the style [...]
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Posted on 07 May 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, maschine, native instruments maschine, piano samples, prosonus, steinway grand piano
It’s another Friday…time for Big Fish Friday! Today I’m checking out a single instrument from Big Fish Audio. The Prosonus Grand Piano. My reason for doing so is because it comes in akai format, and since Native Instruments Maschine now imports akai format, I wanted to test it out on a native akai library. So [...]
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Posted on 05 May 2010. Tags: evolve, evolve mutations, evolve mutations 2, film scoring, heavyocity, Native Instruments, samplelogic, soundtrack creation, video game music production
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that Native Instruments has been and a role with their Kontakt and Kore Player instruments. Now if you’re not into the weird, esoteric sounds of film, media, and soundtrack composition you may not know who Heavyocity is. Let’s just say, a groups of accomplished sound designer, soundtrack [...]
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Posted on 04 May 2010. Tags: atl samples, big fish audio, dirty south samples, exclusive hip hop sounds, hip hop samples, nova loops, novaloops
A while back I told you about the new “Beat Warrior” series coming from Novaloops and Big Fish, well it’s time to battle! I got word from Donald Johnson over at Novaloops, they just sent their first two products to Big Fish, which is only the beginning of their new EXCLUSIVE line of sample libraries [...]
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