I know I already did a review on The BeatTips Manual, and I felt good about what I said in that review. However, I’m still learning and getting stuff from the book and I want to explain a little bit more as to what the book is really about. It’s not just a simple step [...]

Time to checkout some more samples, for those that like to mix the live jazzy sound with hip hop and downtempo funk. Today I’m doing a review of Doodlebug’s Jazzy Hip Hop Theory, a jazzy hip hop library released by Loopmasters. Some of the new school folks may not know who Digable Planets are…let’s just [...]

If you’re like me, you absolutely LOVE electric piano sounds. The sound itself is so versatile, from smooth, to rough, to silky, to jagged…the search for the perfect EP is never-ending. Unless of course you have one of the classics (I’d love to own an actual vintage rhodes) But when it comes to sample libraries [...]

It’s Friday so you know what that means, time for some Big Fish! Today I’m reviewing one of the new products from the “Beat Warrior” series that Nova Loops created exclusively for Big Fish This one is all about the melodies, so let’s check it out What is Platinum Synth Melodies? It’s a collection of [...]

Have you ever wanted to have a specific set of sounds at all times? Maybe you have a favorite old school synth that you love, but you just don’t love carrying it around. Or you like everything software has to offer, but you haven’t found anything to replace your favorite string patch from that roland [...]

Not a lot to say on this one, some free drums from trauhmadrums.com and I like them Peep this quick video and go download them, he’s cool peeps and didn’t know I was doin this video but I love to show love to the smaller developers and he has some great drums. check it out [...]

I know I just posted a video of how to sequencing plugins in Live from Maschine standalone. But this is a little different. This if for those that want to use Maschine as a plugin within Live, yet not use Maschine’s sequencer. This will let you record the midi data into Live’s sequencer while still [...]

you know what time it is…..big fish friday today I’m reviewing some urban hip hop samples this one is called “Rotation Hip Hop” let’s check it out What is Rotation Hip Hop? The idea of this library is to provide you with a collection of “radio ready” sounds and samples. Not just one style but [...]

Native Instruments just released an update to Kontakt 4.1 and it now allows you to load instruments in the background. This means, when you pull up a sound from the Kontakt library, you no longer have to wait for the full sound to load! This is huge! I HATE waiting for large libraries and instruments [...]

I know what you’re thinking… “another piano?” Piano is one of the most diverse and universal instruments around. No wonder so many companies give their own versions of sampled, modeled, and synthesized pianos. Today we are checking out one from Imperfect Samples based on the Braunschweig Upright piano. let’s check it out So what is [...]