Archive | Production Tips
Posted on 11 November 2011. Tags: big fish audio, mixing tips, paul white, production tips, recording tips, sample magic, sound on sound, soundsandgear, studio tips, the producer's manual
Hey what’s good fam, it’s Friday, time for some Big Fish Today I’m not reviewing a new instrument or collection of samples Today I’m reviewing a book! Now before you turn and run the other way, give me a few minutes, as I think you’ll like this one I’m reviewing “The Producer’s Manual” from Sample [...]
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Posted on 11 August 2011. Tags: kore, kore 2, layering sounds, maschine, maschine layering, maschine tutorials, Native Instruments, vst chainer
I wanted to share this tutorial with the worldwide Maschine community as a whole showing how to layer your plugins in Maschine. I show it in a way that gets around the limitations of Pad Link mode which allows you to actually play your layered sounds from your keyboard and not just the pads. It’s [...]
Posted in Native Instruments, Production Tips, Videos and Tutorials, VST Plugins
Posted on 10 May 2011. Tags: maschine, maschine format, maschine kits, maschine tutorials, samples, saving kits
When it comes to Maschine saving kits and samples, I always hear the question of how to save them so you can move them between machines or share them with people. Similar to the mpc pgm format, which allowed you to easily create and share kits. Sorta like how Kontakt’s nki format or Battery kit [...]
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Posted on 24 March 2011. Tags: bangin drum sounds, free drum samples, guerrilla warfare kit, traumah drums
You know what it is fam, just giving you a heads up, traumah just released another free kit as he gets ready to put another dope drum kit on the market. I know cats that improved their drum library 100% just by getting the free stuff lol, I never heard anyone that got the full [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2011. Tags: ambient, chillout, kontakt, sample magic, Sample Magic s17, soundtrack, soundtrack & chill
You know I gotta smooth it out sometimes, well…my preferred style of music is a mixture of ambient/chillout with some jazzy urban twists, throw in a bit of electronic funk and top it off with some cinematic goodness. I’m very diverse in my style, but I really love anything that’s just musical, organic, and chilled… [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: beats, downloads, knocksquared, maschine, maschine 1.6, maschine help, maschine tips, maschine tutorials, Native Instruments, saintjoe, videos
Brand new Maschine Tutorial site from saintjoe and knocksquared now open! Exclusive membership community, exclusive resources, videos, downloads, and more. check it out MaschineTutorials.com
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Posted on 27 January 2011. Tags: maschine, maschine help, maschine tutorials, mashinetutorials.com, Native Instruments, ni maschine 1.6, pad linking, vst hosting
You see the title! It’s here, Maschine 1.6 update is available for download for all registered users. This is the public beta, so it’s not the official release, it’s still beta, but fully functional. Make sure you backup anything you are working on and know that the point of the beta is to find and [...]
Posted in Native Instruments, News, Production Tips, Samplers, Videos and Tutorials, VST Plugins
Posted on 25 January 2011. Tags: ableton live, creating your own instruments in ableton, everythingableton, simpler, sound design
So, when you have a website related to audio you come across or get introduced to quite a few people, some with ok content, and some with great content. You never really know until you spend a little bit of time checking out some of their posts and articles, from various periods from their first [...]
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Posted on 13 January 2011. Tags: anaheim, namm 2011, namm coverage, namm show, winter namm
Hey whatsup yall! I made it safely down here to Anaheim for winter namm 2011 I just wanted to let you know I’m here and I got ya back! I will be checking out everything I can, getting videos and pictures and uploading them to the official SoundsAndGear Namm site Make sure to bookmark this [...]
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Posted on 27 December 2010. Tags: 70% off, diginoiz, fatloud, hip hop samples, sample sale, urban samples
It’s safe to say that fatloud has become a favorite around here. From my own personal use to many of you that have become loyal customers of fatloud and their labels, we love their sounds. They make dope junk, period. So it’s always a fun time when they have sales, because their stuff is always [...]
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