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How to pitch a sample across your keyboard in Battery 4

I just received a question on how to pitch your samples so you can play them at different tunning across your keyboard or pad controller in Battery 4. This is just a really quick video in response. It’s really simple to do.  Of course if you have any more questions just let me know.

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Arturia SparkLE Hybrid Drum Machine review

Hey what’s up fam, back with another treat for ya! Ever since I saw the new SparkLE drum machine at NAMM I was obsessed with it. I loved the form factor and build quality so you know I was excited when Arturia sent one over for review. Let’s just get into it! So what is [...]

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Massive Darkscore III patch library for NI Massive

Hey what’s up fam, hope all is well with ya this week Today I’m checking out a new collection of presets called Massive Darkscore III for NI Massive Let’s get into it! So what is Massive Darkscore III? It’s the third part in a series of ambient, cinematic, evolving, soundscape style patches for Native Instruments [...]

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NAMM 2013 coverage, what do you want to see?

It’s time for NAMM, I will be there covering the things that interest me and the rest of you here at SAG If you have specific things you want me to find out about, let me know! Make sure you bookmark the NAMM section of the site here: namm.soundsandgear.com Also checkout my boy Flux who [...]

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Posted in Big Fish Friday, FX, General, Hardware, Instrument Libraries, iOS & Mobile, Loops & Samples, Plugins, Production Tips30 Comments

Applied Acoustics Swatches and AAS Player review

Hey what’s good fam, hope all is well with ya! Today I wanted to show off a little player that I’ve been digging over the past few months from AAS To showcase the concept I’m using their Swatches sound library, so let’s check it out! So what is Swatches and what is the AAS Player? [...]

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MOTU MachFive 3 mixer and fx section overview

Hey what’s up fam! I was thinking about some of the things I enjoy about MOTU MachFive 3 so figured I would start doing some videos on various aspects of this powerful tool This is just a short video going over what I like about the mixer/fx section in MachFive 3. The mixer is really [...]

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Maschine recording audio live into Studio One 2.5

Presonus just released the version 2.5 update for Studio One, and one of the new features is a more flexible audio routing engine. I’ve been using Studio One for a while, and one of the things I kept asking about was being able to record audio from any instruments or tracks loaded in the DAW. [...]

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Novation V-Station plugin vs K-Station synthesizer

Hey what’s good fam! Just having some fun here with some Novation synthesizers. You may have heard me talk about how I’ve used Novation synths for a while, ever since the Supernova…which I sold…like a dummy… But anyway! Today I’m just comparing their V-Station plugin to the K-Station synthesizer which is it supposed to be [...]

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