Aight today I got something a lil different for ya, but my fellow crate diggers out there will be feeling this one. Sometimes you just need a “lil something” to throw into your tracks, not a full chorus or verse, but some random sound bites that add to the situation. We’ve all dug in records, [...]

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 for another sound hound, checking out some more samples from Motion Samples, one of my favorite companies. SoulTown Samples volume 2, we already checked out SoulTown Samples vol 1, and I had a few suggestions. Let’s see what’s up with this one. What is SoulTown Samples? Just in case you don’t remember, SoulTown is [...]

This is just a quick video showing how to chop samples manually in Ableton Live then assigning them to a drum rack. It’s a quick way to slice samples and still have control over your sections.  I showed how to automate chopping in the video how to use ableton live to chop samples like an [...]

This one’s been a long time coming. Motion sent over soultown samples over a month ago, I’m just now getting to it. Basically, this is for those that still love that sound of hip hop created with samples, chopped up soul and funk or whatever..they way it sounds chopped together. Motion put together a collection [...]

Yall know me, I love drums. I’m super critical when it comes to drum samples and I never feel like you can have enough. When it comes to commercial, radio ready, pristine sounding drums…only a couple names constantly come up. Sonic Specialists is one such name. I first heard about them a few years back, [...]

Native Instruments Maschine KILLS my MPC 4000, period. Okay, so you’ve seen me using it in a lot of my videos and such, and I’ve had it for a few months ever since NI sent it to me back in August or so to review, with the official 1.1 update out I’m finally giving you [...]

Hot off the press or… hot off the hard drive…whatever! P5audio‘s newest construction pack is the Queens of RnB loop set, of course they sent it over for me to review. So if you’re looking to add some RnB to your catalog, pull up a screen as I dig into this collection What is the [...]

Got a new collection of videos coming to ya, where I’ll be “In The Lab” with Nova Loops, reviewing a bunch of products they sent over for me to checkout. They have a ton of sounds in various styles, so I’m going to go through a bunch of their construction loop sets and makin a [...]