Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: beatmaking, beats, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, guitar samples, guitar soundscapes, maschine, Native Instruments, production, soundsandgear, traumah drums
Sup fam! It’s Friday…so you know what time it is Big Fish Friday baby! Today I’m checking out a new guitar library called Guitar Soundscapes let’s dig in So what is Guitar Soundscapes? Well, first off, unlike many of the other guitar libraries out there, this one is made more with a more cinematic/ambient bias. [...]
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Posted on 24 October 2011. Tags: beats, chops, kontakt 5, maschine, Native Instruments, slicing, sounds, soundsandgear, thaloops, vinyl samples
Yo what’s good fam, back with another soundhound for ya Today I’m checking out a new company, at least new to me, called Thaloops.com They have some construction kits, drums, loops, etc…but one of the things I dig is they have oneshots/hits. I like stabs, hits, riffs, etc…even more than loops and such. So today [...]
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Posted on 19 August 2011. Tags: beats, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chopping, funk horns, hip hop, loops, maschine, Native Instruments, producers, slicing, soul horn samples, soundsandgear
What’s good fam, it’s Friday, you know what time it is! Today checking out some funk soul horn samples Let’s get into it! So what is Funk Soul Horns? This one is straight up funk and soul horns…literally. No drums, no bass, just a bunch of live horn sections that are broken down into each [...]
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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 23 September 2010. Tags: beats, bpm, brass, MachFive, motu, MST, orchestra, production, strings, Symphonic Instrument, uvi
Hey whatsup yall, back with another review for you from MOTU. Like I said in the MOTU Electric Keys review…I really dig what they are doing over there and I’m surprised they aren’t talked about more often…maybe those who know are too busy making music to talk about it! Either way…it’s some good stuff, and [...]
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Posted on 01 September 2010. Tags: archeophone, beat maker, beats, crate diggers, cylinder recordings, maschine, mpc, soundstosample, vocal samples
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, [...]
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Posted on 27 August 2010. Tags: ambient, beats, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chillout, downtempo, free samples, maschine, mpc, samples
Yep, it’s Friday…so get you a big ole plate and get ready for some Big Fish! Today I’m dipping back into some of that laid back, ambient, on the cloud funk! Downtempo/Ambient is one of my favorite types of music…there are no rules…you don’t need a super complex beat. It’s all about the sound and [...]
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Posted on 20 July 2010. Tags: beats, groovebox, maschine, motu bpm, mpc, mpc 1000, mpc 2500, mpc 5000, mv8000, mv8800, Native Instruments, song arranger, song mode
You all know I’ve been using Maschine for a while, and one question I get quite a bit is how to lay out a song using scenes. It’s a little different than traditional song mode in a beat machine… where you just put a pattern in a list and tell it how many times to [...]
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