Tag Archive | "making a beat"
Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: beat maker, beatmaking, chopping records, chopping samples, making a beat, motion samples, native instruments maschine, soul samples, soultown 2, soultown samples
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 [...]
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Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: club music loops, dance music loops, house music toploop samples, kick free revolution, making a beat, minimal techno grooves, native instruments maschine, sounds of revolution, soundsandgear.com
Today I’m back with another sound hound for ya! Gotta checkout the sounds! I got something different than the normal you may be used to. My taste in music and musical styles is very diverse, as is the taste and styles of the folks on the site. So today I want to checkout something more [...]
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Posted on 09 February 2010. Tags: beat making, beatmaking, chopping samples, download samples, hip hop samples, making a beat, motion samples, motionsamples.com, native instruments maschine, underground samples
I know it’s been a minute since we reviewed anything from Motion Samples but it’s that time again. Today I’m checking out something that is sure to spark some interest among the underground, organic, hip hop lovers. I’m talking about Hip Hop Genetics…let’s see whasup Back to the foundations with Hip Hop Genetics No matter [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2010. Tags: ableton live, akai mpc, akai mpc 1000, akai mpc 2000, akai mpc 2500, akai mpc 4000, akai mpc 5000, beat maker, chop samples in ableton, making a beat, manually chop samples in ableton, roland mv 8800, sounds and gear
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 [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2010. Tags: akai mpc, beat making, beat thang, beatmaker, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chopping samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, rnb samples, roland mv 8800
Oh did you think I forgot about ya! Did you think it wasn’t time for Big Fish Friday! Oh yessssssssssssssssssssssss This week we checking out a collection they sent over called Plush! What is Plush? Plush is a smooth sexy gumbo of Sade meets Maxwell while listening to D’Angelo and Musiq Soulchild battle it out! [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2010. Tags: after hours samples, black and gold samples, chopping samples, fatloud.com, fatloudshop, making a beat, Native Instruments, ni maschine
Aight, so…we love fatloud around here, they are definitely one of the companies I respect, and enjoy. A majority of their collections where either singular sound packs or construction kits…..and yall know how I do my construction kits. I like stuff to be in it’s own folder based on sound…not construction kits. Fatlout put out [...]
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Posted on 21 December 2009. Tags: beat maker, beatmaking, chopping records, chopping samples, making a beat, motion samples, native instruments maschine, soul samples
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 [...]
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Posted on 17 December 2009. Tags: beat maker, beat making video, beatmaking, electro drum samples, hip hop drum samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, sonic specialists, sonicspecialist, soundsandgear.com, urban electro, urban fire drums
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, [...]
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Posted on 11 December 2009. Tags: Big Fish Friday, bigfishaudio.com, chopping samples, house drum loops, house music loops, house music samples, house synth loops, making a beat, mirrorball house samples, native instruments maschine
Don’t act like you forgot… it’s time for that Big Fish Friday baby! You already know! Today I’m going into another style of music, checking out a house music sample cd that big fish sent over. Mirroball: Silky House Music… let’s get it. Mirrorball? What type of title is that? I like the title, gives [...]
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Posted on 07 December 2009. Tags: after hours samples, beat making, chopping samples, fatloud.com, free samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, ni maschine
Yes yes yall, it’s time for another review. Back again with another sample pack from the folks over at fatloud.com, you know we like them around here. They have quite a few that I haven’t had a chance to review for ya yet, but I wanted to do this one, you’ll soon see why. Makin [...]
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Posted on 03 December 2009. Tags: akai mpc, beat maker, beat thang, beatmaking, chopping samples, making a beat, making beats, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 500, mv 8000, mv 8800, native instruments maschine, native instruments maschine review, native maschine, roland mv, soundsandgear
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 [...]
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Posted on 25 November 2009. Tags: beat maker, beyonce samples, chopping samples, keisha cole samples, keri hilson samples, making a beat, p5audio, queens of rnb, rhianna samples, rnb loops, rnb samples
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 [...]
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