You know I’m always looking for the best tools, that get out of the way and let you work.
One of my gripes with the current choice of drum sampling software is their inability to understand how simply we want to layer sounds.
Many folks just want to drag a sound to a pad, then another, and [...]

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So you ready for another set of samples to be reviewed?
This time I’m on some Arab music….I love ethnic samples.
Problem is, I don’t like clearing samples from records, and I don’t feel right not clearing them.
So I stay on the lookout for royalty free sample food.

Arabian Breaks, inspiration all day and all night
When I looked [...]

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This is another video showing how native instruments maschine is not just a sampler or beat machine, but that it can be used just like a workstation or keyboard.
Instead of using it by sampling records or songs into it, I am using the internal sounds and creating music like I would on a fantom or [...]

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Enter the drum GURU…
Over the years, software has constantly improved and offered the same and even better functionality to the hardware we are
used to using.
We’ve had drum machines, sequencers, drum samplers, slicers, dicers and food processors…okay, maybe not the last one.
But, many people, especially in the urban electronic genres like hip hop, techno, dnb, electronica, [...]

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