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 my [...]

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Is it Friday already!?
Dang!
Well it’s time for another edition of Big Fish Friday…time to take a look at some more samples sent to me by big fish audio.
This week, we’re gonna get a lil jazzy on ya!

Talkin all that Jazz…
This isn’t one of those “hip hop jazz hybrid” collections, this is straight up for people [...]

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I get a lot of folks askin me about how to use ableton live like an mpc.
Specifically how to play your chops so they cut each other off.
I also cover how to make your own custom presets for when chopping samples.
If you want to chop and automatically add fx and such, you can do it.
Ableton [...]

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Welcome to the first official “Big Fish Friday”
Each Friday I will be taking a look at something from bigfishaudio.com
They are one of the largest and most well known providers of sample cds and sample libraries in the industry.
I have established a relationship with the company where they will send me out various products throughout [...]

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Yep, another one, I gotta keep em coming cuz we all like new sounds right?
This one is for those that like to travel on the more laid back side of the drum beat, jazzy, chill, downtempo, ambient, smokey, lounge…whatever you wanna call it.
Let’s get into this smooth sample collection.

Is there really magic in those samples?
I [...]

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