Posted on 24 May 2010. Tags: ableton live, live 7, live 8, maschine, maschine with ableton, maschine with vsts, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, soundsandgear, soundsandgear.com
Yall know I’ve been working out different ways to use Maschine to the fullest and still have proper integration with my plugin collection. I’ve finally found it! Using Maschine standalone, and using Ableton Live as a rack…but what I also found out, is that you can sync live to Maschine’s clock! Using midi drag and [...]
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Posted in Native Instruments, Plugins, Production Tips, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 19 May 2010. Tags: Aaron McLain, chopping samples, Dr Dre guitars, making a beat, native instruments maschine, ne-yo guitar samples, p5audio, rnb guitars, usher guitar samples
Back with another soundhound, this time we checking out another collection from p5audio. If you like guitar loops and riffs, you may definitely be interested in this one Billboard Guitar Loops: RnB Edition What is Billboard Guitar RnB Edition? 209 electric guitar loops Usher, R Kelly, Beyonce, Ne-Yo, etc… played by one of Dr Dre’s [...]
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Posted in Loops & Samples
Posted on 07 May 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, maschine, native instruments maschine, piano samples, prosonus, steinway grand piano
It’s another Friday…time for Big Fish Friday! Today I’m checking out a single instrument from Big Fish Audio. The Prosonus Grand Piano. My reason for doing so is because it comes in akai format, and since Native Instruments Maschine now imports akai format, I wanted to test it out on a native akai library. So [...]
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Posted in Big Fish Friday, Instrument Libraries
Posted on 31 March 2010. Tags: beatmaking, blues samples, chopping samples, funk samles, jazzy samples, making a beat, maschine, Native Instruments, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, rhode samples, soundstosample
Today we checkin out some smooth sounds from SoundsToSample.com In case you didn’t know, this site is run by the creators of Sample Magic…yeah, them. Checkin out some rhodes samples they sent over for review, in a Jazz/Funk style. David knows I like smooth, downtempo, chilled out sounds….so I had to check this one on [...]
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Posted on 29 March 2010. Tags: brass samples, horn samples, making a beat, maschine, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, nova loops, novaloops, string samples
This is just a quick video showing a track I made using some string a brass sounds from novaloops these sounds came from the novaloops Coast to Coast Brass and String Collection leave a comment below, lemme know what you think.
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Posted in Loops & Samples, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 27 March 2010. Tags: akai mpc, maschine, native instruments maschine, ni maschine midi out, propellerheads, propellerheads reason, reason 4, sequence reason from external sequencer, soundsandgear.com
My homie hit me up last night asking how to sequence Reason from Maschine so you can use it as a sound module. It was working, somewhat, but there were issues with the midi triggering everything at once, no matter the channel. I don’t use Reason so I downloaded the demo and played around with [...]
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Posted in Production Tips, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 26 March 2010. Tags: akai mpc, beatmaker, beatmaking, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, breakbeat jazz samples, downtempo samples, equipped music, hip hop samples, making a beat, maschine, mc 8000, mpc 2000xl, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mpc 60, mv 8800, native instruments maschine, sample based beat smokers delight
It’s Friday, and I know you hungry for some fish! I had a house full last week so I had to skip big fish friday, but I’m back with something dope for ya If you like that chopped up, jazzy, breakbeat style of music, then you’ll be interested in this review of Breakbeat Jazz. What [...]
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Posted in Big Fish Friday, Loops & Samples
Posted on 20 March 2010. Tags: maschine sequencing vsts, maschine triggering plugins, native instruments maschine, presonus, soundsandgear.com, studio one, vst instruments in maschine
Just exploring Presonus Studio One and figuring out how to use it as a vst rack for Maschine, it works out pretty good and it’s easy to setup the interface in Studio One. You must have Studio One Pro to use vsts but it’s all good. It’s also simple to save a template so you [...]
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