Tag Archive | "sounds and gear"
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 02 December 2009. Tags: exs24, film fx, hailion, native instruments kontakt, nnxt, sfx, sound effects, sound fx, sounds and gear, soundsandgear.com, special fx samples, wave alchemy, wavealchemy.co.uk
Whas good yo! Back with another review for ya, this time we switchin it up from loops and libraries to sound effects! I know what you’re thinking, but trust me, just go along for the ride Who is Wave Alchemy and what is the SFX Collection? Good question, Wave Alchemy is a sound design company [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2009. Tags: ableton live, beat maker, chopping samples, making a beat, making a pop track, ni maschine, novaloops.com, pop samples, sounds and gear, soundsnadgear.com, urban pop egos vol 1
Got a new collection of videos coming to ya, where I’ll be “In The Lab” with Nova Loops, reviewing a bunch of products they sent over for me to checkout. They have a ton of sounds in various styles, so I’m going to go through a bunch of their construction loop sets and makin a [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: ableton live, beat making, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, chopping samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, off the hook 1, off the hook 2, off the hook 3, off the hook guitars, off the hook sample cd, off the hook samples, sounds and gear, soundsandgear.com
It’s Friday again, so you know what that means! Time for another Big Fish Friday! This week they sent me a guitar sample collection from the “Off The Hook” Series. This is a well known series in the sample cd market for urban and hip hop production. Let’s check it So what exactly is Off [...]
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Posted on 01 October 2009. Tags: chopping samples, hip hop samples, making beats, native instruments maschine, ni maschine, p5audio, piano samlples, producers, scott storch, sounds and gear, soundsandgear.com
I know I know…what up wit Scott Storch? He blazed the charts for a while, then….I dunno, last I heard it was some money issues. It’s all good, things happen, what you can’t front on is that dude is NASTY when it comes to the keys. So today we looking at some Storchy style piano [...]
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Posted on 30 September 2009. Tags: ableton live, arabian loops, arabian samples, asr10, asrx, beat making, chopping samples, ethcnic samples, flstudio, hip hop beats, korg triton, logic, making a beat, motu bpm, mpc, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 3000, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mv8000, mv8800, native instruments maschine, platinumloops, reason, rnb beats, roland fantom, sounds and gear, soundsandgear, yamaha motif
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 [...]
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Posted on 25 September 2009. Tags: akai mpc, beat making, drum samples, hip hop samples, making beats, maschine, mpc 1000, mpc 2500, mpc 500, mpc 5000, mv8000, mv8800, Native Instruments, sample library, sounds and gear, soundsandgear, soundsandgear.com
So, I’ve been learning and playing with Maschine from Native Instruments…I must say it’s awesome. I’m currently using the beta update so as soon as the full update is released I’ll give you my review. But I’m still going to show you little tips, tricks, and some of the workflow. In this video I just [...]
Posted in Native Instruments, Production Tips, Sample Libraries, Samplers, Videos and Tutorials, VST Plugins