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Beat This!The next Beat This! Competition is from November 27-28th!
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Tips for sampling
i find the best way to work is to look through your records and find one main sample that makes a good hook or melody etc and put that down with some basic drums then i'll go looking through my stuff for things to add to it, i have a library of stuff that ive already sampled some are just like a... -
Production opinions? Lil' Wayne - Lollipop.
there's a reason why nobody used autotune to rap through before....... BECAUSE IT'S A STUPID FUCKIN IDEA! sometimes theres a reason why you're the first to do something... -
Synths & Leads Are The New "Important" Sounds of R&B/POP
lol aint that true, its almost an advantage now to be a crap singer, it started as a t-pain thing and now everyones jumped on it ! -
The Great Debate #2
Seen as the last post seemed to go down well and get some decent discussion i thought i'd post up another question im looking at.... Is current hip hop/rap (whatever you want to call it) almost just a parody of itself used to make money? so basically are a lot of modern hip hop artist just...- MarkN
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The Great Debate
yea thats a good point which is going to lead me to post up 'the great debate part 2' lol- MarkN
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The Great Debate
some pretty good points being made.... what i was trying to get at was that the DJ spinning and looping breaks is kind of a form of sampling, so the natural evolution of this seemed to be to use the sampler when that was invented and that obviously formed the sound of early hip hop but nowadays...- MarkN
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The Great Debate
ok... the main thing i was trying to get at was that hip hop originated largely from DJs playing breaks and looping them with MCs rapping over the top! so the evolution of this seems to be your typical sampled hip hop track. If you don't use samples and you create your track from scratch does...- MarkN
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Sad...but she's next!
Its sad to see her end up like this i remember when she released her first album and she was totally different you only have go look up the front cover of it to see that so its not like she was always a complete state before she got a contract or anything! whats funny tho is that when she...- MarkN
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The Great Debate
I wanted to post up a question here to see what people thought! I'm writing my uni dissertation at the moment on the use of sampling in hip hop and wanted to ask people... Do you think 'hip hop' that doesn't use samples can ever really be called 'hip hop'? or is it just rap? or is any of...- MarkN
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Akai MPD32
they need to stop making gear everytime im happy with a setup something comes out and im like if i can just get that ill be happy lol -
MPC5000 looks awesome!
hmmm theres me thinking of going back to hardware again and this comes out.... price will probably be crazy tho might get one when im out in the US in the summer -
Akai MPD32
damn! i haven't had my mpd24 for too long either! best piece of gear ive bought tho! if they were to bring out an upgrade im sure i'd buy it lol looks like a few more faders maybe sum soft touch buttons aswell and can't make out what that is to the left of the pads might be sliders like the mpcs... -
Apple is getting out of hand
We've got a few of the quad cores in the studio i use and they are more than enough 8 cores is crazy! i spose if you were high end film editing then thats the way too go though! just to jump in on the argument i used to use PCs but had never ending problems, whoever said they manage to keep...- MarkN
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Mayweather/Hatton....
i HOPE that hatton wins this mainly just to shut mayweather up !- MarkN
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What's "Not Good" So Far ... Reason 4
the one thing i don't like about the new sequencer is how it like selects the whole section and you have to double click in it before drawing a note, if you just draw a new note in it deletes everything ! -
yo anyone been to thailand before
im guessing your training muay thai ? if so i've heard off a few people thats its a great experience, theres a lot of good gyms out there obviously but just watch where you go as theres a lot of crime in some areas especially towards tourists, getting robbed etc- MarkN
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Drop your Tech Niq! (MIXING)
When recording live instruments get your sound right when you record it, use different mics, or placements etc to get the right sound before you record, there's no point wasting time correcting something that could have been right in the first place ! -
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Reason 4 NN19 problem !
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Afrique Deluxe in SOS !
lol i don't know if anyone on here reads Sound on Sound im pretty sure its an international mag so im sure some of you do ! I just read this months and Afrique Deluxe is in there in the studio SOS feature where two of their guys go and sort out problems in a reader's studio ! just thought i'd...- MarkN
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