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Ryan Leslie: making 'sometimes'
if you're into r&b this is a sick video, ryan leslie's beats are getting better and better. this is him making cassie's new single sometimes at sony studios.. -
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MPC SYNC Question
is it true that if you make the mpc the slave and your daw the master for MIDI sync, you basically lose the tightness and swing of the mpc's sequencer for whatever you're tracking into your daw (drums in my case)? what i mean is, the only thing i use the Mp for is for drums, i do all my... -
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Mysto And Pizzi making the R.Kelly beat
cool video of mysto and pizzi making their first major placement beat, fourth track off of R.Kelly's new album. if you don't like club music this won't be your thing most likely, but its still pretty cool they show people their creative process for every beat.. -
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The weakest link...
I'm sure a lot of people on here have already realized this but its something that only really hit me in the last day or so after getting some new gear and I wanted to offer some advice... As producers, a lot of us are always focused on the next BIG piece of gear...that triton, motif... -
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Warning for Beatrader users
i just wanted to give everyone else a heads up...as far as i can tell beattrader has turned into a scam, these dudes owe me money for beats I've sold and have not only not paid me on paypal, but there is no way to get in touch with them anymore because their contact email is no longer valid... -
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Denaun Porter Interview
really good interview from remix mag with denaun porter, couple of good tips in here. TURBULENT WATERS Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Tamara Warren The loop echoes through the house, wafting from the furnished basement studio to the first-floor foyer. It's a dirty beat, foreboding and... -
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Ghost Kicks
I'm trying to step my drum game up now that I'm moving over to an mpc and I know that a lot of pro producers use ghost kicks to get a little more bounce out of their drum patterns. For people here who use them, how do you do it? How quiet should they be compared to the normal kicks? Do you... -
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Compressing the Drum Bus
i'm wondering who here compresses their main drum bus after they've mixed and compressed all the individual auxes or busses of drum sounds...i've heard this can really help to 'glue' the different pieces of a drumkit together and help its overall clarity and punch. specifically i'm wondering... -
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to my songwriters...
to those of you who don't just make beats but write hooks and songs to them or with other artists, how did you get started doing this? obviously experimenting and observing what others do but...any books or anything you found useful for developing those skills? -
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how many hours in the lab?
I saw a similar poll on Future Producers recently and i'm curious to see how illmuzik compares, so... how many hours a week, on average, are you working on your music (or improving it i.e. sitting down and learning the piano, etc)? on average means what you really do consistently- not during... -
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How do I hookup a motif/andromeda to logic?
Whats good people...im sorry i know this is a basic question but i've always been a software person until now and i have next to no experience with connecting gear. I'm about to invest in the new motif and an andromeda but i'm still a bit confused on exactly how I can hook both of these up to... -
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MPC vs Roland...my two cents
A couple of weeks ago I put a post up asking for advice between an MPC 4 and the roland mv8k, and since I had a chance to try both out side by side for like a week, i thought i'd just post up my 2 cents for those who might be making a similar choice in the future. at first I loved the mv8k-... -
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Lets talk SOUND: MPC vs Roland
Hey guys I am looking for some advice as I'm about to purchase either the MV8000 or the MPC 4000. here is the thing; I am a logic user so I do not care about all the fancy start-to-finish stuff roland put in the MV (mastering and whatever)- I do that in logic. What I want one of these machines... -
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How to find the frequency of a sound
Maybe this is a really basic question but is there a tool I can use to find the main frequency of a sound I'm using (lets say a kick) in a beat? I know how to adjust with eq but since I switched to logic i'm trying to get into sidechaining for bassline and kicks and knowing exact frequencies... -
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Developing independent rhythm
what up illmuzik fam, got a question i hope some of you might be able to help me with. before i got into making beats i had no musical training whatsoever, so drums in particular have come difficult to me if i dont use a step sequencer and try to tap them out on my mpc because i have a poor... -
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Logic Pro & The College Dropout
I thought this article was awesome, although brief...talk about being surprised, check out what this guy says about some of the "samples" on Kanye's freshman LP Scratch magazine: the lab: July 2005 logic vs. pro tools? That’s barely a question. Some say that Logic compliments the... -
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What am I Doing wrong w/ Reverb
This is probably pretty simple to fix but...whenever i use the RV8000 or whatever its called for reverb, all of the patches reason supplies sound so unnatural to me, i mean i dont know aside from just a couple out of this folder of over 100 when you'd hear a sound like this in mainstream music... -
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How to determine Compressor Threshold
So ive been reading up a lot on compressors and I get their basic functions pretty well at this point. I understand the threshold concept very well but here's my question- how do i determine, based on the instrument in question, where to set the threshold? Like, compressors are supposed to... -
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Double (?) Kicks
hey guys, looking for some help on what i think is a pretty common drum technique used in hip hop but one i havent been able to figure out on my own for anyone whos got the new snoop album, the kick on that song "round here" is what im trying to understand, i hear this done a lot but this is... -
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BPM Database (must see!!)
check out this website. it's a database listing the BPM's of 25,000 major tracks, which for most of us could really simplify the acapella finding process.. http://www.bpmdatabase.com/index.php it doesnt have everthing obviously, but it tends to have the major tracks from an artist that...
