If you haven’t checked it out yet, you need to go to audiotuts.com. Besides the fact that it’s a great website with tons of tutorials and product reviews…they have a GREAT freebies page. The Audiotuts freebies page has a bunch of stuff to download; beatbox samples, trumpet samples, a funky hip hop sample pack and [...]
Ever found a website with tons of free drum samples and loops but instead of being able to download them all in one bulk file, you have to download each sample individually? A pain in the ass, right? If you’re like me, you probably give up after like, 2 minutes! Well if you’re a Firefox [...]
People are buzzing about Scorpio61′s hip hop sample mixes! It’s got 52 volumes of free old school songs to sample from. There’s over 2000 tracks so it’ll take a bit of work to make it through everything but it looks like it’ll be well worth your time.
If you’re ever looking for songs to sample, inspiration, or anything else music related on the web, you gotta start with the blogs. I found a great link through a thread at Future Producers to the music blog, Digital Meltdown; who compiled an extensive list of music blogs….and i’m passing it on to you. Totally [...]
If you’re looking for old, classic, rare songs to sample from, you got to check out the crates at Blaxploitation Jive. They got tons of random old school soul, funk, r&b, and jazz records uploaded to their site. How dope is that? You can go crate-digging through somebody’s record collection, find a new kick drum [...]
When I switched to Logic Pro a couple years ago, I spent like 2 weeks watching internet tutorials before I even started making beats. Bottom line is: when you start using new programs/software, you’re gonna need answers to your questions. If you’re using Logic, you’re gonna be spending alot of time on these sites…..so get [...]
If you want to develop your own sound, finding some free VST effects and/or instruments on the web will help give your “ish” something different. VST’s are virtual instruments/plugin fx that are usually not standalone but rather they need to be opened up in a sequencer or host. There are unlimited options out there…..you just [...]
New sounds always spark my creativity. So whenever I feel like i’m the suckiest producer in the world, I start scouring the internet for new sounds. Of course you can shell out some doe and buy some samples but there are a bunch of sites out there that offer free samples as well. And [...]
Here’s a great site where you can download a bunch of free exs24 instruments. It has a bunch of classic drum machines; the Oberheim OB-Xa, the Linndrum LM2, the Korg DDD-1, the Korg Polysix (which I love), the Oberheim DX, the Cheetah MD16, and the Oberheim Matrix 6; all available for download in EXS24 and [...]
Here’s some more Logic Channel EQ presets; this time for keyboards, guitars, voice and other stuff (the other stuff being low cut, phone filter, hum killer, hi fi boost, etc). I’ve never really used the keyboard or guitar presets but maybe it’s exactly what somebody out there is looking for. There’s a ton more Logic [...]
