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USB Flash Drives: Mini MPC 2000XL and SP1200 Drum Machine
This isn’t exactly rap beat related, but pretty cool in it’s own right. If you are a fan of the MPC 2000XL sampler or the SP1200 drum machine you might be interested in these little USB flash drives.
I found them to be rather interesting. Now you don’t need to use a “standard” looking USB flash drive anymore, you can carry a mini MPC in your pocket.
Check out the rest of the details at gizmodo.com.
Tags: drum machine, flash drive, MPC, sampler, SP1200, USB
Rap Beat Downloads at IllBeatz.com
IllBeatz.com has a few beats available for download for free. In addition to the free beats, memberships are available that can provide access to tons more beats. Yeah!
Tags: beats, downloads, free, membership, royalty free
Free Beats at OpenMindsEntertainment.com
Open Minds Entertainments has a bunch of free beats available. In addition to the free beats, there’s a large number of beats that can be purchased exclusively. Good stuff.
Tags: beats, download, exclusive, free, royalty free
Make Crunk Beats with Propellerheads Reason
Do you have Reason? Do you want to make some Crunk Beats? It’s not that hard. Check out this tutorial.
Tags: beats, crunk, Propellerhead, Reason
Beat Making Tutorial with Hardware & Software
This guy has got a great video tutorial that shows how he makes beats with various hardware and software. He uses a lot of different gear and mixes it up well. Watch and learn!
Tags: beats, production, tutorial
Propellerhead Record: It’s Alive!
In a previous post about a possible Propellerhead DAW, it was being speculated that Propellerhead was coming out with a piece of audio recording software. I liked the possibility of this because it would probably making recording audio and dumping into Reason a little more easy.
Here’s the official announcement of the Propellerhead Record release:
Propellerhead today unveils its brand new software, Record, which combines effortless recording and a stunning software mixer console with a limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized.
I like the sound of that… so it’s conceptually similar to Reason, but for audio recording instead!
Built for independent minded musicians, Record is supposed to have the feel of a million dollar recording studio with the streamlined simplicity of a tape deck.
Simplicity is good, I can dig it.
The bad news is that no third-party plug-ins seems to be supported, but it can be ReWired. As with Reason, Record is a “closed system” but that allows the code to be very CPU efficient.
I don’t think that’s bad news at all, mainly because of the efficiency. I see myself probably running Reason rewired with Record, putting them in sync and running them both efficiently and not sapping CPU processing as much as some other software out there. Sounds like a good thing to me!
Tags: DAW, Propellerhead, Reason, Record, recording, Rewire, software
BeatStorm: Free Beats Volume III
BeatStorm.com has a nice pack of free beats available. Volume III apparently.
You can listen to the beats, and download, here.
In addition to that newest entry, they also have a bunch of other beats and loops available in their files section.
Make Dirty South Rap Beats with Propellerhead Reason
Do you have Reason? Do you wanna make Dirty South rap beats? Here’s a quick video tutorial to show you how.
Tags: beats, dirty south, Propellerhead, Reason, tutorial
DAW software from Propellerhead on the horizon?
I found this to be some interesting news:
While Reason is the only way to work for many – with a history of innovation and groove based music creation, as well as being flexible enough to create many other styles of music – one criticism is that it just doesn’t do the regular DAW thing – that is to record regular audio in true DAW style – adding vocal tracks, live instruments and all that.
Rumours are surfacing that there is a totally new dedicated DAW about to surface, to be uncovered at the upcoming Propellerhead Producers Conferences to be held simultaneously at various worldwide locations on May 9th.
I’ve always enjoyed using Propellerheads Reason to produce rap beats, it just works so well. A bit of software from Propellerheads for audio recording would go very nicely with Reason, especially for sampling. If this new DAW software has features to make it run smooth with Reason, even though it’s going to probably be standalone – it could really boost studio productivity for Reason users.
“This will not be an update to Reason, which will retain its own product category, but will be a new standalone product that will have full-on audio recording capabilities.”
I like the sound of that.
Tags: DAW, production, Propellerhead, Reason, sampling
Free Loops & Samples at Free-Loops.com
Free-loops.com has just that, some free loops. Haha, imagine that.
On their site you will find an interesting mix of drum loops, drum sounds, synth sounds and other sound effects. Enjoy!