r/sampling

Once you have a good sounding loop with your nice drum break and a cool baseline following, how do you guys usually seek for other mid or high frequencies to complete the track?

Its necesary to find very isolated sounds to avoid overloading the sounds.

Also, with the baseline on, you have certain notes so you are not 100% free. Specially when the baseline has a lot of notes.

Of course pitching is key, but im curious about how do you face this fact normally.

Thanks and peace

Hey all,

I want to ‘perform’ with my samples, like drum along whilst playing melodies and chords but I’m struggling to find samples without drumming.

Is this where those subscription services come in handy? Or is it just a matter of digging?

I have a number of intros that don’t have drums but as an intro they only provide so much.

So far I’ve been able to chop up songs and small chops to drum along whilst playing but I’d like chords or melodies that I could let play for 4-8 bars.

As you can imagine once drums come in it becomes tougher to not only chop the phrase you want within or around any sort of drum beats that can throw the sound of timing off

I use the MPC Sample and am avoiding using a computer for anything - only because I loose 3 hours and actually make very little. I want to sit down, chop something up find some drum one shots and drum along.

I am still finding choosing drum one shots tedious - I have a Roland Mc-101 and I love being able to have a full kit with maybe changing out a perc here and there.

Probably the inevitable task I’ll undertake with a computer will be organising ’drum kits’ with sounds that all work together

Any advice?

In this video I use a set of 303 bass sounds (sampled from my 303) all on the same pitch but with different settings, then process each one with FX focused on stereo width and tone, and sequence them on the SP-404MKII to get an acid-style line that’s way more varied and interesting, even over short loops.

It’s a simple but amazing trick to bring your grooves

to life.

Enjoy!

with love .noir. ❤️

In an interview madlibs advice is to sample the whole record but idk if this is possible where im from. One time I went to a different city and I found a otis blue which I paid $20 for in my hometown and nearly shit my pants when it was there and it was like $5 in the other city. Opened my eyes to the abysmal selection within my reach. Idk if I just dont have it or what but it seems like location really does have something to do with it. I know i could hop on youtube and search around but i dont enjoy that - i use apple music as a streaming platform and it just pushes top 100 down your throat but spotify war drones and all that not to mention itll iust feed samples from songs u already know. Idk it gets on my nerves sometikes and i wanted to get some other opinions on the matter. Thanks all.

I've been producing as a hobby with friends for almost 5 years. I make my own loops but sometimes I have fun chopping random old samples in Serato. I'm stuck on a workflow habit of keeping everything strictly on rigid 2, 4, or 8-bar loops to keep the counts clean and the drums hitting on the right spots (I'm not saying drums should be hitting on super exact times, I may offset them a little bit, but they still need to sound right with the chops) and respecting the metronome.

While studying some Kanye remake projects in FL Studio, I noticed on some videos everything on the playlist sat off grid at random timings. Drops would hit at odd spots like bar 8 + 3 beats instead of standard markers like bar 9, 13, or 17, and sections ran on uncertain lengths like 6 bars and 3 beats rather than clean exact counts, like 4 or 8 bars.

Have I been limiting myself by forcing samples into the grid? For heavy samplers, how do you handle these asymmetrical chops without losing the bounce?

My concern is, if I start relying purely on my ear and ignoring the metronome and standard timings, won't it end up being difficult for an artist to rap or sing over a beat with uncertain loop lengths and sections? Thank you.

Beat 1 or Beat 2 the best ?!?!

For the MPC & SP-404MKII people out there, is there any technical difference in audio quality when sampling via USB-C or Stereo inputs? What are they? Which do you use and why?

Hello, guys, I want free software and techniques for unconventional sampling. I make experimental also, please and thank you.

Discover 404 Bus Drive, a free and open-source web app that turns your smartphone into a MIDI controller for the SP-404MK2, with no installation required .

In this video, you’ll see a practical overview of how it works: how to connect it to the SP, which controls you can assign, and some creative ideas for using it in your live sets or dawless jams .

This is not a step-by-step tutorial, but a quick demo to help you understand if it can be useful in your setup

Thanks to u/Puzzleheaded_Big_103 and u/Cyneox for their work!

Enjoy!

with love .noir. ❤️

Hello guys!

I have several tracks on Spotify, Apple Music etc. that contain acapella samples or covers of sample segments (such as a re-sung vocal sample lasting up to 30 seconds).

Some vocal samples are pitched down by +- 400 cents. One such track has 6 million Spotify streams, another has a million, and the rest have between 100,000 and 500,000.

Of course, I didn't obtain any licenses, although I tried.

What do you think the risk of being sued is? There haven't been any issues so far, but I'm considering deleting some of these tracks, because now I don't want any trouble. I didn't think about it so seriously before ;))

What's your opinion?

Hello everyone, here you can find a list of free samples and also the meaning of the licenses in case you need to check it. I am sure there are other links as well and I will try to keep the list updated.

p.s. the rest of the site is still under construction, but feel free to navigate if you want. Thank you!