Ryan Lott: 8 Tips for Creating and Using Custom Digital Instruments
Here are 8 of the most resonant pieces of advice collected from throughout Ryan Lott’s Soundfly course “Designing Sample-Based Instruments.”
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10 Great Microphones and Recorders for Field Recording
Looking to get out into nature to sample some sounds? Here are our 10 favorite tools for recording and capturing high-fidelity field audio.
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A Compendium of History’s Most Famous Hip-Hop Rhythms
Don’t miss this historical breakdown of hip-hop’s most famous breaks and drum rhythms, including the artists who created and sampled them.
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Sonic Swagger: The Best Samples Left Naked in Hip-Hop
Sample-flipping is a music production art capable of creating mega-hits, but what happens when songs leave original samples completely bare?
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Ryan Lott: Creating an Instrument Using Vocal Samples (Video)
In this new video from Ryan Lott’s Soundfly course, we see him creatively transform vocal samples from a collaborator into a playable synth.
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An Overview of Editing Samples in Native Instruments’ Kontakt
Courtesy of Ryan Lott’s Soundfly course, an introductory exploration of the ways you can creatively edit and design audio samples in Kontakt.
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Ryan Lott: In Sample Design, Less Is More (Video)
In this new video lesson from Ryan Lott’s course, he explains and exemplifies how to build complex samples from simple, captured sonic ideas.
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How RJD2 Builds Ideas Into Tracks (Video)
In this post courtesy of From Samples to Songs, RJD2 breaks down his thought processes for turning sampled idea kernels into full songs.
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The Origins of Hip-Hop Production (Video)
Courtesy of his course on Soundfly, drummer and producer Charles Burchell expounds on the origins and legacy of hip-hop music production.
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A Brief Introduction to Samplers
In this lesson from Ryan’s course, he introduces us to his preferred software, Kontakt, and walks us through some other sampling options.
