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The beginner's guide to sampling from vinyl: "If you make sample-based music and you’ve never dropped the needle on a record, you’re missing out on a world of inspiration"
Armed with samplers and grooveboxes from the likes of Akai, Ensoniq, and E-mu, a new generation of artists made classic pieces of work from dusty vinyl, and ‘crate-digging’ quickly became the ...
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The Teensy Becomes An MPC
A staple of every recording studio today, the Akai MPC began as a simple sampling groove box in the early 90s. The form factor of a few force sensitive pads assignable to different samples should ...
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Master recordings of 90s music on slowly dying media
The audio production industry website Mix Online reports that tons of major archives of music master recordings-mostly from ...
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An Amiga Sampler 30 Years Later
You could plug a sampler cartridge into your Amiga and be in the dance charts in no time, something which sparked a boom in electronic music creativity. As retrocomputing interest has soared so ...
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Akai & Stealth Audio Release MPC 80’s Nostalgia Expansion Pack
Step into the time machine bringing the iconic sound directly to your MPC with 80’s Nostalgia by Akai Professional and ...
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"For some, Move might prove to be a gamechanger, but others will likely struggle to fit it into their creative workflow": Ableton Move review
Even without a CPU, Push is priced over $/£800, with that figure nearly doubling for the processor-equipped version. When we ...
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EB-Blasphemy is a break-slicing, generative multi-effects plugin that we can't believe is free
Blasphemy combines 20-year-old developer Ewan Bristow's "favourite distortive, spectral and experimental effects" in a single ...
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Leaks appear to reveal Elektron’s new instrument Tonverk… but we have questions
Some Redditors are concluding that Tonverk is a likely successor to Elektron’s much-loved performance sampler Octatrack ... in-a-box workflows offered by the likes of Ableton Push or Akai’s MPC Live.
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Music AI FAQs: Experts Answer the Most-Asked Questions About the Growing Sector
Every day, songwriters are using AI voices to better target pitch records to artists, producers are trying out AI beats and samples ... Also, Akai MPC AI and LALA AI are both great for stem ...
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New analysis of samples from Wuhan animal market supports its role as a central site of early spread of Covid-19
Species present in the areas where the highest numbers of SARS-CoV-2 samples were found include raccoon dog, hoary bamboo rat, dog, European rabbit, Amur hedgehog, Malayan porcupine, Reeves’s ...
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"It’s possible to make an album in a bedroom which can be talked about 30 years later": Ken Ishii on Reference to Difference
I had a Korg M1 synth, a Roland JD-800, an S-760, S-330 and a CPM-120II. Then, a Yamaha REX50, TX81Z, a RX-21, and an Akai S612 with a MD280 disc drive. And I had a Korg DDD-1 drum machine ...
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