Archive for tag: samples
The Second Opinion of Friends and Colleagues
March 23, 2008 UncategorizedThis post is about sharing our work with other musicians, producers, and folks in-the-know that we trust to get a second opinion on things. A couple of days ago I was sitting on my computer getting ready to do some work when a friend of mine from high school came online. He’s been doing very [...]
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Sampling: Legally Ambiguous Like Whoa
February 14, 2008 Licensing, Music Business, SamplingThis post focuses on the practice of sampling and its legal ramifications. Sampling has, for years, been a routine practice in the music industry. Sampling is taking a part of an already recorded musical composition and repurposing it in a new composition. It used to be that people would simply sample freely, release the material, [...]
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Sample Rate and Bitrate: The Guts of Digital Audio
January 12, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the basics of digital audio: sample rate, bitrate, and how analog signals are represented digitally. We use digital audio all the time, but I am surprised on a fairly regular basis how many people are unclear about how digital audio works. Digital audio has two primary qualities that compose the way [...]
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Roll Your Own Multitrack Drum Sample Kit
December 8, 2007 UncategorizedThis post describes how to create your own multitrack drum kits by creating and layering samples from existing multitrack drum recordings. Despite the samples being sequenced, you’ll end up with separate, mixable tracks for each mic just like you would have from a live drum performance. Samples are a reality of modern music production. [...]
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