8-17-07 Vacation

yeah i've been and am going to be out for a few days, but when I get back, Studio quality Reason Pianos and shit just a bunch of samples and more tracks to download.

Yo thats hott stuff OFF thanks man!
and yo i'm gonna be in orlando in 3 weeks, hit my up on aim we'll hook up or something.

I'm A Rolling Stone . . .

Yo. . . Whaddup??
The name is OFF (echoes off into the distance) and I'll be your host for my posts on this blog.
Now I'm a sampler as well, not a bad one if I do say so myself. . .
www.myspace.com/offagain.

In being contracted to help wth this blog I decided to not just post samples (I think Alex handles that well enough) but instead post on what to do with the samples. Tips tricks etc.

My first tip:

For those of you that dont know him let me introduce you to . . . .
Mr. Phatmatik Pro



Now for all you cats who go from one program to the other to sample like from cool edit pro to FL Studio or from Recycle To Reason, whatever to whatever else. I bring to you your VST solution. Izotope Phatmatik Pro 1.52. Now just from looking at it you should be able to tell what it does. In case you don't, lemme explain . . .

Using FL Studio as my host, load up this vst (10 day demo available at http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/phatmatik/) as an instrument. Its plug and play after here. Click the folder icon in the top left of Phatmatik and find your sample (wave format only) and double click it to load. Boom your sample shows up and if you press C on you keyboard the sample will play. completely. (I think its the C down from middle C.)
Now you have three auto chop features. You can chop by beat in 16ths, 32nds or you can auto chop using the auto chop feature and adjusting the sensitivity (its right next to the folder icon. and the other chop buttons are clearly marked).

For shits and giggles click the 16th chop feature. Now your sample is mapped out along your keyboard in nice little parts. Look at the slice markers and they tell you exactly which key they are mapped to. Now whats great about this (in case you haven't already realised) is that you can position the markers anywhere you want, have a chop in the beginning and end of the song and somewhere in the middle without having to make physical chops in the file. All at extremely little cost to CPU. Now you can play the sample like an instrument recording your midi notes in the piano roll and having the corresponding slices playback.

Izotope Phatmatik Pro also has numerous other features. Adjust the sound of the sample or individual slices by messing with modulation, pitch, reverb delay etc.

You can also play the sample in different octaves through the nice little transpose feature. That is also mapped to your keyboard.

Pro Tools users: Get the VST to RTAS adapter. Instant sampling power right inside of Pro Tools.

Other applications: chop up drum breaks, etc anything you want really.

So stop running back and forth, program to program, try this all in one solution.

8-6-07

Check this, I'm out real quick download these songs!

shouts to future producers for this one.

http://www.zshare.net/download/29951612f7fdf4/

Tracklist:

"We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

"Long Red" by Mountain

"Love Has Fallen on Me" by Rotary Connection

"Feel Like Making Love" by Bob James

"Half Good, Half Sinner" by O.C.

"Black Maybe" by Syreeta Wright

"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon

"She's Leaving Home" by Syreeta Wright

"Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" by The Isley Brothers

8-2-07 "Chickens be thinkin I'm all cute..."

... just another chick lookin for a lawsuit. If it we're up to me I'd put her in a law suit, with no suitcase..." - J.R. WRITER

Got some track for you to sample from, had a shitty weekend, just got out of an operation. It's whatever.
Enjoy the tunes.

THE FOUR TOPS

Also alot of people have been asking for that "Louder, Louder, YEAH!" Chant that Kanye and J Dilla used alot.
Well here it is for you guys, enjoy and don't forget to visit back on Sunday for "Side by Side Sampled Sunday!"
Catchy huh? :-)

KANYE N DILLA "LOUDER, LOUDER, YEAH! SAMPLE!

I'll post more later when I can think about it. Until later. peace dudes!

7-31-07 so what its a torrent....

Most people dont like downloading torrents. also, you guys might not really want all those songs.

So don't bail on this site just because you found the torrent, linked here.
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3712563/Motown_-_Instrumentals_archive_mp3_192_kbps

that doesn't bother me at all.

anyways, if you bail on this site you'll lose alot of hidden Gems.
I have over 50+ oldies instrumentals im putting up within the nex few weeks also!

mpc kits and my own samples too.
Pre chopped sample shares will be on fridays.

anyways get back at me peace.

http://www.zshare.net/download/2929914f3156f5/


enjoy!

7-29-2007 again....

boy you guys are lucky, in the middle of making some shit i got blocked. haha,
i'm uploading all the commodores and a few random songs.
You'll like some of this shit.

p.s. i'm going to start uploading by the artist, so that way its not always random shit, enjoy dudes.

Billy Preston and Streeta - With You I'm Born
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2901913c8ba9da/

Charlene - Ive Never Been To Me
http://www.zshare.net/audio/290192790c1ac8/

The Commodores.rar
http://www.zshare.net/download/2901970c13d9bc/

holla atcha, and yeah we could still use some bloggers.

7-29-2007 holla atcha boy.

whats up dudes? I havent had time to sit here and make everything all fancy but here।
I will post up more songs everyday so keep coming back।
My bad about bullshittin and taking so long, I had emergency surgery।
Expect all 143 up by monday!

http://www.zshare.net/download/2901791f54b4ad/

you can get to us by pointing your browser to
http://mbeats.blogspot.com/ or http://www.beat-battle.com/

those 4 will get you going until tomorrow when i can upload like 20+।
sorry dudes and enjoy, also, check the site regularly because we are going to have alot more than just these songs।
everyweek we're going to have a day dedicated to an artist featuring their songs and songs they've sampled from, side by side comparison!

we are looking for help if anybody likes to blog email us!
thanks dudes!