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Any of you cats have an OP-1? Thinking about getting one but want to know if it's possible to make good beats with it.
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What gear do you use? I use Logic Pro and pretty much anything Native Instruments. Logic is very musician-friendly, it’s easy to jump into the music program and not really have to think a lot and just play some stuff. Native Instruments have big sounds and crazy functions and everything that I’ve just grown to love over time.
According to Sounwave, Kendrick is uniquely hands-on with production. For “Money Trees,” did he seek you out? What role did he play in how that song came together? I knew Kendrick had heard of me. I’d been listening to Beach House and was like, Let me try something with the sample. My manager sent Kendrick a folder of beats and Kendrick was like, This is crazy. He wrote to the song and had it recorded with his people, then he asked me to come to the studio. We went back and forth—like, Can you beef this part up?—and added a little melody part. Now that we have a relationship, I always send him stuff and he responds back, like, Can you change this part, can you do this? I like that, because I want to make the song to fit what he’s in. It’s better when you actually talk about music. Kendrick doesn’t just take a beat, he’s like, Yo, let’s make it right together.
Did you make “Worst Behaviour” with Drake in mind? I never make a beat with a name in mind, because if I do I feel like I’ll mess it up. If I think like, This is gonna sound like a Future beat, I just know it’s not gonna come out that way. For “Worst Behaviour,” I was at my studio waiting for a session that was running late. I got on the mic and started recording myself doing sounds, then looped my voice and pitched it and did some crazy stuff. I knew Drake had pushed his album back—when I heard that, I was like, Alright, sweet, they’re looking for another joint. I’d been sending them songs already because, Oliver, who’s a part of OVO and picks a lot of the production, had reached out to me. So I sent it, Drake made it and was like, Let me get the files and all your information and paperwork. That album doesn’t have a lot of uptempo, big-sounding, aggressive records. Drake was saying he needed a song like that, and that it was one of the best beats he’d ever heard because he could find his own pocket on it. I wouldn’t have ever thought about the beat that way—I just made it as silly, circus-type beat or whatever. I’m pretty sure it was the last song to make the album. It was definitely a blessing. I was like, Alright, I’ll take that to the bank.
Read more:http://www.thefader.com/2013/10/31/beat-construction-dj-dahi/#ixzz2lLQozCM1
RaySwift;6536212 said:
BlackGerald;6510884 said:What gear do you use? I use Logic Pro and pretty much anything Native Instruments. Logic is very musician-friendly, it’s easy to jump into the music program and not really have to think a lot and just play some stuff. Native Instruments have big sounds and crazy functions and everything that I’ve just grown to love over time.
According to Sounwave, Kendrick is uniquely hands-on with production. For “Money Trees,” did he seek you out? What role did he play in how that song came together? I knew Kendrick had heard of me. I’d been listening to Beach House and was like, Let me try something with the sample. My manager sent Kendrick a folder of beats and Kendrick was like, This is crazy. He wrote to the song and had it recorded with his people, then he asked me to come to the studio. We went back and forth—like, Can you beef this part up?—and added a little melody part. Now that we have a relationship, I always send him stuff and he responds back, like, Can you change this part, can you do this? I like that, because I want to make the song to fit what he’s in. It’s better when you actually talk about music. Kendrick doesn’t just take a beat, he’s like, Yo, let’s make it right together.
Did you make “Worst Behaviour” with Drake in mind? I never make a beat with a name in mind, because if I do I feel like I’ll mess it up. If I think like, This is gonna sound like a Future beat, I just know it’s not gonna come out that way. For “Worst Behaviour,” I was at my studio waiting for a session that was running late. I got on the mic and started recording myself doing sounds, then looped my voice and pitched it and did some crazy stuff. I knew Drake had pushed his album back—when I heard that, I was like, Alright, sweet, they’re looking for another joint. I’d been sending them songs already because, Oliver, who’s a part of OVO and picks a lot of the production, had reached out to me. So I sent it, Drake made it and was like, Let me get the files and all your information and paperwork. That album doesn’t have a lot of uptempo, big-sounding, aggressive records. Drake was saying he needed a song like that, and that it was one of the best beats he’d ever heard because he could find his own pocket on it. I wouldn’t have ever thought about the beat that way—I just made it as silly, circus-type beat or whatever. I’m pretty sure it was the last song to make the album. It was definitely a blessing. I was like, Alright, I’ll take that to the bank.
Read more:http://www.thefader.com/2013/10/31/beat-construction-dj-dahi/#ixzz2lLQozCM1
Ben E;6536247 said:RaySwift;6536212 said:
Nice... kinda reminded me of early outkast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dE1yHy37RFA"Most of my drum sounds come from vinyl," Havoc said. "My father's old records from back in the days. His stash that he had. A stash that my grandmother had at her crib. I didn't really know what I was doing, but when I was listening to music I knew the elements that I needed to grab. So when I hear certain drum breaks on a records, I just grab it from the vinyl, I found in my father's stash or my grandmother's stash."
The vinyl-pulled drums provide Havoc with a particular sound he is fond of, he said.
"I look for that gritty sound," Havoc said. "I don't want nothing too clean, too sharp and perfect. When music started evolving, people started getting more towards a cleaner, more digital sound. It always boggled me, I was like, 'You like that? That crispy clean sound?' It just bothered me. It still seems weird to me. I try to go with the flow, but I don't know, it just don't got that sound to me. I just like my drums to sound grimy and hard."
The grimy sound came from New York, according to Havoc, who said he discovered his sound by looking around and looking within.
"I asked myself, 'What do I like? what do we like?'" Havoc said. "It ain't nothing bright and happy, party and bullshit. It's that dark, grimy sound, walking to the store to get a 40 [ounce bottle of beer]. I just put that into music. The description of those cold winter days, being broke, a shootout happening next to me and I almost got hit. I just put that into the music, the sound. It just happened. It wasn't something I planned. I just translated my surroundings into music."
Ben E;6616554 said:Track I just finished. Play it on the loudest volume.
http://soundcloud.com/benjamin-e-1/psychocrusher
G.Avant;6620577 said:Ben E;6616554 said:Track I just finished. Play it on the loudest volume.
http://soundcloud.com/benjamin-e-1/psychocrusher
Title definitely fitting haha, real dramatic, dope.
G.Avant;6620534 said:Just wrapped this up. What yall think?
https://soundcloud.com/gavant91/veni-vidi-vici
Ben E;6621109 said:G.Avant;6620577 said:Ben E;6616554 said:Track I just finished. Play it on the loudest volume.
http://soundcloud.com/benjamin-e-1/psychocrusher
Title definitely fitting haha, real dramatic, dope.
Thanks for listening...
G.Avant;6620534 said:Just wrapped this up. What yall think?
https://soundcloud.com/gavant91/veni-vidi-vici
Dope... feels like it would pass the whip test... I especially like how the beat flips from 3.12-3.22
G.Avant;6622244 said:Appreciate it man, I got you on the follow.
BlackGerald;5985581 said:BlackGerald;498171 said:We all know the IC Talent subforums are dead so I felt it would be a good idea to have a thread on producing in the Reason. I know there's a few out there that produce or rappers looking for production so in this thread we can network, discuss, share tips etc.
Here's a good facebook group for finding samples:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vinyldom/
anyone can join it^
And to kick things off, what are your top 10 producers and why?
1 )Kanye West (sampling, innovation)
2) The Neptunes (musicality, minimalism, composition, songwriting, use of hardware)
3) No ID (sampling, versatility, digging)
4) Just Blaze (sampling, drums)
5) Organized Noize/Earthtone III (versatility, musicality, songwriting, creativity, live instrumentation etc)
6) RZA (sampling, innovation)
7) DJ Premier (drums, encyclopedic vocal samples, digging)
8) Timbaland (drums, creativity, composition, vocal recording, versatility)
9) Ski Beatz (jazzy sampling and live instrumentation composition)
10) Rashad Thomas (composition, songwriting, J Dilla-esque samples, versatility, use of hardware, live instrumentation)