[LAU] hip hop / making beats

[Johannes Mario Ringheim]

Grammostola Rosea skreiv:
>> Ok, nice thanks. And how do you make your beats and with which software?

For the drumbeats I use Hydrogen, and Ardour for longer samples/loops, 
scratches and voice/instrument recordings. I might also throw in SEQ24 
and a softsynth if I want some of that.

> And the scratching? Do you use samples, how do you get them?

They're by me, done on a good ol' Technics SL1210, one fine piece of 
equipment, with actual vinyl records. As Dave pointed out you can also 
use Terminator X, which is one fine piece of software. If you already 
got turntables, but want to use non-vinyl samples, I strongly recommend 
xwax: http://www.xwax.co.uk/

Be aware, though, if your music gains momentum you might experience that 
the fellow hiphopers you took samples from demand royalties for the 
samples used. Even more so with 70s/funk/etc artists who don't realise 
that the main reason they're still selling records is that they're being 
sampled. You can solve this problem by only using samples from works 
with permitive licensing, for example one of the Creative Commons licenses.

To me I realise my music is illegal, so that's why I've called the 
collection "Illegal Musikk", and I'm ready to take any consequences of 
that - call it art ;)

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