[LAU] hip hop / making beats

[Grammostola Rosea]

Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
What are good but cheapo turntables? Maybe I can buy one second hand...