Sampling or Composition

[REEK BROCK]

With computer software making it more affordable to get in production would you rather hear more sampling or composed tracks.I'm partial to composing.I like hearing sampled tracks but one day I want to be sampled myself.

[bknot1]

i have aways and will aways be for composing...

as more and more stuff comes out and ther realize the potential of money they can make if the keep it original..more and more producers are leading more toward composing to keep all their share of publishing vice giving up 30% or more the the publishing company that own the samples they used..

Just write your own stuff.

[bknot1]

Danny... where did you goto school in HUntsville Al..

[Noddy301]

IMO composing requires more creativity...sampling seems a lil like cheating(kinda) However sampling goes back to the roots...Depends HOW you sample...music iz music!

Originally Posted by bknot1

Danny... where did you goto school in HUntsville Al..

Is this a serious question?

I was actually born in Rhode Island but lived here most of my life.

[bknot1]

I grew up in Huntsville...and saw you had that on you location...dont see that to much..

Originally Posted by bknot1

I grew up in Huntsville...and saw you had that on you location...dont see that to much..

Ah...

I went to Challenger middle school & Grissom Highschool.

[bknot1]

graduated from Lee in '90

come back to Huntsville durning Christmas and New Years to take my kids to see their grandparent..

[bknot1]

Originally Posted by Noddy301

IMO composing requires more creativity...sampling seems a lil like cheating(kinda) However sampling goes back to the roots...Depends HOW you sample...music iz music!

i feel you on that....

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Originally Posted by bknot1

graduated from Lee in '90

come back to Huntsville durning Christmas and New Years to take my kids to see their grandparent..

Ah that's cool.

It's pretty rare to see someone else from Alabama, not to mention, Huntsville.

Oh, and thanks for the comment on SoundClick.

[bknot1]

so damn true...

[ethos]

I dig the sound and feeling in sample based production, but I prefer to compose.
More control, and more possibility. Plus, theres a certain satisfaction that comes with building a beat from scratch.

[Mindset]

Originally Posted by ethos

I dig the sound and feeling in sample based production, but I prefer to compose.
More control, and more possibility. Plus, theres a certain satisfaction that comes with building a beat from scratch.

I'm the same way. On my productions I usually compose, but once in a life time something that sounds so good, needs to be sampled lol. Also composing is great for me, cause sometimes I'll stumble onto something "new", and so forth.

[ethos]

I agree. I do sample, it's rare, but it happens. It's usually something fairly small too.
The last thing I sampled was a single flute note. but it added a lot to the beat.
but yeah, sometimes you hear shit too dope not to sample it. lol.

[definitesupreme]

i ALWAYS sample.

i dont care what yall say but... the way i chop a sample and use it in a beat... might as well be an original composition.

i like original compos.... but seriously most producers goin that route sound like ass. either their kits are just plain homo or what... but iono.

ill always like sampling IF DONE CORRECTLY. its got that soul/funk/instrumentation/warmth... that you'll never be able to find in a board.

plain and simple.

i look at sampling as composing in a way... cause you take sounds... and arrange them... just like in original composing.

iono how yall sample... but just takin a plain loop and then adding drums... that aint really doin much... but choppin a beat up in a crazy way... and rearranging it... that shit takes a lot of creativity.

[jibran]

There's also a certain satisfaction in digging through four cities and finally finding some wax you've been looking for, listening to it and feeling its soul go through you, chopping that up, and making a classic.

[REEK BROCK]

I'll keep doing both but hopefully we can get to that point where our compositions have that soul feeling to them by layering better sounds and using eq and effects.After we get that down maybe we can make more complex tracks (I'm speaking for myself on that one).You can make a real hot song looping a sample and adding the "right" drums.I got an idea for another thread!!!

[jibran]

But sampling doesn't always have to be physical - to me, what you're talking about is like "spiritual" sampling, where we're able to bring that soulful feeling that we get from records out by ourselves. That's how I think of the production by The Soulquarian's and The Roots, for example.

[Noddy301]

Originally Posted by jibran

But sampling doesn't always have to be physical - to me, what you're talking about is like "spiritual" sampling, where we're able to bring that soulful feeling that we get from records out by ourselves. That's how I think of the production by The Soulquarian's and The Roots, for example.

Jib when are me & u gon hook up on some music homie?

[jibran]

When I move back to DC [one year].

[tone_aot]

I think bangin beats can either be made by sampling or composition. I like both. Like def said, i like that kind of sampling where the sample is chopped up so much that it's basically a different song. It's always amazing when you hear the original and your're like, how did they do that? One of my favorite things to hear is sampling and composition combined. If you know what you're doing, that is a dangerous combination. You'll nod so hard your head will fall off!!

[jibran]

Go to my blog: jibran.blogspot.com and scroll down for an EXCELLENT video example of that.

[X man Da Legend]

I have yet to find a set of keyboard sounds that I have been highly impressed with. With that said I prefer sampled beats. I prefer to sample myself for that reason. I have made composed beats but I am never satisfied wtih the sounds used.

[Noddy301]

Im not tryin to be funny and I know this is OT but X you look like Jay Z, Chris Tucker, and Neyo @ the SAME time