where do you get your samples

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where do you get your samples?
where do most of the pros get them?
i just purchased a kurzweil 2000 with a sampler, and i have no idea where to begin to build my sample library. i mainly do r&b, but i have been engineering for some rap/hip hop artist. i want to start creating beats, but i don't know where to begin getting samples of drums, rim shots, instruments, anything i can use.

please advise
 
you can...

You can buy sample CD's, in which it's already broken up for you
kick 1, kick 2, kick-----------27
snare 1,-----------------------27 and so on, but you could also
((IF YOU WANT TO LEARN YOUR KURZWEIL, THAT IS))


is sample your own stuff, truncate it, filter it, whatever and boom
you've saved yourself some money, you have EXACTLY what you want and all on disc, numbered by you, and organized by you.
 
goood advice, but being new to it all. What does truncate...etc. mean.

thanx in advance
 
Truncate

Sampling---

Sound source ((CD/TAPE)) connected by 1/4 cable to Kurzweil
Sample sound
you will then have the ((kick-hihat-snare)) you just want the kick
so you use the rotary wheel to find the ((start and end point))
of the KICK ----where it begins and ends

you find that, so you cut off the rest ---hihat and snare (this is truncating) after you have pinpointed JUST that single KICK
you save it on disk. Keep this cycle up, on anything: Horn hit,
chords, drums etc... then you will have your own sample library

how to truncate exactly -- YOU WILL NEED TO READ THE KURZWEIL MANUAL -- keyboard screens are intimidating, but once you've learned to get around, it gets easy---- and that's the only hardest part --- Even with a Sample CD, you will have to sample it, to actually use it --- so basically your paying to have the hard part done for you --- but you still end up sampling it again
ha ha haa -- funny aint it
 
thanx. i have done a little sampling on it before, and i heard about sample cd's before. i didn't quite know which one of them was good for r&b and hip hop, or should i just grab things from other places.

thanx again.
 
where ever

grab from where ever, if it sounds good to ya, sample it
when your making music you should'nt have any boundaries
but if so, then just pull from old R&B tracks for kick, snare, chords
and maybe some Hip Hop joints.

Word of advice: try not to take 4,6,8 bar loops of songs we have already heard, work with it, create with it, play it backwards, filter it, compress it. The game has stepped up a lot, so creating will give you more leverage. Look at PETE ROCK, still killin'em
PREMO, doing it, but they sample bits and pieces and make it there own.
 
you wanna be a hiphop producer? than you must first listen to other hiphop music that you like, and get your ideas from that, im not saying copy another producer but you can feed off other hiphop until something clicks than sample records and cd's but it takes a special something to be a hiphop producer, cuz its really up to you, you should figure it out and if youre good youre good if youre not youre not, "hiphop samples" theres no such thing you have to take samp[les off records and tweak em thats why you have to like hiphop music and listen to it a lot that way you can depict samples that have potential in a beat. Thats just my perspective im not into keyboard beats.
 
If you have one, I say edit(truncate) your samples in a wave editor and then sample them into your kurtzweild. I use wavelab and an S2000, and this is much easier than editing in the sampler. I rip tracks of cds, chop em, tweak em, ect...whaterever comes to mind, then sample it.

Also....as far as coming up with good samples, my best joints w/ samples were basically stumbled on. Its just a matter of putting a lot of time in and being open minded to whatever is at your fingertips. I can make 10 absolutly terrible tracks and 1 crucial one, all using the same formula......making music is funny like that sometimes.
 
now its like everytime i make a track it ends up being dope i dont make wack stuff anymore like i used to like 10 sorry ones than 1 banger, now its like at the worst my beat will atleast be average. But yeah i tweak samples on my computer but i dont know if my formula is different i usually sample off vinyl into my mpc than save as wav upload into my computer and edit and do whatever than i just throw it into my library and when i feel like makin a beat i go back into the library and and make a kit with those samples and do more editing if needed sometimes samples you dont expect to be good turn out to be the best ones after tweaking, it just takes practice and time cuz the more you do it the easier it is to pick out sounds and samples and know what to do with them. thats all! im not giving out my secrets.
 
Creating sample based music is like cooking good food. Start out with the best and freshest ingredients and you have a higher chance for success.

Listen to EVERYTHING... then cherry pick.

barefoot
 
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I wouldn't sample anything from music that is made by sampleing, unless you change it enuff that it isn't even the same sound...
like that pharycyde beat that just came out again by some weak artist, don't do that or you will have no respect... you'll know when your cheating yourself by taking the easy route, it won't feel as good, as if you went and did it all from the sources. good luck.
 
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