La La La – Futuristic & K.i.D – Produced By AKT Aktion

Just wanted to let everyone know that AKT Aktion and Futuristic are currently in the lab working on a full album expected to drop this spring.  No word on the Title for the album but we are told it will be purely digital and be free to the public with a donation button fans can use if they would like to give money towards the cause.

AKT  Aktion Producing Futuristic’s Entire New Release Early 2012!

“We doing an album they way it use to be done, one producer , one artist a room fool of ideas and gear, with a few pieces from some other talented artists sprinkled here and there to make bangin ass classic hip hop record that mostly all hip hop listeners can dig, ya dig”  AKT Aktion

AKT Aktion :       “We have been in the lab on and off for a while but, we now have a group of tracks picked out for a crazy sounding album we are putting together.  There are sounds on here no one has ever heard in their life man.  We are pushing major hip hop boundaries on this album, but at the same time a group of the tracks on the album the are in the realm of what you are hearing today.  We want to bring a different twist on the ishh that is going on now.   We are experimenting with major synth modulation on some parts of the album and playing with tones in new ways especially for hip hop.  With Future’s (Futuristic) air tight flow,  swag, and personality shining through on all the tracks and crazy sound combos it is gonna be one to remember.  Don’t worry not all tracks will be in outer space, but we promise they will all be new additions to ya Ipod list.  Hopefully we will be ready for an February Release, but we will not rush perfection, but yes February is looking good right now.  We hope to give Phoenix and the rest of the world a new album with some fresh sounds, a few familiar sounds,  and some sounds that they didn’t know existed.

Hello Fellow Producers,

This is just going to be a quick tip for a great way to get the most out of your sound kits when making beats and producing tracks.  Most sound kits come in a format where the sounds are put in folders by song or song packs I like to call them.  Meaning they put all of the elements to one beat in a folder. You will normally find some sort of drums, strings, synth, piano, or pad etc. etc. Well that can work OK but at the same time another producer could buy that kit and produce the exact same beat, and also if you want to ad those new sounds to current beats you are working on you have to hop from folder to folder to find the right bass , or the right synth.

THE SOLUTION

Once you download the kit make folders and name them by instrument IE: Bass Folder, Drums Folder, Synth Folder etc. Then take a couple hours and place the correlating sound from each “song pack” into the sound based folders. This makes way easier to find that perfect bass loop for a track your working on, or if you need a tight drum roll you can just go to the drumroll folder and pick one of the many.  As you download and buy more sound kits if you keep doing this, before you know it you will never get stuck on a beat again. This makes it 10 times easier and quicker to find the right sound.  Next post i will go over how i use this method in Reason/Record and also how to make templates for quick and easy beat making.

Thanks for Reading,

Aktion

Livin Free – AKT Aktion Feat Chris Bleek by aktaktion

Calling all hip hop producers that love using the all so powerful .REX file.  AKT Aktion is releasing a crazy hip hop .REX kit strictly for hip hop drum and bass loops.  The dopest thing about this kit for hip hop production and hip hop producers is that not only is their hundreds of dope .rex drum loops and rex bass loops there are also folders for each sound separated as in percussion .rex loops folder,  snare .rex loops folder, kick .rex loops folder ETC.. This makes it so there literally millions of possible drum pattern combos that you can make.  Not only are the sounds crispy and industry ready this is probably the quickest way you could ever make dope drum tracks and also variations for change up areas in a song. We will say no more.  It will be here soon, Be Ready cause it is GAME OVER…

MAV Feat, G-Moe | Me Against The World

Song Produced By: AKT Aktion

Video Directed By : Carlos Berber
Shot in Phoenix Arizona

We Goin Charlie Sheen

Chris Bleek | AKT Aktion | MAV

Song Produced By AKT AKTION

Also Music Production By AKT Aktion
Lights Camera Action – AKT Aktion Feat. The Ying Yang Twins by aktaktion

Stereo Flipping When Sampling From AKT Aktion

What people it is AK to the T here to hit you up with some dope production tips so let’s get straight to it.

Stereo Flipping When Sampling Older Tracks

If you listen to a lot of records or songs from the past on a stereo speaker set up you will notice that in some cases they will some very drastic panning.  For example a lot of  “Doors” tracks have the vocals panned hard one way and  the instrumentation panned the other.  Well in almost all DAW or audio processing and recording software programs you can Stereo Flip the left signal to both sides eliminating the right, or the opposite way and making full stereo track out of one side (left or right) of the audio file.  I use Cubase to do  this myself, but any of the top DAWs will have this ability.  You will normally just need to select the chunk of audio you wish to do this to the select “audio processing” were it is located in you recording software  This can totally change a sample library from the 60s and 70s.  I normally pan my samples hard left then hard right to see what the possibilities are if you need an example to start with use The Doors  “People Are Strange” , The vocals are all on the Right and the instrumentation is all on the left ,,You can also flip a stereo track into two mono tracks. I love doing this highly recommended…

Have Fun Mayne!!!!

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