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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

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!!!!