Good sample packs for making electro
I’m a newbie producer who plans on making some electro think kinda felguk kinda style stuff. But i’m just wondering what sample packs would be a good starting point for making that style?
- Vengeance sample packs most likely Future House vol 1 and 2. also there club essentials are nice.
- Loopmasters have a ton just take a look on there site and listen to some promos
- Sample magic is pretty good especially there tech house pack.
honestly tho Vengeance is probably your best bet they have a ton of packs for what your looking for.
get a good VST and make your own sounds please!!!
Getting good drum sounds from sample packs is not a bad thing. also you manipulate any sample loops to make it your own and new. I’m not talking about being like steve angello and taking a whole premade loop and doing nothing to it except adding drums and white noise im talking about the little loops like percussion ones and so on.
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There’s deadmau5 xfer wich as some really cool sounds. and also loopmaster’s sample packs ! You might also be interested to get a hand on Stylus RMX
Sample packs are for suckers . If you’re gonna sample find some old vinyl and make your own samples .
Could work, but for a beginner to go through all that hassel to end up with essentially the same thing? Why? Stuff like that is perhaps something you could start thinking about when the groove-creating skills are good enough to spend that extra time on getting a certain sound, not when you barely can make any grooves at all.
What do you mean hassle? how do you think people did it before sample packs ?Do you know how much pf a hassle it is when people making bad tracks from sample cds jam up my soundcloud inbox?j/k LOL But in all honesty all using a sample CD is gonna do for the guy writing this post is trick him in to a fals sense of actually being a producer .
Sample cd’s are very handy to have around, i only ever use them for percussion though and even then ill rather use the single hits and build my own loops from them, or slice the loops up to hell and back, then layer them with other single hits or other sliced loops.
I think what people are getting at here is not to use a sample packs for every single stage of production.
Just because you let someone record and process the drumsounds you use doesn’t make you any less of a producer.
I can say that’s true if it comes to individual hits but if it’s actual loops yes it does make you less of a producer .
That I can agree on, but more that its no longer the musician making the music than the source of the sound.
A question, I’ve always liked sampling as in the hip-hop estique of sampling existing songs but I reject the use of a lot of modern day melody-loops created to give the impression they’re made by the musicians themselves. Do you feel the same about melody-loops and longer drum-loops (As in not breakbeats)?
Totaly those melody loops are straight up cheating . Im sure to a beginner the instant gratification of those melody sample CDs is great but it’s nothing compared to finding some old vinyl and taking different pieces from very different tracks and make something new . ( sorry I’m typing in the toilet with my iPhone right now so this might not have made total sense) anyhow if I were looking records to sample to make new “electro” sounding stuff I’d probably look for some old electro or funk stuf as well as freestyle and old house and techno .
+1
you don’t want to make music that anyone with the same sample pack could easily reproduce, do you?
just a little bit too much information there, mate.
Sample Magic got awesome things, Deadmau5 pack is superb, TheFatJuno is also very good!
Getting good drum sounds from sample packs is not a bad thing. also you manipulate any sample loops to make it your own and new. I’m not talking about being like steve angello and taking a whole premade loop and doing nothing to it except adding drums and white noise im talking about the little loops like percussion ones and so on.
First off, thanks to those with recommendations. You know, being on topic and not coming in here just to throw shit around.
Second, for the loud-mouthed “Make your own samples in your DAW or you’re not a legit producer,” sit the hell down child. Do you actually play a drum kit when you make your drum loops? Can you play a drum kit with the same abilities you’re able to program a loop using MIDI and a VST? If not, then calm the fuck down and know your place.
Coming from live music, playing guitar for 15 years and in bands off and on for about 10 years, I know I don’t play drums. One of my best friends is a fantastic drummer, both on acoustic and his Roland kit. Session musician good. So, if I come up with a melody and open the floor to him to fill in the drum part, then I sit down and work the mix and record bassline and keys layers myself, are you going to give me shit for not being the one playing the drums?
Admit it, there are some people who will always be better at a given thing. I sorely want to learn how to program my own drum loops, but dammit, there are others out there building tools for me to use to lay a foundation. If I can pull off mixing a percussion loop with a house loop and transition to a hip-hop and fast hats sequence, I’m not sitting around playing with my dick. It’s work to make something original enough to make it to the next stage - recording what I’m good at…melodies, orchestration, dynamics…
In short, if you’re going to spit on somebody for not MIDI sequencing or MPD drumming loops or guitar lines, be ready to be spit on by somebody who can play an actual guitar. Lay off the haterade.
There’s nothing wrong with using loops at all, more well established producers do it than you think, hip hop, house, techno and so on. It’s just one aspect of of producing, and there’s an art to it as well.
If you give two producers the same sample packs/loops they are going to come up with two different things, and the better producer will always shine through.
And more than anything loops are a good way to get inspired. I’ve said it before, but it’s hard for me to sit down in front of a blank screen and start creating something. It’s always nice to have something to work with be it a percussion loop, bass loop, simple rhythm lead or vox sample even, so need something to get started. More likely than not though, in my case at least, I end up taking out the original sample or loop that got me inspired and end up not using it at all. Just part of the creative process.
but any third, fourth, fifth and/or hundreth producer will be able to duplicate their tracks…
can’t confirm - I guess everyone’s approach is different. I tried using a couple of loops one time and it pushed me in a weird direction that didn’t sound like me.