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BEAT MAKERS TOOL KIT: Must Have MPC 60 Drums

Corry BanksDecember 18, 2012

This edition of BEAT MAKERS TOOL KIT focuses on the MPC 60 Drum sample kits by GoldBaby.com. The sound of the MPC 60 quite simply defined an era. One of the classic sampling drum machines, born from the defunct marriage of Roger Linn & Akai Pro, ... Read More...

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MAGELLAN 2.0 with AUDIOBUS SUPPORT

Corry BanksDecember 17, 2012

Magellan now supports Audiobus in latest update 2.0. Yonac's Magellan is one of the best and most coveted iOS synth apps to date. Described as a professional analog modeling synthesizer for the iPad and iPad Mini, Magellan 2.0 has 2 independent poly... Read More...

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Applied Acoustics Systems Releases Lounge Lizard EP-4

Corry BanksDecember 15, 2012

Applied Acoustics Systems' Lounge Lizard EP has been a long time favorite of many keys players. This past week, AAS released an all-new version of its award-wining Lounge Lizard EP-4 electric piano plug-in for Mac OS X and Windows. Lounge Lizard E... Read More...

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MPC TUTORIALS Producer Interview Series with Kay Kay

Corry BanksDecember 14, 2012

Hailing from Chicago, Kay Kay (aka Kay Kay on the Beatz) is a classically trained pianist, music teacher, beat maker and gear collector. Some of you may be familiar with Kay Kay from her YouTube channel where she walks viewers thru the process of how... Read More...

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AKAI iMPC Now Available

Corry BanksDecember 13, 2012

Akai Pro released the long awaited iMPC today. I'm not sure there was any sort of official announcement but the fact is that the iMPC is indeed available today from iTunes. iMPC costs $6.99. As I download and dig into iMPC, for an obvious pending ... Read More...

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Retronyms Releases Major Update to Tabletop for iPad

Corry BanksDecember 13, 2012

Retronyms has everyone all a buzz today about their major new update to Tabletop for iPad released and available today. The new 2.0 version of Tabletop for iPad includes a load of new heavyweight features such as Timeline Editor, MIDI support, and Se... Read More...

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Crate Digger DJ JAZZY JEFF

Corry BanksDecember 12, 2012

Fuse TV does a segment entitled Crate Diggers that features vinyl obsessed, crate digging, record collectors. Some of which just so happen to be legendary DJ / Producer's such as DJ Jazzy Jeff. Most know of Jeff as the DJ in one of rap music's most s... Read More...

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24 Hour Beat Tape

Corry BanksDecember 10, 2012

I stumbled on this 24 Hour Beat Tape while checking out KOMA Elektronik's analog pedals. The concept was spearheaded, I'm guessing, by a duo named Planty Herbs from Utrecht, Netherlands. The idea behind the 24 Hour Beat Tape is that a collection o... Read More...

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Kev Brown The Making of The South Africa Dedication EP

Corry BanksDecember 9, 2012

An underground favorite hip-hop producer, Kev Brown speaks on how the South Africa Dedication EP came about. Cool concept, the South Africa EP... I believe the plan is to release green wax, red wax and black wax in order to drive the theme home in a ... Read More...

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MPC 5000 Effects Demo

Corry BanksDecember 9, 2012

One day I was messing around on the MPC 5000's master compressor and tape delay effects. I've since began to use the Boss re-20 pedal but i still love the built in effects in the 5000. I use the master compressor all the time and the Tape Delay gets ... Read More...

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