The
usage of Hip Hop samples is an at all time high. Producers
like Just Blaze continue the art form of sampling music from
past generation. Hip Hop samples are the back bone of Hip Hop
Production. Some producers like Dr. Dre have created the
signature sound by not only sampling music from pass
generations, but by hiring session musicians to replay the hip
hop samples instead of sampling the music directly from the
record. Today's music is about Hip Hop Samples point blank!
There
are many ways to approach using samples. If you are a MPC
based producer using many of the various MPC Midi production
centers available (mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500 or the older
versions MPC 3000, MPC 60 II), you have all capabilities to go
sample crazy. With the Akai mpc you can sample sounds
directly into the units from various output sources like
turntables and CD players. One Hip Hop producer told me he
likes using samples because the records he samples from had
already been mastered and that added dimension to his overall
production. If you are a good musician you can play over top
of the sample adding new flavors to it. You can also add hip
hop drums to your samples. This is a very effective way of
fattening up your sample based beats. You can also filter out
your sample stripping away the low end so you can replay a
slightly different drum pattern and bass line.
One of
the biggest problems with using samples is you might have the
coldest hip hop beat ever made only to find out that you can
not get the sample cleared. What this means is the original
owner of the music or the persons or company who hold the
publishing rights to the particular hip hop sample you used is
either unwilling or is asking too much money for you to use
his sample. It’s usually good bet that you don’t sample music
from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or Elton John because
they probably won’t clear the sample.
You can
now buy samples on line in .WAV format from soundcrafting.com.
All samples on the site are in WAV format. Normally when
sampling sounds with a MPC you’re sampling directly from an
audio source and then converting the audio into a .WAV
formatted sound. You can also buy Hip Hop loops that work as
samples. The thing about sampling is no matter who uses the
sample no two producers are going to use the sample exactly
the same way.
