A great sample library has a collection of sounds. If you are dealing
mainly in Hip Hop music you need various Kick drums, Snares, Hihats,
Low End Booms, percussion sounds, FX, congas, and more. The sound
should be arranged in different categories and styles based on the
various types of music productions. There are various type of music
production out there. You have west coast, east coast, midwest, hyphy,
down south and various other types of hip hop production. When
doing audio production, it’s best to browse through your sounds and
grab the sounds you need to build your beats. You can compare your
production style to various top producers out there like Dr Dre, the
Neptunes, Timbaland, Jazze Pha, Pharrell, Alchemist, Havoc, Kanye
West, DJ Premiere and others. For example, soundcrafting.com’s Platinum
Producer pack has various styles of drum sounds for various styles
of Hip Hop production. Most music producers rely heavily on there
drum sounds. Drum sounds are presently the foundation of rap music.
One of the greatest
mistakes producers make is believing that all sounds and samples are
created equally. It depends where you purchase your sounds and what
type of sampler you are using. If you load the exact same sound in
a MPC 2000 and then load that sound into a MPC 3000 you will automatically
hear a difference in that sound. You will find the same thing
happen with software samplers compared to hardware samplers. Sounds
will have a different inflection or feel to them in different samplers