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I’m back again with another synth rack instrument. This one is called “Toy Piano” - it’s got a playful/childish character to it with a lot of charm. You can get “Toy Piano” here (free download) When you download this make sure to use your mod wheel on your midi keyboard (if you have one) for some fu...

Hey guys, I make a lot of synth heavy music and quite a few producers have asked me for synth presets/samples. I use analog synths like the Prophet Rev 2 which is a beast. After spending a bunch of hours playing around with Ableton’s Sampler I’ve been able to make a pretty sweet instrument rack that...

So I purchased some samples from Samples from Mars. Let's say there's four types of 909 kits - clean, colored, distorted, and crunched. Each kit is a drum rack made of up devices with macro controls that can alter the sound of the clap, kick, hi hat etc. I want to create a new drum rack with just th...

McAnix wrote:Try taking a cowbell sample, detune it a bit and cut off the transient and tale, so you're just left with a short sample that kind of has the tone of a cowbell. Only other thing I can think of is a popcorn snare with almost no tail.

Thanks, this might be the trick

I have been trying to identify this tom tom sample but have not been able to find it (looked through all the TR kits) You can hear it clearly in Disclosure's "Omen", right when Sam Smith is singing "oh oh omen". It's a light sound, somewhat of a flam, high pitched tom tom. You ca...