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i make hiphop from LIVe One til now..also just blaze come to hk make beat only use software..today no matter what u use.just see the beat is tight or not.

you can make hiphop with a rubber dildo and some mashed potatoes.. so i figure making some in live shouldnt be any real feat or anything.

just blaze uses MPC and racks...too..

yourmom wrote:you can make hiphop with a rubber dildo and some mashed potatoes.. so i figure making some in live shouldnt be any real feat or anything.

you are an asshole. IMO

enthawizeguy wrote:yea i mean i was just wonder if yall made any hip hop beats on live. del is supposivly doing his whole album on live... so ive heard. Ive yet to figure out how to layer my drums in live, or the trick to get more impulses so I can have chopped samples, hopefully ill figure it out soon. I am thinking about using it in conjunction with GURU or Battery 3 ( u can adjust the pads on the new one and do rolls etc.)

ok the way you layer drums in live is have another session of impulse running and arm both tracks at once, arming both tracks at once can be done by going under preferences and making sure exclusive tracks is removed on the miscelaneous tab.

but yea i switched from mpc 1000 and sold it for a good laptop and live and i really havebn't regretted anything yet, if i want to chop i can chop better using adobe audition. what's cool about live is you can really tighten your sequences quicker or lkossen it much faster than an mpc 1000.

as for buying guru or battery, whynot invest in a good auduio editor like adobe audition? because all you really need to do with your samples is slice it and then if you want drum rolls within impulse just use the midi effects plugins involved with live and that should help.

I feel sorry for a musician who can't open up Live and make a banging 4 measure hip hop loop in less than five minutes. Live has more than enough sounds and goodies to make SLAMMIN hip hop beats that are radio and club worthy. My partner and I could make an entire hip hop sample CD within about a day.

Scott LaRock made most of Boogie Down productions stuff with turntables.

Live is ready to make any type of electronic music you can dream up. Your imagination is your only limitation.

Now go make some funky beats

remarkable wrote:I
Scott LaRock made most of Boogie Down productions stuff with turntables

can you document this statment?
were you there?

I think you are misinformed.

Scot may have mixed the breaks in a live setting, but I believe another "ghost producer" made the beats.

I understand your sentiment, but I will believe you if you can provide documentaion.


I hope you do well in life.

v00d00ppl wrote:ok the way you layer drums in live is have another session of impulse running and arm both tracks at once, arming both tracks at once can be done by going under preferences and making sure exclusive tracks is removed on the miscelaneous tab.

but yea i switched from mpc 1000 and sold it for a good laptop and live and i really havebn't regretted anything yet, if i want to chop i can chop better using adobe audition. what's cool about live is you can really tighten your sequences quicker or lkossen it much faster than an mpc 1000.

as for buying guru or battery, whynot invest in a good auduio editor like adobe audition? because all you really need to do with your samples is slice it and then if you want drum rolls within impulse just use the midi effects plugins involved with live and that should help.

Another way to layer drums in 5 is to create a second track with impulse and take the 'midi from' your first drum track, click the 'in button. the benifit to doing it this way is that you can then load the scale plugin to determine which drum triggers the drum you want to layer. so if the drum on pad 2 is to trigger the drum on pad 6 on the other impulse, you can change the midi routing in the scale tool. (if you need to trigger 3 or more, add the chord tool with the scale tool (some Live secretes))

And for chopping, you can just drag your sample to an empty track, turn off the grid (important), highlight the section of the sample you want to use and hit 'ctrl + E' and you have an instant chop....repeat for all the sections you need chopped......
Create an Impulse on a midi track now drag and drop those chops you just made onto the pads. No outside tools needed.
If you have altered the sound before chopping (FX, time strech, tuning, etc), and you need to carry that sound to the impulse, just make a copy then consolidate or else when you drag and drop, sample will not be warped or have FX settings.

Consolidate saves the file with all the new settings, truncate, volume, warped, FX, EQ, offset....anything (no need for external editor). But copy sound first so you do not rewrite the original. if you want, export new edited sound back into your sound library for future use.

Live is good for Hip Hop even though I don't like the sounds that come with Live. I always use outside sounds for that good boom bap (sample cd's or records, tapes, whatever..... Go to online production battle sites and download thier battle packages... usualy really dope sounds and thick drums)

thanks for your responses... sorry it took so long for me to reply. Yah i pretty much never use stock sounds. I have thousands of drum sounds from vinyl and from other producers who have hooked me up over the year ,so my drums are always heavy hitting. I just recently got trilogy and stylus rmx hooked up with ableton because I am always looking for some high quality sounds, but so far have been having trouble getting them to play with just the comp keyboard. I am thinking about buying the remote sl 25 tomorrow since i hate midi, but the mpd 24 is coming soon so i am trying to decide if i should wait or not.

I make everything with live and vst's.
And I do all of the arrangements including the vocals and mixing in live.

What ever works the best for you is cool.
Don't waste your time by looking at others, stay focussed on your own shit.

remarkable wrote:I feel sorry for a musician who can't open up Live and make a banging 4 measure hip hop loop in less than five minutes

I feel the same way..All i make is hip hop ,r&b, dance hall.Live works perfect

I make hiphop using Live. link in my sig

might not be hip hop anymore if your on little juan standards and the gemelos yin yang

switchin it up with these four traks, but yes i normally make "normal" uber underground hip hop/////


www.myspace.com/elcontra

DeadlyKungFu wrote:this guy posted some stuff on the link yer music page a few months ago, DOPE! Look for his other stuff on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWRFwZPRuw

There are definitley hip hop heads here.

boom-bip-da-boom-boom-bip

enthawizeguy wrote:anything thats not straight djing ?

You call that straight Djing?

No offense, but did you even watch the video? It's pretty dope. The guy is using 1 turntable, Live, a midi foot board, and a trigger finger.

He's playing out beats from live on the trigger finger, sampling and layering short bits of records from the turntables, building new structures and scratching over it.

All live and on the fly. It's ill.

Here's another, shorter one. Same guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bq0F4y5sIE&NR

Hardly what I'd call Straight Djing. But then again, I live in Baltimore where the CDJ has only recently become a "socially acceptable" Dj tool, so maybe this type of stuff is the norm in the rest of the world.

I don't know man, I really wouldn't even call what that guys doing Djing at all. It's more just a live jam. Good stuff.

Anyway...

There's a guy on here named Rahlo that produces and performs Hip Hop with live. You should check him out. Here's his website: http://www.blacksoilproject.com

cool Thanks for sharing...

DJ Enferno is also worth checking out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpWB5_cL5Q

smutek wrote:

DeadlyKungFu wrote:this guy posted some stuff on the link yer music page a few months ago, DOPE! Look for his other stuff on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWRFwZPRuw

There are definitley hip hop heads here.

boom-bip-da-boom-boom-bip

enthawizeguy wrote:anything thats not straight djing ?

You call that straight Djing?

No offense, but did you even watch the video? It's pretty dope. The guy is using 1 turntable, Live, a midi foot board, and a trigger finger.

He's playing out beats from live on the trigger finger, sampling and layering short bits of records from the turntables, building new structures and scratching over it.

All live and on the fly. It's ill.

Here's another, shorter one. Same guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bq0F4y5sIE&NR

Hardly what I'd call Straight Djing. But then again, I live in Baltimore where the CDJ has only recently become a "socially acceptable" Dj tool, so maybe this type of stuff is the norm in the rest of the world.

I don't know man, I really wouldn't even call what that guys doing Djing at all. It's more just a live jam. Good stuff.

Anyway...

There's a guy on here named Rahlo that produces and performs Hip Hop with live. You should check him out. Here's his website: http://www.blacksoilproject.com