Who adds keyboard sounds to their sample based beats?

Does anyone here add keyboard/synth sounds to their sample based beats? Or maybe add live instruments on top of the sample? I'd love to hear some examples.

me. all the time.

hell yea, actually i havent made a sample beat where i havent composed on top if it.

I cant help it, im a composer first.

Anyway here is a link to an R&B joint, i chopped the sample and composed piano on top of it.(as well as other stuff). it was for an online comp.

the link is lo-fi
http://www.illmuzik.com/beatthis/beats/ ... ?BeatID=20

That track was real nice. Props on that. When I make tracks.. I usually either sample or compose. I'm trying to incorporate both in my tracks. I've tried a few times before, but the keyboard sounds always sound "brighter" than the sample. But I'm gonna keep working at it.

Thats were filters come in,

IF you have a real gritty sample, u cant have a clean ass piano over it. I usually use the fitlers on my rack to match the grittness on the sample.


Same goes for a clean sample to, u cant have a rugged bass over a clean 80's sample. Also you have to make sure that the sample is in "tune" or pitched with the composed. If u fail to do this, the composed part will sound flat or sharp,compared to the sample.Its usually best to pitch the sample your instraments since synths are usually perfeclty in tune.

Most importantly u gotta have an ear and be able to play along with the key signature of the sample.

good luck

class...

I used to run into the same problems with keyboards over samples, like classic said, filters mane.

A trick I use(not sure if you use software)

If I have parts that sound too clean and want to make them sound like vinyl samples I record a few seconds of vinyl crackles, loop it and copy paste for the entire track. Then I apply a sidechained gate to the crackle that's triggerd by the filtered keyboard part, that way the crackle is only audible when that part hits, sounds like a chopped sample

Thanks for the advice. I'm good at keeping things in tune. Nothing worse than something being out of key. But I'm going to try some filters and effects, then see what I'm working with.

"Computer Guts".......nice mixture of samples and synths...can you decipher which is which??

I mostly use my keyboard for basses. But I will also add otherr parts. It all does depend on the beat.

but on classics point about tuning the samples. I find it best that when i sample, to not **** with the pitch until after its sampled. Then when i do **** with the pitch, i do it in whole increments of 10 or I just use 16 levels....that way its chromatically in tune. So, assuming the original sample was in tune, anything thereafter, i am pitching it up or down in whole or half steps-i wont get something liek "13" which would be out of wack if i tried to play a piano note over it.

The only exception are drums. Sometimes i will go a few cents off just so it hits right.....or if im just fitting a drum loop to a specific tempo.

Sometimes because of the sample, its slightly off key to a perfect synth tuning, you might have to adjust. But there is nothing more anoyying than a flat bass sound in contrast to a hot sample.

Tune those sounds biatch!

you mean who writes music?!?!? sorry couldn't resist

greg

YO ..........................


A very OL BUT Cool trick is 2 TAKE PINAO LOOPS off of Solos' N Add Notes From the Other Octaves


IE a High OCTAVE Piano Ditty ...add Lower Keyz or VICE Versa ........

Filter add FX and Have FUN With it.......................

OH and Pan Them Accordingly 4 Nice Stereo Feelz...............



4 REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm probably the opposite of most folks here. I'm a musician first(guitar, bass & a lil keys), so I write most of my stuff. The samples I use are more for ambiance.

I do have a tip for anyone that's not aware. Get a tuner. I have one to tune my guitar and bass, but it also helps me figure out notes in a sample. So if you want to use samples from two or more records, it's easier to match them up. Either pick 2 that fit together, or pitch one up/down so that it fits with the other. Same if you're mixing samples with written parts.

I do

me too. nothing like a nice mixture of samps and keys its VERY rare that i use just samples

I do, but I like getting all of my elements from records. I have a beat that I'm working on tracking now that is my 1st from all samples I made myself. No internet drums or anything, just all records and a 1k. But I do use my rack a lot for basslines and for FX that fill up the beats.