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Video: Using A Keyboard To Play Drums
2007-11-15 00:00:00 In my previous post, I talked about using a keyboard to play drums in to make them sound more human instead of programming in with a mouse and after a little search around the net came across this brilliant little video. He can play better than some real drummers Original YouTube Posting. addthis_url ... More About: Video , Play , Drums , Keyboard
ASDR Envelopes - Shaping and Controlling Your Sounds
2007-11-15 00:00:00 ASDR. You may have seen these letters on synthesizers and samplers. This tutorial is a quick guide to what ASDR is and how you can use this section on your hardware or software to shape your sounds. It is an extremely powerful section, and should be one of the first things you learn when learning ... More About: Sounds , Envelope
Sound - The Basics of What Sound Is (From Sound Source to The Ear)
2007-11-15 00:00:00 I know some of you might be saying “but I learnt this in school”, but here at Rhythm Creation we are trying to cover all aspects of music and sound for all ages. Sound science is good to know about when recording, mixing and composing using editing software, samplers and synthesizers and today we are ... More About: Source , Basics , The Basics
Making Your Drum Tracks Sound More Human (Like A Real Drummer)
2007-11-13 00:00:00 Many musicians who make music with a computer make there drum tracks using software and recorded samples of drums, but all to often they find that their drums just don’t seem to sound like a real drummer could be playing them. These are my tips for getting a drum track to sound more realistic and ... More About: Human , Sound , Tracks , Real , Drum
Introducing Rhythm Rummage - New Directory for Musicians and Music Fans
2007-11-13 00:00:00 As you may of seen there haven’t been many new posts over the last few days. This is due to some work behind the scenes creating a new site. So we would like to introduce you all to our new internet directory of music sites called Rhythm Rummage. The site is now live and up ... More About: Music , Fans , Directory , Musicians
Web Site of the Week: SoundSnap
2007-11-13 00:00:00 Last week I told you about The Freesound Project and I’m sure you’ve been finding all the samples you’ll ever need there. If you still can’t find that needed sample, here is another site called SoundSnap which currently at the time of writing has 30,000 sound samples, again supplied by generous people from all over ... More About: Site , Week , Web site
Link: Great example of Surround Sound using just Two Channels
2007-11-09 00:00:00 This is a great example of how your brain works out where sound is coming from using just 2 channels. It works firstly because of the way this example was recorded by using two microphones positioned facing left and right and the microphones are then panned to each ear. Your brain works out the differences ... More About: Great , Sound , Link , Channels , Surround
The Compressor - What Does It Do, When To Use It and How to Use It
2007-11-05 00:00:00 One of the music signal processing effects that many people struggle to understand is the compressor, the reason they fail to understand it is because firstly with a compressor it is harder to hear it’s effect but also because they haven’t learnt why and what’s it for, this quick tutorial will quickly explain what a ... More About: Compressor , Compress
Tips and Ideas on Sound Sample Collecting and Creation
2007-11-04 00:00:00 One thing that every electronic musician should have is a big collection of samples in which they can come to when composing and quickly select one needed or to experiment with, these are my tips on sound sample collecting which can help you expand your collection, keep organized and create some interesting results. With samples one ... More About: Ideas , Tips , Sound , Creation , Sample
Rhythm Creation Track Release - (Edward Cufaude - Dirty Synth)
2007-11-04 00:00:00 FREE track to download and share. Had a good go at making a synth sound as dirty as I could (I usually always trying to do the cleanest sounds). The mix started sounding a bit muffled and it ended up as a battle between big dirty synth and keeping the mix sounding decent. Quite pleased ... More About: Dirty , Rhythm , Release , Track , Creation
Rhythm Creation Samplepack #2 - Frying Pans - 17 Wav Files
2007-11-04 00:00:00 Another samplepack from Rhythm Creation and this one follows on from yesterday’s post in which I mentioned using samples of household objects. Try mixing these frying pan sounds in your tracks as percussion. There is also some reversed samples in there giving these metallic sounding whooshes. There are 17 wav file samples in the zip ... More About: Files
Web Site of the Week: The Freesound Project
2007-11-03 00:00:00 If your ever looking for a specific sample one of the best places you could go to search would be The Freesound Project . At the time of writing this they have over 40,000 samples, all available via a search tool. All samples are provided free for you to use by other people around the world ... More About: Site , Week , Web site , Rees
New Feature on Rhythm Creation - The Hall of Fame
2007-11-03 00:00:00 As you may have seen from our last post it was entitled “Free Software of the Week”. This is a new feature on Rhythm Creation in which there are 3 categories and the winner from each category will get a small post and a link on the new Hall of Fame page. The current categories ... More About: Feature
Free Software of The Week: Audacity - A Free Digital Audio Editor/Recorder
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Every computer musician needs to have in their collection of tools a audio editor to be able to see and edit the waveform of their sound files as well as record straight in via their soundcard from an external source. Audacity is an open source/free piece of software developed by a group of volunteers and ... More About: Software , Audio , Free , Digital Audio , Free Software
Video: Copyright Criminals: This Is A Sampling Sport
2007-11-03 00:00:00 10 minute documentary about sampling and copyright made in a collage style with clips of interviews with DJs and producers. Available from Copyright Criminals .com Actual Link To YouTube CopyrightCriminals.com Documentary Web Site addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhythmcreation.com%2F%3 Fp%3D15'; addthis_title = 'Video %3A+Copyright+Criminals%3A+This+Is+ A+Sampling+Sport '; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Mina
Put Life Back Into That Old Soundcard with KX Project Drivers
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Want to start making music with your computer? So you get yourself some software and a keyboard with a MIDI connection to your computer. But when you start to play that keyboard you realise that when you play the note on the keyboard it doesn’t play the note on the computer until a second later ... More About: Drivers , Life , Project , Back
Rhythm Creation?s First Track Release - (Edward Cufaude - Illusions)
2007-11-03 00:00:00 First track release and yes it’s FREE to download and share. Edward Cufaude - Illusions - Mp3 File (6.3Mb) Edward Cufaude - Illusions - Ogg Vorbis File (6.6Mb) If file links go down, please contact me. Any comments please add them to the comments of this post. Not sure what type of music to classify this as, Piano, ... More About: Rhythm , Release , Track , Creation
Sample CDs and Why You Should Try To Do Without Them
2007-11-03 00:00:00 There are many sample CDs available today full of samples and while a lot of them contain some excellent sounds and loops, I believe that you should stay clear of them as much as possible when selecting samples for your music. This article explains why I think that way. Sample CDs can cost a lot of ...
Audio File Type Differences and the Pros and Cons of Each For Musicians
2007-11-03 00:00:00 There are many different types of audio files which you can encode your music and sounds into. But which one is right for each job from a musicians perspective. This guide lists the most popular audio file types in use today and when you as a musician should use them and when you shouldn’t. Waveform Audio ... More About: File , Type , Differences , Musicians
Video: The World?s Most Important Drum Loop
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Brilliant 18 minute documentary available on YouTube. The “Amen Break” is a 6 second drum loop from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. It is surprising how many times it has been used in different tracks over the years especially in Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and Jungle. Direct link to Actual YouTube Video ... More About: World , The World , Loop
Link: Mansized.co.uk - ?Win The Best Headphones Money Can Buy?
2007-11-03 00:00:00 A site called Mansized has teamed up with Audio Technica to give away a pair of headphones worth £300. Those look some beefy headphones. Just go and tell them what the first track you’ll listen to on them to win to the link below. The competiton closes 9th November. Go Win Some Great Headphone s addthis_url ... More About: Money , Link
Rhythm Creation?s First Samplepack - Shaker Scraper - 12 Wav Files
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Yes Rhythm Creation ’s first samplepack and you should be able to create some nice percussion loops with these shaker scraper samples. There are 12 wav files in the zip file with no effects on, just unedited recorded samples recorded by me. Enjoy! and keep a look out for more samplepacks coming soon. Download from RhythmCreation.com Download ... More About: Files
Here we go?..
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Every site has got to start somewhere and this is Rhythm Creation’s start with our first post. My name is Edward Cufaude and the aim of this site is to spread knowledge, info, and other stuff that I find on the internet that can help when creating music. It doesn’t matter what style of music ...
Link: Wired.com - ?Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD?s Coffin?
More articles from this author:2007-11-03 00:00:00 An article has appeared on wired.com talking about how vinyl is still around surrounded by a world of digital files. Interesting read and as many DJs will tell you Vinyl is the ultimate format for DJ manipulation. Link to Wired .com Article addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhythmcreation.com%2F%3 Fp%3D8'; addthis_title = 'Link%3A+Wired.com+-+%26%238220%3BVinyl+M ay+Be+Final +Nail+in+CD%26%238217%3Bs+Coff in%26%238221%3B'; addthis_pub ... More About: Coffin 1, 2, 3 |
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