Producer Cafe

The art of an orchestral breakdown

Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by Pizz@dox.

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There is a point in every musician’s career who is focused mainly on an electronic music to make, or to at least try to make an orchestral piece of music. I think that most of the ‘A State Of Trance’ listeners or trance music fans in general are aware of names like Andy Blueman, Soundlift [...]

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Sampling a clean Kick drum from any track!

Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by Luke Bond.

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Sometimes we hear a track with a real smooth kick drum and think to ourselves… I want my kick to sounds like that! Of course it matters how the the track is mixed down overall but I’ve sampled lots of powerful kicks from records and made my own by merging different parts together getting a [...]

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Slice & Dice your loops!

Posted on 02. Jul, 2011 by Luke Bond.

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In modern day music production we find ourselves saturated with more and more samples packs available across the internet, packed full of loops of different sounds and speeds. Sometimes we start a track at a certain BPM and find an amazing loop that we’d love to use or manipulate for our record but it’s of a different BPM to [...]