Problem: There are too many samples out there. The good news is that these problems present their own solutions:
The challenge with sorting through pre-made samples is that the vast majority are either 1) something we would never use in our productions, or 2) just not very good. We are OVERLOADED with sample packs to choose from - even if we only consider Splice, the samples we have access to there are virtually endless. The creative use of samples in the birth of hip hop and house music is a far cry from the barrage of pre-canned sample packs we’re used to today. I’m going to run through four sources of samples: sample packs, other songs, audio recordings that are not songs, and the real world. In the 1980s in New York City, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, De La Soul, and countless others chopped up disco and funk records with 808 beats to form the foundation of what has become one of the world's biggest genres of music. The practice of sampling was foundational in both the birth of hip hop and house music. Sampling is the reuse of a portion of a sound recording in another recording (thank you, Wikipedia…).
HOW TO SAMPLE CHOPS IN SOUNDTRAP HOW TO
Many of the best songs ever rely on samples, and you deserve to know how to sample.īut first, we need to start with a simple question. We’re going to give you actionable, tangible guidance on how to find great samples, clean them and process them in creative ways, and make them your own. I’m writing this article to give you the ultimate, end all, be all guide of how to sample any sound. I mean that the producers behind the songs went out into the world and found unique, interesting, and creative pieces of audio that they made their own. And no, I’m not talking about cherry-picking some claps and hi-hats from a sample pack. How about ‘Call On Me’ by Eric Prydz? Or ‘Hotline Bling’ by Drake?Īll of these songs rely on samples. You know that song ‘Levels’ by Avicii? You know, the one that’s maybe the biggest electronic song of the last decade?
To understand how to sample any sound, let’s start with what you’re already familiar with.
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