Heartbreaking, man

New BEAT CULT content: - socialising everyone's favourite antipodean arboreal herbivorous marsupial...

To put it another way: recording apps directly into KOALA / processing KOALA sounds using external plugins.

Have at it!

The latest BEAT CULT video is up now and features ONLY the sounds I made using the PSS-450 keyboard in the last video. Yep - everything in there is from a £5 keyboard, including the beats! https://youtu.be/-a4jhKR4rI0 The video is a real time beat making session - no "here's something I did ear...

Exactly! Don't get hung up on what other producers use but at the same time don't overlook the power of that iOS device in your pocket...

My latest KOALA video doesn't actually feature KOALA at all...

One of my subscribers asked where I get the sounds I use within KOALA so I made a video to demonstrate it. If you use any kind of sampling at all, hopefully you might get something interesting out of it.

For anyone following the YouTube videos, number 4 is now live (although you'll know that already if you have joined the Beat Cult ;) ). In previous videos I've taken the beat through sampling, creation & effects, and this one looks at performance/final stages, which more or less wraps things up ...

Video 3 is now up to celebrate the 8 new effects that came in with the latest update (yesterday)



There's also re-resampling tricks and a few techniques I like to use to switch things up even when using quantization on the beats

Thanks a load! I've no idea how regular I'll be able to post videos but I had some time yesterday so made a follow-up to the first one:

Ah, sorry man, I didn't see the earlier post or I would have added my video to that. Thanks for watching - it's without doubt my favourite app and my go-to method of making music - really powerful but really easy to use at the same time, which makes it the perfect choice for me. I'm doing a follow-u...

Easy all. I just put together a quick video on using iOS apps - KOALA and AUM (plus a handful of plugins) - for beatmaking. Hopefully for anyone interested in checking these kinds of apps out it's of some value/interest:

we've had a mono rule once, maybe twice in the beatbattle.. that made me consider it.. occassionally I mono a track to see if it still holds up.. or nothing sticks out. good tool for that. it's amazing how much depth there still can be achieved. It's a good call, but it always occurs to me way too ...

Just out of interest: how many producers here test out their mixes in mono as well as stereo? I appreciate this may be more/less relevant depending upon where you foresee your music ending up, but it always used to be a big issue in clubs as the layout and design of them meant that it was almost imp...

Word - dropped a response. Good luck with it