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For this tutorial, Point Blank’s Course Content Developer, Dave Stone, shows how you can chop up samples like Four Tet and Bonobo in Logic Pro. Four Tet and Bonobo are best known for their ethereal take on dance music, maximising on emotive arpeggiators, luscious textures and hypnotizing melodies. The pair have become a staple in the […]
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For this tutorial, Point Blank’s Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, shows how you can chop up samples like Four Tet and Bonobo in Ableton Live. Four Tet and Bonobo are best known for their ethereal take on dance music, maximising on emotive arpeggiators, luscious textures and hypnotizing melodies. The pair have become a staple in the […]
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To celebrate the release of Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.5, we’re creating a number of tutorial videos which explore the update’s new features. In this video, Point Blank Lecturer David Stone shows some handy tips and tricks using Logic 10.5’s Sampler, including how to create your own instrument from samples, mould your sounds using the plugin’s inbuilt parameters and […]
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Music sampling startup Tracklib has raised $1.7 million. The new funding for the Stockholm based company was led by the Sony Innovation Fund, WndrCo and Jörg Mohaupt, an early-stage investor who also has stakes in Discogs and Amuse. Tracklib enables instant licencing of music samples. J.Cole’s latest double-platinum single Middle…
In this piece, the team at Tracklib took a deep dive into the state of sampling in 2019, breaking down who’s sampling what, the rationale behind it, what the preferred software (and hardware) is, plus some of the past year’s most prominent sampling moments. __________________________________ Guest post by Oskar of…
This year has been pretty special in terms of Ableton tutorials. Amongst our extensive deconstructions and beat-building masterclasses in a variety of DAWs, we’ve had a heavy focus on Ableton Live 10. We traveled to ADE and saw how techno legend, Tom Hades, creates his kinetic dancefloor shakers, Monstercat’s Gammer schooled us on how he made […]
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Our resident Ableton genius (and Certified Ableton Trainer) Thomas Glendenning is back with another of his famed Ableton tutorials. This time we take a look at Simpler, Ableton’s streamlined version of its main sampler, aptly called Sampler, and how you can use any sound and turn it into an instrument and play it with your […]
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After last week’s brilliant quickfire deconstruction, we’re back with another edition of Friday Forum Live. This week our lead DJ instructor Ben Bristow has got his hands on the latest piece of wizardry from Pioneer DJ – the DJS-1000. Intended for live performance, the DJS-1000 is a sampler and sequencer that’s the same shape and […]
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This week we learned that the experimental rock band Radiohead are suing Lana del Rey over similarities between her track ‘Get Free’ on her 2017 album ‘Lust For Life’ and their 1992 debut single ‘Creep’. People’s reactions have been mixed on the matter, with die-hard fans of both artists rushing to their defence. Western music […]
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We bring you a roundup of last year’s Samplethon competition produced in association with WhoSampled, KPM and Ableton. Watch the video below to hear what the esteemed judges had to say about the standard of entries in this edition of the sampling competition, and hear from the winning producer himself. You can also listen to […]
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