Fanu

Akai vibe! For hip hop

"A classic Akai. From the era when Akai still had their stuff done in Japan. Classic Akai sound…great for beats!

This is for the true break heads and beat nerds, so please ignore if you ain't into absolute beat geekery. I sampled the same break into two samplers (and chopped it up and re-programmed it completely, of course): Akai s3200XL as well as Akai s950. The audio/pic switches accordingly. It's not a true one-to-one comparison, since I used different hits for each (only tried to get the rhythm/swing somewhat similar) and with the s3200XL, I sampled the break in at 10KHz instead of the default 20K, and also sampled it in at +7 and then transposed it back down by 7 semitones, which gives a brilliant lo-fi crunch. I also lowpassed the s3200XL a bit, but yeah. You may notice the slight differences in sound (although if you listen with iPhone speakers it's not audible, and I guess after Insta-audio-degradation the difference won't be there anyways), s950 sounds a little "lighter" in the low end due to the fact that its input is slightly high-passed (I recall reading Roger Linn say that MPC60, which was basically his creation and uses the same engine as the 950, say this). Anyone correct me if I'm wrong. Both samplers connected to a lovely Soundcraft desk from the eighties. No EQing or plug-in processing involved. The break in question is similar to the famous Skull Snaps one, yes, but it's not it. It's a Finnish break, and those who've been following my Insta account may know where it's from."

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"Recording and general badassery!"

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"For that 12-bit sampling dirt from 1986"

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"Can't beat an old hardware sampler. Great GUI!"

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"Analog beef from an eighties desk!"

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A classic HW comp. Also used and loved by Break.

"Such a nice tool for working with Live 9"

"I'm not much of a materialist…but I admit I do love quality audio gadgets. Zoom H5 in the proverbial house. Oh, and the physical one, too. Field recording project, welcome."

With JJ OS XL, it's killer!

ACIIID! great emu

Great all-in-one mastering tool

The transient enhancing detail function is great for bringing out percussion, hihat etc in a mastering job

Very transparent limiter; often goes louder than Ozone without distortion

For warming and beefing up the master

Often use it on the master when needed – e.g., if you have a snare that jumps out too much

Best EQ ever!

Best distortion ever! Great for drums.

Audio editor of my choice: chop, slice, mix, edit… Love the user-definable keys!

Great sounds for days…for years!

Inspirational, different…that's why i like it

You got distortion? I'll solve it

basic workhorse EQ to take a load off CPU

For dat kick beef!

Great sound, but lacks M/S mode, and i wish it had more bands