At Garnish School of Sound, we not only share the knowledge but we share the sample love too, and I decided some time ago that when we get to 173 Facebook fans, I will dish out some free drum samples. Samples I’ve been collecting and swapping with producers, engineers and programmers from all over the world for over 17 years now. My first of many giveaway free drum samples is a collection of unusual glitchy percussive sounds. I have made a video here so you can get a feel of them before you download or have to map them out if you’re not using an EXS 24 compatible sampler. There are a few little EQ tips and tricks for them too. They may not be everyone’s cup of tea but they are quite nice quirky sounds and you download the wav files here. I’d love to know what you think. Next free drum samples up are the horn samples we used in ‘Albondigas’ You can’t hear any horns on the track so I’ll tell you where we used them and why we used them and of course, they will be yours to download.

Video to preview samples HERE

Download samples HERE

I have some amazing Kick, snare, hat and shaker I’m thinking about giving away too. I can’t say where I got them originally but I have ‘made them my own’ by processing them through Urei compression and Neve EQ. I’ll do a similar video when I have some time and will probably ask you to do me a little favor in return. Watch this space…

Logic 9 courses. Another thing the chap from Focusrite told me is that now Novation Automap software works now with all Logic Studio 9 plug ins. Weird because it was only this year Novation told me that Logic Studio 9 plugsins were written in a completely different way than ALL 3rd party plug ins and Automap would never work!

Automap is very useful; if you have a Novation Remote or Remote SL, the software assigns all the parameters of the plugins to the midi controllers of the Novation Remote or Novation Remote SL so you don’t have to figure out or assign a midi controller for the filter cut off or what ever parameter of your plugin. The Automap software is programmed so it knows which parameter is on what midi controller and displays it on the display making things much easier. Newly supported software plugins include exs24, es1, es2, Sculpture, es m, evb3, evd6, efm1, es e, es p, evoc 20 ps, evp88, Ultrabeat and even the test oscillator!

I personally have a Remote 25 SL, and it is available to use and I can demonstrate Novations Automapping software in my Logic Pro Courses and Music production courses.

My music production courses and Logic Training are packed with tips and tricks in London can help you with your music production whether you’re a DJ wanting to make your own productions to take you to the next level or a Song Writer looking to make better demos of your songs.

This is what we can look at:-

-Basic Synthesis (ES1, ES2, Juno 106, Korg Monopoly) Sound Design, creating your own unique sound.

-Apple Loops.

-Logic Instrument plug ins

-Programming Beats

-Logic Basics in music produciton

-Reverbs, delays and Dynamics (gates, compression, side chaining, side chain compression)
-Chords and keys the easy way. Melody and lyrics

-Advanced Logic and other plugins

-EXS 24 Sampling, Chopping up loops, hiding your sampled loops, filtering

-Sound Engineering, Recording, Outboard and microphones.

-Mixing

-Arranging

Lots of music production tips and tricks – Beginner to Advanced