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Table Of Contents (Scroll down to the appropriate section)

1. Introduction
2. Threads Of Interest
 2.1. Samples
  2.1.1. Sample Packs
  2.1.2. Drum Breaks
 2.4. General
  2.4.1. Mixdowns & Mastering
  2.4.2. Music Theory
  2.4.3. Synthesis
  2.4.4. Tips And Tutorials For Specific Software Packages
  2.4.5. Interviews / Kit Lists
  2.4.6. Other
 2.3. Software
  2.3.1. General
  2.3.2. Sequencers
  2.3.3. Sound Editors
  2.3.4. Plug-ins
 2.4. Hardware
  2.4.1. Samplers
  2.4.2. Studio Monitors
  2.4.3. Mixing Decks
  2.4.4. Sound Modules / Generators
  2.4.5. Signal Processors
  2.4.6. Headphones
  2.4.7. MIDI Controllers
  2.4.8. Recorders

1. Introduction

The Threads Of Interest is a thread in which selected production related threads are collected in one single overview.

Because the nature of such a collection is static, we highly encourage you to keep adding your own threads which you've found useful during your stay here.

2. Threads Of Interest

2.1. Samples

2.1.1. Sample Packs

The (entire?) old DOA Sample Swap
Clone advanced operator sample pack
Declassified breaks pack
Dillusion_Man Black Dog parts 1, 2 and 3
Dubwise sample thread
Kapsil jazz sample pack

See also:

Grid Wiki free samples page
Sample gathering websites
Awesome Google trick to find samples on the internet

2.1.2. Drum Breaks

These Are The Breaks (Break ID thread)
Common drum patterns with MP3, MIDI and Kontakt instruments
Hattrixx breakbeat tutorial
Recycle sucks! (Or, "different techniques for break slicing")
Breaksmania
The all new breaks to download thread
Manipulating breaks - different levels of resolution
The Tighten Up (Or, "a discussion on the significance of the drummer's groove")
Where to chop breakbeats
What’s the best software for slicing beats?
The TC Amen (Lots of Amen edits)
The Big "Do You Quantise Your Dancefloor Beats?" Poll

To find threads with downloadable breaks in, search for "breaks2dl".

2.2. General

2.2.1. Mixdowns & Mastering

Just left a mastering session (What really goes on in very expensive mastering studios)
Multiband compression
Getting your overall mixdown LOUD!
Tunes lacking *that* professional polish
Mixdown quality and sample rates

2.2.2. Music Theory

Chords
Housy atmos and pianos
Music theory and songwriting discussion
The return of music theory

2.2.3. Synthesis

Applying Frequency Modulation to ANY Source Sound Using FM7 - Tutorial
Synthesizing pads
How to do C4C / Optical style bass in Kontakt
I think I figured out how to make *FILTHY* bass! (without Kontakt!)

2.2.4. Tips And Tutorials For Specific Software Packages

Automation in Logic Audio (3 part series)
Logic Tips Thread
Max/MSP Tutorials
The 5 Most Popular Kontakt Questions Answered

2.2.5. Interviews / Kit Lists

Dom & Roland
Fresh
Klute
RAM Trilogy

2.2.6. Other

Good starting set-ups for all the novice dogs
Label database
List of DJs and Radio shows pushing unsigned talent

Frequency ranges and EQ settings
Hipnotic's EQ tutorial

Compression 101: Teh Basics
The black art of setting compressors.. told here!
Creative use of compression

Shaping And Tweaking Sounds
The Physics of Music
Sound Design - creating the sounds for complex systems and virtual objects
Formants and acoustic phonetics
List of popular music programs

Artistry vs. Engineering

And its clone: Composition over Engineering

2.3. Software

2.3.1. General

List of popular music production programs
List of DJ / MP3 mixing software
Huge list of FREE software and music resources

2.3.2. Sequencers

Trackers
Cubase system linkage
Cubase troubleshooting
Logic, Cubase, Cakewalk - which sequencer is best?
Visual Logic tutorial for the impatient
What's so great about Logic?

2.3.3. Sound Editors

Celemony Melodyne
Propellerheads Recycle

2.3.4. Plug-ins

Free VST plug-ins
Access Indigo TDM
Antares Filter
Antares Tube
Akai VZ8
Akai VZ8 (2)
Arturia CS-80V
Arturia Moog Modular V
Computer power/ VST survey
E-mu Emulator 5
E-mu Emulator 5 (2)
Good VST EQ's
Good VST FX'
Native Instruments Battery/Kontakt
Novation Bass-Station
Novation V-Station
PSP Vintage Warmer
PSP Vintage Warmer (2)
What is your favorite compressor plug-in?
The soft synth that u use the most
Software samplers
Steinberg TLA EQ1 VST
Steinberg X-Phraze
TC Fireworks
VST filters and basslines
VST instrument as effect?
VSTi recommendations
Waves Transform
Waves L1 Ultramaximizer

2.4. Hardware

2.4.1. Samplers

The Sampler and SCSI FAQ - for all your SCSI Problems
Akai MPC2000
Akai MPC2000 (2)
Akai MPC2000 (3)
Akai MPC2000XL versus Korg Triton
Akai MPC2000 versus Emu SP1200
Akai MPC4000
Akai MPC4000 (2)
Akai S3000XL
Akai S5000 opinions
Akai Z series vs. Emu Ultra series
Akai Z8 vs. Emu E5000 plus RFX
Akai's new samplers
Anyone own an Akai MPC?
Anyone tried the new Akai MPC4000
Emu ESI4000
Emu ESI4000 vs. Native Instruments Kontakt
Emu E4 vs. Native Instruments Kontakt
Emu E5000 Ultra
Emu E5000 vs. E6400
Emu E5000 vs. E6400
Emu E5000 vs. Yamaha A5000
Emu E6400 Ultra CC Numbers
Emu E6400 vs. Native Instruments Kontakt
Emu E6400 - Default Cords Settings
Emu vs. Akai
Emu with SCSI
Expansions for Emu samplers
Getting samples into a Emu
HALion vs. EMU
How to automate an Emu E6400?
MPCs
Which sampler?
Yamaha A4000 vs. Emu ESI2000
Z-Plane Filters (2)
Z-Plane filters?

2.4.2. Studio Monitors

The difference between active and passive monitors
Alesis M1's
Alesis M1's vs. Spirit Absolute 2's
Behringer Truths vs. Spirit Absolute 2's
Best monitor speakers under 250 quid
Behringer Truths
Behringer Truths vs. Tannoy Reveals
Behringer B2031's
Behringer Truths vs. Mackie HR624's
Behringer Truths (2)
Cheap but good studio monitors
Decent cheap active monitors?
Event PS8's
Event PS8's (2)
Event 20/20's
Edirol MA10's
Genelec 1030A vs. Mackie HR624
HHBs Circle 5 Passives
Mackie HR624's vs. Event 20/20's
Mackie HR824's vs. Behringer Truths
Mackie 624's vs. 824's (2)
Mackie 624's vs. 824's
Mackie HR824's
Mackie HR824's (2)
M-Audio BX5
M-Audio BX8
M-Audio Studiophile SP-8B
Monitor advice
Monitor advice (2)
Monitor comparison
Monitor placement
Passive monitors on a 400 quid budget
Speakers - Zero bass
Studio monitors recommendations
Tannoy system 600's?
Tannoy Reveals
Tannoy Reveals (2)
What damages monitor speakers?
Which active monitors are best for d&b production?
Yamaha MSP5
Yamaha MSP5 (2)
Yorkville YSM1P

2.4.3. Mixing Decks

Analog vs. digital
Analog vs. digital (2)
Any reason for a digital mixer?
Behringer MX3282A
Digital mixers
Digital warmth?
Distortion in analogue/digital desks - the answers
Experience with overdriving gain on analogue and digital mixers
Fresh on digital desks
Mackie 8 bus analogue versus Yamaha digital desk
Mackie CR1604VLZ / Behringer Boards
Mackie, Allen & Heath, Yamaha or Soundcraft?
Mixing desks, what shall I get??
Ray Keith on mixing desks
Someone who really understands digital desks
Soundcraft/Mackie mixers
Which mixing desk within 500 quid pricerange

2.4.4. Sound Modules / Generators

Access Virus C
Access Virus rackmount
Clavia Nord Modular
Emu Modules
Emu Proteus 2500
Korg MS2000 for basslines?
Korg Triton
Korg Z1
Novation Supernova vs. Access Virus
Roland Juno
Roland MC303
Waldorf MicroQ
Waldorf Microwave XT
Which Access Virus?
Yamaha AN1X
Yamaha DX200
Yamaha QY70
Yamaha RM1X

2.4.5. Signal Processors

Hardware Tape Echoes
Roland VP9000
TLA Fatman FAT-1 or EMU Audity 2000
Tube related question

2.4.6. Headphones

Recommendations (1)
Recommendations (2)

2.4.7. MIDI Controllers

External MIDI controller and Reason
MIDI controllers?
What MIDI keyboard to buy?
Akai MPD16
Keyboard controller recommendations

2.4.8. Recorders

DAT recorders
Do you still use a DAT recorder?
To DAT or not to DAT?
DAT recorder versus external CD writer

Last edited by Croms; 01-04-2009 at 07:38 AM..

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06-12-2007 05:24 AM

Nice to see this up!

New and improved version, then...

The Official Akai Sampler Thread

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::Synthesis Tutorial::
FM7/FM Synthesis Tutorial

::Advanced Compression Tutorial (SOS)::
Advanced Compression Techniques

::Samples for Download::
Jazz Breaks Pack
The UBER SamplePack Part I
The UBER SamplePack Part II

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"You may want to cling on to your old world view, or you may feel happy that
you're free of it. I think that people are becoming less satisfied with the
old world view today, generally speaking. They are not satisfied with this
fragmentary view because it has led to so many problems, so much incoherence
in the human relationships and society...and with the ecology and so on...
For example, this fragmentary view has led to treating the whole Earth as
fragments to be exploited. Now, that all adds up, in the whole, to all this
destruction going on. So, as long as we think that way, it will probably go on..."

--David Bohm (1989) speaking on quantum theory/particle physics approaches as being
problematic, relative to world views and the problems inherent.

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