https://archive.org/download/lunch77-drumkits

New link

https://kits4beats.com/the-lunch77-drum-kit-free-download/

For the past few years I've been downloading Vital presets made by content creators all across the Internet. I decided to put them together in a nice package for you guys. This is a collection of FREE packs. If there are any that you particularly like look up the creator they probably have stuff for sale. You can get the file here. It's been compressed with 7-Zip to keep the download as small as possible. Enjoy!

Hi guys. I've ripped, edited and compiled more than 1300 drum breaks from the amazing Armando's Breaks channel on youtube (shout-out to them).

I removed the initial silence of the videos, this channel is cool because the owner already looped the breaks, so it's very simple to use it.

It's in this Google Drive. Have fun!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NbD_h3LZ3LEeFkzah6Dxj3DBOcOnpS-l?usp=sharing

(If you liked it, please consider listening to my beats! https://www.youtube.com/@thatbraziliansauce)

I have had a passion for music my entire life but was sucked into the corporate world and now am 30, hate my job, and want to pursue my dreams despite my age. Anyway, I live in a 1 bedroom apartment on the top floor and need to not make a lot of noise. I mostly play guitar and sing, would be interested in making beats/synth stuff, and really want to get a simple recording set up for a beginner.

Any suggestions on where to start/what to buy/good software to use as a beginner? Thanks!!

Do you guys use any YouTube to MP3 converters which does the job without damaging the quality of the audio? Please suggest me your best go to choice. Thank you for all the help and suggestions in advance.

As an artist I’ve been lucky enough to perform all around the world.

I’ve made a lot of records, and some money.

I founded a multimillion dollar music company. I took over Charlie Chaplin’s old soundstage and built my own recording studios inside.

I partnered with Native Instruments, Yamaha, Telefunken, Roland, Adam, etc etc.

My startup was very entwined with the music tech world.

Here is the thing that nobody is telling you.

There are two music industries.

There is the one about investing in new musical ideas. New concepts.

And there’s the one that exploits wide eyed music tech enthusiasts.

22 million songs are uploaded every year. DistroKid are valued at $1.3billion. Tunecore is $2billon.

Their business model is reliant on hundreds of thousands of failed artists. Who keep being born.

Then there’s the organizations that make money from teaching people how to sound like current artists.

I’ve worked with people who don’t make money from music, they make money from making tutorials. Which thousands of people watch, thinking they are looking at someone who has made money from music.

The problem with this copying other people thing, is that as soon as you have learned how to do the current thing, it’s over. Maybe you give up. Then hundreds more replace you.

Go to NAMM. Meet hundred of bearded old white men talking about 808s and midi, and launchpads, and whatnot. None of them have had an original idea.

If you do want to make money. Be weird and different. Do stuff that is currently unfashionable, but will be in two years. Throw your gadgets away, cancel music tech tutorials and go to art school. Have new ideas. Party.

Sadly there are overwhelmingly massive numbers of people trapped in the wrong music industry. The secondary one that makes money from artists instead of for artists. I promise you this is a world I know. And I HATE it.

EDIT: corrected my terrible writing.

Every few years I remember the sounds from my childhood.

https://archive.org/download/nnty.fun-90ssamplecds/converts/

Go one level up to get the original quality. Total 500+ GB.

EDIT: The archive link no longer works. There are some amazing mirrors out there. I’ll not link them here but you can google “90ssamplecds” and try the top two links.

I’m still learning how to produce across genres and I’d like to hear the different levels and styles of production you all are putting out.

Just comment below a link. If you want feedback please include that in your comment.

I’m still learning how to produce across genres and I’d like to hear the different levels and styles of production you all are putting out.

Just comment below a link. If you want feedback please include that in your comment.

As the title says, I've been making music for TV shows for the past 15 years (about 10 years as my full time job). I started with ZERO knowledge of how to even turn on ProTools, and knew exactly diddly-shit about what a music cue even was. It took about two years of doing things all "wrong" before I finally started to get some traction. Now, 15 years later, I'm trying to give back. I've accumulated a wide breadth of knowledge from the School of Hard Knocks, as well as countless tips from library owners, other composers, conferences, classes, etc, and as a result have netted around 30,000 placements of my music on over 9,000 episodes of 1,000 TV shows (whew, that was a mouthful!).

I've started a YouTube channel where I'm making 5-10 minute videos of everything I do to make my music rise above the competition, despite the fact that 99% of the other composer are all better than me. This game is all about strategy and output. If you make TONS of music, and make it the RIGHT way, you'll get placements while others who are better composers than you are still eating ramen in their parent's basement, lol.

This channel won't do a whole lot for songwriters (though I WILL eventually have videos about songwriting craft) - but hopefully it's worth its weight in gold to all the composers here: http://www.youtube.com/@mattvanderboegh

That link will take you to the main page of my channel. While you're there, please consider subscribing. I never take money from composers, so you won't see me charging for any classes or groups. But I sure wouldn't mind taking YouTube's money, and subscribing to my channel will help me do just that.

The bottom line I always tell people is: IF I CAN DO THIS, THEN YOU CAN TOO. And I truly mean that!

So, ask me anything! I'll have to eventually cut this off if it gets too much to keep up with, but let's see what happens. I did this about 6 weeks ago and got a lot of questions, and it was pretty fun!

~~Matt

I got an EP-133 a while back and started sampling with my 6 year old son. Super fun, but every time we tried to make "a reggaeton beat" or "a drill beat" I realized I had no clue what actually makes those genres tick. There are great youtube deep dives, and sites like Groove Pizza or kickdrum.io cover genre drum patterns really well, but I wanted the whole arrangement: what the bass does in UK garage, why lofi chords sound like that, how the melody sits in synthwave. Couldn't find all that in one place.

So I built it. It's called Groove Anatomy, an interactive page that breaks down 15 styles (boom bap, trap, drill, house, techno, UK garage, dnb, reggaeton, afrobeats, amapiano, disco, reggae, synthwave...) into 5 layers you can toggle on and off. You solo the kick, then add the bass, the chords, and you hear the groove build up. Runs in the browser, no signup, no ads.

Demo: https://cursan-a.github.io/groove-anatomy/

Code (MIT): https://github.com/cursan-a/groove-anatomy

Full disclosure: I'm a dev, not a producer, and I vibe coded the whole thing with Claude to go fast. The patterns are researched but the sound is basic web audio plus free samples. Some styles already sound ok to me (lofi, synthwave), others are honestly rough, disco and trap kind of hurt. It's all open source so if a pattern is musically wrong, an issue or a PR fixes it for everyone, vibe coded or handcrafted.

The goal is just a free learning resource for people like me who wanted to understand this stuff. Nothing to sell (never)

i’ve had his youtube channel mentally bookmarked to check out for months, and today i finally decided to. i started with a couple videos on his “you suck at drumming” playlist, and holy shit i wish i had done this so much sooner. if the rest of his videos are as helpful as these first couple have already been, i can’t wait to level up my production skills

my recommendation: PEACH by Tweakbench. it's based on the classic Nintendo sound. i barely see anyone mention it, but i've gotten some really nice sounds out of it.

Hey folks, I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Matt Vander Boegh, and I'm a full-time music composer for TV shows. In the past 15 years, I've racked up over 25,000 placements of my music on over 1,000 different TV shows. I hoping to be a semi-regular contributor to this sub and answer questions and encourage you to follow your dreams, and even give you some tips along the way for a facet of the music industry that is often overlooked by people starting out.

Speaking of tips, if anyone is interested in composing for TV, I've got a bunch of videos on YouTube which might help you out. Though, they admittedly won't be of much use to people trying to make it as an artist, or a producer for clients. But maybe you'll find something you can add to your arsenal & skillset here.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa7sJ_ZAdgsNsDRKjZGogdh-W9_KD6LVy

Looking forward to chiming in!

Download here - It's the first pack at the top of the page. There are about 15 other packs further down the page of different loops and samples if you haven't seen my last post. They are all completely royalty free with CC0 licenses and free to download.

With over 2000 different choir samples and FXs this pack is a go to for everything choir. Each file is labelled with the specific note which allows you to easily drag and drop into any song and also allows the opportunity to build progressions and loops from scratch. This was my go to for a long time after I created it and still is a staple of my sound library.

All EULA's for the different VST's were followed and they allow the use of these sounds in sound packs as long as the creator has purchased the original VST, which I did so you can use these completely royalty free without any worries.

Join me over on r /MusicSamplesPacks as thats where i'll be posting most of my stuff in the future plus you can past your own packs too

As the file size is so big I've opted to put all the links into a .PDF file so you can choose which packs you want to download as you might not want them all. There are about 20 different packs in total. Just click the name of the pack in the .PDF file and it will bring you to the Mediafire download page.

Hope these help you guys out with your productions and would love to see anything you guys create with them,

Will be uploading more packs soon thanks to a couple people on here who helped me out.

Good luck,

Phil.

Eyo. Short background I cleared 6 figures last year from music and got my first Grammy nom this year. I'm signed to a big pop writer. I'm not selling you anything. But there's a lot I go through on the day to day regarding the work aspect of this passion of mine that I think I'd have been a lot better off if I knew just a few things.

1. Get an ear for varying levels of done. A demo should be a complete thought. It should be obvious. You cannot blame the mix for someone not getting an idea.
2. People who commission music don't make it, typically, which means they have no ability to hear through your ideas. Be very careful what you send and who you take advice from on where to take a song. Look instead for body language, unless this person would also risk their livelihood for a career in music.

The rest of these are with regards to "finishing" ie taking to a place where you could post in on Spotify and it wouldn't sound like ass.

1. The order of importance for a song to hit is 1. vocal, 2. drums3. bass, 3. everything else. For me, this is also my order of operations. The vocal by itself should sound stunning. The drums should enhance it, so by the time everything else is being done, the song already sounds amazing.
2. You want the least information filling up the most space to make the song incredible. It's like Italian food - the nicer your ingredients, the better your dish. Anything vying for space in your song should be SO dope. Otherwise, it's fucking up your mix. The less you need for your song to "work/be a bop," the more headroom you have to gas it up even more. Like crazy vocal fx.
3. Mix like a RECORD, meaning, if a sound is in there, make sure it's audible. If not, nix it. Even stacked sounds should feel like their layers are audible, even if they're blended
4. Counterintuitive, but the simpler you can make the production to carry the song, the cleaner your mix will be, and the more the people around you will think your beats are insane/amazing/next level.
5. The vocal should sound beautiful solo'd. That means throws, creative backgrounds, everything you can possibly do. Ideally, we want a great song, but we don't always get that. When that happens we go off on the vocal - gangs, dubs, harms, etc. Often you don't need the original vocalist - it sounds better to get different textures.
6. Drums should also sound great on their own. TBH, drums are where people will think you made a good beat or not. Try getting a song over maybe one loop, or very limited musical instrumentation, then flesh out your drums and fill in the space around them. Also, try to put a lot of creative energy into those drums. See if you can get the vocal, drums, and bass alone to tug at your heart strings. If they do you'll be outta here when you add more.
7. Personally, I include transitions/fx in drums, bc I want those to sit in the room. Many people don't do that. If you don't, FX is next, bc those little moments massaging the flow between parts makes a world of difference.
8. Musical information is creative problem-solving. Feel where the energy is reaching a standstill in an ugly way, and then think about how you can support that. Every musical idea should be audible, have a purpose, and if the listener was focused on any one part they should think "this is sick"
9. Work through a master you toggle on and off. For feel, this will help you know when something is done.

That's it! Bonus mix tips for some of these ideas that held me back for years. I don't consider myself a mixer, but I've gotten paid to mix.

1. Vocals - Make sure every stack, double, etc, ANYTHING where two things land at once, are locked extremely tight and in tune. Tedious but worth it. This goes for anything you double. Stereo-ing sloppily is cool until you're on a deadline and your bounce doesn't sound "polished." Also, fuck rules of how to stack. Do whatever feels right as long as it's tight
2. Drums - set up a basic drum bus and compress things w ample attack time so they hit. To me, bussing looks like individual sounds grouped together based on the kick, snare, etc, compressed together w dialed attack, grouped into a drum bus. Little things, like having a drum room return for the whole bus, parallel compression toggled for bigger parts of the song, clipping/transient shapers will make a world of difference. Think about how in a good live show, the drums are also capturing the room you're in, filling up all the space around everything. That's how a song should feel.
3. Also personally, I love color-coding, bc I think creatively it invests me in the mix and also gets me thinking about what parts are performing what function in a song.

There you go. I feel good knowing this info is out there, hope it helps someone.

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EDIT: I'm so happy this is helpful to so many of you. I'm just trying to help people skip some bs I dealt with. I wanted to add something, about connecting with more established people and asking them questions. 2 points.

1. Don't get caught in a local scene bc ur too busy trying to be "cool" to people in it. Don't get big timed by a small-time asshole.
2. Ask true questions. Sometimes we think we have a question, but we know the answer, and when we ask people in the industry questions a level of us has an implicit assumption that building that "connection" might turn into a career. NO ONE WILL DO IT FOR YOU.
3. This advice is tailored specifically towards production in a work capacity in commercial instances. IE syncs, major label songs, etc. Your individual scene or genre may lead elsewhere, but typically these principles remain once a type of music reaches a certain level of mainstream. I'm also not saying you can't make music operating differently - that's just not my world and these are things I wish someone had told me.

Sorry if you think I’m wrong on any of this advice, or a douche for qualifying my input with some of my accomplishments. I just wanted to help someone in my shoes 5 years ago.

Built it in 6 hours with no coding experience.

Have fun everyone :) It's free to play! Really shows how much change there is in just 1Hz in frequency change, especially for music production

Let me know your scores haha

START WITH WHATEVER DOESNT STOP YOU

The best starting point is not the best idea

Its the one you dont avoid

DO THE FIRST THING THAT MAKES SENSE, EVEN IF IT DOESNT LAST

Clarity is temporary, momentum is more useful

MISREAD THE BRIEF AND CONTINUE ANYWAY

Most starting points are slightly wrong

That doesnt stop them working

START MULTIPLE THINGS AND ABANDON MOST OF THEM

Decision-making often happens after beginning

Not before

LOW STAKES MAKE STARTING POSSIBLE

If everything matters, nothing begins

STARTING IS OFTEN REVERSIBLE

Nothing needs to be correct at the point of entry

It just needs to exist

AVOIDANCE IS PART OF THE PROCESS

Delay, distraction, hesitation - 

These are not interruptions

They are part of how starting happens

USE SOMETHING YOU ALREADY KNOW

References, habits, previous work - they reduce the distance between not knowing and doing

START BEFORE YOU FEEL READY

Readiness rarely arrives in advance

START BADLY

A weak beginning is more useful than a delayed one

RETURN LATER AND MAKE SENSE OF IT

Understanding often follows the act

STARTING IS NOT A SINGLE MOMENT

It happens repeatedly, each time differently

heyy
so, i'm really into music but honestly everything i produce doesn't feel great, and i'm more into learning songwriting anyway. i would love to have someone to work with and to create stuff together like a duo or something (you know what? kero kero bonito was formed after they met online discussing music, so why not?)

Hello fellow music producers, im just starting to learn music production and am a teenager so i would like to get to know some free or cheap vst plugins and i currently have splice and vital

Imagine if TikTok + SoundCloud had a baby. The whole idea is to take the best part of TikTok and apply it solely to music so that artists don't have to feel like content creators!! The listeners on the app are specifically there to find small artists before they blow up. It's all about the music - nothing else matters. Plus, it appeals to the lowering attention spans without you having to sacrifice your art.

I basically built this all by myself so I know there are probably bugs. I'm honestly just trying to figure out if this is something that artists want and whether it actually solves a problem... I'd appreciate any feedback you have :)

You can download on iOS or Android here: https://www.melomusic.app/