There are many sample CDs available today full of samples and while a lot of them contain some excellent sounds and loops, I believe that you should stay clear of them as much as possible when selecting samples for your music. This article explains why I think that way.

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There are many different types of audio files which you can encode your music and sounds into. But which one is right for each job from a musicians perspective. This guide lists the most popular audio file types in use today and when you as a musician should use them and when you shouldn’t.
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Brilliant 18 minute documentary available on YouTube. The “Amen Break” is a 6 second drum loop from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. It is surprising how many times it has been used in different tracks over the years especially in Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and Jungle.

Direct link to Actual YouTube Video

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A site called Mansized has teamed up with Audio Technica to give away a pair of headphones worth £300. Those look some beefy headphones. Just go and tell them what the first track you’ll listen to on them to win to the link below. The competiton closes 9th November.

Go Win Some Great Headphones

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An article has appeared on wired.com talking about how vinyl is still around surrounded by a world of digital files. Interesting read and as many DJs will tell you Vinyl is the ultimate format for DJ manipulation.

Link to Wired.com Article

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Yes Rhythm Creation’s first samplepack and you should be able to create some nice percussion loops with these shaker scraper samples. There are 12 wav files in the zip file with no effects on, just unedited recorded samples recorded by me. Enjoy! and keep a look out for more samplepacks coming soon.

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Every site has got to start somewhere and this is Rhythm Creation’s start with our first post. My name is Edward Cufaude and the aim of this site is to spread knowledge, info, and other stuff that I find on the internet that can help when creating music. It doesn’t matter what style of music […]

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