not back then. At that time sampling was still really new and it was mostly about emulating instruments so that you did not have to take 5 keyboards on the road on stage with you. There was no tutorials and everyone did it differently through trial and error there was no standard vs today where its all about standards. It also helps that if you did the things that most producers today do like attempt to sound like someone else or find someone else's sounds ect you would have been looked down upon by pretty much everyone and called a biter.i wonder where Pete Rock got all his knowledge for making beats from back in the days. i mean today we can learn everything from the internet.
There must have been books about producing and sampling in the past.
not back then. At that time sampling was still really new and it was mostly about emulating instruments so that you did not have to take 5 keyboards on the road on stage with you. There was no tutorials and everyone did it differently through trial and error there was no standard vs today where its all about standards. It also helps that if you did the things that most producers today do like attempt to sound like someone else or find someone else's sounds ect you would have been looked down upon by pretty much everyone and called a biter.
the mags were there but they weren't teaching you how to make beats. Scratch is the first magazine I ever seen with a how to make beats article. Sharing the knowledge was passed to you if you had a friend who made beats perhaps but not given in mass like it is today.yeah, but there where magazines like The Source where they had producer interviews and such i think. sharing knowledge through magazines.
the mags were there but they weren't teaching you how to make beats. Scratch is the first magazine I ever seen with a how to make beats article. Sharing the knowledge was passed to you if you had a friend who made beats perhaps but not given in mass like it is today.