To sample or not to sample: Debate
I am a gearslutz forum guy; however, I love to come to FP to get more of a hip hop perspective from the up and coming producers. Some of the threads I see disgust me yet some of the threads are very educational in a technical sense. Yes, some heads here are good at what they do and offer a great deal of knowledge when they are asked good questions. Yet, some of you dudes need to choose another profession..lol
Okay, enough of the rant ... (maybe not lol) now to the "meat" of debate. To sample or not to sample? Why do so many contemporary "beat makers" look down upon it and why do so many beat makers who lack understanding of music theory attempt to be musical? Now yes, you can get better at playing keys ... some even grow an ear to know what keys belong, scaling and progressions and the likes. But honestly, we have to admit that most beat makers continue to blindly make attempts at being musical ... (YOU ARE NOT A MUSICIAN ... you CAN be one though! with so called standard training) ... but again HONESTLY, Who really makes those steps?
Obviously, I am on the side of sampling and perhaps I'll be a tad bit biased ... not just chops and loops but instruments, drums, even the air in a break. It's just my personal taste to stay away from solely using "stock" sounds on keyboards. In my humble opinion, those "stock" sounds on keyboards are samples also (you'll play/arrange them and even tweak them). Patch=Sampled sound ... you may disagree but it is what it is. So keyboard beat makers, you are really playing a sample..lol on you keyboard. Yet and still, you attempt to verbally abuse the sample producer.
What angers me are those beat makers who do not know how to sample who for some odd reason have a belief that sampling is "easy." Those who can peck at keys randomly until they mistakingly come across a melody... and they consider this skill? Sampling and midi play an important role in Hip Hop... sampling moreso. Now, I may have a violin patch from a keyboard/sampletank and a violin sampe from a well known violinist. The sample could even be a pattern chopped ... now because I can play the violin on the keyboard doesn't make me a violinist! The sample doesn't make me a violinist either; however, it is played by a trained and well versed violinist. Which would you choose? Same thing for any instrument.
I believe that in these days "hip hip" music is made for and by people with no musical understanding at all. This is what probably has saved hip hop's ass ... as well as why a true musician doesn't respect it also (but phuck what they say). It's just discouraging to hear the new beat makers so focused on the wrong shyt like what DAW is the best who uses samples and who plays keys and who doesn't. I've seen pictures of some of you guy's studios and or home studio's and I'm amazed until I hear what's coming out of that shyt..lol What's the point of buying a triton, phantom, or sound module if you can't play worth shyt? Yet, because YOU can't play and your compositions sound like shyt, you attack the sample producer for using samples of actual musicians..lol sheesh!
I'm ranting but I hope this sets off good debate ... please ... leave out the "it's your personal choice and that's that ish" ... that is somewhat cop out material at most... let's hear from these keyboard producers as well as the sample heads ... why and what do you have against the other guy? To sample or not to sample?
