How long have you been making beats?

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9 years whoa shit! Didn't start making decent stuff till a couple years ago..
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wow i'm a newbie, i got my 404 in 07. only did vocals in a band with my friends before that. wish i knew about samplers when i was younger, def would have saved up for one in high school instead of buying mt dew all the time
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I started out when I bought my sp404 and joined this forums - since 2008

and I second what IIIII said - I wish I knew about samplers much earlier...
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i've been singing and playing guitar & drums in bands / making indie rock for....jeez. about 20 years in all honesty. only been making beats for about 4 years tho. almost all self-taught. that's why i'm still terrible after all this time :lol:

i gotta say, sp-forum has totally helped me making beats & playing around w/ the artform. support, encouragement, legit tips, ridiculous lols and inspiration.
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Made my first beat in 2001 (on computer using mp3 audio mix) , I named it "Dynamic" lol. Took some open drums off this AZ song and threw on this dope piano loop mp3 I had on my computer. I was blown away when I found out that I could do that and I haven't stopped since

Picked up an SP-606 in 2009 and re-learned how to make beats using an actual sampler with pads and effects -> with the help of the sp-forums 8)
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Teewok wrote:Made my first beat in 2001 (on computer using mp3 audio mix) , I named it "Dynamic" lol. Took some open drums off this AZ song and threw on this dope piano loop mp3 I had on my computer. I was blown away when I found out that I could do that and I haven't stopped since

Picked up an SP-606 in 2009 and re-learned how to make beats using an actual sampler with pads and effects -> with the help of the sp-forums 8)


Good stuff man. Checked your soundcloud. All nice. I'm going through the re-learning thing myself lol.
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Just a couple days now
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elhuana wrote:I started out when I bought my sp404 and joined this forums - since 2008

and I second what IIIII said - I wish I knew about samplers much earlier...

I had a different scenario, I only knew them as beat machines, so when I went to the shop and asked for one, the dude showed me a mixer with sound effects. I knew that wasn't it so he showed me more mixers and drum machines, and I was like "nah, I want that device where I can take a record and take clips off of it to make music with it" Dude eyes lit up and he said "Oh, I see, you wanna make beats! What you want is a sampler." He showed me 3 types but they all were in the thousands$$. I left feeling down because I thought they would at least be a hundred bucks, but nope.

When Roland dropped the MS-1, that was the answer to my prayer. I think that was the first budget sampler that had all the pro features.
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