![]() Scores of our finest layered and processed kicks, snares, hats and percussion one-shots for serious audiophiles who want total beat control. Again, key-labeled throughout.įX & Hits > Twisted analogue textures and resampled elements to layer in the mix. From stripped-out music loops to standalone synths there’s stacks of melodic inspiration waiting to be mined. ![]() Melodics > Trippy instrumentals, wonky synths, dark elements, glitchy grooves and more. Pure analogue workouts key-labeled for your convenience. Supplemented with folders of kick-free workouts and trippy percussive grooves.īass > Deep and rolling bass grooves hitting all the right frequencies. Inspired by the likes of Perlon, Kompakt and Alphahouse, this one is for the real underground heads: intricate drum workouts, glitchy textures, reworked melodics, narcotic grooves, left-field sampling, dubby textures primed for house, minimal and techno producers who want 700MB of unapologetically underground sounds.ĭeep, dubby and druggy, there’s nothing here that would sound out of place in a Villalobos freak-a-thon: glitch-tech grooves, wonky melodics, clever resampling and subtle sonic manipulations designed to take you on a serious trip.ĭrums > Techy, tracky, glitchy and wacky: hundreds of intricate minimal grooves and funky micro house workouts packing punch and funk. Time to take a trip to the deep, twisted and techy world of Micro House. ![]() Inspired by the likes of Perlon, Kompakt and Alpha Dom, this one is for real underground heads: complex drum workouts, glitchy textures, recycled melodics, narcotic grooves, left field fetches, dubby textures primed for home, minimal and techno producers who want 700MB of unforgivable underground sounds. Even with a RAID drive, if it fails catastrophically (which is usually how they go), you lose all your data, which is not an experience I recommend.Description: Time to take a trip to the deep, twisted and touchy world of Micro House. Some users opt for a RAID array for their music files, but I’d rather have identical libraries on two separate drives than two libraries on the same drive in a RAID array. Once a week I copy new files from the one in use to the backup drive, then put the drive away again. I use a redundant system where I have two of each external drive, one in service and one as back up. Nowadays portable 1, 2, and even 3TB portable hard drives are inexpensive and plentiful. The second drive can be internal or external, but external is more common. The reasons for using a solid-state drive are increased read and write speeds and lower power usage for less stress on the power supply. Many storage options are available, but the most common way to go is with a solid-state drive for the OS and user files, then a second conventional larger hard drive for music files and/or Time Machine backup files (I’ll tell you about Time Machine later). This is great until you need to find a file. Some Mac audio set-up guides also recommend turning off “Spotlight,” which is the file-searching utility. Obviously this drastically reduces functionality, sort of like supergluing your mouth closed to keep from occasionally drooling. PreSonus, in its guide to Mac OS use, recommends turning off the airport wireless service while using a Mac for audio. The tweakiest and most obsessive sound-quality-first Mac setups tend to be isolated stand-alone systems without Internet access. But a system with Internet access means that more operations will be ongoing and some could have an effect on overall audio quality. Access to the Internet is not necessary to play back a music file, but it does allow for greater levels of operability, including access to Internet radio (which can be very good), streaming services, and GraceNote for identifying ripped CDs. And there’s always a trade-off of ergonomics lost versus sonic benefits gained. If you want to do an audio-only computer system, be aware that there are different levels of audio-only exclusivity.
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