The Alternative To A Music Production Library

“You make your own beats?” was an entirely different question back in the day. If you did, it was probably with your mouth, hands, and some friends doing the same. The only bass sample was someone’s low voice moving around the beat boxing percussion. It’s unlikely that, to make your own beats, you ever made anything more involved than 2 measures. There were certainly no music production libraries, or synthesized bass samples.

When arts like hip hop started to become recorded, everything moved onto a tape, but the timing and core stayed the same. If the bass sample on this medium was a real bass sample, chances are it wasn’t a very embellished bass sample. Everything was basic.

That was the 1970s. Today it’s 2012, and if you make your own beats, you know just how ridiculously complicated some of them can sound (more than just an embellished bass sample). If you want to succeed when you make your own beats today, you need access to all the thousands of sounds usually found in a large music production library. Easy said easy done, right?

Unfortunately, a music production library usually contains overpriced samples (at least from the make your own beats budgetary perspective). A music production library is often difficult to navigate as well, and eventually you’ll find your mind numbed from sifting through all the similar sounding drum samples, bass samples, etc., in the music production library. You just want to make your own beats, why does it have to be such a process?

It doesn’t. These days the types of samples that only used to be found in music production libraries can instead be accessed through music production studios like Dallas Austin and Beat Kangz Electronics’ mobile production studio Beat Thang.

Of course you have to buy the equipment to access these sounds (Beat Thang has over 3,000 top tier sounds), but if you’re looking to make your own beats than you’ll need a tool like this anyway. 3,000 samples (regardless of their type – bass sample, horn sample, etc.) from a music production library could cost you five times that much money if you paid for each sample individually, and now they’re all included in one price.

Bass samples, horn samples, string samples; the list of possibilities is endless once you’ve made the leap and purchased something that not only allows you to make your own beats, but also sprinkle them with free sounds rather than paying a music production library to pepper them for you.

Once these sounds are at your fingertips, there’s nothing holding you back to make your own beats as equally amazing as those insane tracks you hear on the radio. Use low end sounds to make the funkiest bass sample you can imagine, and don’t buy them from a music production library!

By: Jack Burden

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Beat Thang is a mobile production studio created by Dallas Austin and Beat Kangz that’s great if you want to make your own beats and not have to buy sounds from a music production library. To learn more, visit beatthang.com.