How to Do Rap Beat Sampling

Video Transcript

"This is Jose Caban. Mac OSX, Q bass and Reason are all registered trademarks of their respective companies and I am in no way affiliated with Apple, Propellerhead or Steinberg. Okay, now let's talk about sampling. Okay. Sampling is anything that you're really not making yourself. I have a guitar here. I have a piano here. And I can play here, if I want. Okay. I made that, I generated it. So then it's mine. I didn't sample it, I made it. Now if I would download that from somebody, or I have a library of music or somebody sent me something and I sampled it. Or even a recording of somebody's voice, and I'm using the sound that somebody else made, I'm sampling the sound. So that's what basically sampling is. It's something you take, that you didn't make, and you manipulate it how you want it to be. Nothing wrong with sampling. Sampling is a great way to make things happen. Another form of sampling is when I load a library of violins into a program and I play it here, and then I turn it into a violin through the program. Well, I'm using MIDI to put the data into the computer, and then I'm using the samples of a violin that somebody else recorded, to make the violin noises instead of the piano noises. That's the gist of sampling."