Ann Marie Calhoun has been touring and sharing the stage with music legends Ian Anderson, Steve Vai, and Ringo Starr, as well as composing and recording material for the recently-released Sherlock Holmes’ movie. Soft spoken and thoughtful in person, she’s a different personality on stage with a fiery presence and a knack for sizzling violin solos. Read more…

Dj Toomp shares his views on hardware and software. He is a big fan of Reason, but still says hardware has a certain sound and feeling.

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You can sample anything with Fruity Loops, but what if you want to sample what you hear on your computer with less controls and without spending a penny. Use this Free Sound Recorder by Cool Media. It gets the job done for nothing. Have fun with this one. For PC Windows.

BETA 5 of FL Studio 8.5 is now available in your FL Studio Account Panel.
You may have noticed that your current BETA 4 version is not opening.  This means that your regcode is expired and you’ll need to download the latest BETA version + the new regcode.
To do so, log into your Account Panel [...]

Sqeetz’s MPC Skin for FL Studio, as seen in our MPC Skin Loop Button Tutorial, can be downloaded here.  SampleSimple Subscribers have been asking where exactly they can find it so I decided to post it up in an official post.

Propellerhead has released its first official look at the their new Music Production Recording application, RECORD by posting a video tutorial on YouTube.
I’m hoping that RECORD will have simple sampling capabilities and slice/marking features.  We have yet to receive a reply from them for BETA testing RECORD so stay tuned.  Also, please subscribe to SampleSimple [...]

RECORD is the new Software Recording Studio developed by Propellerhead Software, the makers of Reason.  It will feature unlimited recording tracks, world-class FX and Mixing gear, and a promises a whole new take on music recording.
After watching the video, I have to admit that RECORD will be a contender in the growing Pro-Indie music recording [...]

Propellerhead has decided to develop a new separate Audio Recording (feature) application called: RECORD (To be released September 9, 2009)
RECORD implements REASON into it however REASON does not implement RECORD. Check it out below: (Subscribe to SampleSimple for more details on RECORD by Propellerhead)

Though I wish you could simply right click a Marker and select a Mixer Insert from that Markers menu in SliceX, the new FL Studio 8.5 Public Beta has a much quicker way (than FL8) for routing (Output Track Offset) your SliceX markers to a desired Mixer Insert. This is ideal when working with any [...]

Up until now + with the release of FL Studio 8.5 Public Beta, any audio dragged and dropped from Edison, using the Drag/Copy Button, would be automatically saved to the Sliced Beats folder within the Data/Patches directory.
Now you can freely drag samples out of Edison into any folder you have listed in the Browser. Awesome!

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