What's your production style?

when i first started i used the hiphoptoolz thing i believe FreeWilly uploaded. Those are what i used for my band project where i chose to produce music. after that i began just finding rock and old r&b songs and cutting them up. it's so much fun to do. best hobby ever. i still use hip hop toolz for all my drums and stuff too. thanky FreeWilly.

Yea... as far as beat making goes... I start with Fruity Loops, and I forgot exactly how it happened but me and Freewilley took the plunge into reason 3, and we never came back. It's a great tool. But at the same time I was working with FL, I was sequencing in Acid Pro, but then I decided to make the move up to pro tools and got myself the 002 control surface. Other than it's weak power hanress problem, I haven't been happier.

sick. i've only been using acid for everything, i add every hi hat and drum hit individually as well. probably not the best way to do it, but it doesn't bother me any, haha. and stuff usually turns out okay

i make drum&bass, which typically has a lot of movie samples. i'll get an idea for a track starting with a sound byte from a movie. i'll rip the movie onto my harddrive (i have a dvd audio ripper which extracts all 6 surround channels into their own seperate file) and then watch the movie a few times, so i know what chapters the sound bytes are from, and also pay attention to fx and random sounds that pop up in said movie. i'll usually just start an intro with a couple hihats (basically a click track), and then throw in some fx from the movie into the intro. then i'll work on manipulating the sound byte for the breakdown. i make most of my basses with a single sampled sine wave looped in an nn-xt (reason) and also make a lot of pads and reese lines with the subtractor. for drums, i usually start with a couple drum breaks, which i will chop up in recycle, save as a rex file, and then load into another nn-xt (i know recycle files are for the dr rex, but almost everything i chop sounds better in the nn-xt). i'll put like three breaks together, bounce it out as one, re-chop it, load it back in nn-xt, and do edits on it until i feel it's right. once i have the whole length of the track laid out, i'll figure out where stuff is missing, and add things where i feel they're needed, usually from samples i download off www.dogsonacid.com > the grid.

Just so you know the power harness issue is easily replaced.

Listen to "Cousin Of Death"

http://www.soundclick.com/thehighboston

I used a clip from the money Menace II Society.

...from the MOVIE Menace II society*

nice i like that. check this one out:

www.myspace.com/goreteks

play the track "they know"

all the voices are obviously sampled from a movie, but so is pretty much everything except the drums and the bassline. the low pad in the intro is a pitched down sound effect in the movie, and there's some flute solos that i sampled as well. a few other fx also.

all from the movie "THX1138" btw. george lucas and robert duvall's first movie.

the other track "phi" samples the movie Pi, and i'm about to post one up that samples the shit out of "the shining"

and the track called drug collection samples fear and loathing in las vegas. you'll probably like that one better as the mixdown is better than most of our other shit.

http://www.myspace.com/flashfiction

^^^

I like to write all the synth and bass and drum parts, then cut up samples and set it all up on my MIDI pad.  Then I just live compose everything in ableton a la Daedelus