Add a kick drum sound to your hip-hop beat using the MPC 2000XL drum machine; learn how with tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ music video lesson. Expert: Amir Tauheed Contact: www.myspace.com/precisionaudio Bio: Amir Tauheed has been working in music production for over 7 years and is co-owner of Precision Audio Productions. Filmmaker: Antar Hanif

Drum Software

Beat Thang Drum Machine is a brand new virtual drum machine that makes drums using just your computer.

The Beat Thang Virtual drum machine is the closest beat making program to the MPC Drum machine

Chop and slice samples on the Akai MPC 2000XL drum machine in order to make hip-hop beats and sounds; learn how with tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ music video lesson. Expert: Amir Tauheed Contact: www.myspace.com/precisionaudio Bio: Amir Tauheed has been working in music production for over 7 years and is co-owner of Precision Audio Productions. Filmmaker: Antar Hanif

You can also make beats with the Sonic Producer program, find it at

• 11,000 drum and cymbal samples
• 55 Instrument Patches – Easily mix, match and combine the 55 individual drum, hihat and cymbal patches
• 25 preset drum kits and 11 Vintage Soul/Funk Kits
• 7 Indie-style Pop Kits, 4 Hard Rock/Metal Kits, 1 Soft Mallets Kit, 1 Brushes Kit, and 1 Snares Off Kit
• 20 Style Kits that go through Combinator effect chains and 13 Producer Kits that have been created by producers and engineers to capture their signature sound

Product Description
The Reason Drum Kits ReFill delivers a massive supply of drum samples with unprecedented sonic realism and detail. Reason Drum Kits consists of nearly 10,000 individual samples recorded by a team of experts in a world-class studio facility. The Reason Drum Kits ReFill was created using Propellerhead Software’s Hypersampling method. This technique provides mutiple velocity levels to capture each instruments full dynamic range and the perspective from multiple microp… More >>

Propellerhead Reason Drum Kits ReFill

Product Description
Great for amateur recording musicians as well as professional recording studios, this pack includes all of the building blocks necessary for composing and recording a complete drum part in a variety of styles. 101 basic beats are featured, plus hundreds of variations, such as intros, fills, accents, endings and a complete set of “one-shots” on CD-ROM. Files are in standard .wav format for use with any looping program, including Sonic Foundry’s ACID and Fruity Loops…. More >>

Modern Rock Drum Beats and Loops

NAMM Briefs: AmpliTube 3, The Bridge, drum kits, mixers, more
Music vendors of all types as well as musicians and performers converged on the Anaheim Convention Center for the International Music Products Association’s four-day winter meet-up. Here’s a brief wrap of what’s been going on so far.

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