Tracklib sample sessions

Exploring the huge library of online records, sampling slices from them and then creating new material. New series.

Taking another look at Tracklib recently and their updated Beatmaker in the mobile app, the above beats were all created using this tool and various samples I’ve collected on the platform since I started using it about a year ago nearly.

Let’s take a little look at how the app is looking at the current time, I did a screen recording to show you. Here it goes.

Discovery of new songs or sounds is very fluid, plus you can add them if you wish to your collection or straight to the Beatmaker. I suspect that I won’t use the Beatmaker all that much, I prefer to do something like this…

Enter Koala Sampler!

If you watched the above video, there were one or two items on the discovery page that I particularly liked, I purchased them with my credits, about 5 each on average and then downloaded them to my iPad.

The next video demonstrates how I load one of the drum beats and then slice it and reconstruct it.

I ended up creating a variation of the original beat, through the process of chopping and re-sequencing the samples. Here is that beat, rearranged.

Exploring multitracks

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Many of the tracks that you can find under the search tool are available as multitrack records, in other words have already been stem split, so what I’ve downloaded all of the stems from this track and have processed them in Koala, here is another audio recording that demonstrates this.

This is in fact a mix where I’ve taken bits from Hizuru and a drum loop from elsewhere, combining them in Koala with some filter effects and EQ.

I love playing with samples and we shall explore some of the artists on the Tracklib platform over the coming months, chopping up samples for use in upcoming beats and tracks etc.

Enjoy Easter - it’s 1pm and I’ve clearly got sucked into this exploration way too much. I’m calling it a night. Publishing now.