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Hey everybody..guess what I’m doing this morning?…..You guessed it cooking! Nah not beats…real food for the family. ..potatoe salad, sweets, rolls from scratch all that! My first time cooking everything even a Turkey , so far so good..I’ve got on my chief hat……
I’m sort of on a working vacation like Obama…… I won’t be posting much over the next week or so, but I’ll try to stop in when I can. I am preparing to bring in the New Year and I usually take this time just for family. Since you have become my extended family, I wanted to leave you with something good . A little gift from me to you with lot’s of music love……

I call it the Ms. Tris Xmas Grab Bag. There is a bunch of snips, kicks, snares, and sounds that you may like( about 50 wavs)… enjoy

Ms.Tris 08 Xmas GrabBag:right click to download use winrar to unpack

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Wishing you and your family a safe and Happy Holiday Season
Pz and Many Many Beats
Ms.Tris

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Just because it’s a rainy Friday..and just because this beat actually makes me want to write some deep lyrics..Just because there are some nice secrets in this video for all the sample based producers…..

Just because I love yall…..

He doesn’t have a lot of videos I think I there were two Fl Studio JGVisual On Youtube

Enjoy..
Pz Til Later

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Happy Friday All…

Vocal sessions are going now!~ I have stated that this area of engineering has not been my favorite. Out of all the things I do in music, I guess this where I needed the most practice.

I’ve done vocal recording a lot using several different programs and even a Tascam 8 track disc recorder.

When it came to lining up hooks and all the small clips, it seemed to take me forever lol. Although many programs have vertical guidelines at beginning of the bars, sometimes it would still take a few minutes to line up several waves.

I introduced Reaper Software about two weeks ago:
Reaper My New Favorite Software

Some things I appreciate about Reaper are: # 1 Sound Quality , #2 Easy Options For Midi,Rewire, and Vst/Vst Instrument plugins. In comes the #3 reason I am loving Reaper. It is so easy to line up elements of the song. Reaper has guidelines at the beginning of the bars, and smaller guidelines in between. Here are images of a couple songs in Reaper. You can also see some amazing color and how the wav form looks on screen. My #4 Reason for loving Reaper? The artist in me loves the visuals :

Pretty nice huh? The more I use it the more I love it. Let’s take a look at a few videos of Reaper in use. I just found these, I’ll watch with you, then get to mixing some beats for updates…enjoy
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Starting off today with some answers to questions in recent comments. Thanks again all who are taking time to leave messeges…

Q
…… First, I added the 3 kicks and then tried tweaking’em individually, but it tweaked them as 1 unit. For example, When i click to tweak the 2nd kick and tweak it, it would erase my prior tweak to the 1st kick and replace it…
Maurostu04….

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This question is about the layered kicks in the Reason NNXT:
To adjust one layer in the NNXT you will have to hightlight 1 zone at a time, then tweak it . You could continue to tweak each layer this way, and have a totally new sound from what you loaded.

Q
…..i want to produce kinda old-Kanye West style beats the ones he did for Jay-Z (pure east coast)…. what instruments would u recommend…..
Pierre F.

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Back then Kanye was almost 100% sample based. Check out some old soul samples from the 60′s, 70′s and early 80′s…the possibilities are endless, but keep in mind that a lot of the greatest bands have been sampled over and over from those years. Try searching for that sound from imported groups from France for example… you’d be surprised how much soul music can be found from other areas which have never been sampled….
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I’ve got the beat in a decent arrangement. The factory drums from the Reason sounbank?…. um…not really working for me. I worked on them a little inside Reason. Please remember I only used them for tutorial purposes.

I didn’t do many changes to this basic arrangement. I added effects to all the modules like scream and flangers. I added a reverb on the snare. I also added a few harmonic pieces before the hook.

The final steps I would do to this beat is mix it properly. I would definitely change the kick, or redo the pattern on the Mpc. I would add some sound effects, and mute some instruments when changing to the hook. The complete mix itself would be a new lesson. This tutorial is more about making an actual dirty south beat in Reason more so than the mix. You will notice I haven’t started putting mixed beats up with the tutorials because I don’t mix beats completely in the software anymore. We will get into that soon, for now here is a rough copy for use on mix cd’s etc. to all my emcees out there reading.

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right click to download beat for promotional use only…

Reason 4 Tutorial Beat Idea For Promotional Use Only

you may distribute up to 1000 copies
on a non-commercial level or
use the beat up to 14 months

Must Give production credit to: Ms.Tris Beats on all purchased/leased/download compositions. Ms.Tris Beats retains all rights until compositions are purchased for exclusive use

Overall, I am sure someone can spit something hot over this one, and you have a good idea of how I start some of my Dirty South Beats In Reason 4.0. Keep in mind that the tutorials are just guidelines to get you going in the right direction easily. I don’t always start all beats this way. Sometimes I may start with all the elements that make the hook, or with a main melody and add chords. Go with the feeling and find a way that works best for you… remember to try new things and have fun..

Happy Beat Making To All
Pz Til later

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image from:www.jimdegerstrom.com free printable business 2009 card calendar.( I got mine )

What’s good family? Just a little note to those who have left comments recently. There are a lot of great questions, and I’ve decided to answer them with a post- maybe today, maybe tomorrow. I really want to stress how your questions help fuel this site. Thanks for all the support, and check back for your answers soon.  Any new fam leaving comments please know that I answer all comments as soon as I have time to do it properly and not rushing.

Reason 4 Tutorial Beat: I was supposed to wrap up the tutorial yesterday, my broadband has been acting up lately… I reset some settings this morning, and so far so good. I’ll be posting the final step and beat in a few minutes as long as my connect stays up …

Many of you know I have tried to post a site schedule. Now that I’m back full swing with music and design, I think its best to play it by ear. I’ll most likely post about 3 – 4 days a week. Mondays and Fridays are dwindling down,  and Live help has been by appointment sort of.  This is working well, minus the small tech difficulties, so I’ll keep rolling with it this way….

I want all of you to know I appreciate you and hope the site is helping you to become a well rounded producer. Feel good about your career in 2009, MsTrisMusic has plenty in store for the New Year…

Much Love and Happy Beat Making To All

Pz Til Later..

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Hey all, testing out posting from a blackberry …haven’t been posting on Mondays much but Ill log on tomorrow to wrap up that Reason tutorial….. Ok. This is cool. Blackberry post. Complete talk to you n the am ….

Pz til later ….

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