Quantization

Quantizing is the ability of your hardware of software sequencer to shift the MIDI signals it receives.

What is that mean in English?

Let me put it this way. Although the most expert beat maker can be dead accurate when making a drum pattern or playing keyboards, as humans, we make mistakes.

This is good and bad.

If we were all robots, music as we know it would be horrible. If every single drum sound or instrument sound was perfectly on beat, the music we listen to would sound boring as hell.

You'd be surprised how much of popular music is actually a little off beat. Our brains process things pretty accurately but can make up for really subtle mistakes in musical timing.

Turning your quantize feature off while you make a beat will allow your beats to start sounding very loose. Your timing mistakes won't be corrected at all.

Modern quantizing functions also include "swing". This is the ability to quantize your beats while still keeping a little human element in the music. So if you really screw up the placement of a kick drum for example, the quantizer will save you and shift the drum a little bit to keep it sounding natural.

Your Source For Sound Samples

Platinum Soundsets is your source for sound samples when you produce music. It doesn't matter if you produce music with hardware or software samplers. Our professional sound samples are optimized and perfected for your next beat. You won't need to adjust these samples or use your equalizer to get the right frequency. The sound samples are radio-ready!

You just load them into your music sampler and starting making beats with no hassles or worries. You'll be surprised at how universal any of our sound samples are. It doesn't matter if you download the Missy Elliot soundset or the Dr. Dre soundset. Making beats with our sounds will always sound good if your making hyphe, west coast, east coast, or any other style of music. We also have a growing number of music producers who make R&B beats with our sound samples. Our R.Kelly soundset is one of our best sellers. We encourage you to check out each soundset for yourself. Listen to each audio demo and decide what sounds are best for you. But know that when you download 1,000 sound samples, you're going to find hundreds and hundreds of sounds no matter what set you get it from!

Korg Triton

The Korg Triton is one of the most well known keyboards in the production world. Korg has always been at the forefront of cutting-edge keyboard and production center design. The Korg Triton is a sampler, sequencer, tone generator, and synthesizer all rolled into one unit. The ability to upgrade or expand the capabilities for a Korg Triton or limitless. Many producers consider this keyboard to be an integral part of their recording studio. Super producers such as Timbaland always have at least one Korg Triton ready to go.

Reason 3.0

Reason 3.0 is extremely powerful software to make beats. Use our sound samples or instrument samples with the NN-XT digital sampler.

Fruity Loops

Fruity Loops is a great software-based production sequencer. It allows you to quickly make beats using your computer.