Ok this one's easy...

When I am making tracks I quite often create / record material that doesn't get used - basslines, synth parts, etc. There's always something that doesn't make it into the final mix of a song.

And it might be great material - it just didn't end up fitting in with the direction the piece ended up going in.

Working as I do in Cubase, this stuff usually gets picked up and dumped out in the "no man's land" after the end of the song.... doomed for eternity to sit on the shelf rusting...

Until now that is....

It's a great source for new samples!

Simply go back into the song file, find the gems from the stuff you didn't use, bounce to stereo files and hey presto! Instant samples.

If you're like me you're probably sitting on a whole back catalogue of this stuff. You could even hack apart old songs that will never otherwise see the light of day.

I've been doing this recently and found some killer stuff...

have fun!

Alex
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