When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Each of the cyborg beats samples has its tempo in the filename, along with the name of the gear ...

Sampling has been an integral part of hip-hop for decades. It's one of the genre's main foundations. When a producer uses a portion of an already existing song for a new record, the sample turns the ...

When Metro Boomin fired back at Drake with his own diss track, he accidentally became the first major producer to use an AI-generated sample. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer When Drake dismissively ...

You don't have to be a folktronica or Tom Waits nut to enjoy non-standard percussion/rhythm tracks – how many times do we really want to hear congas, tambourines, guiros and the terminally hip cajon?