Many hip-hop beats come courtesy of the percussion tracks on soul or jazz records but there truly is no limit to what you might want to sample. You might isolate a drum break and use it as your rhythm, or you could take a melody, vocal or any other part and chop it up as you see fit.
The act of sampling an existing record roughly equates to taking a portion of it and using that as the bedrock of an entirely new track, or blending it with other samples to create something akin to an audio montage. So what is it about vinyl-sample crafting that’s so popular? And how do you get these samples in FL Studio? Going for a spin But this isn’t a technique exclusive to hip-hop – you can find vinyl samples in any genre. Though there are easier ways to craft samples today, there are still plenty of producers slavishly devoted to the old-school charm and sonic qualities of vinyl sampling.
Bedroom-based sample-builders and professional producers alike took to relentless crate-digging, forever in search of that proverbial golden record. Vinyl sampling originated in the 1970s and, with the rise of hip-hop, became extremely popular throughout the following decade.
