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An assortment of random guitar samples, mostly of the funk variety, for use with Beatmaker on your iPhone. I wouldn’t recommend trying to make a song with these samples alone, although some can be used together, most of them are at different tempos, and in different keys; as well as being mixed differently.

I just wanted to offer up some guitar samples to the BeatMaker community. The process actually took much longer than I thought. Honestly, I think some of the samples are a bit rough around the edges, but whatever, they are free for non-commercial use, so slice’em up and have fun!

Here are a few examples of what you get when you download the kit. Also, I have included a small .txt file that gives the bpm for each sample to save you some trouble.

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Tags: BeatMaker, free, funk, funky, guitar, Jazz, Jazzy, Kit, samples

This Beatmaker Kit is my attempt at putting together a Lo-Fi collection of junky soundbits for rough noisy beats.

Most of the sounds I used for this kit are from a collection of field recordings that I did years ago on a hand-held tape recorder. My goal with this collection was to create an appealing Lo-Fi kit from what essentially was, just some moderately interesting recordings with low quality sound.

I also added a few homemade samples that I recorded directly into my computer as well. Have a listen to what I did with it and download the Kit if you like.

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Tags: agogo, BeatMaker, bell, cuica, guiro, Lo-Fi, percussion, samples, surdo, tamborim, triangle, wooden flute

I’ve been having entirely too much fun with this awesome iPhone/iPod Touch application by Intua. I put off buying BeatMaker for a long time because of the 19.99 price tag. When there are so many good music applications for much less, why bother, right?

The reason I bothered was that you can upload custom sounds. I searched and searched for a cheaper application that has this same functionality, but in the end I just gave up and dished out the 20 bucks — it was totally worth it!

I don’t really want to make this a review since there have already been plenty of great reviews on BeatMaker, (you can find a very thorough review here) but I do want to show some of what I have been doing with it.

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After playing around, making beats on the train like the one above, and learning the ins and outs of this app, I finally got around to creating my own kit. I used a collection of samples that I downloaded from freesound.org, (attribution page included in download) and I also made some samples using my keyboard and guitar.

I wanted to have an amount of variety with each sample that I created. The C7_Rhodes, Organ&GuitarVamp, and OrganBass samples are probably all best used after slicing down the audio file to a specific section that you want to use. This isn’t a problem because you can crop down any audio file within BeatMaker easily. Here is a little beat I created with my custom set.

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Tags: BeatMaker, berimbau, drum kit, electric organ, free, guitar, Intua, iphone, ipod touch, rhodes, samples