I’ve made a hit - Now what - Music 2.0

By Bitter Old Admin | August 16, 2008

Okay. So you’ve downloaded some sweet samples from iBeat. Pitched, stretched, cut, pasted, fiddled, doodled and put some lyrics on. It sounds great. You have that warm feeling of being the best god damn musician/singer/songwriter/producer in the world. If only just people would see your talent. Feel your groove. Acknowledge the depths of your artistry.

Stop. You really need to stop. Shut the fuck up. No matter if this is a mental ‘illusions of grandeur’-type exercise or you are actually pimping Bacardi Breezer friday night at two o’clock in the clubs - trying to score - while complaining that only the untalented make it.

If you whine, without trying to spread your music, then you really are a twat. Start reading Lefsetz - but filter out all the crap. Then go publish on all them new smart music sites (remember attribution, thanks). Here is a list:

via. Lostaudio

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Looping some facts on the music production archive

By Bitter Old Admin | August 2, 2008

We pushed almost 100000MB audio through July. Our busiest month ever, which is seen in the number of pageviews climbing to 520270 - not counting all the robots and worms having a field day here at iBeat - they managed to suck another 300.000 views. These stats are only from the audio archive, but if people keep on downloading more, and we keep adding more, we will soon have to add new server :(

We stopped counting downloads ages ago, perhaps it’s time to start again. We love to tell you what was the most popular beat - a qualified guess would be some of the features on the front page (people have no imagination).

Our most popular post in the (text) blog seems to be the one listing free rap beats. Perhaps we’ll try and make more pages like this, to ease navigation. Tell us what you think, and we’ll look into it. (a ‘beats-programming-timbaland-style‘ pages, would probably do well with all em young dudes…. ;))

After migrating to the new platform we’ve reached almost 500 audio entries; that’s well over 1500 if you count single shots from production packs and so forth. We are still trying to add more producers, and more material - so we should double that before the year is up.

Finally we updated the layout, and will keep improving usabilty - but focus is still on getting a sensible collection of guitar and bass shots, chords and loops organised and upped. Quite the task.

Btw… Beatman is back, and he isn’t hammering at us yet - so we must be doing something coherent.

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Updating all kinds of non-audio related things

By Bitter Old Admin | July 17, 2008

Well. It’s sort of related, since we publish audio here at iBeat… blablabla.

Anyway. We’ll be doing some major updates on front and backend - but you shouldn’t be affected to much - except for some buggy graphics here and there. The audio archive should work all along, not including the ten (keep your fingers crossed) minutes of actual downtime.

Have a nice offline experience at that time. We wont.

More on the changes later.

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One Year Old

By Bitter Old Admin | June 7, 2008

iBeat is one year old. If we count the beta as a fetal period. Ehm - moving on, quickly…

We’ve evolved quite a bit. When we started out, we worked all entries into a simple file browser setup; no streaming, no ID3 tags … no nothing. While probably fun for some - it was hardly effective.

So we set up flash previews, streaming, tag browsing and more. Hopefully you have enjoyed this development. We figure it’s gotten way better - but we are not there yet.

And we are trying to get better. Categorisation and accessibility to the production samples are often at the top… right now, we are prepping our second large live session. The focus will be on guitar and bass riffs and shots … so just hang in there.

The entire site is again overdue for a makeover. On this topic, we would like to get some opinions. What do you like . What don’t you like . What do you need . Keep going yourself. If you have anything to say feel free to comment below.

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Piano Packs and Kits - Welcoming Music Producer DaDeMo

By Bitter Old Admin | May 6, 2008

We would like to give a warm welcome to our latest music producer, DaDeMo.

He will be bringing some very sought after piano shot, loop and session material to iBeat

Besides the piano and keys in general, Daniel has worked with audio design at the University of Aarhus and is a competent accordion enthusiast.

DaDeMo has uploaded his first material, and has started getting the hang of things here. Already now, you can download a very nice collection of piano (grand piano) chords, that we hope are very well organized.

Build Piano Loops with the Grand Piano Wav Packs

These below listed, are the first music construction kits/packs. Please do comment if you find something particularly useful, or the opposite.

Grand Piano Fazioli Minor Chords Highest Pitch containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - A#m highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Am highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Bm highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - C#m highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - D#m highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Dm highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Em highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - F#m highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Fm highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - G#m highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Gm highest.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Cm highest.wav (689.11KB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Minor Chords Higher Pitch containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - A#m higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Am higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Bm higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - C#m higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Cm higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - D#m higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Dm higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Em higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - F#m higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Fm higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - G#m higher.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Gm higher.wav (689.11KB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Minor Chords Lower Pitch containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - A#m lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Am lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Bm lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - C#m lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Cm lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - D#m lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Dm lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Em lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - F#m lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Fm lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - G#m lower.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Gm lower.wav (689.11KB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Minor Chords containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Cm lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - C#m lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Dm lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - D#m lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Em lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Fm lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - F#m lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Gm lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - G#m lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Am lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - A#m lowest.wav (688.39KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - minor chords - Bm lowest.wav (688.39KB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Min7 Chords containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - D#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Dmin7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - E#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Emin7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - F#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - G#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - G.min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - A#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Amin7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Bmin7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - C#min7.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Cmin7 High Pitch.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - Cmin7 Low Pitch.wav (689.11KB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Major Chords Low Key containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major F#.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major F.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major E.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major D#.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major D.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major C#.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major A.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major A#.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major B.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major C low.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major G#.wav (1.01MB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major G.wav (1.01MB)

Grand Piano Fazioli Major Chords Middle Pitch containing:
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major A middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major A# middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major B middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major C middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major C# middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major D middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major D# middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major E middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major F middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major F# middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major G middle.wav (689.11KB)
* /Grand Piano - Fazioli - major G# middle.wav (689.11KB)

We can’t wait for some real accordion shot packs and loops. Which will be a great addition to the wast collection of beats and loops already available in the audio archive. We will try to serve up a general collection of examples from the above. Download the piano sounds now, and start making great piano loops - it’s never been so easy to create high quality acoustic keys with these categorised chord packs.

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Drum Loops and Drum Shot Packs

By Bitter Old Admin | April 16, 2008

Simple access and overview of the newest drum loops and drum shot packs in the audio archive - iBeat.org has one of the best and diverse original drum collections on the net

There are two main categories when looking into our drum material:

A drum loop archive

A drum shot archive

The Drum Loops
Drum loops are tagged with BPM and to a degree type, be it acoustic, electronic, pearl, groove, uptempo and so on. They are unprocessed (at least we try to keep the audio uncompressed and without to many effects). There are of course exceptions, since we publish what ever we make or have lying around. Therefore you can find lofi, delayed and layered loops in between clean acoustic recordings.

The Drum shots
We’ve dropped the idea of standard packaging - there simply isn’t one optimal way to publish diverse collections of drum samples.

The drum shot and percussion packs consist of grouped and related files. You can find complete sets: kick, snare, hi hat, crash, toms and so forth. But also only tom packages, noise packages and everything in between.

This is why we wrap up a streamable preview, to represent what’s in the (zipped) wave files/archive. The m3u or mp3 stream will be one long file - and the zipped shot packages, consist of cut up single shots (all the way up to forty files).

Drum Loops

Drum shots

As always, our audio production material is available in mp3 and loss-less wave format. All is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution-noncommercial or attribution. We consider this material to be free, but given the non-commercial license, it’s a truth with a few modifications.

All the audio here on iBeat.org is original, including drum samples, and we don’t want to have it stolen, and others making money of it by including if in sample Cd’s, publishing web sites that steal bandwidth and so on. We do however not mind writing up attribution only (along the lines of royalty free) if you have a specific project.

There is no sign up, and no limits here at iBeat … so just start downloading and producing drum beats and drum loops.

If you experience any trouble with the drum loops or drum shots, please let us know by commenting on this thread, and we will fix it up quickly.

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