We love hearing what people are up to with our music samples. Some we stumble upon, some throw cudos our way. This is our humble little showcase.
This is, of course, a work in progress. Feel free to submit you ibeat music sample hack in the comments, and we will try to move things into the showcase.
We start with some graphic examples of use:
Batudiste even made some more. Check it out here – or his site here.
Content on iBeat is the same as ever: Instrumentals, shots and beats.
Only thing that has changed is a few unobtrusive ads – all related to production music or music production.
The reasons these ads have arrived is simple. It’s freaking easy to serve ads via Google, that might be of interest to our users. Just a click of a button. We figured that it wouldn’t bother people much.
The costs of running the technical side of iBeat is still run by j1s – and no moaning there. But updates have been decreasing, so we’d like to be able to buy the people wasting both talent and time a drink or two, or some soup, in relation to both studio and live sessions as well as general updates.
Btw, some shit-for-brains idiot wrote that the guitar loops and shots would be available in week 43 — the knob meant week 50 ;)
Riding low and slow on this for a while. But figuring out how to build a recording setup for bass and guitars and how to categorise these takes into shots, loops, licks, riffs and so on is a headache.
We’ve settled for a seemingly good overview and the last recordings should take place in week 42 – which, if all runs like it usually does, should leave us with a grand contemporary production music update the following week.
We are trying to cover as much we can; different types of guitars and basses, but you’ll just have to hold on until then.
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:
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.
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.
