cbay

dude... mad cutting!! i like!

thanks for the feedback guys! i havn't had a chance to upload a proper (non-virtual-deck) practice vid over my own loops, I moved house recently and everything is still on the floor.

i remember hearing or reading somewhere that DJ Q-bert suggested scratching rhythms in the same way MC's would rap... as in, try to emulate the rhythms of MC's, but in scratching. It can help to get some good ideas for transform rhythms. correct me please if im wrong, more knowledgeable scratch heads.

definitely. I learnt to crab pretty early into my scratch development, and as a consequence didn't spend much time on chirps, flares or transforms to get them nice, so everything i do is fairly sloppy. if i was god i'd have banned crabs and customs. i did the same. i still havn't got tears cleanly to this day because all i used to practice were crabs when i first started. i got them down within the first year but realised it was just messy and sounding like i was trying too hard to sound fast, because crabs were the only thing i was doing. i then used my newfound hatred of crabs to perfect my orbit/flares.. and now i barely crab/twiddle at all.

would you consider this funky? my cuts

fok, that waajeed is bangin

nice cuts, very clean! i like that beat too.

oh man, very dope. really tight n clean tears!!!

nice cuts man, really liking the flow at 1:23 , 1:48

i'm like, half a decade late on loopers and all that, but here is a small bunch of loops i made that you can throw on your DVS and erm, loop. and cut over. i made them to inspire me to cut again. hopefully you might like them too so i thought i'd share. enjoy DOWNLOAD - cbay's skratchloops vol.1 video of me cutting it up.. kinda

those are some dope cuts man, very clean! got me headnoddin at work

ahhh memories. mad cuts

hey guys, i've been away for about 3 years but haven't been completely stagnant here's a track i did the cuts for Oz hip-hop duo LHA, which was released last year. LHA - It's Time also here's a sneak peek at a track with LHA again. video recorded a couple of months back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBhMPwebZPs enjoy!

you can try out NI's free software, which contains samples of their synth/sound libraries. Kore player is really good, for what it is (FREE!)

awesome find!

soundcloud.com/mikecbay

I've set up my MPD24 to control traktor, it works pretty well with just an Audio8 and a Macbook as a compact setup.

i've started practicing scratching again recently, and i am finding that the method above works really well. increment upwards slightly and then practice for a few minutes on the slightly higher bpm.. then spend another few minutes back down at the original bpm.. rinse and repeat, and start on a higher bpm a couple of hours later, or the next day. hope this helps!

rage are coming to australia in january... i really wanna go check em out!! as for this album... it better be good. ive been waiting for ages to hear anything new from zack de la rocha

nice photos dude! those guys are pretty dope on the cut too, from what i can hear

daaaammmn... your cuts are dope. thats a nice beat too!

i posted in the wrong section before.. http://www.digitalvertigo.co.uk/forum/inde...showtopic=20697 so here is the latest from me. its been a long long while.. http://www.myspace.com/maingroundmusic cuts on scratchtember07 and s.o.s

thats freakin dope steve, well done mate!

i just need to get my inspiration back. ive been cutting maybe once every 2 weeks for the past 6-8 months and it sucks. and theres nobody around my way to inspire me.

nice one, thanks. need to put a decent desktop for my work pc