Yakub On Producing Ghostface Killah “Together Baby”

Yakub On Producing Ghostface Killah “Together Baby”

Last of the Record Buyers talks with 20 year old producer Yakub about his first placement, a Ghostface Killah song entitled “Together Baby”. Yakub briefly talks about his current setup Reason + Audacity and his growth from FL Studio. Visit Yakub on Bandcamp and look out for his work on Ghostface Killah’s album Apollo Kids.

Questlove Yamaha All Access 360 Interview

Questlove drops some thoughts on drumming, gear, soul music, and practicing and performing during an appearance with The Roots at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL . It’s really hard to play disciplined and sloppy. There’s a certain sloppy element that I like to put in my drumming. Whatever the average drummer is doing, … Read more

Adobe Audition Mac Beta Is Now Available

Adobe Audition, previously known as Cool Edit Pro, has enjoyed a loyal following for quite some time. The only problem was that it has only been available for Windows users. The great news is that now Mac users can now finally get in on the action as well. Notable Features: Fast start-up, high performance multi-threaded … Read more

Ryan Leslie Offers $1 Million Reward For Stolen Laptop: Simple Backup & Encryption Solutions

You may or may not have heard about producer Ryan Leslie’s most recent controversy involving a stolen laptop and personal belongings along with a considerable sum of cash. The details of the incident aren’t important, but immediately after the theft Ryan offered a $20,000 reward for safe the return of the laptop.  Today the reward was raised to $1,000,000 USD.

Ordinarily Crate Kings would not mention the incident and I truly hope that he’s able to reacquire his personal physical and digital property, however, there are great lessons that others can learn to hopefully avoid such a disastrous situation.  To put it simply… Backup and Encryption are a must.

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Trifeckta Wins St. Louis Red Bull Big Tune

Congrats to Trifeckta on his win at the St. Louis round of the Red Bull Big Tune Beat Battle! Both he and runner-up M80 will represent St. Louis at the national finals, which will take place in Chicago.

Final round footage after the break!

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Avid Pro Tools 9 Is Now Standalone & Other New Features

Avid has announced the released of Pro Tools 9, the latest version of its DAW. In addition to the such new features such as Automatic Delay Compensation and increased track count, Avid’s latest release now gives users the ability to use Pro Tools 9 without as standalone with only a computer, iLok and software, no hardware interface is needed.

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