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    by on 02-01-2012 10:58 PM
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    Monthly Music Charts: Discover what the hottest remixes, beats and tracks of December 2011 on Crazy Pellas were. Are you listed?

    Welcome to the first edition of Crazy Pellas Monthly Charts. In December we have Orygidalbeatz topping the remix chart, forgivethedays topping the beats chart, and youngkidd topping the tracks chart!

    Also, well done to nockturn for having music in all three charts, at numbers 3, 3 and 2!

    Top 5 Remixes, Mashups and Blends:

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    by on 24-12-2011 12:22 PM
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    Music producer JFilly84 won August 2011's Beat Contest. I caught up and interview him, here's what he had to say about being a producer.

    Thanks for taking the time to do this interview jfilly84. Tell us a bit about yourself, your name, age, where you’re from and an interesting fact
    My name is Jovan Poindexter, I’m 27 years old from Chicago Illinois. An interesting fact about me is I have two 7 year old daughters that aren’t twins! lol but I love them to death!

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    by on 24-12-2011 11:35 AM
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    Producer WesTwoodP won 2011's XMAS Beat Contest. I caught up and interviewed him, here's what he had to say about being a producer.

    Thanks for taking the time to do this interview WesTwoodP. Tell us a bit about yourself, your name, age, where you’re from and an interesting fact
    My name is Octavis Anderson. I’m 25 and from Atlanta, GA. Um an interesting fact... hhhmmm ok within the past month I’ve lost every person that I’ve considered too close to me and I almost died... pretty ...
    by on 18-12-2011 08:32 PM

    The following Pro Tools Tutorial will give you tips and advice on how to optimize your Mac to make Pro Tools perform better.



    Keeping your Mac in top shape when using real time applications such as Pro Tools is essential for a great session.

    These optimizations can solve potential error messages resulting from background system activity. Performing these optimizations prior to your session will help achieve maximum performance in Pro Tools.
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    by on 07-12-2011 10:35 PM
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    The following article will teach you a method of mixing in FL Studio, so that you can mix your beats and tracks better. Example files included.

    This article was written by and examples provided by Tucky Ent.. Check out his music on SoundCloud, add him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter.

    First off, I would like to thank www.CrazyPellas.net for giving me the opportunity to be heard by thousands and making a place people can go to for anything to do with music.
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    by on 01-12-2011 02:15 AM
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    The following article will discuss the release of the FL Studio 10.0.9 update released by Image-Line including FL SynthMaker 2 and many other updates.

    Image-Line released an update for FL Studio 10 on November 20th 2011, version 10.0.9, which you can download now.



    The FL Studio 10.0.9 update includes
    - FL SynthMaker 2
    - Harmor update (new dll)
    - Patcher update (new dll which fixes the porta bug)
    - FPC update (new dll which ...
    by on 30-11-2011 11:52 PM

    The following Sony ACID Pro Tutorial will take you through How to Work with MIDI Controller Data in ACID Pro.



    MIDI information contains much more than just the note data that we've been working with up to now. Sophisticated MIDI controller devices have settings and controls with which you can bend the pitch of the plague note, modulate the pitch of a note at specific intervals, manipulate how a controller key reacts to pressure you apply to it after the original touch ...
    by on 30-11-2011 10:39 PM

    The following Propellerhead Reason Tutorial will take you through how to master the Blocks feature of Propellerhead Reason and Record.



    Let’s make a song using the Blocks feature available in Reason and Record.

    Blocks is a pattern based way of working that makes arranging, brainstorming, experimentation and song writing much more productive.

    I'll start by creating a new song in Record. Then I'll switch from song mode to block mode.
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    by on 19-11-2011 03:55 PM

    The following Ableton Live Tutorial will take you through working with the Session View and using it to get the most out of Ableton Live.



    In this tutorial we will take a look at working with the Session View.

    Understanding the Session View is essential to getting the most out of Live so in this tutorial we'll take a look at how the Session View can be used for idea creation, improvisation, live performance and DJing.

    You can think of the ...
    by on 19-11-2011 11:17 AM
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    Silex won October 2011's Battle4Exposure Contest, I caught up and interview him. Here's what he had to say about being an up and coming rapper...

    Thanks for taking the time to do this interview Silex. Tell us a bit about yourself, your name, age, where you’re from and an interesting fact if you like.
    Hey, my name is Silex I'm from Rotterdam that’s in The Netherlands (Europe) and my interesting fact is I can’t fall asleep without having the TV on.

    MUSIC
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    by on 17-11-2011 01:01 PM

    The following Serato Scratch Live Tutorial will take you through how to use the Auto Gain feature of Serato Scratch Live correctly.



    In the Playback tab of the Setup screen in Scratch Live there is an option to Auto Gain which will bring up the volume of some of your tracks to a consistent level.

    For songs with overview spill check this if you want to use the calculated auto gain value while playing songs.

    There is also a target gain drop-down ...
    by on 15-11-2011 07:10 PM

    The following FL Studio Tutorial will take you through how to create songs in the FL Studio Playlist Editor.



    In this tutorial you'll learn how to create arrangements from your FL loops and audio.

    Let's load up a playlist from an existing song and have a look at it.

    The playlist window contains a sequence of patterns and audio as well as clip tracks that will form the complete song structure.

    The horizontal dimension in the ...
    by on 09-11-2011 10:31 PM
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    Elypsis The Architect (ET Architect) won 2011's Halloween Beat Contest, I caught up and interviewed him. Here's what he had to say about being a producer.

    Thanks for taking the time to do this interview Elypsis The Architect. Tell us a bit about yourself, your name, age, where you’re from and an interesting fact
    My name is Steven A. Freeman, I am a 22 year old producer representing Aurora Colorado. I am a lover of music and music creation. I have been in production since 2008. ...
    by on 09-11-2011 01:57 PM
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    The following music marketing article will take you through step-by-step on how you can set up a Google+ Artist / Band Page to market your music.

    On November 7th 2011 Google announced Google+ Pages for artists, bands and brands to have their own page on Google+. Before now if you created a band/brand profile you could expect that your profile be terminated.

    Let's get started on how you can create your artists / band Google+ page.

    1. Login to your Google+ ...
    by on 04-11-2011 05:53 PM
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    The following Producer Tip will describe how you can use twitter to find artists and a&rs to send your beats to.

    Twitter has made it incredibly easy for underground producers to get their beats to major artists and A&R's, it has also helped producers get in touch with and collaborate with underground and upcoming artists.

    Here are a few search queries you can use on Twitter to find artists and A&R's to send your beats to:
    - @ "send beats" ...

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