George Duke Soul Treasures - Keyboard Phrase Instrument by Native Instruments

[MaschineHP97]

I love this software.

[joslouis160695]

Can anybody tell me what MIDI controller/keyboard/synth he's using!!!

[GreenLeafProductionz]

@joslouis160695 Akai MPK49  Peace

[dovin2]

cheating...

[MD2x]

can you use you own samples and chop it up on this?

[Attalia786]

deos dis work on windows vista?

[Bluestaeb]

i am all into sampling but seriously this is just dumb. what makes sampling fun is digging in the crates until you find that one loop or sample you want to work with.

having the preset samples ready in 30 seconds makes the whole process worthless and has nothing to to with creativity.

like in 5 years people get to you saying " man the way you chopped up that george duke preset sample was just crazy, how did you find that?"

ridiculous

[antiemo666777]

@OBSysteme I definitley agree with you but you can also be like 10x more creative by taking what someone already made and adding your own stuff around it, or into it, adding effects to it and building around it.

[D332Fr3sh]

oh damn i want that shirt he got!!

[neekrusher]

As I read the comments. I don't know about you, but my tracks don't sound like the dude making the video. I have the George Duke product. NO MUSIC PRODUCER TRACKS, WILL EVER SOUND A-LIKE, RE-GUARD-LESS IF WE ALL WAS IN THE SAME ROOM, WITH THE SAME SET UP. It depends on the music your doing any. HIP HOP, DANCE ETC . How creative you are to take that factory preset and manipulate the hell out of it is key.

[peezbeats]

it sounded better when it wasn't reversed.

[OnlyOmari]

I'm a huge NI fan, but I prefer finding my own samples and getting lifted. With things like this, anybody could produce music.

[MindzEnt]

@OnlyOmari THIS IS GOOD FOR WHEN U GO SAMPLE DRY... IM LIKE THAT TOO... I PREFER TO FINDMY OWN SAMPLES THAT IM SURE VERY FEW OR NO PEOPLE WILL HAVE... BUT THIS IS DOPE WHEN U JUST CANT FIND NOTHING... IMO OF COURSE

[OnlyOmari]

@MindzEnt I feel you bro, but this is gonna get milked, and the way that it's promoted makes it seem like anyone could just buy this and make somthing, you feel me? Thats gonna lead to alot of people having similar tracks

[MindzEnt]

@OnlyOmari  true true

[michel75paris]

Im buy this fr my komplete 7 amazing sounds

[K3KCT]

Man...

If you think today's music is 'poor' compared to 'back-in-the-day' -

- just you wait til you see what's comin' round nex.

Hey - I could give a sh*t cuz I won't be on the planet....

..Hmmm - but my kids will, and so will their kids..

Oh, sh*t..

I better do sumthin' now, 'fore it's too late!

[ryancangri]

@OBSysteme You got that right.

[Broyale26]

Man, them drums are terrible. What a trainwreck of a mix.

[CrypticRecords]

Mpk49 ftw!

I make my beats with it check em out

[lindseyjondawson]

As much as i love George Duke, and I do think this is a decent product as far as sample libraries go, at the end of the day I get much more self satisfaction listening to a track I put my own time, energy and sweat into and not someone else work then calling it mine

[hiphopdied1213]

@OBSysteme Then you aren't using your creativity to its full potential. For example a creative artist will take the samples for their tonal value, and create an instrument based on just the sound. In essence you are paying for the resampled vintage equipment and recording techniques. Just how F Major shows you in the demo video, he flipped a simple chord, reversed it and created a melody from it. Creative artist can even take it further.

[hiphopdied1213]

@MrQbanD akai mpk49

[Juniversal]

@OBSysteme...I agree. I couldn't bring myself to use loops like that. Limits personal creativity...

[vassilli0s]

wow... now i'm not a fan of native instruments, but this looks amazing... or maybe they just picked a good demo guy... idk w/e the demo track sounds awesome

[jolive91]

Now we can only hope that the Zappa Family Trust will one day release some of George's GREATEST samples...

[thenamesfrancisco]

lol you should call this music for dummies

[pianoking]

thats it? you cannot use his sound?

[BNWK2ATL2004WORD]

George Duke is the truth and who better to learn from

[varrinique]

@BNWK2ATL2004WORD

I could not have said it better!

[xphungsiwax]

Whats the song that F Major plays for us in the demo or will it be a song? and I can't find his music. Where is it?

[Moog168]

I'm LOVING the Dude's Snoop Dogg T-shirt!!!

[cavalier777]

@OBSysteme the point is to use the plugin to restructure these samples because what you say is true if and only if everyone only uses presets. also, this "instrument" is really only targeted at one type of hip hop production.

[mrbadnut]

@OBSysteme I agree!

[Gerome63120m3]

his name is My Racks KINGGGGGGG

[DjScout]

ill.

[arklave]

@OBSysteme Normally you would be correct. But George created this library specifically for the purpose of sampling and mixing. It's not the same as taking a hit song that people know, sampling the melody, and then putting your own spin on it. A lot of young artists don't have money or connections to work with and need quality sound to go somewhere with. Besides we could use a lot more soul in hip hop, so why not?

[pirell]

@OBSysteme part of the magic behind the creation process is using sounds and samples, get off your high horse, unless you you have grammys to show for your so called musical prowess. tired of hearing these youtube critics talk crap about the creation process they have little knowledge about.

[cciemail]

this guy looks like Rog from What's Happening.

what's the advantage to this? you hit one key, and it plays a chord for you? big whoop.

i'll download the torrent of this crap just to check out the organ sounds. he,he.

[baybizzle84]

CAN I USE THIS IN FL STUDIO?

[hiphoproduction4life]

@baybizzle84 only if u have kontakt 4 or kontakt player.

[tariqthasheik]

Listen to my music.

See why they call me TariqthaSheik.

[arwidcool]

@OBSysteme Well presets are used in order not to have to do too much experimenting, they are used for a base or an estimate of the sound u want to crate, and you take it from there, at least that is what you should be doing.

[JRCrowley]

@OBSysteme Guys who are REALLY successful today (like P Diddy, or whatever he calls himself this month) use whatever they can to make music. I'm more old school, being in my mid-40s and not really being into things like hip hop, but I do see room for some technology. But you're right, there should be much more analog in music. i.e. musicians who actually play an instrument and come up with their own distinct sounds

[Bflatest]

one of the best vids I have seen on here. I come here to see whats up with items I might want. And you did a great job by showing HOW you use it IN a project thanks! I hate those vids when they just show people playin it not using it

[CurtisMitchell7]

@OBSysteme i see where you're coming from, i thought this at first, but you can change the audio around and do all sorts of awesome stuff!

[cohi27]

Tough snoop shirt

[SidechainStudios]

@OBSysteme -

Expect to see Kanye all over this.

Alicia Keys for example wouldnt be running to this, as she plays her own piano licks

(which are sampled into ANOTHER Native Instruments bundle, called 'Alicia's Keys'(

[joeetstoke]

@OBSysteme i see where you come from bro, but i think it just enhances the creativity for someone who isnt a 'keynius' if you get what i mean?

it'd allow people to make music with complex chord progressions with ease etc, as long as it sounds good ... who cares how they did it? :)

[fbebeats]

Extra points for the Doggystyle T-shirt

[BestivalFan]

Oh man, I got lost in Komplete

Omnisphere

Logic 9

And now there's 'Pro Tools 9'

I feel lost : )

[thundavolt]

@OBSysteme I get your point but there are so many variations you can get from one sound. It's not the ideal situation but sometimes it can deliver that one little thing missing from your project. It's all up to the user.

[prettdboy]

@calebvmusic All Day! Logic is simply the BEST!

[munichlondon]

WTF?

[LilRedRasta]

and where can i buy it?

[whitedammit]

@LilRedRasta man i can wait to get this software george duke is probably the best funk jazz electric player

[LilRedRasta]

how much????

[moisesacostarivero]

@LilRedRasta 99$ 

[dwayne1068]

I think this is great its about the contribution to the music and having the tools as the pros for many years have set up with there unique sounds i can imagine using this in any digital set up ..george has always been into something giving back to the music industry this is cool ..

[LatinHouseTvCanal82]

Ufsssssss

[roskas4]

damn this is  nice .

[gavinjamesaitken1]

that reverse feature is awesome

[dallas168]

@gavinjamesaitken1

The Sound reminds me of Lil Wayne-Single

[jithendraVS]

@gavinjamesaitken1 The reverse feature is available inside kontakt. You can use any sample and do that.

[StrangeloveRecords]

@gavinjamesaitken1

plus 1! reverse feature is genius!

[lenardbjr]

hey you notice your boy go caught slipping using LOGIC lolol. Its actually good that in the video he is using logic instead of maschine. 

[flux302]

@lenardbjr haha... are you not noticing the tracks in logic??? notice it says maschine drums on track one... one of maschines coolest features is that you can instantly bounce out your groups in perfect audio loops to your DAW tracks. this is what F-major has done here. you make your beat in maschine then if you want to use your daw just drag and drop the audio...

[KaiStephens]

Yooo this sound right I never been of fan of using loops but man thats all I wanna do. Chop up some ish and get biz. Nice hip hop beat!

[strkmusic]

very impressive

[djvlive]

get Scarbee in there to sample those instruments. not so much interested in the loops- but that piano (not to mention rhodes) were killin my ears

[prettdboy]

@djvlive Yeah, theyre trying to streamline the sampling process! WTF?!! And if you have kontakt already, just go look for your own piano samples! Getting this just makes it too easy to sound the same!

[djvlive]

@prettdboy lol I know- that was the first thing I thought of was "I'm sure I'll be hearing a hundred and one tracks using these samples recycled time and time again". honestly dope samples though- but your right its making sampling too cheap and easy. i mean the package is $120.

[tylerfolio]

what DAW is that?

[Smatchimo]

@tylerfolio if you go to link, "For use with KONTAKT 4 or the free KONTAKT 4 PLAYER"

[cheta1985]

@tylerfolio Logic

[KingUDERZO]

des hol ich mir, 100 %"

[KingUDERZO]

BÄÄÄM!!!

[teeblack06]

that's what's up

[manifest918]

That is dope, I will be picking this up.

[DjYotoobe]

deutsche keyboards bäääm

[MowJoezBeetz]

Doggystyle!

[wirezts]

Very cool and I'll definitely be buying it. Multisamples would have been so much more powerful though :( - Hopefully they bring out both!

[kitermarc15]

Damn sickkk

[maltcus]

so its a loops library that is chopped up and assign to keys. okay it sounds kool

[111ent]

WOW!!! This is going into my sound library immediately!!!

For me his would be an excellent songwriting tool to sketch out progressions and develop a vibe for the song.

Well... sorry kids. there goes the money for Halloween candy. But feel free to stop by and feast your ears on these George Duke Soul Treasures... because I sure plan to!!!

F.L. Freeman, Audio Engineer/ Mixer

111 Entertainment LLC

[gbrown65]

I need this!

[KnockSquared]

this is DEFINITELY going into my arsenal !!!

[mcvandame]

Akai MPK 49 !!

[jaymurtii]

I have been waiting for Producers to use George Duke samples, hopefully they use them in the right way.

[joesonaplane]

is that logic software

[cavalier777]

@joesonaplane yes it is.

[kb1629]

How much? :D

[johnnykilroy9394]

Thanks NI! I will definitely be adding this to my sound library.

[weirdfishArp]

so its just sound one s buying....you could do this with maschine

[Baaaammmmmmm]

so cool, native instruments you are the best