Bhangra Beat Volume 1 – REX & Apple Loops format now available!

Bhangra Beat Volume 1 – product update.

Now shipping with REX and Apple Loop formats. Bhangra Beat Volume 1 features original high quality dhol loops, dhol samples & Punjabi vocal loops.

If you purchased our products and want to conveniently access our Garageband loops and other loops is to drag and drop all of your apple loops into one MAIN folder and then use Finder to search only for .aiff files within your MAIN folder.

Where does Apple store the loops it comes with?
For Garageband 1.0
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Apple Loops/

For Garageband 2.0 and later + Logic Pro/Express 7.1:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/

Or
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops

Make sure you backup everything before you delete folders and create your MAIN folder!

Hope this helps you out.

Musically,
Deeps Pabla
CEO, Goldenchild

Superwave P8 – If you haven’t used this synth, you should! The Superwave P8 is great sounding 80’s synths from its pads, leads and bass lines. I’ve used it in a lot of tracks over the years and I’m telling you, it’s a great little synth. I had no idea who the developer was until I did some research on-line for Moog/80’s style synths many years ago and decided I should share this VST with you. I know nothing beats having the real deal hardware Moog’s, but sometimes its not what you have, its how you use it.

The cool thing about the synth, it has all the knobs you can think of to tweak your own sound.  A lot paid and free VST synths personally sound harsh and therefore not as warm, but all of Superwave’s products like the P8 (free) and their paid lines have a nice warmth to their sound.

Direct download: Superwave P8 Download (exe)

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Musically
Deeps Pabla
CEO, Goldenchild

We are currently in the studio working on adding new formats to our popular sound library title Bhangra Beat Volume 1. The new formats being added to the library are as follows: Reason (NNXT), Soundfont, Logic Audio (EXS24).

Formats that are already found in Bhangra Beat: WAV, AIFF, REX

» Full Product Details w/ audio demos

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Deeps Pabla
CEO, Goldenchild

Twitter, Facebook, Ustream – the list goes on and on. Social media marketing and the ever popular, ring tones is changing the face of the music industry. The game has changed. If you don’t have a hit single, than you probably will not survive much longer or if at all in the current state of the music industry. The role technology has played itself with music in the last 10 years increased the competition by 100 fold and ultimately gave rise to the “Singles” market.

It is a singles game people. The value of an “album” has diminished in recent years in favor of ringtones and mp3 downloads. Consumers have a choice like never before to choose the songs they want to buy (or illegally download).

The question you want to ask yourself if your in the music industry – do I stop what I am doing now and concentrate on singles? I could answer your question from all sides of the spectrum but it would take longer than what a blog post should be  Me personally, I’d stick with releasing singles.

If you case study the fast rise of Justin Bieber, LMFAO and others, they collectively have hit singles that resonate with partying, drinking and going out. If you do not have catchy songs that fall in the Big 3 categories listed above; than you will have a hard time earning fans at the pace the artists above received.

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for rich lyrics. I got my first hit writing a compelling song for RDB (Dil Karda) and currently wrapping up my single “Aja Mahi” which is a beautiful, classic ever-green Punjabi love song. However after Aja Mahi, I already have a song ready to go called “Drink like a St*R” – Aimed straight at the consumers that love to do what: party, drink and go out.

Listen, the album isn’t going to necessarily die any time soon nor are the sales of beautiful songs going to diminish. Well written songs and complete albums have a place in this world to create a musical balance. The same consumers that want the party songs, want love songs. As of right now, the way to get yourself positioned to instantly gain fans and kick start your musical career is writing and producing songs that talk about: drinking, paryting and going out. Once your at the top and have  a solid fan base, you can release what your heart desires and your fans; being your die hard fans, will still support it.

Deeps Pabla
CEO, Goldenchild

Now you sit at your computer screen wondering what should you do with the loops and samples from your library (hopefully they contain Goldenchild loops).

Here is a quick tip on what we do in the studio when it comes to producing music with Indian loops and samples (mainly Indian percussion loops).

Scenerio: Sample Project contains dhol loops
What you need to have: 1 dhol loop in mono format
Steps:

1. Whatever DAW program you may have, create 2 tracks of your 1 dhol loop
2. Rename the track as such: Dhol-L and Dhol-R
3. Pan Dhol-L approx 75% to the Left (or any % to achieve desirable results)
4. Repeat step 3 and pan Right
5. Add small amounts of Delay to both tracks to give the loop a “live” feel
5. Add small amounts of Reverb to the tracks to allow the loop to sit in the mix
6. Add a Compressor plugin to the chain. Fast attack, 1:1 threshold

Remember, you must also add an EQ plugin to your chain — EQ is very important for the dhol to sit well into the mix. The complexity of the EQ process doesn’t make for a 1 size fit all sort of setting so play around with the EQ settings until you get a desirable result. As long as the dhol sits well and is not over-bearing where you cannot hear or make out the lyrics of the vocals, you are Golden

We use Waves plugins for most of our production.

Next blog post will contain screen shots with delay/reverb settings that we currently use and have used on many of our hit tracks!

Deeps Pabla
CEO, Goldenchild