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A SONG OF Cool Tools For
CONVENIENCE The Songwriter
surrounding lost music fades gracefully
into the past, much like the technology that
recorded it, every music creator experiences
that gut-wrenching fear of losing their work
at one point or another.
RecUp (irradiatedsoftware.com/
recup), the application formerly known
as DropVox, is a voice-recording app designed for use on iOS. (Fig. 3) While on
the surface it may seem exactly like Voice
Memos, RecUp is different in that anything recorded is automatically uploaded
into one's Dropbox account. In addition,
there's no awkward moment when the
app requires the naming or saving of a
newly captured file. Integration into DropBox is virtually seamless as the app saves
the recording, creates a new folder, and
uploads the file directly to your account
the moment the stop button is pressed.
System requirements are minimal,
and one only needs iOS 7, $1.99 and
a Dropbox account to get started. While
some of the more secretive among us
may fear the notion of pushing our
fledging song ideas directly to the
Cloud where they might be stolen...
consider all the moments you nearly
dropped your phone, and all your
brilliant song ideas, in the toilet.

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RECORDING April 2018

EXS24

In the Guinness Book of World Records,
a South African singer named John Kongos
is credited as being the first artist to use
sampling in a song. However, any music
lover worth their salt would tell you that
sampling, in the way it's understood
today, was an invention spurred from the
beginnings of hip hop. DJ Kool Herc and
Grandmaster Flash are the inarguable
forefathers of modern music sampling,
and thus, established a way of treating
pre-recorded music that would grow from
"fad" to full-on songwriting technique.
The permeation of sampling in the
creative process is irrefutably heard on
something like "Remind Me", an album
cut from Eminem's recent comeback
record Revival. In it, the brilliant use of
Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll" drives
not only the song's aggressive instrumentation, but also a huge portion of its lyrical
content. If only those early innovators
had known what they'd started-or how
it would lead to something like EXS24.
EXS24 is the sampler/sample player
plug-in built into Apple's Logic Pro X
DAW (apple.com/logic-pro). While
every DAW out there has a sampler of
its own, EXS24 is the oldest and best
established of them all, and a great
example of what this kind of tool can
bring to your songwriting. (Fig. 4)
EXS24 gives composers the freedom to
drag audio files into Logic from anywhere

on their computer and manipulate them
however they see fit. If you're a Logic user,
then you're already well aware of its wonders, as some version of the plug-in has existed for nearly two decades. Since then,
EXS24 hasn't changed all that much, but
at the time of its debut on the digital scene
it was revolutionary, with its only comparable counterpart being the beloved Akai
MPC desktop sampler. It's only natural,
then, how Logic found its way to becoming the preferred DAW for so many hip
hop producers and beat makers.
In Logic Pro X, the functionality is essentially
how it's always been. With the creation of
a new instrument track, one loads EXS24
directly onto the input, just like any other plugin. Vocal parts, breaks, or drum sounds
are brought into the editing window,
and then played on the keyboard to create new samples, effects, or customized
drum kits. And while that concept is simple
enough, it's rocket science in comparison
to the drudging, albeit glamorous, task
of queuing up vinyl.

CONCLUSION

There are lots of other tools out there that
can help your songwriting process along;
this issue alone is filled with them! But I'm
betting that you'll find at least one item in
this short list that will prove useful as you
go chasing ideas for your next hit.
Samantha Blanchard (blanchard@
recordingmag.com) is a songwriter,
e n gineer, and recording musician living
and working in the Los Angeles area.
Learn more at facebook.com/sambalaya.

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