Sway is the latest Play Series from Native Instruments made in collaboration by @blakesmithbeats. In this video, I demo the Play Series, as well as its sister expansion Hazy Days.

Vocal Colors is the latest Play Series from Native Instruments, made in collaboration with Galaxy Instruments. It’s a powerful, creative vocal engine with “19 GB of eclectic, double-tracked samples that entwine the electronic and organic”. I, along with So Wylie and Red Means Recording, got to try it out early, documenting our first week with the instrument. Check out the …

It’s not just the chords that make R&B sound like R&B. That’s only half the equation. It’s also the sounds you use with said chords that maketh R&B. And although R&B often follows the sound palette of the current day, some sounds span multiple decades. Some sounds will come up time and time again. Some sounds are just quintessential R&B. …