12Oct 2026 by Jon Chapman No Comments
No Time to Make Music? How I’m Staying Creative with Musiversal

No Time to Make Music? How I’m Staying Creative with Musiversal

Blog, Composing, Home Recording Blogs, Logic Pro, Recording & Mixing
Finding time to make music can be a real challenge, especially when life gets busy. Between work, family commitments and everything else competing for our attention, getting a few uninterrupted hours in the home studio isn't always easy. That's certainly been the case for me recently! I've become a dad to a beautiful baby girl, and on top of that, we're looking at moving house. Two pretty big life events happening at the same time! As a result, I haven't had much time to create new videos for The Home Recording Studio. But although I've been a little quiet on YouTube, I haven't stopped making music. In fact, I've still been busy composing and producing tracks for sync music libraries. And one of the things that's helped me keep things…
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15Jul 2026 by Jon Chapman
70s Soul Samples to Chop and Flip

70s Soul Samples to Chop and Flip

Blog, Composing, Home Recording Blogs, Logic Pro, Sampling, Sound Design, Techniques
Honey - Vintage Soul Sessions is a 60s and 70s soul-inspired sample pack designed for hip-hop, boom bap, lo-fi, neo-soul and sample-based production. It features warm keys, dusty vocals, guitars, bass, strings, tape texture and musical loops made to be chopped, flipped, resampled or built into full tracks. In this Honey - Vintage Soul Sessions walkthrough, I take you inside my latest Tangerine Sounds sample pack and show what’s included, how the files are organised, and how you can use the loops, stems and processed versions in your own beats. Watch the Honey - Vintage Soul Sessions Walkthrough In the new walkthrough video, I go through the pack in Logic and show the different types of files included in Honey - Vintage Soul Sessions. The premium version includes 10 original…
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22Jun 2026 by Jon Chapman
The 70s Soul Sample Behind Q-Tip’s Strangest Loop

The 70s Soul Sample Behind Q-Tip’s Strangest Loop

Blog, Home Recording Blogs, Logic Pro, Sampling, Techniques
Minnie Riperton’s “Inside My Love” is one of those records that seems to live several lives at once. On the surface, it’s a beautiful 1975 soul track from her album Adventures in Paradise. But for hip-hop producers, it became something else entirely: a source of texture, warmth, atmosphere and musical fragments that could be flipped into something new. Over the years, “Inside My Love” has been sampled by artists including A Tribe Called Quest, 2Pac, Slum Village, J Dilla, Busta Rhymes, Madlib and J. Cole. It was also featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, helping introduce the track to another generation of listeners. But one of the most interesting uses of the sample is A Tribe Called Quest’s “Lyrics to Go”, produced by Q-Tip for their 1993 album Midnight Marauders.…
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22Nov 2025 by Jon Chapman
Logic Pro Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Tutorial: Stock Plugins Only

Logic Pro Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Tutorial: Stock Plugins Only

Blog, Composing, Home Recording Blogs, Logic Pro, Mixing, Sampling, Sound Design, Sound Effects, Virtual Instruments
If you’re a Logic Pro user, you probably rely on your favourite third-party plugins for saturation, reverb, tape wobble and all the usual Lo-Fi magic.But what happens if you take them all away? In this video, I challenged myself to create a full Lo-Fi Hip-Hop track and DAW template using nothing but Logic Pro’s stock plugins and built-in sounds.No FabFilter, SoundToys, analogue-modelled tape plugins. Just Logic. And as it turns out… Logic’s stock tools are far better than many producers realise. https://youtu.be/_PCNuw20JEk Why I Created This Stock-Only Lo-Fi Template I recently teamed up with Production Music Tools to design a Logic Pro Lo-Fi Hip-Hop DAW Template that would be: beginner-friendly affordable based entirely on Logic’s native tools easy to learn from and adapt To make it fully accessible, I could…
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