The New (Old) Sound for Beats in 2024 

You got the Midas touch, man. Every beat you make, no matter the equipment or samples, you make it sound so amazing. This is such a vibey beat, love how organic it sounds

as a phone watcher, i just want to say I appreciate your care and consideration for our inherent lack of bass. bless you sir!

to keep with the throwback tech theme, I edited this video on my Game Boy Camera! thanks for watching everyone!

it's crazy to think we crawled out of the ocean on 4 legs at some point and now we're making beats on octatracks. makes me wonder where we're going. I appreciate you man, your channel is one of my favorite things on the internet at the moment

I love the concept of using simple, cheap, or minimal synths to punch above their weight. It's the whole basis behind dungeon synth, and midi soundfonts are just perfect for that. Very cool.

MIDI sound fonts are in fact pretty fire

makes me wanna find my old hard drive with all the soundfonts on it. those were the good ol days.

maybe it's because I'm stoned or because this was really beautiful.. either way I love you man, thanks for sharing your creative process with us and inspiring us to see that the potential for a great song sits literally anywhere we care to look.

i grew up with these sounds on my family roland digital upright man, this is such a crazy nostalgia trip for me. knew as soon as i heard the dog sounds lol great work as always

You are a magician.

I love this idea of using general midi cause it makes me feel like I can get back into producing with the little I got

1:54 when the vintage sounds aren't vintaging enough. This came together so nice 💯

Your recent beats have been more melancholy in nature - I dig it. But how you going to use Roland's midi sound kit without a Roland device on the table? Feeling like the MKII ain't getting enough love.

I used to make stuff with one of those generic early 2000s Yamaha practice keyboard just out of necessity due to lack of gear, and it is indeed quite fun and has a nice sound. The percussion is very beat konducta series-esque. Kind of corny, but it works lol

I was listening without video, and I was like whoa wait who is this? Then I rewinded and saw it: ok it's Brad. We ❤ Brad. Thanks Brad for the midi nostalgia!

This was one of my favorite ones because I wasn't feeling it. Stuck with the process, reeled me in and won me over. Very cool to watch.

King's Quest-type beat 🏰 👑 🐉

The “juice hands”🔥🎉🤟🏻🙌🏼👍🏼👏🏻

The no headphones has me cracking up. I love the way your breaking down the what your doing with a brief sentence about the rationale. Thanks Jon!

that guitar goes hard, another vibey banger!

that electric guitar totally makes the track. And I think I know where I've heard it before, it sounds like the same sound TIm Follin used on the OST for Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. I gotta mess with that sound font now lol

Such a fun idea, very enjoyable to watch. I think us producers sometimes get so focused on making a dope beat you forgot to actually just have fun with it.

Back in the 90's I made beats using a Yamaha MU10 tone module, then later a Boss DS330 (which I still have). The big difference was that I didn't have a sampler, per se; I used PowerTracks Pro 3.0's one-shot one note polyphony sampling feature to snatch breaks and play stuff over it via General MIDI. Today I have a Yamaha MU50 as well as the DS330. The MU50 had a really dope feature where you can go into any drum kit and edit the individual drum sounds, so you could take a snare, pitch it up or down, then add a resonant filter to it (possibly even an ADSR envelope too, I'd have to look) and none of that will affect the rest of the drum sounds. Now I gotta fire up the MU50 and make something 'cause of this video.

I recently got a few romplers that sound like my childhood and I couldn't be happier. It's just great stuff.

Thanks, Jon!

This one really moved me

Beautiful beat!

Fantastic vibe ✊🏻

bro showin' general Midi some love lol. dope joint! that electric guitar was a perfect added touch lol

So emotional. I love it.

That was special. I felt that.

Dawg you don't miss when cooking up some beats.....respect!!

Never made it look so easy

I was freestylin off the the Bombay when you were letting it play for a minute there. So freaking good.😅

Killed it

Fantastic, dude!

This video is a joy. thank you!

We love you man ❤

educational Jon much appreciated

killed the beat and the video, thanks joe jebson ❤️

Great beat, really enjoyed watching!

thx so much, you are one of a kind, in an admirative way

Bro went absolutely bonkers on the keyboard guitar

another hit mr jon

Massive midi flashbacks here. Good button mashing man 🙏❤️‍🔥🙏

Bro that accordian went hard

Love this. I love being specific with altering timbres on samples and you are so particular ahout it.

that was amazing

I nearly shed a tear to this beat 🥲🤣

Gonna need to hear that accordion in a future beat

Fire Beat! 🔥🔥🔥This makes me miss my old QY70🙃 Stay hype🤘🏾

Oh man, some of these sounds takes me back. Nostalgia for real, in the best possible way. The camera quality and editing just getting, better and better - keep it up!

God damn, every week bringing us glory. Imma have to tap into that Patreon.

That poor bastard getting pelted in the face with a dodgeball while youre plunking out sweet and sad piano chords is the humorous dichotomy I needed today. Loving your youtube channel, bro.

This is my music class for me

Omg I got so emotional when you added the electric piano.

Yep this one rules

5:49 Le Jeanwayne moment 🚬🥖🇫🇷

Lovely beat Jon, that guitar was unexpected but 💯 required 😂

the wizard at work, congrats on 50 uploads

This was entertaining to watch because when I first started making beats in the late 90's this is all most of us had. My parents couldn't afford to buy me no MPC or elaborate Keyboard and back then there was no Fruity Loops, no Reason, so I had to think outside of the box and work with what I had. I composed the music with Midisoft Session and Midisoft Studio 4 then played it back through a program called Wingroove which was a Windows Midi player that contained samples from a quality Yamaha keyboard. It's Electronic Drum Set had a phat 808 and 909 combo in there which knocked way harder than the standard Windows MIDI. I also used Yamaha's XG MIDI player for a time which had better effects like chorus and reverb. Then a few years later in high school I got lucky and my mom bought a Casio Keyboard from Radio Shack that for a $120 keyboard at the time also had a really good sound and surprisingly MIDI ports in the back. So I bought a MIDI In/Out cable and would play directly out to it bypassing the Soundcard Midi all together. If you're someone that's gotten into music production in the last 10 years you guys have it so good since there's tons of affordable and accessible options now.

once again proving its often not what you got but how you use it

I always think it starts off okay, but then you blow my mind anyway.

Yoooo I can’t believe they got Brad to do a video on the channel. That’s crazy.

Ur amazing...unreal

It is possible to make good beats with these old midi sounds. You can see that here with you. I have the feeling that these sounds are being forgotten more and more because we need a new splice kit every month with the recurring hi hats, one shots without end.

yes i miss you here! watching all your video like a psycho 😁 when I grab octatrack good price second hand I'll be on your patreon studying. You are very inspiring

Also decided to make a Lee Hazlewood cover with the Final Fantasy 7 soundfont. Not sure why but it works

tuff !

your such a dope composer man!

Bro makes any garbage sound excellent. Iam sure he can make a fire beat with just white noise😂

Mr Krabs at 5:50 😂

I dig watching your content its basic and informative and easy to learn from....I'm not a hardware type of producer since probably the mc909 and Dr 5, but watching your shows makes me wanna grab something

I've been mulling an album over in my head and the overwhelming key reference point at the moment for it is the MIDI music from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Something about those sounds has aged so peculiarly

Wow.

Fire…that prophet x is a good look also.

As a phone watcher i love the bass part

There's always time for accordion!! 🪗

Tight as usual, you make me want to hang it up (can't because being a bedroom producer is now imprinted in me). I'd like to see what you can do with the very first Fruity, CakeWalk, Vegas or Rebirth/Recycle DAW's or their soundbanks. Always great watching you. Peace and Blissings.

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damn bro !

I got a yahama keyboard and tought i just had a keyboard for kids or something because of the sounds it had, now i feel better lol

Love your vids... Dope producer... I'd love to see more S950 beats though..... Excellent channel👑💯

Brad Beats

I’ve been wanting a general midi portable device for so long. Wish Roland would make a boutique of the Roland sound canvas. Or bring back the iOS app they had they took off the market. Been just sampling my favorite sounds on my op1 for it. Love it for video game-esque sounds

Both time and space must be made for the accordion

wait, that accordion sounded hard!

That accordion was slapping tho

BRRRRRRR

Nah brother this is stragith up unvelievable. When i heard the guitar-solo synth i lost it.

General Midi = S Tier

Oh no! What happened to the Waldorf?!

Great Video again! Thanks for all these octatrack tips! Are you happy with the Prophet X? Is the library worth it? What do you enjoy most about it and most importantly: does it inspire you?

Hahah this actually kinda takes me to Shlohmos Dark Red vibe

Thank you for many tips! I study to your video. So...that is Spirit Island? and..Nemo? Hahaha.

Cool counter missed one!

Cant wait till you get into the game soundfonts, final fantasy 7 soundfont beat finna be crazy

i love gex

I imagine Joji on this! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Literally every single time hahaha this is 10k hours in action