Adding Strings to Trap with Music Producer LollyPopBeatz

Lauren AKA ‪@lollypopbeatz‬ joins us in studio to create a trap beat using Abbey Road Orchestra 1st Violins and Cellos.
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[@lollypopbeatz]

Thank you for having me! 🙏

[@thatonecomposer3490]

Awesome job Lauren! I always love hearing the unique stuff that you put together to make fire. ☺

[@Rune.]

look into brso articulate. saves having to clone the channels just for different articulations

[@jameshumfry1256]

Fascinating stuff

[@joecantdance494]

Never thought I'd see FL STUDIO on the Spitfire channel. It's a great DAW

[@l.d.williams7880]

It’s good for trap beats.. but for composing, not so much

[@nnotof3218]

​@l.d.williams7880 I've seen great compositions on KZbin made from fl studio.

[@neverlistsa]

@@l.d.williams7880 It's just fine for composing. One of the spitfire developers use it, its been on their channel before

[@syntheticorchestra]

@@l.d.williams7880 It's fine for composing. Have a peek at my channel - I write everything in FL studio (including TV and game adverts, soundtracks and library music). The Stanley Parable soundtrack was written with FL Studio. So was Lost in Random's and the official commercials for Terraria.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Never can have too many layers she says while having 11 tracks lmao

[@dchitmaker]

She killed it 👏👏👏

[@baileynative1245]

I would say it needs proper mixing but it is mid 2000 trap music. She's young guys cut her some slack. Also she composed that beat unlike other cut, copy and paste beat makers.

[@keebankz8858]

🔥🔥🔥

[@skeetskeet4515]

Know its a short showcase video, but I'm just throwing this out there. I'm just commenting on the strings. It seem kinda tough to make Spitfire strings really work, when producing Trapp music. Sound like the strings are clashing, they needs velocity adjustments, and probably a few lower notes. I really don't feel that "sinister" sound of "Trapp"

[@joelwybrew]

I really welcome Spitfire branching out in the style they present their libraries being capable of 😊 and to have a young creative on is cool! Feels more down to earth than sample companies can sometimes be. Nice stuff lollypopbeatz 😁

[@joost3783]

Jesus that kick and 808 on the left channel is freaking me out, also everything cancels out like crazy in mono which kinda makes no sense for trap sine its gonna be played on a lot of tiny speaker xD

[@Djgci2001]

2005 Young Jeezy mixtape beat smh

[@paulthiebaut]

A lot of haughty people in the comments… There is absolutely no right or wrong way to use a library and you’re free to use any feature you want. I think most of the people putting out these comments are a little bit stuck in the idiomatic orchestral realm and don’t understand that sampled instruments can be reshaped and used in any genre of music. If I were to advertise this library, yes I probably would’ve chosen an artist that’s a little more creative with the colors and textures that this library can provide but if she wishes to use well sampled strings for a trap instrumental, so be it ! Stay creative :)

[@Slynell1]

and yet these people cant show you any music from themselves which has been purchased and featured on tv. but are always the first to offer an opinion lol

[@flvminglxw]

@@Slynell1 haha that's right!

[@BankaiX10]

@@Slynell1 I'm sure there are some very talented people in these comments. I'd assume you're here as a musician yourself. Success =/= Good. Should know that being in the music scene.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Yes there is. This is the wrong way. Not music.

[@liknyne]

Let her cook! ❤

[@malachibasoah8213]

🙌🙌

[@AlbertKimMusic]

💀💀💀

[@malaeproductions913]

TUFF

[@chris5375]

I wanna see Homay 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Birchwoodfb]

OH NO

[@gregrobertmusic]

Why

[@matthewhuntcrothers7491]

Not bad, I too use spitfire audio's plugins as well but not the abbey road type of strings, I just bought myself albion colossus yesterday but I do attend to make music based on books I write and of course do voice overs like this one for example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXivoGt8nLx5hZI

[@ookamimusic4019]

A lot of serious Giants of the Industry name her beats fire as hell she is one of the upcoming trap producers, great Job🎉

[@darrenhirst9900]

Well that' what these companies do they get the up and coming producers to promote their products.

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

I can see the zombies & dead bodies at the trap house & can almost smell the death & chemicals that've etched themselves to the wall!!! Love live trap & drug addicts!!!

[@music_creator_capable]

Nice!

[@LucasBurnMusic]

Even in trap beats, when you use orchestral instruments of any kind, you must think about the players and how they would play.

[@alukea123]

"you must"

[@idontgivea1769]

@@alukea123 Oh, man! Exactly what i was going to answer!

[@phil-wallace-braveheartz]

Totally disagree. Realistically is the string part ever going to be played by an orchestra. Probably not. It's a synth using a string sound. If its ever played live it'll be done on a synth. I dint get this whole 'it doesn't sound like an orchestra thing' it doesn't because it's not.

[@phil-wallace-braveheartz]

Live with it. It's the 21st century not the 17th

[@gotmoresoul]

The reason why it's not a...."must"...is because thousands of trap producers--and hip hop producers in general--already use straight up synth "strings", just as millions of people have done since the dawn of non-live string or string-like sounds in music. The benefit of using a Spitfire library to do it is to have synth-like strings in your beat that don't sound like typical synth strings.

[@QueMusiQ]

Dope, and I know the hardest beats aren’t made by people who look like what a 47 year old black man would imagine, but it was NEVER a white bri’ish woman back when it was lo key called CRUNK in the ‘90’s.

[@jstew512]

lot of people in the comments who need to get over themselves

[@chrisrodenmusic]

This is great! A young artist doing what she wants to do using some of the best sounding libraries you can get.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

She is no artist and this is not art.

[@Guitarist888]

Sounds surprisingly amazing! A lot better than most trap beats over lofi synth wave!

[@6stringbeats397]

For those of you that is talking down on this video, you don't have to be a professional string orchestral purist to make a trap beat. It's all about the attitude, bounce and vibe of the beat. The strings just adds a little color to the beat. So chill out.....

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Maybe not make a trap beat? And not make a video?

[@flvminglxw]

That's it, guys! let's not hate it, but rather go and write a MASTERPIECE! Using all modulations, articulations, etc. We're all such geniuses!

[@corrosive135]

I liked it up until that ticky-ticky hi hat sound that is done to death, but the rest was a cool and interesting use of strings. At least it didnt sound derivative. Nice.

[@prodeyezo]

😂

[@johnphillips1172]

I prefer watching videos utilizing that Logic Pro DAW

[@Slynell1]

A bunch of middle aged men picking on a young girl doing what she loves... you should be ashamed.

[@ralfmoss]

FL beats all sound the same ....boring

[@wolfe4088]

you mean trap beats lol

[@l.d.williams7880]

lol FL is geared for nothing but loops She should try Cubase.. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@wolfe4088]

@@l.d.williams7880 if you're actually good at production you wouldn't be cribbing about what it can or cannot do lmao "geared for loops" get good my guy

[@l.d.williams7880]

Lmao that’s not what I’m sayin my guy, obviously if you’re good , your good, I’m just talking about workflow my guy 😃

[@wolfe4088]

@@l.d.williams7880 cool 👍

[@user-xz5mh2ev2e]

The real question is, who in the right mind would buy a $$$ string library for a garbage music genre? Even their DAW is a lot cheaper than the library itself.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

I mean... she doesnt even need the keyboard... she can just drag and drop ready samples from the daw and make the same exact song lol

[@ukathecoward5371]

As both trap producer and orchestra composer I'd say I'll never use Spitfire's strings for trap

[@punkrosezer01197]

what would you use then

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Why

[@jarodmarlyn3227]

Why

[@HAKITORI]

Why