https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/loops-samples-and-one-shots https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/loops-samples-and-one-shots A sample is any piece of recorded sound you use in a track. A one-shot is a sample of a single hit, such as one kick or one chord stab, that you trigger yourself. A loop is a sample of a performance, often a few bars long, edited to repeat seamlessly. Know which you are holding and you know how to use it, and an AI DAW can now find either from a sentence. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT We are the music makers daw-101dawloopssamplessample-clearanceai-daw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/11/music-sample-identification-dataset https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/11/music-sample-identification-dataset Four researchers have built a sample identification dataset with about 114k training tracks, nearly three orders of magnitude larger than earlier benchmarks. Better sample detection could help clearance and royalty claims, but the data is research-only and the paper reports no accuracy figures yet. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:30:00 GMT We are the music makers researchsamplingsample-clearancemusic-information-retrievalartist-rights