


This is why he prefers familiar analog production styles over digital styles. It was common to produce music using analog hardware instruments, rather than using a DAW, and Kanye mastered this analog style of production very well. Kanye began learning music production in the mid 1990s, a time where DAWs did exist, but weren’t what they are today. So I got to speed them up to a rappable tempo.” Kanye’s preference for music hardware A lot of old songs are too slow to rap on. I can chop samples into 61 pieces without wasting any memory. Kanye explains: “I sample them at regular speed, then speed them up inside the ASR-10, I just put the pitch up on the sampler, and it will go faster.
