While We're On The Subject Of Samples...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
All kinds of fun stuff happening in Sample-Land the last couple weeks. Sonic Couture (replete with shiny new web-site) has Skiddaw Stones, which I’m actually moving from my Mac to my music PC right this very minute, and will theoretically have a mini-review of over the weekend.
Also note that Sonic Couture is running a Buy-One-Get-One-Free promotion until September 9th. Enter the code YJ5FLTYPSG at checkout and you get to pick another product. And on top of that, if you buy anything at all, you get the Devilfish 303 sample set, the which is farking excellent.
Our good friend Hugo, DBA Goldbaby, has released his Custom DMX set, which I’ve also got but haven’t tried yet. Yeah, you’re beginning to sense a pattern here, I imagine. A mini-review of this will also be coming over the weekend, but I like his style. I’d like to see some recursive Goldbaby sets. 909->tape->DMX->tape->vinyl. Something like that.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Beatserve will have something new in the not-too-distant future, but first The Atomica Project has to do a short tour, which starts tomorrow at Martyr’s in Chicago. I strongly recommend you go see some quality chill-out music. Dates on the TAP page.
And finally, if anyone in Portlandia (or surrounding Cascadia) has a 909 and/or 808 they’d be willing to loan/rent me for a week, I’d hug them and squeeze them and pet them and call them “George.” (Too oblique a reference?) Seriously, I’d be most grateful.
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Chuck Jones nods obliquely in your direction.
As does John Steinbeck, courtesy of Chuck Jones.
See what Sean did there? Deep, man. Deep.
-CR
I have no idea what you're talking about.
But I do love a good two-fer. Sonic Couture, FTW.
There's a ton of great sample sets coming out. Sonic Ccouture are always great. But I already spent my money for the month on the
DMX samples from Goldbaby and the Tonehammer Cajango set; Tonehammer is right up there with Sonic Couture in doing some fantastic work.
http://www.tonehammer.com/
And to toot my own horn, you can get my icicle samples for frickin free. I recorded these last winter. It was about 20 below, and I went out with my Zoom H4 and started hitting the giant icicles hanging off the eaves from my front porch.
http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/IciclesSamples.zip
I have been checking the Sonnicouture site on a nearly daily basis for MONTHS, waiting for something new to happen. Then all of a sudden, tons of new shit.
Skiddaw Stones completely rocks (get it?). Minor keys played through Phase Two and the Eos superhall is one of the most obscenely cool sounds ever heard. And the Devilfish 303 fills in a hole in my arsenal quite nicely. I have never been really happy with any of the 303 emulators out there, and use the sound so infrequently that I couldn't justify the cost of a real one. So score there...
Glad to hear that new stuff from Beatserv is in the works. I am really just waiting for your Alpha Syntauri set. I gave up on my dream of having one of my own, so a virtual one would make me smile for a long time...
-wgp
There's also a 40% off on downloads at Big Fish Audio, if that's of any interest to anyone...
Well, if you have no luck locally, you know where I'm at (for both machines). As you say *almost* worth a couple long drives.
while we're on the subject of drum machines...
between the new sonic couture offerings (where the bonus purchases are every bit as excellent as the featured libraries, devilfish 303 is delicious) and the new native instruments mutations http://tinyurl.com/mrvzh8 it's going to be a sleepless weekend of sound trolling.
i also saw over at stretta's blog that korg is resurrecting the wavedrum http://tinyurl.com/m3k87v
quite excited about that as well.
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