Just posted a shameless plugin for my new sample packs I just released a few days ago

https://audiosex.pro/threads/drum-machine-sample-packs-shameless-plug.65948/

 

An option "I have many that I sometimes use" would work best for me. Or "I have many that I draw inspiration from for my music and my own samples".

So I voted "I have some that I regularly use" because that is closest to how I use them. But I do have many and do not use them regularly - as in all my stuff being based on sample packs. They are useful, but not that much. I do have a few that I use regularly, though. They're all raw drum sample packs. By raw I mean they are raw sampled from drum machines or sampled live drums with as little processing as possible. Those are very useful!

 

Hey @ArticStorm only you can help me...

Please please please...

 

i collected a whole bunch like 2 years ago and now im over it.
il grab new kshmir, oliver power tools and other exceptional stuff but thats it

i do like having a big "base library" so to speak where you can enter a search term and theres a nice selection to browse through
also the tonal stuff from splice is supernice because its basically legally usable samples. especially single notes that you can murk


you never know when u gonna need an elephant roar bro

 

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I'd agree with you so far in that genre specific cookie-cutter sample packs tend to sound very similar, so I got this:

90s sample cds: Spectrasonics, Zero-G, Akai etc.
Initally got them for making 90s-2000s style JRPG video game music because they were omnipresent in every soundtrack

mega breaks:
25 Gbs of breakbeat wavs

sfx:
sound effects & ambience

Slate:
Slates free covid bundle, about 16 Gbs, haven't used them yet

Splice:
Guess what

Trap drums:
Trap packs I got from Reddit

Vengeance:
Good old Vengeance packs, they were the first samplepacks that impressed me

vinyl samples:
vinyl rips from blogspot sites

Data Hammer:
decent free sample library

You get the best variety from sources that are as different as possible in my experience

 

I don't really relate to what they're all about, I'm a musician

 

Like he said.
I make my own sounds.
Using samples is like a painter having someone else mix his colors and textures.
Those things are what make it original.
You remember original?

 

ooooor making your own snares is like a painter collecting hairs to craft his own paint brush
which is fine but it doesnt make you less of a "musician" if you prefer to focus on composition (or whatever aspect rly)

 

Not 1-2€, €10. Also i'm not sure if i get future update or not

https://audiosex.pro/threads/what-about-samples-kb6-de.55305

 

I use them and then replace them later on in the production should the song turn into a "keeper". They give you ideas, but they are also great "placeholders" sonically in your mix. This way you can build sounds around them, within some Context/relationships in levels, character, etc.

If I use a sample in a finished song, it's going to be paid for by me. Which means I'm going to be deleting anything someone thinks they can get a hand out later over; unless it is absolutely necessary to the song and something I cannot make some adequate version of for myself.

Same thing most people do with presets from virtual instruments, really. They just take up a ton less time and resources when you are first starting a track.

 

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BTW I installed DIVA oooh solid

 

I do exactly that, in fact I wanted to mark two options "I use regularly" and "I make my own samples"
I use them to have a quick reference, since it saves time in picking up the bass, assembling the drums, etc. As more than anything I sing and play the guitar, I drag the loops, I create the song, and then I put it together well from scratch

 

This is an interesting question. Not all "sample packs" are created equal. I'm familiar with the derivative crap you are referring to. (And I'm not knocking anyone that uses them - a talented beatmaker can make fire out of anything). But many sample-based producers are hooked on a higher grade of sample pack - stuff from the likes of Kingsway Music Library, The Rucker Collective, The Sample Lab, Crate League, Crabtree, etc. These guys are like composers that make original compositions for the purpose of packaging them as sample packs and selling to would-be beatmakers. You can get packs with just the compositions, or with the stems, often-times at a premium. These are typically highly sought after, but you can still find a wealth of them available at places like the sister site.

 

Precious little is actually “original.” We all build on the past, whether we use samples or not. Even the… bourgeoisie among us.

 

Sometimes your track just need that little extra something to push it across the finish line, like fart sounds recorded live at Budokan. I can't afford a trip to Japan!

 

Construction kits are basically painting by numbers except people who paint by numbers don't go around declaring themselves artists.

 

Construction kits are the sample packs I actively avoid because it's basically someone's generic 4 bars of music put into a sample pack. What use is that, no matter what its called? It's an interesting way to make a little money from basically nothing. I can bet everyone of us is capable of doing a construction kit sample pack.

 

" we used to have this industry called music, until someone explained it".


I just don't like using the construction kit loops even if I know I am going to delete them later. Because it's just another layer of something done to the file that you will have to deal with later anyway. I think they may actually create more work than they save at that point.