They felt really fresh and Noisia-grade back then.
When I grew up I used a lot of BHK Samples like the Rough Connections packs. Who makes the best samples in your opinion and why? …that it fits to the song. And a snappy transient, no DC offset, a healthy fundamental and an interesting tail. It’s all easy to do but it’s a chore if you have to do it for 100 pad loops in a row.Ĭomplete the sentence. Volume levels, click-free sample starts and ends, and making seamless loops really seamless. On the flip side, what’s the most annoying, frustrating, tear-your-hair-out thing about making them? Sample packs give you even more of a chance to experiment and influence the musical landscape by providing odd, inspiring or unique material to other producers. To me, making a well-rounded sample pack with a compelling demo track can be just as fulfilling as writing a new EP. My most favourite sample packs of all time all could have been amazing records, too. By this I mean aiming for a high quality of samples as well as sorting and naming samples properly and putting them in a folder-system that anyone can quickly understand and navigate.ĭo something new. Make it useful for yourself as much as for others. What’s the first rule to bear in mind when making a sample pack? In addition to that I would scavenge old and abandoned project files for useful raw materials. When I’ve made a sample pack, half of it came from my steadily growing private sample collection I would use in most of my productions, the other half would be freshly recorded and made over the course of a few weeks, sometimes month. For me I’ve always been a fan of both sound design and using well-made sample packs in my production process.
I want to say every producer starts a sample pack the moment they bounce their first samples or make their first drums, even if it’s just for themselves. How much of your life do these projects take up? This definitely made my day though and got me really excited for upcoming packs. I didn’t know it had hit 1 million sales until Splice sent us a literal trophy like a YouTube play-button for a million subscribers haha. Did you acknowledge this in any celebratory way or just business as VR HQ? With almost all of us under strict isolation rules right now – and more and more artists developing their own sample packs and different ways of keeping themselves creatively inspired / bring in a little extra revenue to make up for postponed shows – we called up the Disciple ninja to find out more about the process of creating a sample pack and what his favourite all-time samples.ġ million sample packs sold. It turns out the German-in-LA’s samples have been so universally supported he’s even heard them in The Mandalorian. Major lockdown props go out to Virtual Riot this week as he’s recently discovered his Heavy Bass Design sample pack on Splice has been downloaded over a million times.Ī first in bass music, Valentin was unaware of this feat until he received a commemorative trophy through the post.