The mau5 and duda team up for an awesome CD

[[IN]Head-Kay]

Despite my outspoken loathing of the mau5, he has decided to benifit humanity this time by releasing an awesome sample filled CD in collaboartion with duda, here is the full info:

Xfer Records is a label started by Deadmau5 and his longtime friend and studio accomplice Steve Duda for their collaborations, such as BSOD, and WTF? with Tommy Lee and DJ Aero.
Their latest CD XFRSCD01 offering is not a music CD, but rather a sample CD-ROM for music producers, featuring a plethora of WAV loops and one-shots, ready to be loaded in to any popular music-making software.

This CD-ROM Features 555 Megabytes of WAV sample content:

336 Loops at 128 BPM
425 Kick Drums
229 Clap sounds
1500+ percussive sounds
322 Hihats,
158 Snare drums
100+ Cymbal and Cymbal-effect sounds
227 synth/tonal sounds composed and engineered by Duda and the mau5 themselves.

An extensive amount of gear was used for the CD-including circuit-bent and analogue drum machines, vintage analogue synths such as Moog and Arp, original acoustic drums and other sounds recorded in various professional studios. A variety of digital sound sources were used as well for creating new sounds, such as FFT synthesis, additive/subtractive synthesis, even custom DSP routines coded by Steve Duda in C++.

“Despite the large amount of sample CDs out there, we saw a niche for one geared towards building blocks of EDM with a twist - this one is royalty-free, so it can be used in original productions with no fear of legal repercussions from the original artists who often are sampled on other CD libraries”, says Steve. “We tried to make an assortment featuring a variety of sound sources, which aren’t overproduced so they can fit into a production workflow without stamping their own flavor on a mix and being overly-recognizable”.

One thing for certain, the sounds of the XFER Sample CD will be featured on dance tracks for decades to come.

Pre-order yours at https://killthe8.com/merch/pages/7598/

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99$ is pretty expensive, but you can bet there's alot of quality in this one from two tech nerds!

[Nesta]

but you know, they always keep the good samples for them..

[Proof]

Yeah, but then again there's a LOT you can do to just one sample, let alone ... combining three samples to make one sample.

There isn't really a "good" sample, its how you make use of a particular sample that becomes a good sample.

They all started with a bland sample and did a lot of processing to make it sound like they want (including compression). Giving off un-compressed samples are HUGE. A lot of the samples you get now (Vengeance, Thomas Penton) are already compressed ... so there's not that much you can work around, in dynamics.

I might actually buy this one, just waiting to hear some samples ... screw pre-order.

[[IN]Head-Kay]

^True, uncompressed means you have the option to tweak the sounds to your likings. Im thinking in investing in this one too, if the rat knows how to do one thing, its producing quality sounds. Undeniably a very talented nerd! Some of the DSP routines where programmed in C++ by duda, can it get more awesome?