zircon Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 My senior project at Drexel University was the design, recording, editing, production, marketing and sale of a sample library. I settled on the idea of a vintage drum sample library in particular, since, well, I love phat beats and I use old drum samples all the time. Why not make new recordings of old-school sounds through old-school gear? So, after nearly a whole school year's worth of work, ludicrous amounts of time spent in REAPER, Wavelab, and Kontakt, plus a hefty investment into studio time, the library is just about released. It's called "Groove Bias: Vintage Drum Sounds". Props to Kanthos for the title - neither bustatunez/Will nor myself could think of one (the two of us comprise Impact Soundworks, the company releasing the library.) The samples were made in Kontakt 2 but I've also done patches for Logic's EXS-24, Reason's NN-XT, and Steinberg's Halion 3. This is the biggest project I've ever done by myself, pretty much, and I'm VERY proud of it. Sixto, SnappleMan and Harmony all helped test the library (among others.) Harmony and Virt are doing demos for it, too! Anyway, I have an OCR-only preorder going on right now which you can find in the Workshop forum and the thread below. http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23125 I gotta say, Drexel is an awesome place for having a degree like Music Industry that allowed me to do this and actually get credit for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Topic title makes it sound like you're giving'em away... Where do you find time to DO all your stuff anyway? I almost want to kill myself just thinking about how much time and energy I'd have to invest to pull off what you do regularly. Drum samples are kickin' too, as was expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Taucer Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Ordered. Will likely make good use of it (as I have with Sitar Nation) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustin Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Topic title makes it sound like you're giving'em away... Yeah. But cool - demos rule. Would loved to have tested this! Alas, after being laid off and things being so crazy I'll have to put this off. But I've been wanting some new drum samples. Dig it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 Thanks, guys. We'll probably do some sort of cut down free version at some point once I recoup my initial investment, maybe just some really simple soundfonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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