thats great promo and all and im not against this haha. Just saying why would anyone want to use someone elses samplings? I mean its cool, and fun, but still makes no sense to me, when you can make your own sounds. Im sure the sounds are VERY highly top notch, lol its optiv and btk what else do you expect?! But idk Im not even trying to make a point hahaha. Well i guess my point is i just dont get the point of downloading other peeps samples! and using them!
Personally id just use snares and kicks and hi hats but thats just me
It is true it gets it out to the community and helps out a LOT and actually its a great thing lmaoo! like i said im not against it, just still like ???? i dont get it...
Not sure what's not to get.
Electronic music–no matter what genre/subgenre–was founded on sampling whether it be vinyl, cassette, etc. Tunes were created using a combination of said samples as well as original compositions via live drummers and good ol' fashion synthesis. In this day in a age it's a bit harder to simply rip a sample from an old vinyl recording (or other medium) without fearing the possibility of backlash in the form of a copyright infringement or other legality. Why then is it a problem to make use of royalty-free, legal samples that have been created? It's a bit hypocritical for one to complain about the use of samples from sample packs, yet believe that sampling/ripping from a recording is acceptable.
Furthermore, as I've said in a previous post many moons ago, the use of samples in music is analogous to cooking. If you put someone who doesn't know shit into a kitchen at a Michelin Star restaurant and provide them access to every ingredient known to man, what do you think you'll end up with? Inedible shit or a peanut butter sandwich at best. The point is that just because someone has all the tools at their disposal doesn't mean they're going to be able to use them in a manner that will prove to be effective. The same goes for a new producer who buys a thousand sample packs and dumps them all into a DAW–it's going to sound like incoherent shit. There's more to creating a song then simply dumping in samples: tuning, arranging (and rearranging), EQing, compressing...then throw in the fact that you're going to need to write a good synth melody to compliment those pieces and hopefully,
hopefully, you end up something that may turn into a finished project...but probably not. However, the means in which you manipulate those samples in conjunction with your own original patches, melodies, chords, etc. are in the end what makes someone a good producer–and if you're lucky, you do it in a manner that makes people turn their head and notice that you have a unique "sound."
I'm not advocating that people go out and purchase construction kits, dump the stems in a DAW and call it day–that's just lazy and will only take you so far. What I'm saying is that, in my humble opinion, taking samples, loops, hits, etc. from a pack and then eqing, effecting, chopping, resampling, etc. to fit within the context of your tune should not be looked down upon considering one of the fundamental aspects of electronic music is
using samples. It just happens that now we have access to a lot more samples that we don't need to get cleared or pay royalties for their use.
Finally, someone like myself–a father of two very young kids, has a full-time job in addition to DJing corporate & private gigs about 35 weekends out of the year–doesn't have time to sit around for hours creating drums from scratch and field recording the sounds from shaking a bag of dicks to create an impulse response for reverb. When I have precious studio time from 10 pm to 3 am, I'm chopping the fuck out of some breaks (from a sample pack, gasp!), slicing up/resampling one-shots (again from sample packs) and then fire up a synth that I'm feeling to hammer out a decent melody that I hope will act as a catalyst to create a song. I may even go back and grab a pad or atmosphere noise (from a sample pack) and then try to recreate it or layer it with one that I created. The point is I know damn well what the fuck I'm doing when I'm sitting in my basement dungeon studio but time is not on my side so I'll do whatever I can to create a song that I feel is a reflection of the "sound" that myself (and msmith222) are looking for. And if a piece of my composition comes from a sample pack I could give exactly ZERO fucks what other people think. As long as I can call it my own, I'm satisfied. And if other people happen to like it, all the better.
Fuck bitches. Get money. *drops mic, walks off stage.*
Cheers.
