Sampleism Blog

Sampleism has recently added a number of new updates to our service.

Over the past few months we have seen a huge demand for the Sampleism platform from both developers and customers and we have been working hard to keep improving things for everybody involved.

Here are a few things that we have recently introduced that you may or may not be aware of.

Increased Storage Space

We have been trying to increase the amount of space our developers have on our Google Cloud servers for a while. It’s been a tricky process as space is valuable and costly on the Cloud but we have managed to pass on some recent gains to our developers….

> All developers who use Sampleism now have 1GB of free storage space for their kits!

> Developers using our ‘Sound Designer’ service have 3GB of space.

> ‘Sample Factory’ subscribers benefit from 10GB of space.

> Our most prestigious and desirable service ‘Sampling Guru’ will give you unlimited storage space for your kits, libraries, patches and instruments!

Increased Payouts

In an effort to give more back to everybody who uses Sampleism we have re-evaluated how much commission our developers earn. We are always striving to offer the best deal to our users so this has been on our to do list since our inception.

>We are very pleased that we are now able to give everybody a payout of 50% minimum across the board for free.

>Developers using our ‘Sound Designer’ service have a 60% payout

>‘Sample Factory’ subscribers benefit from 75% payout

>Our most prestigious and desirable service ‘Sampling Guru’ will pay you 90% for every sale you make.

Kits listing dates

All kits are now listed by the date they were first published and not when they were first created. This is to prevent new kits getting lost on page 2.

Statistics

We all need statistics when running a sample outlet and here’s an example of the information you can now keep track of…

> How many sales have you made?
> How many people viewed your latest kit?
> How many previews have people downloaded from you?
> How many times has your profile been viewed 
> How did my your promotion impact on visitors?

Sampleism gives you all of this in real-time, in great detail, over any time-period and with cool interactive graphs!

Discussion Threads

At the bottom of every page we have included a discussion area powered by Disqus so you can communicate directly with each other. You can also use this area to add extra details, images and videos for your products

More users

We now have over 1000 registered users on Sampleism and this will continue to grow so you can be sure that your latest kits will be viewed by a large and dedicated audience.

More Formats

We have been gradually adding new sample formats and categories for developers to place their products under. There are now 23 formats to choose from including patches, plugins and software. We have new VSTi developers currently working on brand new exclusive software that will appear in these categories soon so, if you make your own audio software we have you covered!

Better Marketing

We have been establishing firm links with some fantastic industry news outlets (blogs, magazines etc) in recent months with very positive results so expect to see new banners, articles and promotions in the very near future as we push to establish Sampleism as the ‘go to’ place for underground, independent sounds. Remember, it’s the developers that count here so we will do what we can for you but we also ask that our users spread the word. After all, word of mouth marketing is king!

Soundcloud demo player embed

The new HTML5 Soundcloud widget has been causing a few issues with some of our users so we have reverted back to the old Flash player for a little while the issue is fixed. Please report any irregularities you may experience.

Sampleism is undergoing constant evolution and as we keep on growing we are always evaluating our service and what we provide to our family of developers and their customers. We value your feedback, ideas and suggestions.

Sampleism is being developed for you so we want to hear what developers and customers alike have to say about what we are doing. Please don’t be shy, we appreciate everything that’s thrown at us, especially pizza and chocolate cake!

We still have several surprises and updates in the works which we think will make everybody happy. We can’t wait to unveil them!

Happy Sampling Everybody!

Hello Sampleists!
It’s been a very busy few days in the world of Sampleism, we now have nearly 100 unique Kontakt Instruments on Sampleism and 100 unique WAV sample packs, not including all the other formats and genres you can find.
We are also very pleased to announce that very soon we shall also have an exclusive software development team releasing brand new audio software using the Sampleism platform.

Read on to find out what our latest developers are adding to the library……

Developer : MA-Simon

Glass Bowl Percussion- Experimental Steam Punk Minis V1
Volume 1 of “MA-Simon´s experimental Steam Punk Minis” features Instruments made by playing a Glass Bowl in a lot of different ways.
There are 10 Kontakt Instruments:
01 - Glass Bowl | Both Hands (3 Vel. 12 RR)
02 - Glass Bowl | Finger Knuckle (3 Vel. 10 RR)
03 - Glass Bowl | Finger Scratch (2 Vel. 10 RR)
04 - Glass Bowl | Finger Snap (2 Vel. 10 RR)
05 - Glass Bowl | Hands Left-Right (2 Vel. 10 RR)
06 - Glass Bowl | Spoon Version I (3 Vel. 10 RR)
07 - Glass Bowl | Spoon Version II (3 Vel. 10 RR)
08 - Glass Bowl | Stick (2 Vel. 10 RR)
09 - Glass Bowl | Sustained Version I (1 Vel. 4 RR)
10 - Glass Bowl | Sustained Version II (1 Vel. 4 RR)
201 Samples | 136 MB installed
*RR = Recorded Round-Robin Samples
*Vel = Crossfading velocity Layers

Other kits by MA-Simon…
Silver Glockenspiel - Traditional and Bowed instruments for Kontakt
Harmonic Wineglass- 8 Atmospheric Wineglass instruments for Kontakt - Reviewed in Computer Music magazine 9/10 !!


Developer : The Unfinished

The Unfinished Breaks Vol. 1 - Dynamic, Punchy Nu Skool Loops.
 
The Unfinished Breaks Volume 1 is a high quality collection of 100 deep and punchy breakbeat loops. Ranging from 68-158 bpm, flexibly designed to be used in a wide variety of genres such as breaks, dubstep, drum n bass and also cinematic tracks. 50 different loop styles with two variations of bpm, effects and edits. Attention has been paid to the length of these loops. No one bar quickies are included, just solid 8 and 16 bar rhythms with well-designed breakdowns and fills. With an emphasis on production-ready quality, these signature breaks are tempo-labelled and recorded at 24 bit. WAV format and also includes Kontakt patches for tempo-synced mayhem. The pack is royalty-free and ready to drop straight into your latest project after download. 

Developer : Glitched Tones

Atari Punk Console
A collection of 81 sounds recorded from an Atari Punk Console circuit. A mixture of dry and processed (delay) one shot sounds ideal for percussive elements or sound effects.

Other kits by Glitched Tones…
Circuit Bent Radical Rhythm Guitar - Sounds taken from a circuit bent toy guitar.
 
 
Developer : Yuroun Sound Design

Ambient Treasure - Inspirational Midi Files
“Ambient Treasure” is a midi pack full of lush and laid-back chord progressions that can be edited and re-arranged to your heart’s content. These patterns will slot into any genre that requires a rich tonal palette, from atmospheric film and TV soundtracks, Ambient, Pop, Chillout, Breaks and Electronica. You could even up the tempo and slip them into your latest Trance masterpiece.
Contents:
75 x Chord Sequence MIDI files
75 x Bass MIDI files
Bonus: 5 x Kontakt 4 Pad Presets

Other Kits by Yuroun Sound Design…
Pure - Alchemy Soundset with 30 pad sounds
Ambient Chords Progressions Vol 1 - Inspirational midi-files
Trance Construction Vol 01 - Trance midi kit
Stones of Albion - Alchemy Soundset
AtmospheriC - Atmospheric ambient sounds
Odeon - Rich pads, musical soundscapes, funky basses and more
Sapphire Dream Pads - Pads for Ambient, New Age and Film
 

Developer : Art Renaissance Project

Bad Places - A library for Camel Audio´s Alchemy
175 MB of new sample material and 90 presets for Alchemy.
 
 
Developer : Papas St Germain

Harmonic Beats, Discordant Melodies
This latest release from Papas St Germain is an eclectic mix of tough beats, ambient pads, chords, melodic loops and combinations of beats and melodies.  The sounds were sourced from drum machines, real snare hits , acoustic and electric guitars and bits and bobs such as recorders, Thai flutes and some actual flutes (played by Catherine). All sounds were then heavily processed using paulextremesoundstretch(check it out), Reaper and Pro Tools, huge amounts of analogue and digital delay, reverb, distortion and saturation.  A combination of software and hardware was used….

Hardware:

The good old MPC
S3000XL
Electribe ES1
Alesis SR16
Big Muff
Line 6 delay
Holy Stain
Plugins:

PSP plug ins for EQ and compression
AudioDamage for extreme dub delays
Other Kits by Papas St Germain…
Domestic Elements Volume 1 - 250MB of ambient sounds created from household objects
Domestic Elements Volume 2
Ambient Guitars Volume 1 - 300MB of Ambient Guitar Samples
 
 
Developer : Les Productions Zvon

MC3A Electronic Keyboard — 90’s square wave consumer keyboard
The MC-3A electronic keyboard is a digital square wave instrument. I don’t know exactly how old it is but my guess is that it’s roughly 20 years old. It has 12 chromatic sounds: 01- Piano 02- Saxophone 03- Pipe Organ 04- Guitar 05- Trumpet 06- Violin 07- Harpsichord 08- Jazz Organ 09- Synth 10- Cowbell 11- Oboe 12- Clarinet There’s a vibrato button that has no settings, it’s either on or off. I’ve sampled the sounds with and without vibrato. Additionally, it has rhythm styles, a bass and 5 percussion sounds: kick, conga, snare, cymbal and hi-hat. The bass and percussions are included in the set but not the rhythm styles (at least for now). All these do not sound like the acoustic instruments they’re named after but more like the Sid chip, 80’s and early 90’s video games. Very good retro sounds for chip music (or chiptune). Technical data: - samples were recorded through the keyboard’s line out at 24 bits / 44.1 khz and then converted to 16 bits. - all the notes are sampled for the sounds without sustain (piano, guitar, harpsichord, cowbell, bass), the others have 4 notes per octave. Available in wave, sfz and Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 or better formats.

Other kits by Les Productions Zvon….
Memory Collection Pack 01 and Pack 02 - part 1 - Samples from the past
Memory Collection Pack 02 - part 2 - Samples from the past
Out There - Acoustic Jaw Harp - electronic percussion and SFX
Reed Organs - Vintage reed organs sample set

Hi Sampleist crew!

Here’s a quick round-up of the latest content on Sampleism but first we would just like to say ‘Thanks!’
Thanks for supporting all the cool independent sound developers we have using Sampleism.
Thanks for sticking with us while we finish off our website and our service.
Our philosophy of opening up the world of Sample Library development to everybody is proving to be a great challenge but we are pleased we have given new artists the opportunity to develop and distribute their creations without restrictions.
In the coming months you will see new content added to Sampleism, new developers joining the family and new features (keep your eyes firmly focussed on the ‘featured kits’ area)
Anyway – sorry to ramble on as usual, let’s get down to business.

Here’s a quick rundown of the latest and greatest kits added to Sampleism….

The Bandoneon - Kontakt Instrument by Guillermo Guereschi
Our most popular instrument is now on a permanently low price of £14.50

Trance Construction Vol 01 - Trance midi kit by Yuroun Sound Design
Trance Construction Vol 01 contains 15 original lead trance riffs, bass and pad sequences. These great and beautiful patterns will definitely find a home in any trance production. Because the loops are MIDI it means that you can re-arrange the chord sequences or tweak the riffs to put your own original sound on your trance energy. As a bonus all the Sylenth1 sounds used in the demo are also included.

Modular Cuts - Cwejman Percussion by Bijou Soundwaves
A nice pack of 22 Cwejman modular “percussion” cuts, tuned for logic’s exs24. Quite nice to cut through mixes. I kept some clicks at the end of samples as it is sometimes nice to have those end of sample clicks to play a role in the groove of your track.

Eternal Waves UK Hardcore Loops Vol 3 by Eternal Waves
Eternal Waves smashes back into sample pack production with his 3rd massive installment of UK Hardcore Loops! Over 280 addictive and uplifting MIDI sequences that will be stuck in your head for weeks. In this pack you get 118 construction kits (That’s enough for 10 albums!)

Eldritch Paradigm - Atmospheric drone midi sequences by Spidergod
20 Atmospheric drone midi files containing 4 drone structured sequences. These midi files are easy to mix and match to create some lovely cosmic atmospheric sounds. Easy to use and easy to adjust to your needs. Great for drones and soundscape styles of music as well as idm,dubstep, drum and bass and other styles.

Acid Birn - Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Preset Pack by Pavel Vladykin
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 preset pack. 32 mindfully programmed and carefully selected acid arps. Perfect suitable for both live performances and studio work.

Dusty Eclectic Goldmine Vol.1 16bits AIFF - loops, breakbeats, IDM by Sample Science
Dusty Eclectic Goldmine is a collection of sounds consisting mainly of breakbeat loops. The focus is on dirty, lofi sounds that would fit well into a mix of Boards of Canada or Aphex Twin tracks. The collection also include a dialogues folder full of sound clips from vintage advertising & educational movies. Those public domain cuts have been selected to be useful for anyone seeking worthwhile sound bites to put in their mix. They have been sampled with Ninja Tune records & early 1990 IDM in mind. The rest of the collection consist of inspiring music loops as well as FXs, one shots & vinyl crackles. While designing the sounds, I had in mind to put up a sound library similar to the good old e-Lab X-Static Goldmine libraries. Don’t hesitate to chop, remix & re-arrange the loops & sounds to your taste. It is by no mean a string the dots construction kit type of library. It is meant to be sampled & chop in a creative way. I hope you’ll enjoy this collection.

The Egg - Ultimate Egg Shaker library by Scott.F.Thompson
The Ultimate Egg shaker library for EXS-24, 83MB uncompressed 48khz 24 bit stereo samples.
Patches: Catch, Green, Egg, Jitter
Loops: 70bpm - 220bpm Rolls, slow and fast Swells
Use mod wheel to add legato style on “The Egg” and foot pedal to make timing tighter.

Domestic Elements Vol2 by Papas St Germain
Special offer £4.00 till Tuesday 1st May midnight. Domestic Elements Volume 2 expands from where Domestic Elements Volume 1 left off.With over 350 Mb of samples.  All of the sample sounds are sourced from household objects with the intention of creating completely unique and one off sounds. Techniques used included stereo microphone placement techniques, spot micing, ambient recording, extensive editing, re-sampling and re-recording of sounds with the aim of creating ambient pads, one shot hits, chords, atmospheres, breaks and old school programmed beats.  Influences include recent Burial productions, Boards of Canada, Public Enemy, Eno, Global Communications.  All sounds are royalty free and would be useful for ambient styles of music production as well as downtempo productions, soundtrack music.

Voices from the Ether - 15 Atmospheric Midi Files by Spidergod
15 Midi Files with 3 midi sequences in each file. These are perfect for creating atmospheric drones and dark or light ambient pieces. These can also be used for other styles of music including dubstep, drum and bass and electro as well as other popular styles of music.

Roland JP-80x0 ‘Always Alive’ - For Roland JP-8000 and JP-8080 by Mystery Islands
Ever wanted to use your JP in a way that it is supposed to? 64 sounds covering lush pads with rich chorus and detune, sparkling leads and deep basses. This is the JP that you’ll hear in a huge library of releases, starting Armin Van Buuren, Above & Beyond, System F / Ferry Corsten, Airwave, etc etc! This Soundset has got the best JP sounds as used by many, many producers out there! Check it out now! All sounds programmed by Jani Kervinen aka Mystery Islands.

The Sounds of Miami 2012 by HighLife Samples
HighLife Samples presents “The Sounds of Miami 2012. Featuring 10 solid construction loop kits inspired by top dance producers such as Myon & Shane 54, Tritonal, Arty, Mat Zo and many others.You’ll love these grooves! The pack contain 10 folders of construction loop kits, each representing a complete groove. Each folder contains wav audio loops for each part of the groove separately. Each groove is key and tempo-labelled for flexibility and ease of use in your DAW. A must-have construction kit pack for every dance producer: check this download out today!
Contents: 10 Construction Loop Kits
Format: WAV, 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit Stereo.

Minimal Glitches - Analog Grooves by Temporal Geometry
Minimal Glitches is an ultimate collection of 100 WAV samples created out of sampled and sequenced analog one-shots recorded at 120 BPM for electronic music based projects. Geared with the most recent technology, this new Temporal Geometry sample pack is a massive kit of cutting edge audio elements you can use right out of the box within your projects. As these samples are all royalty-free, you can use them into your music production, game or TV project without having to worry about any additional licensing fees. Directly out from the Temporal Geometry studios, Minimal Glitches has been engineered to be used either in multiple projects or as a single track kit. All the samples of this pack have been created, reworked and mastered using plenty of cutting edge Reaktor ensembles, which gives this pack a very modern and futuristic edge.

Just £4 for each kit until May 1st! Check them out here.

Papas st germain is dedicated to creating samples from a variety of sources and instruments. The sounds created are heavily influenced by musicians such as Global Communications, Boards of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Dub, Burial, Brian Eno and psychadelic folk/soundtrack music. The domestic elements series is concentrated on sounds created from household objects and the manipulation of those sounds into musical elements suitable for use in any genre.

The ambient guitars series concentrates on the recording and manipulation of guitars using echo, delays reverbs and distortion with further processing done in software. Some of the software used in both libraries includes a program called paulextremesoundstretch, Audio Damage plug-ins, Reaper for cutting, reversing and editing and lots of PSP plug ins. Electroharmonix pedals and a Koass pad are some of the hardware units used. An honourable mention also goes to the MPC, S1000 and S3000xl Akai samplers.