homemade noize

Digital-Redux is a relatively new company selling royalty free samples via DVD. They currently have 5 genre specific DVD’s. My general feeling and experience with sample collections is that you are not going to love all the sounds. I think that is to much to ask for. I want the sounds to be well organized and having a file names that give you a hint of what it going to sounds like is a huge plus. It nice to have a things locked tight in one genre to increase the number of sounds you might like and the chances those sounds will fit to together. I have very eclectic taste but rigid adherence to genre makes sense on a sample disc. It obvious that they should be well recorded also. I don’t like when they are to processed but don’t like them completely dry either. If all the sounds need to be feed through effects all the time it defeats the the purpose of samples being easy and quick to use.

These collections fit the bill. I wish there were more real bass lines than single bass hits and bass sounds. Any short coming is over made up buy the price. At $40 they are half the price or less than other collections. Another good feature is the many formats on one disc that a lot of of other don’t offer. I use reason as well as a more traditional sequencer and I don’t like have to pick between .rex and .wav formats. You always could just pick .wav and recycle any file you may want but who wants to go though that when you don’t have to. Having both a refill and individual .rex is nice also. Stylus RMX is also supported as well. If you are in the market you might want to check them out.