New from Soundcells, the makers of bitBUMPER deluxe and Digital Genome, comes Simple Sampling! Simple Sampling features samples selected from instruments like the Stylophone, mini kalimba, Doepfer MS404, Supernova 2, microKORG and a Rhodes Mk1. Soundcells CEO Harald Karla described the refill in an interview we conducted with him just over a month ago:
"Usually, the direction into which a ReFill would develop comes up quite spontaneously... The idea behind “Simple Sampling” was basically a pure Stylophone-based ReFill designed as a Christmas gift for customers. However, merely a few demo tracks with one Stylophone sound appeared to be somewhat meager – so some additional “helpers” needed to be thrown in. Since that ReFill was a really impulsive idea and the timeframe being accordingly tight, it had to be kept as simple as possible but without a lack of quality. So elaborate multi-sampling just wasn't an option… - an idea for a name and some additional content of the ReFill was born. I had finished sampling of the MS404 quite a while ago and that 5-tone mini kalimba had also been waiting on my hard disk for some time…
When I am searching for topics for a new ReFill, I usually ask myself what soundset I would find interesting or if there is anything I miss so far... Most importantly, there should always be a good reason for creating and also publishing a new ReFill."
Simple Sampling - a name, a concept!
At first Soundcells started working on a fun ReFill based on a Stylophone only, which was recorded for sampling purposes. Besides programming a patch that matches the real thing, the NNXT sampler in Reason was tweaked to go some extra steps and some fat funky clavinet-style patches caught by surprise. While producing the Stylofunk mini track (apart from the loop it's entirely based on stylophone samples) some extra cool stuff was added to this ReFill: a "single-sample-rhodes", a "single-sample-piano", a "single-sample-kalimba" and a lot of other nifty stuff... "Simple Sampling" gradually turned into a product full of "simple samples" coming from different sound sources.
If you are looking for sampling like it was done in the old days instead of patches with hundreds of individual samples, you will love this ReFill. Super quick loading patches, very cpu-friendly and most of all full of character and very charming...
Simple Sampling Contents:
- 101 combinator patches for many different styles of music, subdivided in 6 folders: Bass, Drum Machines, FX & Atmo, Keys, Leads, Pads.
- A note by note (a2 - e4) sampled and looped Stylophone including it´s typical release click.
- "Simple Samples" coming from the Rhodes Mark 1, Doepfer MS404, Supernova 2, microKORG, G2, VL1...
- The modules folder contains the basic NNXT patches which are used for the combinator sounds.
- 10 Rex loops, 5 Redrum kits
Pick up Simple Sampling for the introductory price of 14.90€, from now until the end of October!
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