(Montreal, Canada) – Canadian hot shot producer Deadmau5 and his longtime friend and studio partner Steve Duda are about to release a sample CD featuring a plethora of loops and one-shots. The samples are royalty-free and suitable for any popular music-making machine.
The package, titled XFER, contains sounds extracted from a wide number of analogue equipment such as circuit-bent drum machines, vintage analogue synths such as the Moog and Arp, and acoustic drums among others recorded is various professional studios. A myriad of digital sounds are included as well, such as FFT synthesis, additive/subtractive synthesis, and even custom DSP routines coded by Steve in C++.
“Despite the large amount of sample CDs out there, we saw a niche for one geared towards building blocks of EDM with a twist – this one is royalty-free, so it can be used in original productions with no fear of legal repercussions from the original artists who often are sampled on other CD libraries”, says Steve. “We tried to make an assortment featuring a variety of sound sources, which aren’t overproduced so they can fit into a production work-flow without stamping their own flavor on a mix and being overly-recognizable”.
Looks like a rather sweet package to us… Who doesn’t want to have a source of sounds like this compiled by today’s hottest producer?