After the success of our first attempt at a sample pack, the Netlabel Team has been wanting to do a follow up, and we are finally ready to kick it off! This time around, we want to take you all on a trip…into space! (please read that in a shakey yet dramatic inner-voice, you know the one).
And we are not talking this star system: we are doing deep. Deeper. No, just a few…more…lightyears…yeah, so deep into space we have gotten away from everything. No satellites, no sun, no Preacher/cat rap collabs ….just us, recording together the faint, erie and softly rythmic sounds emanating from all around us , or we have chosen to call them:
Signals from the Void!
(also to be read in dramatic, shakey announcer voice, perhaps with some reverb)
For this pack we challenge you to come up with ambient samples based on the theme of deep space. Cold, distant, static-filled, beautiful or haunting, wherever your imagination takes you. We ask little, only that:
A release is planned for the end of January, depending on how many entries we get and how much processing is required. There will be an additional thread requesting cover art as well, so bring out your inner astronaut and get working on sounds and visuals!
So who else is thinking about making some sounds for this? I have a day reserved next week for it myself, looking forward to seeing what all my reverbs can do
Made a few sounds for this today and sent those in - just 4 to be precise, but one of those is about 3 minutes, so I feel like I have earned my participation medal for this one
Well folks, perhaps it was bad timing on our part, doing this over the holidays and all, but we did not receive enough samples to make a pack. If anyone has something they still want to submit, please let us know, otherwise we are going to re-think this one this week and try to come up with a new plan. If anyone has any comments or ideas, such as a more interesting theme, don’t be shy, post here so we can discuss it.
Yeah, this one just did not take off, either due to the timing over the holidays, or the idea did not resonate as well with you all as we thought it would. So for now, we are going to scrap this pack and are considering our next move, possibly something using the samples we did receive as raw material. We will discuss and get back to everyone soon.
People always like more hardware-based samples and it doesn’t take long to save and upload. I hope more of the hardware crowd joins in if there is another sample pack thingy, the last one turned out pretty cool imho.
I know this derped but these are available if another attempt is made.
Like mentioned, they’re pulled from The Giant and one of it’s percussion modes.
If not, they’re still in the grab samples thread, which I would hope actually got more filled, since all of us have made something at some point. Weird shit or precise.
I’m not sure if anyone is into this, but I’d be willing to collaborate with someone / multiple people on a sample pack for IDMF (maybe in exchange for a shout-out to my packs page or something simple on the release page). Part of the reason why I didn’t submit on the first time around is because I would’ve probably flooded submissions and that doesn’t really fit the free-for-all ‘submit you stuff, everyone’ layout.
If anyone wants to do this and the label permits, maybe we can discuss a theme with the label guys and get cracking on something kind of massive in terms of quality and quantity?
That is definitely an interesting idea there SD, I will take it to the back room and discuss with the others, but in principle, I do not see a problem with that.
I have a day reserved next week for it myself, looking forward to seeing what all my reverbs can do
