Do you buy sample packs? (loops, one-shots)

[stardustmedia]

For a long time I almost only bought drum one shots. Meanwhile I almost only buy loops. Preferrably tops only. And nothing else than Apple Loops (I work with Logic). Here and there I also buy vocals, although they are hardly used in the final version. I tend to use them as an inspirational starting point.

Finally it's all up to my customers. Most of them want results fast, so drum loops are a great way to start. It's not fun to them to watch me creating cool drums in hours. After they leave, I start to recreate the groove of the loops with samples.

[e@rs]

'Almost never'. That translates into very very very rarely.

[Jorgeelalto]

I like buying drums, percussion, sound effects and transitions, both in loop format or one shots, but I don't really like buying synth loops and melodies, it certainly feels like buying premade songs :S

Funny that your say that you don't like synth loops and melodies, in a Future Producer thread about the use of loops a member wrote the exact opposite; he feels that using drum loops is like cheating but synth loops is all fine. It's kind of strange but I guess it depends on the genre of music you're producing, as some genre are more beat oriented the melody will end up being in the background.

Well, the drum loops I use are sliced, rearranged and mixed with other loops and one-shots, so it's not that I use directly the loop to substitute drum busses. I'm not getting the percussion part done just throwing some loops, but it helps me since I enjoy the natural feeling in percussions but I don't want to record them (and I really can't).

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I think the only time in about 10 years was this year. I bought a promo drum hits pack foor something like $1, in this year's sales (Yet to audition), and I bought a loop instrument from Looploft (Cinematic something or other), which functions asa Kontakt instrument, and offers more functionality than just a straight loop player (One of those loops made it into my Synthmaster competition project )

Otherwise, not so into it. Far more interested in putting my audio recorders to use, and developing my own loops

[Jorgeelalto]

I think the only time in about 10 years was this year. I bought a promo drum hits pack foor something like $1, in this year's sales (Yet to audition), and I bought a loop instrument from Looploft (Cinematic something or other), which functions asa Kontakt instrument, and offers more functionality than just a straight loop player (One of those loops made it into my Synthmaster competition project )

Otherwise, not so into it. Far more interested in putting my audio recorders to use, and developing my own loops

The Producers Choice pack? That one is beautifully good

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I think the only time in about 10 years was this year. I bought a promo drum hits pack foor something like $1, in this year's sales (Yet to audition), and I bought a loop instrument from Looploft (Cinematic something or other), which functions asa Kontakt instrument, and offers more functionality than just a straight loop player (One of those loops made it into my Synthmaster competition project )

Otherwise, not so into it. Far more interested in putting my audio recorders to use, and developing my own loops

The Producers Choice pack? That one is beautifully good

Then it looks like I saved my loop/hit virginity for 'the right one'

[Jorgeelalto]

I think the only time in about 10 years was this year. I bought a promo drum hits pack foor something like $1, in this year's sales (Yet to audition), and I bought a loop instrument from Looploft (Cinematic something or other), which functions asa Kontakt instrument, and offers more functionality than just a straight loop player (One of those loops made it into my Synthmaster competition project )

Otherwise, not so into it. Far more interested in putting my audio recorders to use, and developing my own loops

The Producers Choice pack? That one is beautifully good

Then it looks like I saved my loop/hit virginity for 'the right one'

Well, that's a personal opinion of mine, so I don't assure you will like it...

But yeah, better overall quality than other packs.

[nickamandote]

I don't like loops at all. But I do like drum samples.

[Vortifex]

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[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I don't like loops at all. But I do like drum samples.

I don't like using loops, as is, but they can be great to butcher for hits

[sin night]

I buy only drums one-shots, but it has to be something really interesting because I already have too much of them (and I'm definitely not a sample libraries collector, I think I bought no more than 10 packs in my whole life).
I don't like browsing through tons of samples (I still do it, because that's the workflow when working with samples). If I buy a new library, it has to become my go-to choice for a certain sound/vibe/task (so that's kinda hard, because it competes with the libraries I already own).

Anyway, since I bought a decent analog drum machine, I see myself using less drum samples than before (maybe to layer or to add thing not possible with my drum machine); that reduces my appetite for samples.

[1wob2many]

IIRC Orbital said they used some drum loops on at least one of their albums.

That would be the "Brown Album".

[Robmobius]

I only buy high-quality one shot drum samples.

[SampleScience]

I only buy high-quality one shot drum samples.

Any recommendations?

[Nielzie]

Only one-shots, of which I have enough right now I think.