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de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:57 am

Hello and thanks for looking in to this thread

ballistic is a drum sample player with the purpose of raising money for the charity Cancer Research UK. I am donating 100% of sales of ballistic to this charity. If you buy ballistic for $10, I will donate that $10 directly to Cancer Research UK and you get a new plugin and a set of samples from some top sample providers. Sounds like a pretty good deal no? If you can afford $10, even if you aren't really looking for a new plugin or drum samples, please consider buying in order to help give cancer the bullet.

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ballistic is a 15 slot drum sample player designed to get you making beats quickly without a million parameters to adjust. All controls are on one screen and the essentials are built in, but with one stereo output per slot, you can add more effects per slot in your hosts mixer. This keeps CPU low and workflow efficient

Simple but effective, it boasts flexible midi triggers, sample audition, sample tuning, 4 choke groups, mute/solo options, sample reverse, sample normalisation and of course a lofi option. There are 30 drum kits included, 780 one-hit samples covering acoustic kits, vintage electronic, analogue synth, dubstep, hiphop, breakbeat, 8-bit, glitch, jazz and esoteric noises. The samples are donated by many generous sample providers such as Loopmasters, Zero-G, Digital-Redux, Goldbaby, Soniccouture, Groove Criminals, Real Music Media, Ronnie @ Rekkerd, sink, polyslax and bedroom producers

More info, audio demo and purchase link can be found on the website: http://www.delamancha.co.uk/ballistic.htm

I hope you will join me in trying to raise money for this worthy cause and help research into eliminating the devastating effect that cancer has on our loved ones and future generations

cheers

dlM

EDIT: 12th Oct 09 - 9 new kits added, kindly donated by Groove Criminals, covers Moog, Linn, 808, Vintage Analogue, Digital, Glitch, Dance, Flanged and Junk.

tommy_d · Post by **tommy_d** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:42 am

I'm in.

A no-nonsense sample player + 600 cool noises for only 10USD? It's a no-brainer.

Love de la Mancha, f**k cancer.

EDIT: pm sent

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:31 pm

Thanks for your support, $80 raised for Cancer Research already

tommy_d wrote:f**k cancer

+1
It took my Mum away and if I can help to prevent that happening to others then it will be worthwhile

I'd like this to get as much momentum as possible and raise as much money as possible for Cancer Research. If you can post a link to this thread or the ballistic webpage on any other music forums you take part in, it would be much appreciated, thanks.

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:45 pm

Just bought this a few minutes ago. The samples alone are worth well more than $10.

My uncle currently has pancreatic cancer....the cancer with the lowest survial rate (I believe around 4%). So I'm glad to give a little bit to maybe make a big difference.

Excellent and worthwhile idea, dlm. So a special thanks to you and those who helped provide the sample content.

--JSP

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:02 pm

Glad to have helped out dlm.

This is a fantastic idea - I wish you great success!

C'mon folks, it's not often you get something really cool in return for helping out a worthy cause.

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:25 pm

How about a Mac buy-now button that doesn't actually give you anything, but still lets you donate.

I'm serious (though it needs to probably be labelled "Just donate" to be obvious)

EDIT: DNS problems are mine. O2 are useless.

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:37 pm

Thanks for your support guys, it's really appreciated and we've already raised $230 in just over 12 hours

For the Mac crowd, well there are over 600 drum samples in the download that you can still use for your $10, plus you get just the same karma boost as the PC guys

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:53 am

de la Mancha wrote:For the Mac crowd, well there are over 600 drum samples in the download that you can still use for your $10

Good point, and still a bargain. Deal done

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:13 pm

nice one, thanks!

We hit $300 already, thanks to everyone who contributed so far! keep spreading the word

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:17 pm

cool stuff. Thanks de la-(soul)-mancha

streifentier · Post by **streifentier** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:37 pm

That's a very nice idea, and a generous offer besides that. I'll buy it when I get home tonight.

alogie · Post by **alogie** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:53 pm

A new VST that I can explain away to the wife as a charitable donation? Sold!

Seriously, a great idea and I'm happy to support it.

captain caveman · Post by **captain caveman** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:39 pm

de la Mancha wrote:If you can post a link to this thread or the ballistic webpage on any other music forums you take part in, it would be much appreciated, thanks.

Word spread over at Gearslutz.

ZergFood · Post by **ZergFood** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:25 pm

It's nice to say that they magically research cancer, but how do they exactly do it? By torturing animals?

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:29 pm

ZergFood wrote:It's nice to say that they magically research cancer, but how do they exactly do it? By torturing animals?

http://cancer.co.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/

ballistic: over £1300 raised for Cancer Research UK so far