Okay, well I have sampled a rare 70s synth because I believe it to be dying. This process took me 4ever but I am now finished. I thought it would be nice to offer it as a sample CD to the world for a cheap price (considering I'm not a professional sampler). But I have some questions:
1. How should I distribute? Do I just burn CDs and post them or should I have some webspace for download?
2. How should I advertise? Just post on forums? Make a website?
3. How do I protect or copyright my samples? Do I even bother?
4. Please give any other advice as well as I am all ears.
Thanks for any pointers, appreciate it!
Business advice needed.
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- KVRist
- 481 posts since 12 Nov, 2002 from Texas
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 481 posts since 12 Nov, 2002 from Texas
Oh yeah I forgot the most obvious question:
5. I've sampled in WAV format, but should I offer like REX, AKAI ect or are people happy to do this themselves?
5. I've sampled in WAV format, but should I offer like REX, AKAI ect or are people happy to do this themselves?
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- KVRAF
- 3476 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from NE Ohio, USA
My answers (YMMV):
(1) This depends on how many MB the sample size is, how much you want to deal with trips to the mailbox, paypal, etc.
(2) Posting here is a good start. Is the idea to make the samples available without "out of pocket expense" (and some compensation for your time), or to make a couple of bucks in the process?
(3) Depends on your motivations.
(4) You could maybe partner with someone - say HollowSun, Nucleus Soundlabs or DBU - to handle distribution, rather than handling it yourself.
(5) I may be wrong here, I tend to think of REX format as mostly appropriate for loops, not multi-samples. WAV is pretty universal, with a good set of looped wav files and decent naming convention and/or the root note set, it would not be difficult for someone to build presets for DimPro, Kontakt, etc.
Doug
(1) This depends on how many MB the sample size is, how much you want to deal with trips to the mailbox, paypal, etc.
(2) Posting here is a good start. Is the idea to make the samples available without "out of pocket expense" (and some compensation for your time), or to make a couple of bucks in the process?
(3) Depends on your motivations.
(4) You could maybe partner with someone - say HollowSun, Nucleus Soundlabs or DBU - to handle distribution, rather than handling it yourself.
(5) I may be wrong here, I tend to think of REX format as mostly appropriate for loops, not multi-samples. WAV is pretty universal, with a good set of looped wav files and decent naming convention and/or the root note set, it would not be difficult for someone to build presets for DimPro, Kontakt, etc.
Doug
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 481 posts since 12 Nov, 2002 from Texas
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I'm not trying to start a business, so mostly its compensation for my time.