http://www.theelectronicgarden.com/vcs3.php
After countless requests (and a few overly-generous - if ultimately refused - offers to buy the real thing off of me), I've finally managed to get my VCS3 to stay in tune long enough for a complete collection of multisamples and loops. I had some help from Expert Sleepers, in the form of their awesome Silent Way MIDI to CV plug-ins, but there are quite a few that were scaled the old fashioned way: by hand and with a lot of patience.
There are basses, leads, pads and of course effects! Multis, one-shots and a 64-note percussion kit comprised of oddball effects in Kontakt and Reason ReFill formats. Plus there are 101 REX files created using the VCS3's loony Trapezoid envelope generator and third oscillator LFO. Much joystick waggling has occurred in the creation of these sounds!
There are over 850 multi-samples and one-shot samples rolled into more than 70 patches, plus another 101 loops. And it all costs a mere twenty smackers.
So what's it sound like? Check out "Sticks and Stoners" a tune I made using the Reason version of the collection:
http://www.theelectronicgarden.com/Scot ... toners.mp3
and another shorter, weirder one (this time with the Kontakt version):
http://www.theelectronicgarden.com/Scot ... rigade.mp3
All of the sounds in both demos are from Joystick Journeys.
If you don't want to splash the dough (or if you simply cannot believe that a VCS3 can be tuned) you can pop over to the Freebies page and grab the free selection, which includes four multis, a smaller set of percussion fx (with twenty hits) and five REX loops. As always, TEG freebies are license-free to use in your music even if you don't plump for the full product. If you do, you'll find that we have one of the coolest licensing policies around (we won't even complain if you want to share the collection with your bandmates).
