thomasjaldemark wrote:Have you thought about copyright and stuff?

We are only accepting original samples and loops, we will not be supporting piracy also the distribution licence will be "for the use of contributors only".

It only matters because attaching your service to a genre might alienate two kinds of potential contributor. One, the guy who hates pigeonholing music at all (your expert producer, probably) and two, the guy who reads the overly-reactionary music press proclaiming "minimal is dead", and i...

Atheory wrote:do you pay people to contribute samples? whats the motivation?

You contribute and in return you get the edited archive when its complete. So for a contribution of 20 samples/loops you get several thousand in return. At least thats the idea Dependant on getting 100 or so signups.

Nice concept. However, I'd have massive reservations about pigeonholing my services under a "trendre". Especially one that is, by all accounts, firmly now "off trend". I dont think it matters really. The samples contributed will be useful for most types of techno and techstyle h...

This is pretty crazy. I just set up a new site for just this purpose last week.

http://minimalsamples.com

well this goes little offtopic but omg how shite is umek nowdays.. :roll: comparing these for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbEN7mBdwA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuOOh09Fp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A689btel3VA Indeed, UMEK was better at the harder stuff IMHO. But I still like h...

My last couple of buys were an Akai MPD32, Im trying to learn how to finger drum! and an Olympus LS10 digital field recorder which is absolutely awesome.

Inspiration is a funny thing, I watched this vid a while back, it’s a really interesting take on the subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html Man I love the TED talks. I think my favourite of all time is the Sir ken Robinson one about schools killing creativity......