240 Free Samples made with Syntakt by Mish / Collab with Nils

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Dear Elektronauts,

I’m low key proud to share with you my first sample pack. Not only that, I teamed up with our magical @Nils for the demo beats :sunglasses:

The pack consists of a fairly extensive collection of Syntakt sounds, most of which originated from the Syntakt Science Lab challenges, and were recorded through my little trusty Korg Monotron Delay for some extra wobble and hiss.

I was inspired by a Portishead interview I watched online, where Adrian Utley explained how they recorded real drums onto vinyl, damaged the record, and then re-recorded it into old Akai samplers, ending up with a unique world of sounds that had a real “signature” vibe. That idea stuck with me.

Think epic atmos, lots of clang and wub, killer bass and deep kicks, all pushed to the limits of the equipment and my personal knowledge of the boxes. I recorded everything using Digitakt and meticulously named each sample on the machine itself. No compression was used on the DT. The result is a small world of sounds that fit together and carry a certain mood.

The most fun part came afterwards, when Nils agreed to make beats with the sounds and bring them to life. I genuinely admire his skills and everything he posts here, so for me that was the cherry on top of this little project. I’m sure you’ll be curious what he cooked up with the samples, so we each recorded a couple of snippets to serve as a demo for the pack and also as a small beat tape on its own. Thank you again, Nils.

Volume 1 contains 240 free samples, and I have another 240 that I’m thinking of putting out later as Volume 2 for a small, symbolic fee.

I’d LOVE to hear what you think. And I’d also like to say that without this community I probably wouldn’t be doing any of this. Spending last summer tweaking knobs and recording for the Science Labs gave direction and purpose to what is mostly just a hobby for me, and eventually led to this pack.

Enough rambling. Here’s the link to the demo video, as well as the Gumroad link

240 free samples. Drums, textures, tonal fragments and slightly dusty bits. 16 bit, 44.1 kHz, compatible with your sampler of choice.

LINK FOR DOWNLOAD
https://mishpult.gumroad.com/l/sy-tron

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It’s out, awesome! :grinning:

I think you’re a doing a huge service to the community, spending your time and skills, offering these quality samples for free. Huge respect :heart:

The samples are pure gold in my book, I had such fun playing around with them. I’m not nearly done, and have lots left to explore. I hope people take the time to check them out, I found them super inspiring.

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As always, such great music @Nils, great promotion for this excellent sample pack, thank you @mishpult :sparkles:

(PS, out of curiousity: Since these are samples, did you use a DT2 to create the music?)

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Thanks man and yes, everyone should feel free to post anything they make with the samples, super-curious to hear!

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Thank you! For my bits I used DT2, yes:)

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@rtme :heart:
(I used an Octatrack)

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Great initiative @mishpult and @Nils ! I shall download and squeeze it all in my M8 :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:
Thanks for your hard work, will make sure to post results

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yes, you should totally stuff your M8 to the brim with it:)

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Loving these sounds. I appreciate how much work it takes to design sounds, run them through something, record them back in, then name and file them. Not to mention the fact you did the file and naming stuff on a Digitakt. Great work! This community is the best.

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Thank you for offering these and for free, too!

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This is great, gonna check these out once I have a bit more time! Thanks for sharing.

Curious if you’d also be interested in sharing the ST presets. Or does the processing do such heavy lifting that that’s pointless?

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These sound awesome! Are there 48k versions of the samples as well?

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Thanks for the kind words, and yes it took some time, my wife wasn’t happy at all :smiley:

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A lot of the presets are in the various Science Labs challenges, others are even not saved, but also the Monotron has been put to work quite extensively with its MS-20 filter, short delay times and audio rate modulation. There’s a lot of dirt on those!

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There is, I will save it asap as part of the downloads!

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Big ups @mishpult and @Nils; looking forward to digging into these tonight. Going to load them into my 404 and go nuts. Love the Monotron as well, I always forget how much of a beast that little thing is.

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Word about the Monotron! Thank you!

Something about the process of making - I have deliberately left all the frequencies in and haven’t carved the sounds. That means it will act more as a synthesizer and one could make new drum sounds out of the osc sustained notes for example. What I don’t like in a lot of sample packs is that decisions are taken for me and sounds are not flexible. Yes, it might need a bit of work to forge and mix, but that’s also the joy of it IMO:)

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This got me to dig out my Monotron Delay. :slight_smile:

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Some excellent sounds here ! I should run my Syntakt through some pedals :thinking:

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Would love to hear something you peeps made with it!

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