why on earth would YOU be the one to judge about what kind of remixes may be produced and what not?!
The samples were bought at a real life auction from alan wilder not mentioning anything about royalties and such. So...
Not trying to be rude or judgmental, no need for hostility. Only a suggestion
The people that bought those 20 zip disks each paid over 500 GBP for them.
... and I'm sure they were very disappointed with what they got ! As with everything, including the famous EII libraries, they all get copied and distributed. Such is life....
Don't know about that - having any number of source Depeche Mode samples is better than having none, I think. Would happily pay another few checks' worth for more Depeche and Recoil samples, regardless of their eventual publication.
Would give the man a limb and a half (and purchase his used car) for access to multitrack and post-production audio, in all honesty.
BTW, Dominatrix does some of the best DM remixes IMO and pretty sure he was churning these out before those samples were made available.
Yeah, may have been a poorly-chosen example, timeframe-wise.
Personally can't stand any of the guy's work though; every single piece of his I ever hear sounds primitive, off-the-cuff, and amateurish, to my ears, at least. Has Dave's center channel solo male choir vocal sample from the 5.1 mix of
Clean going in almost every single remix, dull and lifeless DAW preset reverb thrown in every which way with few particularly pleasing results, unreasonably wide bowl-of-pudding mixes, improper general mixing by default on every last remotely-audible sound. Can instantly recognize the classic FL Studio vibes from the get-go.
Even in terms of basic structure, arrangement, and build, there is just so little real value.
Have no idea where the disconnect is. My decades of arrangement and audio production experience must be dulling my senses or something.
So far as publicizing the Depeche Mode soundbanks and all that, was only making a suggestion, don't mean to put anyone down with my overt judgmentalism or anything. Was hinting at something like making them available by request-only.
Don't have to change a thing on my account, of course, the lot of them (along with the other soundbanks not mentioned with the rest of the
Music For The Masses and
Devotional banks) will become public over time, as you said
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