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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / The Future of Samples (my thoughts on Splice Sounds)
« on: January 12, 2016, 05:14:32 pm »
I'm sure most of you know about the newish sample service Splice Sounds, but I figured I'd shine some light on it anyway.
So Splice Sounds is a subscription service like Spotify, but for samples. The way they handle this is through credits. You pay a certain amount monthly, and get a certain amount of credits. You can then use these credits to download any sample from their library of sample packs (which is surprisingly large). It's like how the music industry switched from CD's to iTunes in a way. You used to have to buy an entire album which included all the songs, but you may not have necessarily liked every song. Then when music stores such as iTunes emerged, you could preview the songs you liked and then download just those specific songs. And this is exactly how Splice Sounds works.
So now you no longer have to buy these huge sample packs just to receive a bunch of samples you would never use. You can just go digging through packs and find the exact samples you want. They have also integrated a bunch of really thoughtful and creative features into the service. When you're selecting which samples you want to use, you have unlimited previews. There is a built in sampler to the website, so you can play the samples in context with your track, or just in context with other samples in your sampler before you download them. You can "like" samples so when searching through packs you can go to your "likes" folder and just see the samples you found interesting. You can add samples to your own folders called "Re-packs" and make your own sample pack of samples from all sorts of packs, then download that pack, or share it with fellow producers. They also include a Splice application that download the samples for you into its own Splice folder. You can even just drag the samples straight from the widget into your DAW, immediately after downloading.
Now, the price of all this? the basic plan is $8.99 a month for 100 credits. Now wait a minute, that doesn't sound like a lot at first, but think about this: how many samples do you actually use from the packs containing thousands of samples? Probably not that many, making the pack a bit of a waste of money (unless you're that into the pack, which chances are you aren't). I for one have only used around 20 credits this month of my 100. And the credits actually carry over month to month. This I think is a fantastic deal for younger producers who don't have thousands of dollars to spend on vengeance packs, and just want a couple of decent samples in their tracks. Producers are already making packs exclusively for the service, like Pegboard Nerds, Multiplier, Steve Duda, and SeamlessR among many others.
As more and more companies are advancing to the idea of subscription services (Adobe software comes to mind), it seams like these types of services are becoming the future, and Splice seems to be on to something here.
I hope this helps some of you! https://splice.com/sounds
So Splice Sounds is a subscription service like Spotify, but for samples. The way they handle this is through credits. You pay a certain amount monthly, and get a certain amount of credits. You can then use these credits to download any sample from their library of sample packs (which is surprisingly large). It's like how the music industry switched from CD's to iTunes in a way. You used to have to buy an entire album which included all the songs, but you may not have necessarily liked every song. Then when music stores such as iTunes emerged, you could preview the songs you liked and then download just those specific songs. And this is exactly how Splice Sounds works.
So now you no longer have to buy these huge sample packs just to receive a bunch of samples you would never use. You can just go digging through packs and find the exact samples you want. They have also integrated a bunch of really thoughtful and creative features into the service. When you're selecting which samples you want to use, you have unlimited previews. There is a built in sampler to the website, so you can play the samples in context with your track, or just in context with other samples in your sampler before you download them. You can "like" samples so when searching through packs you can go to your "likes" folder and just see the samples you found interesting. You can add samples to your own folders called "Re-packs" and make your own sample pack of samples from all sorts of packs, then download that pack, or share it with fellow producers. They also include a Splice application that download the samples for you into its own Splice folder. You can even just drag the samples straight from the widget into your DAW, immediately after downloading.
Now, the price of all this? the basic plan is $8.99 a month for 100 credits. Now wait a minute, that doesn't sound like a lot at first, but think about this: how many samples do you actually use from the packs containing thousands of samples? Probably not that many, making the pack a bit of a waste of money (unless you're that into the pack, which chances are you aren't). I for one have only used around 20 credits this month of my 100. And the credits actually carry over month to month. This I think is a fantastic deal for younger producers who don't have thousands of dollars to spend on vengeance packs, and just want a couple of decent samples in their tracks. Producers are already making packs exclusively for the service, like Pegboard Nerds, Multiplier, Steve Duda, and SeamlessR among many others.
As more and more companies are advancing to the idea of subscription services (Adobe software comes to mind), it seams like these types of services are becoming the future, and Splice seems to be on to something here.
I hope this helps some of you! https://splice.com/sounds
