Hello guys,
this thread isn't the best introduction for me to this community, but the past events finally made me create an account here, because I see that not many people are aware of this topic and I couldn't find anything on this subject on the internet.
So... I think many of you know a quite new company Cymatics selling sample packs and preset banks. Althought they are fresh in the sample pack market, they've gained massive popularity and growth of their fanbase is exponentially increasing. They are known for outstanding quality of their packs and for a price as high. Me myself I bought their Nightmares pack which is really good, but yesterday or so I read some discussion about their new pack called "Future Bass" and there was a talk about legitimity of Cymatics. I read about stealing samples and not paying sound designers and general as*holeness of the "co-founder" of company, Drew. The discussion was later deleted but I reached one of the guys from discussion and I wanted PROOF. He later sent me screenshots of what has been going on on Cymatics facebook, of course deleted after few hours.
What Cymatics did was sampling (ehm, stealing) elements from famous artists like MUST DIE! and then SELLING them in their overpriced packs without any credits to the original artists. Later some guys brought comparison of MUST DIE snare and Cymatics snare, and Cymatics Drew went rampage and lost control a bit... here are images he sent me:
https://goo.gl/photos/EsKnWYo6bmVY5ZNS7Then Drew went into something like "you keep talking shit and have less than 200 followers on soundcloud / losers" following into everyone making fun of him and bringing more heat into the discussion:
https://goo.gl/photos/8Qvue5uEN9QRuBLW9I've lost so much respect for them after finding this out, but it is true that I had that gut feeling too - New company emerges from dark, during 6 months they get 30k likes on facebook, release 9 top-notch packs that more expensive than most of industrial standard ones (97$ for Future Bass pack makes it even more expensive than Vengeance) and massive marketing campaign... that stank a bit. I must admit though that they have very good marketing, though their social media pages are heavily censored. I tried on my own that even if I write on their facebook a bit negative comment about the price but in a very polite way and get "likes", they erase it as soon as they see it, no discussion or response from them.
Some of you might say "what the hell, their packs sound good, I will buy them" or "I don't care", but I think buying packs from them is like supporting stealing from good artists that doesn't get paid for their sounds.
Also, not everything they posted about stealing can be true, but at least that stolen snare example is 100% legit.
What do you think?
Also, if you have more proof on this matter I think you can contact guys from screenshots on Facebook and help them do something about it
