Pilfering the Vaults of 90s Sample CDs

[@RedMeansRecording]

I wasted a ton of time showing you Ableton and Audition for splitting, but the free Audacity will do it much better. Check out how here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKaVeZiZl9mkhs0

[@nickskywalker2568]

Reaper has the same feature ;)

[@joelkulesha8284]

@@nickskywalker2568 What is it called in Reaper? Trying to find the tutorial.

[@mudi2000a]

@@joelkulesha8284 dynamic split. I am sure Kenny Gioia made a tutorial for it.

[@ove1312]

Nothing beats OceanAudio. Select silence,invert,create region and export all them regions in a folder quick and easy

[@dorsia6938]

imo these samples are so much better than anything on splice

[@alexmusic9989]

hahaha so true. Splice is full of wannabe trap / hiphop samples. I wasn't born in the 90's but, listening to those cds I 100%agree. Especially the best service ones.

[@krayzghostproduction]

Dropgun will read your comment and rip these old samples to then release on splice as they're freesh (ps: they Did that with some free brazillian funk acapellas)

[@illford]

@@alexmusic9989 eh im 50/50 that's probably because i don't really make just house or anything. Granted i also think if you just look at packs on splice that's the first issue i think you just use the search tool and ignore everything else

[@MrBendixxx]

These sample cds (especially the early Zero-G ones) pretty much defined an era and the rave movement here in the UK in the early 90’s. Without them, Dance wouldn’t have blown up like it did. The importance of these 90’s sample cds cannot be underestimated and they should be preserved - yes I get that the hits and one shots are rips, but these CDs are a part of the rave history.

[@thelabcook1]

zero-g still runs to this day. you can buy alot of there old sample cds in digital form now as well as a big collection of there newer sample packs. really cool!

[@thelabcook1]

I couldnt find any of the datafile packs on there site. I dont think those are forsale anymore. probably due to legal reasons.

[@notreally-sf3df]

@@thelabcook1 Was gonna say it's weird that you glaze them so heavily, when they've been the reason loads of artists have been sued. None of their old licenses are no longer valid.

[@madguy228]

loading all the datafile samples on my polyend tracker was one of the best decisions of my life. also there are sorted and labeled versions of specifically the datafile cds that aren’t hard to find with an internet search but i’ll keep the tips in mind for other ones

[@RedMeansRecording]

I gotta find those

[@madguy228]

@@RedMeansRecording search for it with cut sorted & organized and you should find it easily if you haven’t already

[@callmealx]

I know I'm back again but love Jeremy encouraging using work time to do this and generally old 90s piracy. You are a man of the people

[@djpopcorn]

"crate digging into the history of electronic music." 🎉 Couldn't say it any better. That is it!

[@iWithinMe]

If I may suggest, use Reaper dynamic split, to split clean chunks deleting silence, edit loop points (item length) and batch export with whatever naming you need. Cross platform.

[@micindir4213]

Tab slice Dat sheet! Takes around 3 seconds for each sample. Once done use gate close in dynamic split. That fosho speed things up + wildcard naming. Reaper is just there

[@MathHammer]

Audacity has a tool for deleting silence. There are archives of old movies in the public domain out there that are begging to be mined for sounds. Maybe one of these days...

[@Chief-ek1vl]

I got all of the zero-g jungle warfare stuff years ago. Archive has done a good job to preserve the classics.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Seriously awesome

[@KattKirsch]

Real 90s kids assembled tracks from pirated sample cds in cool edit pro, we're bringing it back

[@RedMeansRecording]

That was me

[@PeterRobotMusic]

I literally still use Cool Edit Pro and I'm not even sure why

[@DesertNinjaX]

I'm in the middle of moving and just came across a cool edit pro install cd

[@Sevish]

my man Peter Quistgard right here

[@persona83]

That IS me.

[@SlyHikari03]

Spectrasonics are the GOAT, and they are still active nowadays. The guy who runs the company used to work at Roland as a sound designer for a lot of their synths, and they even keep that legacy with references to patches from days long ago in omnisphere and such.

[@DannoBoston]

WARNING! While downloading the larger torrent, Windows defender identified the Trojan:Win32/Ymacco.AAAE in the "NiceBeats" collection zip files. Be sure to use some anti-virus software when downloading and skip those files in your torrent client.

[@mmoncur]

Awesome! Also I see CAT learning synthesis in the background

[@hypersztoss3731]

This video is so dense with generally useful information. You are a friggin legend!!!

[@hiltonhowell3098]

I love Archive. I donate to them monthly

[@jvedra9041]

I did all this work back in the early 2000s with cool edit, vegas, and recycle. I wish I could find that damn hard drive, I've never gotten rid of one, so I know I've got it somewhere.

[@insideleft3584]

thank you so much for this. im only annoyed i'd never thought about looking through the internet archive before but may all the gods bless everyone involved in maintaining it!

[@christurbiville]

Glad I upgraded to 2.5Gig fiber. Now I've got something to use all that bandwidth for.... to relive the 90s. I hope my Tracker doesn't have a cap on the SD card size 😂, and my MPC60 is about to get worked!

[@jonathantroyer7056]

Doing the splitting/renaming can be done in Reaper in like two minutes using dynamic split and media item export

[@RedMeansRecording]

Perfect

[@jamisondonald384]

Came here to say this. Reaper is magic

[@joshuasmith4174]

Reaper is life

[@compucorder64]

Raiders of the Lost Parps! Another great source of 90's time machine vibes is samples of presets from 90s digital synths and romplers. Proteus (e.g. Planet Earth World), JD-800, Wavestation, D-50 and M1 are available, both through softsynths, and samplesets. Legowelt has a great JD-800 set, I know a lot of people rinse. In a recent video, Legowelt showed how he likes to sample arpeggios, rather than single shots, and just pitch shift them around for extra time period character goodness. Also sampled chords for Chord Memory bashing works too. And I hope someone trawls through some of the 90's rave machines like the Quasimidi Sirius, Technox, Rave-O-Lution 309 etc. I'd like to get hold of Best Service's ethno world 5. Because, dodgy 'Ethno' sampling is instant 1990s. Cultural Misappropriation FTW. On my wantlist is the more recent Best Service's ethno world 5, KSHMR mentioned is as a desert island essential for him.

[@iancain6647]

VERY VERY COOL! Man I can't express how much value this video carries!

[@ToyKeeper]

Old samples are so much fun! I found old tapes in a box and have really enjoyed turning them into songs. Like, 90 minutes of my dead grandfather telling stories... that'll be a lot of fun, easily an album or two worth of material.

[@JUNO-69]

I go digging for music to chop up at op shops. Due to the nature of the vinyl revival I’ll only find the occasional vinyl record to sample from but most often I’ll find some boomers entire cassette collection along with some other extremely obscure cool stuff like old story books and instructional content.

[@karisdarkness]

I finally got around to do this and man, not kidding there's a quite a bit of work. During the weekend I managed to rip most of the samples, all the loops off from zero-g datafile 2 and man, there is quite some work to do. 99 tracks, 8-16 samples per a track. Learned audacity hotkeys quite quickly. Thanks for the inspiration, this feels like meaningful work, there's plenty of it to do but your sample library grows more familiar and usable in the process.

[@karisdarkness]

also, these packs are a LITERAL GOLDMINE, just an heads up to anyone pondering should they spend some time doing this

[@lordgeronimo72]

Those Vinylistics collections are great from what I can recall…living in Brooklyn in the late 90s/early 2K years means my memory is foggy though LOL

[@ipaschke]

9:43 Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call. That´s playing with fire :-)

[@g9icy]

Yup, they wouldn't be happy if you used that in anything commercial. :)

[@ipaschke]

@@g9icy Yes, exactly. For context: There's a lawsuit going on for over 20 years now about a Hip Hop song that used a 1.5s long loop taken from the Kraftwerk song "Metall auf Metall"...

[@g9icy]

@@ipaschke Ah yes, I had heard of that.

[@djpuzzleofficial]

Ha! Awesome. I still have all my old sample CDs from the 90s if you ever want a copy of them I have tons. Can put them on Dropbox for you. Funny story my buddy Bil is one of the OG sound designers from Zero-G now he owns an online DAW called Amped Studio. He then started Sounds Good and then Power FX.

[@frankgibson8960]

Send me the Dropbox!! I lost all my Zero-g stuff

[@RedMeansRecording]

Zero g still exists online. I buy stuff from them.

[@thecalver]

Would love the Dropbox lost my zeroG and time & space cds years ago ‘

[@djpuzzleofficial]

@@RedMeansRecording oh yeah for sure I just mean Bill moved on and started Sounds Good then Power FX. I know he's had his hands in a lot of those companies. I worked at Sonic Foundry in '98 and we licensed a bunch of stuff from him and a couple others for some of the first ACID loop discs. There's a bunch of those old loops in Garageband too I believe.

[@ListerTunes]

At first I was like "Hell yes, the 90s," and then I was like "CAAAAAAAAT cat cat cat cat cat." 5 stars.

[@speakwithanimals]

"get on up, get into i- WOOH! WOOH! WOOH!" -jeremy's computer

[@Gerry_Dorsey_]

Ha ha ha. Came for the priceless access to awesome classic samples. Stayed for the BT shade.

[@roryjineffect]

Just got into that Archive page about a month ago, thanks for the targets.

[@saturnine1979]

I grabbed the first torrent last week. Instead of going through everything and organizing it, I went through and listened to most of the files and kept what was interesting or useful to me currently and organized that stuff. There's a ton of great stuff in the cd's but there is a LOT of stuff.

[@robdot0]

i havnt seen or heard of audition since cool edit pro. thanks for the nostalgia. also the fact that 707 results came back searching for zero g is kinda lit

[@JT-nk3sh]

i love these! i searched for jungle warfare last year and found all of those and im glad someone else is covering it

[@crowsynth]

Good stuff. I loved the cut after "Stolen Content" made me smile.

[@joelkulesha8284]

I always thought about doing this but never about sample cd's! Brilliant!

[@djvoid1]

I came up with a method for sorting these multi sample track CDs. Wavepad offers a batch converter where you can trim silences and resave as separate files. Was still a lot of manual work but it saved a good amount of time over doing the cuts manually

[@StephenMcLeod]

I downloaded a pile of 90s CDs but having trouble getting them to work on OSX. Even bought blank CDs to burn the ISOs then rip, but they won't mount. Hmm going to need to do some digging.

[@RedMeansRecording]

There are a number of ways to mount iso files virtually

[@StephenMcLeod]

@@RedMeansRecording I suspect my archive must be damaged, as it should mount once burned to a CD. Having more luck with the individual files as opposed to the mega library!

[@XenonOrion]

wow big thanks i'm all organized and batch-named up now :)

[@mrrafsk]

“I hope this doesn’t get anyone into…. Holy fcuk what’s that, it’s sooo cool” aid. Lol. Love this video, hate the monetisation of music so only the lawyers and property managers get paid. peace.

[@redplanetdunes]

9:41 extracted from Kraftwerk song called Telephone Call. People, be careful making music and released with this CDs because you can be punished by copyright infractions!

[@elliottrichter2882]

If you release a song that has enough views that this becomes an issue, it's not the worst problem to have. Still try to alter the audio as much as possible, maybe try to recreate it etc.

[@PlugInGuruVideo]

Be aware these are all copy written samples. It’s basically a free torrent site, but that doesn’t stop original creators of the samples from having lawyers contact you use these in commercial tracks.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Hack the planet

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Holy Cow ! This is the motherlode of samples ! Batch rename SW is Awesome 👍

[@geertdepuydt2683]

Well, that was a trip to memory lane... E-labs holy shit, where's my youth?

[@geertdepuydt2683]

Through*

[@vinnieRice]

I actually own all of these! Time to dig them out of the shit box.

[@mindexpansionpuzzles]

I see you found the comfy box.

[@timbrehaze7958]

Bought some Zero-G stuff from them a while ago. Funky elements has some great breaks and sounds in my opinion!

[@Arperture]

How many gigabites/terabites is stored on that page? I started downloading the .zips but ran out of room on my HD.

[@callmealx]

Sounds like you called yourself Red Beats Recording. I like it!

[@bluestone9726]

How do you know he didn't say Red BEETS Recording tho?

[@callmealx]

@@bluestone9726 oh Fuck

[@Max10_B]

Been looking for those zero gs on Reddit forever and couldn’t figure it out. Also random, that everything but the girl album is in my top 5 of all time. Love when I stumble on some history. Need to find some more resources for info like this I’ve just startled dabbling in what I like electronically.

[@harryleblanc4939]

This is AMAZING. Thanks for the heads up! I bet you could chop this stuff up in audacity.

[@summarity]

Jeremy ventures into a new genre: do crime :D

[@DirtyPlumbus]

Don't think I didn't see the kitty in the background Jeremy, I did. 😉🤣

[@juliansvidal]

I literally found this like a month ago and just found this vid lol. They are AMAZING.

[@faustaurus9746]

About chopping silence from the end. I think it's possible to make scenario file for the most adobe apps. Then you'll have a file in which you drag&drop stuff in directly in the file explorer. Not sure that it'll work, but worth checking out.

[@andersingram]

goodbye several months of my life

[@SilentPity]

Very useful video. Thanks for enlightening me to this archive, and this workflow!

[@xjtreex]

Going through all this a lot of work

[@BxCx666]

Thank you so much! Btw those utilities you use to convert and rename - exact reason why I prefer macos.

[@deadtotheworld]

If I don’t own it I don’t do anything with it. I buy everything. I don’t get bonus points for that but there’s something in me that stops me

[@section23]

Superb info, thank you

[@rcismeking]

Pirate and pilage, hell yeah brother

[@paserpase2870]

Better do one hella flip & chop cus getting sued for Copyrights wont be fun,

[@ClifBratcher]

Check out Future Music CD1 as well, it's samples were all over tracks in the 90s

[@martianfilms9902]

Having to find the rarest sample CD has gotta be something, and when it's also not rereleased (grabbing torrents a good suggestion ofc), and imagine if trap sample CDs happen XD. Also honestly I really can't be surprised with all the BT NFT bs anyway, it's been spreading like a virus with certain people so it's like how the hell do I unfollow lots of ones I look up to (most of em be rich anyway, when dude you don't have to get into this), like it just turns into anger to disappointment then into cringe. Luckily crypto crash will cure for a while at least.

[@harveytherobot]

Still have my Fatboy Slim Skip to my Loops CD!

[@RedMeansRecording]

It's so good

[@greatwhitedonkey]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Undeadvegetableinc]

You had me at nft clown hahaha. Great to see your priorities are straight

[@psychowsky]

Wavelab's Auto Split is your friend for this kind of work....

[@nullvids]

You can pilfer my 90s vault anytime

[@MattGreerMusic]

I'm glad those exist but oof, nothing kills my workflow faster than scrolling through giant sample libraries.

[@tastelesstouch]

I find it helps if I have a weekly schedule dedicated to different music production things. So for example one day may be dedicated to sample curation, folder rearranging, etc. and another day dedicated to sound design, and another day dedicated to mixing and mastering, etc.

[@MattGreerMusic]

@@tastelesstouch I do that too but sample selection needs to happen quickly if I'm going to not lose the creative momentum. Which day is for looking through 2,000 snares and none of them sounding right?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Delete all of the snares that don't work

[@bogotta]

Thank you

[@James-yk5ge]

at some point in this video you said "sampler beat offset" and i REALLY misinterpreted it and was so confused

[@jolieuke]

Funny, I have most of these CD, I surely get more than 100. I was listening to them recently and found some good gems. Thanks for the tips, maybe I should get rid of the CDs now ...

[@british.airwaves]

Hearing that BT is now an NFT advocate is like finding out Beck is a scientologist. Sad times.

[@tastelesstouch]

Ah really? I mean I guess it kinda makes sense because he’s always been at the forefront of technology and music but he should stick to the music creation side rather than the marketing side

[@PeterClotworthy]

Apparently in 2019 Beck renounced scientology, perhaps in 2029 BT will renounce NFTs?

[@ToyKeeper]

@@PeterClotworthy I expect that, when people finally start renouncing NFTs, it will all happen very quickly and the crash will be quite intense. When these bubbles pop, they tend to pop hard and cause a lot of damage.

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

I love a bit of 2000s nostalgia, so the NFT/dotcom bust is gonna be a trip

[@argonautilus9540]

I am genuinely mourning over this news.

[@alexmusic9989]

just fyi, there's an already organized version of the datafile floating around on reddit if you search long enough.

[@PeterRobotMusic]

Damn this is a motherload. Thanks for the tip Jeremy!

[@marissalipschutz4730]

Make more content like this!

[@shannongeorgiapeach76]

I got a sample CD in 2005 it was something like bring on the Boise 5 it included fc Kahana pixies etc I've been look for, 4ever

[@CoolBreez69]

This was a "Classic" video!! Loved It! I remembering hearing these sounds from a lot of songs from that era. The secret burden's we Gen-Xr's must endure to carry... Yep, Worth IT! Keep playing, Homie!

[@JoeyStaletoTV]

U saved me with anytoiso thank you!!!! Just subbed

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Nice mate, thank you! ♥️

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

I have been looking for non-corrupted version of the Amiga ST-XX samples for ages! Just noticed that it was in that pack (a lot of the existing standalone ones were poorly converted or you need an Amiga to play them properly... ) Maybe this one is decent? -Edit - IT IS!!! 😀 BTW, Jeremy when is the next video coming out where you craft an awesome track using said found goldmine? Preferably in a Tracker (Polyend, M8, etc) or even Digitakt.

[@RedMeansRecording]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX27apyOj9yVnqc ;)

[@kunderkey9390]

I just started downloading these yesterday but i wanna know if i can use them on songs I'm making ? I read that we need to be careful about the copyrights of some sound is that true ? I just want to know cause I don't want to download a huge amount of them and can't use them in the end :/

[@OrangeDrinkMusic]

Zero-G Squad in the building!

[@pongtrometer]

Classic 😃

[@FirstnameLastname-oy3bc]

holy shot. holy shit. this video is so valuble. thank you

[@gelatinous6915]

1:08 RED MEANS RECORDING CAT REVEAL

[@nicholasbinder5593]

wow, 9:42 was just a direct sample of Telefon Anruf by Kraftwerk.. crazy

[@EricMorello]

REAPER has a Dynamic Split Item function that would probably cut down your work to all of a few seconds.

[@andrewjackson5798]

hot damn time for me to break out my parachute pants let's gooooooo

[@jakayboy]

Thank you ❤️

[@lemon2125]

what is the song in the beginning where they are talking about legality?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Something I made for the video

[@melokit-music]

Woooooooo !!!! ThX A LOT DUDE !!!

[@micindir4213]

Is there a way to bring akai cds into modern akai format? There is some tight shit in akp files in akai discs.

[@SHIFTYSOUNDS]

can anyone email over the original cyberyukai pack? doesn't appear to be there anymore /:

[@tastelesstouch]

Do you use any samples that you curate yourself from media (e.g. movies, old music, etc.)? I know The Prodigy is still huge on sampling all kinds of old stuff that you never would of thought of but it doesn’t seem to be as widespread of a thing anymore most likely due to sample libraries and better copyright detection algorithms. There’s something really cool about the texture/vibe that a carefully chosen movie sample does to a song that not only sounds cool but is a way to kind of tie back your cultural influences or messages into your music without lyrics.

[@GeorgeLocke]

Old movie trailers were released to the public domain, if that matters to you

[@JUNO-69]

Get yourself an old vhs player and pick up a bunch of vhs movies from second hand stores for that authentic lofi sound full of wow and flutter

[@zero.the.prototype]

Two wrongs make a right when you are spinning dub with both hands. You won't get beat up by beat cops if your beats beat the band. Didn't realized I was not subscribed. Sorry. Fixed it fam. My rhymes are coming up like cash crops inspired by this chan. that's lunch break ♡

[@baltimega]

taking it back to adobe audition

[@i_never_asked_for_an_alias]

'First thing is what i thought is "AMEN".