so the ecosystem becomes the new consumer......

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Posted by Raphie on Apr-20-2012 16:31:

so the ecosystem becomes the new consumer......

http://www.soundstosample.com/info/...ound_House/2510

Beatport sees enough potential to setup Sounds/To/Sample
this is the nail in the coffin of EDM......

EDM degraded itself to an Apple type App Store

Posted by tehlord on Apr-20-2012 17:13:

There's already dozens of websites like this.

They're only selling soundsets and samplepacks, which are the cornerstone of all EDM really.

Well apart from soundsets for the select few that bother learning to program synths.

Posted by Raphie on Apr-20-2012 17:29:

point is, beatport sees enough potential to invest, so it's big.. as big as buying tracks

Posted by Deillon on Apr-20-2012 17:42:

You are right and you should give up making music.

Posted by Raphie on Apr-20-2012 17:58:

Why stop making music? maybe it's more interesting to start making "contruction kits" and "midi packs"

Posted by Beatflux on Apr-20-2012 18:15:

Re: so the ecosystem becomes the new consumer......

Posted by TranceLover007 on Apr-20-2012 18:18:

Re: Re: so the ecosystem becomes the new consumer......

quote:
Originally posted by Beatflux
Did you also predict the end of the world for 2012?

No he didn't, I did - Dec 21 2012 - get ready guys lol

Cheers

Posted by Storyteller on Apr-20-2012 18:27:

Re: so the ecosystem becomes the new consumer......

quote:
Originally posted by Raphie
http://www.soundstosample.com/info/...ound_House/2510

Beatport sees enough potential to setup Sounds/To/Sample
this is the nail in the coffin of EDM......

EDM degraded itself to an Apple type App Store

Sounds to sample exists for (I think) over 2 years now. It's just been under the radar all the time. Now that Beatport is promoting all its platforms actively it might have become a bit more apparent they do more than you might thing. I've bought several packages from there months ago. There's a lot of goodness in there.

Posted by Julz on Apr-20-2012 18:31:

S2S has been around for a while, only place i buy sample packs

Posted by Raphie on Apr-20-2012 19:31:

Ok, didn't know them.

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Apr-20-2012 19:51:

your title is funny and ironic

Posted by DJ RANN on Apr-20-2012 20:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Raphie
point is, beatport sees enough potential to invest, so it's big.. as big as buying tracks

I think the point is, that beatport itself is small enough in relative terms to consider this as a good revenue stream.

It's demographic is not mainstream consumers - it's hobbyist and pro DJ's as well as producers. Therefore it stands to reason that Beatport would want to sell samples to this demographic.

Posted by Woony on Apr-20-2012 20:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Raphie
point is, beatport sees enough potential to invest

what "investment" are you talking about? setting up a website? the running costs of a digital store are laughable. they don't have to a sell a lot of this shit to be profitable.

Posted by psheck666 on Apr-21-2012 07:14:

Well apart from soundsets for the select few that bother learning to program synths.

Posted by Storyteller on Apr-21-2012 10:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Woony
what "investment" are you talking about? setting up a website? the running costs of a digital store are laughable. they don't have to a sell a lot of this shit to be profitable.

I agree with you and Raphie. Even though the investment part might be neglible, it would be retarded if they didn't get involved in this market as well. It's so closely related to what they do already... Profit margins would be huge on this for every sold copy indeed.

Posted by Rodri Santos on Apr-21-2012 10:23:

Free royaltie samples have been existing for long, there are famous tracks that consist in a sample, for example Steve Angello - Knas , it's not a big problem if only a select few use them and build a good track around it, same like midis, if you use a midi kit as a starting point for your track and develop it is just fine, if the next month you see 1000 tracks with the same melody then we're all fucked up.