MC
01 was featured in the What's New section of the February, 2010 EM Cast
(Electronic Musician magazine's podcast). Below are
2 quotes from it.
- interesting fun to play with collection... just going through the library will make you laugh
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Memory Collection Sample Packs
The samples in this collection are taken from Public Domain movies, documentaries, TV shows and TV ads. I chose the name Memory Collection because by definition works in the Public Domain are from the past, a past often not very distant but sadly also often forgotten or ignored. These collections bring back some of the sounds from the past.
These video documents are usually old and the sound quality is often not great and they're noisy too. The samples include voice/spoken word/dialogs, sfx/foley and music. Many of them can be further divided so you can have some fun yourself ;-).
Also don't expect that every sample in them will be useful to you. But I am sure they will be fun!
From January 2015, the packs, their free downloadable demos and our other sample sets are available from Sampleism, HERE. Or click on the individual links below.
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Fun with some Memory Collection samples in Samplr (iPad).
And more conventionally used in EasyBeats 2.
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Memory Collection Pack 01
Includes the original MC 01 (317 samples) and the first part of the original MC02 (6 feature films, 1,366 samples) for a total size of 684 MB. Download the free demo or buy it for £6.99 HERE.
The samples in the packs are not mapped in any way, they only contain the wav files.
Audio collages made with the MC 01: Mini montage It's all Borax
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Memory Collection Pack 02
Includes the second part of the original MC 02. Source videos are 36 TV ads, 19 documentaries and 6 short films. Many of the documentaries are from and about the early days of radio and television. Download the free demo or buy it for £7.49 HERE.
Please note that the samples are not mapped in any way or in any specific sampler format. The MC 02 only contains wav files.
Free Mini MC2 kits: sorry but they are currently unavailable.
Kontakt skin of the Mini
MC2:
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Memory Collection Pack 03 - Horror Movies
1,243 samples for a size of 855 MB. The samples in this collection are taken from seven Public Domain horror movies. Please note that the samples are not mapped in any way or in any specific sampler format. The MC 03 only contains wav files. Download the free demo (111samples) or buy it for £8.99 HERE.
Download or read the PDF documentation (with screen captures) and the complete list of the samples.
These samples can be a lot of fun and very useful not only for Halloween but also all year round due to the wide variety of the sounds included.
Free Mini MC3 kits: Two kits made with short or trimmed samples from the MC 03 to demonstrate how they can be used when mapped in a sampler. The wav files are included for use in other samplers too:
BeatMaker 2 (iOS) and Battery 3 formats or NanoStudio (iOS) format
Audio collage made with only samples from the MC 03:
Stop
It
Track by Josiah Christensen from elxsound, using samples from the first 3 packs with regular instruments: Step Forward
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Memory
Collection Pack 04 - Christmas / Winter Holidays
612 samples for a size of 740 MB. The samples are from Public Domain toy advertisements, TV shows, movies and
shorts. Note
that the samples are
not mapped in any way or in any specific sampler format. The
MC 04 only contains wav files. Download the free demo or buy it for £5.99 HERE.
Download or read the PDF documentation (with screen captures) and the complete list of the samples.
These samples can be a lot of fun and very useful not only for the Winter Holidays but also all year round due to the wide variety of the sounds included.
Two
collages made with only samples from the Memory Collection 04.
First a more "artistic" one and the second is a
simpler
collage of 18 excerpts of some of the music samples.
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Memory Collection Pack 05 - Sci-Fi and Aliens1,750 samples for a size of 1.44 GB. The samples are from 10 Public Domain science fiction movies. Please note that the samples are not mapped in any way or in any specific sampler format. The MC 05 only contains wav files. Download the free demo or buy it for £15.99 HERE.
Download or read the PDF documentation (with screen captures) and the complete list of the samples.The movies are from the 1930s to the 1970s. So they cover different styles of soundtracks. I was surprised by the quality of the soundtracks in general. They featured early electronic music with a creative mix of various types of sound sources. Even without using any of the samples in a composition, just listening to them is fun and it also is a lesson in the history and evolution of sound design in movies.
Audio collage made with only samples from the MC Pack 05, A Space Drama in 4 Acts.
Act 1: Space Adventure Act 2: You're Drunk Act 3: Mysterious Peril Act 4: Lost Contact
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Memory
Collection Pack 06 - More Sci-Fi
714 samples for a size of 520 MB. The samples are from three Public Domain science fiction movies from the early 60s and one serial from the 50s. Please note that the samples are not mapped in any way or in any specific sampler format. The MC 06 only contains wav files. Download the free demo or buy it for £4.99 HERE.
Download or read the PDF documentation (with screen captures) and the complete list of the samples.Even without ever using any of the samples in a composition, just listening to them is fun and it also is a peek in the history of sound design in movies.
Audio collage made with only samples from the MC Pack 06: Mixed up
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Memory Collection Pack 07 - Crime Movies
2,796 samples for a size of 1.15 GB, they are from 9 crime/detective and 1 science fiction movie. They date from 1938 to 1975. Again the samples are not mapped in any way, the MC 07 only contains wav files. Download the free demo of 99 samples or buy it HERE .
Download or read the PDF documentation (with screen captures) and the complete list of the samples.
Simple audio collage, more examples to come soon: No Time
Official audio demo, only samples from MC 07 with a bit of reverb: Very ConfusedA small experiment, all samples play only for a short duration. There are two 2 bars patterns that are then combined, the 6 bars are then repeated. Only processing is a touch of reverb: Short Bits
Free MC 07 mini kit: Kit made with 76 short or trimmed samples to demonstrate how they can be used in a sampler. For Native Instruments Battery 3 (or better) and Kontakt 5, more info in the included text file. Wav included, dowload it HERE
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Thanksgiving 2012 free pack
The samples in this pack are from 1 Public Domain TV show and 1 PD short film about Thanksgiving. The TV show is a comedy and the short film is about the meaning of Thanksgiving. It has 91 samples for a size 55.6 MB. These samples are all new, they are NOT part of the other Memory Collection Packs.
Download it for free from Sampleism (free sign in required) HERE.
Christmas 2014 free pack
The samples in this pack are from 1 Public Domain 1940 Christmas movie. It contains 192 sample for a size of 75.2 MB. Download it for free HERE.
Christmas 2016 free pack
The samples in this pack are from the 1935 British film Scrooge. It is the first sound version of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. It contains 397 sample for a size of 345 MB. Download it for free HERE.
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