Minipops Snacks From Mars - About

Overview:

What happens when you combine the Minipops SR-120 analog drum machine with an H3000, Space Echo, and tape machine? We aren’t entirely sure either... but it sounds otherworldly! 

Released in 1976, the Minipops has a wonderfully analog sound, and sports a bigger kick drum than any other rhythm box we’ve heard (and we’ve heard quite a few). 

But, we wanted to bring the Minipops into the future, so we pumped it through a variation of truly unhinged pitching, delays, and modulation effects on our H3000 and printed it to tape, re-pitching the results for deeper kicks, slo-mo beats and frantic grooves. These samples are nothing like what you’d expect from an early rhythm box. The drums drip, stretch and blast out of your speakers like some strange creature from a B-movie! 

Along with 64 loops created with this monstrous chain, we meticulously isolated the best one shots to make 5 16x hit kits - including a clean kit along with the processed, so you can still experience that original Minipops goodness!

Gear Used: 
Korg Minipops SR-120
Eventide H3000
Roland RE-201 Space Echo
Apogee Symphony MKII
Radial JDI Passive Direct Box
API 560, 550B
API 2500
Overstayer Modular Channel
Overstayer Saturator
Otari 1/4” Tape

WAV:

	•	144 Samples at 24 bit 44.1 kHz 
	•	64 Loops and 80 One Hits
	•	5 One Hits folders each contain 16 hit kits, with no duplicate samples between folders
	•	Normalization and gain changes have been been applied to balance the volumes between drum hits - to balance the Hi Hats to the Kick Drum, for instance. Loudest samples are peaking at -0.5dB.

Naming Conventions:

One Hits:

BD Hybrid Minipops

Loops:

Boulder Blaster A Minipops 89

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BD = Drum Voice Name

Hybrid = Simple descriptor for this particular sample, often referencing the Kit name 

Boulder Blaster A = We used fun and quirky descriptors for this product! In this case, this is the first version of a loop in the “Boulder Blaster” group, which all have a similar sound and processing chain.

89 = The BPM of the loop.  Since the Minipops we sampled does not have clock sync, the tempos vary for this product, and aren’t always typical BPMs

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Ableton:

These sessions were built with Ableton 9.77 to ensure compatibility with both Ableton 9 and Ableton 10 users. If you are an Ableton 10 user, you may need to click the small “upgrade” for certain devices if you wish to edit them further. 

	•	One Hits Racks:

	⁃	The Macros are as follows:
	⁃	Tune: Transpose the pitch of the sample +/-48. 
	⁃	Decay: A combination of Amp Decay and Amp Release.
	⁃	Cutoff: Ableton’s filter - set to Low Pass for all hits.
	⁃	Env Amount: Controls Ableton’s Filter Envelope Amount. The filter decay times have been tailored for each sample.
	⁃	Reverb: Ableton’s reverb effect amount - with parameters fine tuned for each drum voice.
	⁃	Reverb Decay: Ableton’s reverb decay time - with default times tuned for each drum voice.
	⁃	Comp: Controls the Wet/Dry mix of Ableton’s compressor, set to a ratio of 5:1, with a slow attack and auto release
	⁃	Volume: Ableton Simpler’s volume for each drum rack pad.

Logic, Kontakt, SFZ, Reason NNXT:

	•	5x Kits Instruments each with 16 hit kits.

Reason Kong, Maschine, FL Studio FPC, Battery:

	•	5x Kits Instruments each with 16 hit kits.

MPC 1000 & MPC 2500:

	•	Contains 16 bit .WAV versions of all 5x 16 hit drum kits, separated into 2 .PGM drum programs. 

MPC Live & MPC X:

   •	Contains 24 bit .WAV versions of all 5x 16 hit drum kits, separated into 2 .XPM drum programs.  

Support
Contact info@samplesfrommars.com for support.