The press list
News from the studio.
New releases, product updates, and the occasional price-drop note — straight from the source, no noise. Add your address and you’re on it.
Prefer email? Write macdigi@raredata.net and I’ll add you.
Press kit
COMPA launch materials
The September 9 fact sheet, product screenshots, and COMPA artwork. Review access is available on request. Coverage is always independent.
At a glance
- Studio
- Rare Data — Southern California
- Founder
- Mac Digi — sole builder
- Software
- Quota — Stems, DS, FX, Kits, Voice, HQ
- Mobile
- COMPA — iPhone and iPad
- Media
- RD Radio
- Pricing
- DS / FX $19.99 each · Kits $9.99 · Collection $39.99 · Voice / Stems / HQ free
- Platforms
- macOS · Windows · iOS · Raspberry Pi
- Brand red
- #FF003E
The products
- Quota StemsFree stem separator
Separate a song on desktop, prepare cue points, and build an Ableton or Akai project. Standard 4 separation is also included inside COMPA on iPhone and iPad.
- QuotaFXDesktop FX · $19.99 one-time
Hands-on performance effects with true zero latency. AU / VST3 / Standalone, plus iOS and a real-DSP browser demo.
- Quota DSDialogue sampler · $19.99 one-time
Transcribes any clip; highlight the words you want and drop them straight onto pads. Sample by reading, not scrubbing.
- Quota KitsSampler-kit builder · $9.99 one-time
Turn tracks, loops, and separated stems into ready-to-play kits — including the Selector Pad and a Build .adg → Live export.
- Quota VoiceFree dictation & voice control
Local Whisper dictation anywhere on Mac or PC, plus a command mode that drives the rest of the line in one sentence. No cloud, no account.
- Quota HQInstall & update hub
One free hub that installs, licenses, and updates every Quota app on Mac and Windows.
- COMPA for iPhone & iPadAvailable on the App Store
Tailored device profiles bring supported grooveboxes together with AUv3 apps, CHOMP sampling, Quota Stems Standard 4, Quota Kits, Clips, Arrange, and Mix. No subscription or additional feature purchase.Intro price $24.99 USD through October 14.$39.99 starting October 15.
Founder
Mac Digi has been making beats for over 20 years — he started recording at eight and never stopped. Born in Dayton, Ohio and based in Southern California, he came up on MPCs and the original SP-404, and now designs, codes, ships, and supports everything at Rare Data himself. He spent time in the U.S. Navy and a decade-plus in IT before building the tools he wished he had as a producer — which became Rare Data.
Boilerplate
Rare Data is a Southern California studio building music software and hardware, including the Quota suite of producer tools — led by the free Quota Stems separator — and COMPA for iPhone and iPad. Its original open-source Raspberry Pi edition remains archived. Everything is built and supported by founder and producer Mac Digi.