The press list
Yes — there’s a press list.
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
Download everything
The full kit — about, product fact sheets, founder bio, logos, screenshots, and all the links. Pull anything you need; review licenses for any paid app are on request.
At a glance
- Studio
- Rare Data — Southern California
- Founder
- Mac Digi — sole builder
- Software
- Quota — Stems, FX, Mini, Kits
- Hardware / OSS
- Compa — MIT, Raspberry Pi
- Media
- RD Radio
- Pricing
- Free flagship (Stems) · no subscriptions
- Platforms
- macOS · Windows · iOS · Raspberry Pi
- Brand red
- #FF003E
The products
- Quota StemsFree stem separator
Splits any song — from a file, a YouTube link, or a whole playlist — into up to 10 stems, then builds a ready-to-play Ableton or Akai Force/MPC set, warped and cue-pointed. No account, runs offline.
- QuotaFXSP-404-style FX plugin
26 hands-on performance effects with true zero latency. AU / VST3 / Standalone, plus iOS and a real-DSP browser demo.
- Quota MiniDialogue sampler
Transcribes any clip; highlight the words you want and drop them straight onto pads. Sample by reading, not scrubbing.
- Quota KitsSampler-kit builder
Turn tracks, loops, and separated stems into ready-to-play kits — including the 128-sample pad and a Build .adg → Live export.
- CompaOpen-source Pi controller
Turns a Raspberry Pi touchscreen into a control brain for the Roland SP-404 MK2, AIRA P-6, and Ableton Push 2 — with network audio and recall. Free, MIT-licensed.
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 the open-source Compa sampler controller. Everything is built and supported by founder and producer Mac Digi.