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, September 9
- Media
- RD Radio
- Pricing
- Free flagship (Stems) · no subscriptions
- 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.
- QuotaFXSP-404-style FX plugin
38 hands-on performance effects with true zero latency. AU / VST3 / Standalone, plus iOS and a real-DSP browser demo.
- Quota DSDialogue 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 Selector Pad and a Build .adg → Live export.
- Quota VoiceDictation & 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 & iPadLaunching September 9
Tailored device profiles bring supported grooveboxes together with AUv3 apps, CHOMP sampling, Quota Stems Standard 4, Quota Kits, Clips, Arrange, and Mix. $24.99 USD from September 9 through 30, then $39.99 from October 1. No subscription or additional feature purchase.
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.