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Producerloops Urban South Vol 1
Posted: 18-Feb-14
'Urban South Vol 1' from Producer Loops brings you five incredible Construction Kits loaded with that essential Urban Swagger, featuring huge down-tempo progressions, catchy hooks and authentic drum programming.
Combining the sound of Urban styles such as Hip Hop and Trap with a variety of other influences, 'Urban South Vol 1' gives you all the tools you need to create your next Urban chart smasher.
From majestic brass loops and deep bass-lines to high energy synth leads and glitched out hats and vocal fragments, you'll find it all spread out across five superbly produced Construction Kits.
MIDI Files Included:
Like so many other Producer Loops products, 'Urban South Vol 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack.
Advantages of MIDI:
While the supplied ACID/WAV, REX, and ReFill content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes.
One-Shot Samples:
Each Construction Kit features one-shot drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases.
Royalty-Free:
All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs.
Specifications:
- 5 Construction Kits
- ACIDized WAV Files
- REX2 Loops
- Reason ReFill
- Loops sync to BPM
- 44.1 kHz/16 & 24-Bit
- PC/Mac Compatible
- Royalty-Free (No Exceptions)
Price and Availability:
'Urban South Vol 1' is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £29.95 / 35,95 EUR / $40.76 USD. More information is available at: http://www.producerloops.com
Web-Link:
www.producerloops.com/Download-Producer-Loops-Urban-South-Vol-1.html
Future Loops The Loops Of Fury - Tension Builders & FX Edition
Posted: 18-Feb-14
Future Loops has just released The Loops Of Fury - Tension Builders & FX Edition, a collection of signature dance FX, Risers & Builders from the electro, techno & rave duo The Loops Of Fury.
The Loops Of Fury have been obsessed with rave since their childhood years. With support from nearly the entire spectrum of electronic music ( 2ManyDJs , Erol Alkan , Knife Party , Tiesto or even Jay-Z) they have been dominating the scene since their underground rave anthem "I Need" blew up in 2011.
The Loops Of Fury - Tension Builders & FX Edition is part of the complete collection the duo produced under the Future Loops label: The Loops Of Fury - Electro Meets Rave. This FX edition gives you access to signature sound FX, Risers & Builders from the duo at a reduced price.
For more info, demos and free samples check out their website via the link.
Web-Link:
http://www.futureloops.com/product-the-loops-of-fury-tension-builders-and-fx-edition.php
Producerloops Mainstream RnB Vol 1
Posted: 18-Feb-14
'Mainstream RnB Vol 1' kicks off this brand new series of slick and smooth Construction Kits, packed full of inspiring chord progressions, infectious beats and a hot mainstream vibe, designed to power your Urban productions. Each of the five Construction Kits has a unique and distinctive feel, featuring elements of Urban and Electro production to create an accessible and radio-ready hybrid style.
Urban Elite returns with a brand new product, 'Mainstream RnB Vol 1'. Each of the five Construction Kits has a unique and distinctive feel, featuring elements of Urban and Electro production to create an accessible and radio-ready hybrid style.
This pack includes retro buzzing synths, deep bass lines, whines, plucks and arpeggios and string/pad loops, all underpinned by solid contemporary beats deep, and inspiring chord progressions.
Featuring over 170 ACID WAV files, this product includes all of the elements necessary to build up your own tracks.
In addition, you also get access to a number of percussive One-Shot samples ready for you to drop into your favourite sampler and create new complimentary beats.
About Urban Elite:
Urban Elite is an exciting new label focused on producing high quality Urban products with crossover potential, while staying faithful to the essence and energy of the streets from which urban music originates.
Read on to find out more about the professional feature set including tail/release loops and MIDI files.
MIDI Files Included:
'Mainstream RnB Vol 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack.
Advantages of MIDI:
While the supplied ACID/WAV content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes.
One-Shot Samples:
Each Construction Kit features One-Shot drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases.
Dry/Wet Loops:
For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects.
Unlooped Riffs/Tails:
This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop.
Royalty-Free:
All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs.
Specifications:
- 5 Construction Kits
- ACIDized WAV Files
- Loops sync to BPM
- 48 kHz/24-Bit
- PC/Mac Compatible
- Royalty-Free (No Exceptions)
Price and Availability:
'Mainstream RnB Vol 1' is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £19.95 / 24,07 EUR / $27.45 USD. More information is available at: http://www.producerloops.com
Web-Link:
www.producerloops.com/Download-Urban-Elite-Mainstream-RnB-Vol-1.html
DSI powerful Prophet 12 module from flagship Prophet 12 keyboard
Posted: 17-Feb-14
Dave Smith Instruments recently released the Prophet 12 module is gaining reputation already — a space-saving tabletop and rack-ready reworking of its recently released Prophet 12 keyboard, the twelve-voice hybrid digital/ analog synthesizer that company founder and renowned designer Dave Smith duly declared his "best synth yet."
"We have had many requests from professional musicians for a small, easily portable version of the Prophet 12 keyboard, with all the same features and incredible sound," says Smith. "The new Prophet 12 module is just that: it has all the power of the Prophet 12 keyboard — in fact, it has the exact same voice board — and it fits into a backpack."
All those powerful Prophet 12 module parameters are easily editable via a well-thought-through front panel perfectly fit for purpose. "People like small these days," declares its astute architect. "Many musicians also have more than enough keyboards, or simply don't use keyboards. The Prophet 12 module offers a sleek design that still gives you easy and incredibly fast and intuitive control over all parameters."
Just like its Prophet 12 keyboard counterpart, the twelve-voice hybrid digital/analog Prophet 12 module not only boasts the greatest number of voices of any instrument from the distinguished designer to date, but each of those voices features four OSCILLATORS capable of generating classic and complex waveforms, a sub-oscillator (Sub Octave), analog resonant LOW-PASS FILTER and analog HIGH-PASS FILTER, and analog VOLTAGE CONTROLLED AMPLIFIER. Additional features include a tuned FEEDBACK path, a four-tap stereo DELAY per voice, expanded ARPEGGIATOR functionality, deep MODULATION capabilities, bi-timbral operation, and much more besides. The CHARACTER section adds a variety of out of the ordinary wave-shaping and sound-sculpting options like Girth (low shelf filtering that boosts low frequencies, with some extra harmonic modification at higher settings), Air (high shelf filtering that boosts high frequencies, with some extra harmonic modification at higher settings), Hack (reduces the bit depth of the mixed output from the oscillators), Decimation (reduces the sample rate of the mixed output from the oscillators), and Drive (emulates tape saturation).
Despite its comparatively diminutive dimensions, the back panel I/O of the Prophet 12 module matches that of the Prophet 12 keyboard in almost all aspects — apart from featuring an external power supply in the interests of making it as compact and portable as possible. Headphones, Main/A Outputs, B Outputs, MIDI Thru, MIDI Out, MIDI In, Pedal 1, Pedal 2, Sustain, and USB connectivity are all present and accounted for, making musical communication with the outside world a breeze.
Be prepared to be blown away by the Prophet 12 module. It won't break backpacks, but packs more than enough power into its easily carried form factor to meet the needs of modern music makers and savvy sound designers — wherever they take it.
The Prophet 12 module has an MAP of $2,199.00 USD and can be purchased from any authorized Dave Smith Instruments dealer.
Web-Link:
http://davesmithinstruments.com/
Franke Music Stroke Machine - professional drum and groove synth for iPad
Posted: 17-Feb-14
High-end musical instrument and effects software developer Franke Music released its debut product over the christmas period... Stroke Machine, a professional drum and groove synthesizer for Apple's iPad (iOS 6.0 or higher), available as of December 20 on the App Store. Check it out!
As implied by name, Stroke Machine lets users program their own rhythm and groove patterns and switch between them at a stroke in a live performance, mute or solo individual instruments, change parameters on the fly, and record performances as high-quality audio files for sharing or subsequent editing on a computer.
Stroke Machine immediately stands out from the crowd. Its attractive and highly-functional high-contrast user interface is specifically suited to overcoming far from ideal lighting conditions that are typically associated with onstage operation, and also assists with making studio-based sound creation easier on the eye, too.
Similarly, Stroke Machine's powerful synthesizer engine is dressed to impress. It features high-quality oscillator, filter, overdrive, and effect models; extremely fast envelopes and LFO; a sample-exact pattern sequencer; and a sophisticated sample, sound, and pattern library that are all equally ear-opening.
In-depth sound creation possibilities come courtesy of Osc 1 and Osc 2 — both boasting typical analogue waveforms and sample playback; frequency and ring modulation; and a separate white and pink Noise generator with integrated multimode filter. All tone generators are summed into a Transient generator, followed by another multimode Filter and a Drive module (with several types), a sample rate converter and bit depth reduction stage (Redux), and a two-band EQ with shelf and bell curves. Freely-assignable modulations with an easy-to-understand interface (Assign) offer maximum flexibility, easily surpassing even expensive hardware synthesizers! Each sound is mixed into one of four FX busses — each featuring a sum overdrive (Drive), a compressor, a modulation effect (such as chorus, flanger, phaser, or sum filter), and a space effect (such as delay or clocked delay, and natural, plate, or non-linear reverb choices).
Time to take to the stage or studio today, then, and get grooving with Stroke Machine in the most illuminating ways possible. Never has your iPad looked or sounded so good!
Overview
- 12 drum and percussion sound parts
- 12 melodic sound parts
- Number of voices only limited by CPU
- Four multi-effect busses
- Pattern with up to eight bars and 16th resolution, bar nominator and denominator freely adjustable
- Swing
- 128 patterns including all sounds in direct access
- Modulation sequencer for smooth or quantised automation of each continuous sound and bus parameter
- Track and solo mute
- Sample import
- Audio export of a pattern or the whole performance
- AudioBus Support
- WIST support
Stroke Machine can be purchased and directly downloaded from Apple's App Store for €17.99 EUR/$19.99 USD.
Visit the Franke Music website for further Stroke Machine info here: http://www.frankemusic.com
Web-Link:
www.frankemusic.com/index.php/en/
Future Loops Ultimate DJ Tools 38 GB Bundle 2 - 63% off!!
Posted: 17-Feb-14
Future Loops Ultimate DJ Tools Bundle 2, a limited edition sample pack bundle for the Holiday Season.
Ultimate DJ Tools Bundle 2 features several of their Dance Music sample packs (House, Tech House, Techno, Bass House, Electro, Complextro, Progressive & more..) and includes Drum Loops, Synths, Vocals, Bass, Drum Kits, Presets & more.
With over 38 GB and 34.000+ samples, Ultimate DJ Tools Bundle 2 is available at a highly reduced price for a limited time only.
For more info check out their website:
http://www.futureloops.com/product-ultimate-dj-tools-bundle-2.php
Web-Link:
www.futureloops.com/product-ultimate-dj-tools-bundle-2.php
Producerloops Commercial Dance Elements Vol 5
Posted: 17-Feb-14
'Commercial Dance Elements Vol 5' is the fifth volume in this outstanding series created specifically for serious Dance and Commercial RnB producers looking for premium quality rhythmic and FX one-shots, synth loops, bass loops, and more. This pack was created and produced exclusively for Producer Loops by Simon Rudd of "The Fliptones" and this 'toolbox' approach has been designed with versatility in mind, allowing you to slot these samples and loops into your tracks instantly, for fast creativity.
Featuring over 190 discrete files, 'Commercial Dance Elements Vol 5', combines one-shots with a number of melodic and rhythmic loops to give you that professional edge you need for commercial Dance and commercial RnB productions.
You could also map any of the included one-shot samples into your favourite sampler (such as Kontakt, Halion, NN-XT, etc.) to create drum kits you can use time and time again.
MP3 demo:
Everything heard in the MP3 demo is included in this awesome pack!
Included Folders:
- Sound FX
- Kicks
- Percussion
- Snares & Claps
- Extra Sounds (Synths, Basslines)
Technical Specifications:
- 24-Bit Audio
- ACIDized WAV Files
- Apple Loops/AIFF Files
- REX2 Loops
- Reason ReFill
- Large number of one-shot samples ready to be used in any sampler
Price and Availability:
'Commercial Dance Elements Vol 5' is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £19.95 / 24,03 EUR / $27.58 USD. More information is available at: http://www.producerloops.com
Web-Link:
www.producerloops.com/Download-Producer-Loops-Commercial-Dance-Elements-Vol-5.html
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