Loopbased releases “Deep and Hard Kicks Bundle”
Loopbased has released a new kick drum library called “Deep and Hard Kicks”, more info from Loopbased below
Simplosive’s line of kick drum libraries is still extremely popular. With the “Deep and Hard Kicks Bundle” now all 3 best-selling sample packs are available together and for an insane price.
You save 50% (!) compared to buying all 3 packs individually.
“Deep Kicks 1+2” includes a whopping 1000 kick drums suitable for Tech, House, Minimal, Electro, Trance and even Ambient.
“Hard Kicks” features another 500 heavy kicks treated with high-end digital filters to create some nasty bass drums for Hardstyle, Hardcore, Jumpstyle, Gabber and Dubstep.
Get those 1.500 kick drums now for half the price.
Price: 30 Euro
http://www.loopbased.com/techno-minimal-loops/deep-and-hard-kicks-bundle.html
Arctic Drum and Bass from Bluezone
Bluezone has released a samples pack Arctic Drum and Bass, check out below for details
Bluezone Corporation is proud to present Arctic Drum and Bass. This new Drum and Bass sample pack has been meticulously prepared and covers a broad range of audio samples, including drum loops, syncopations, deep bass lines, synth loops, atmospheric sounds, sound effects and looped synth pads recorded at 160 bpm. This new sound library comes with free usage rights and is sure to get your creative juices flowing for original Drum n Bass compositions, jingles and soundtracks.
After the release of Austral Drum and Bass, Bluezone Corporation adds to its extensive percussion range with this new resource-packed collection: Arctic Drum and Bass. Easy to use and adapt, the 126 loops and samples contained in this set have been worked to provide the highest quality, not just in musical ideas and themes but also in the stereo spread. Recorded at 160 bpm, the rhythms will provide solid foundations for your compositions. Arctic Drum and Bass gives you tons of tight kicks, hi-hats, rides and snares, synth loops ranging from calm to high-octane, as well as loads of rich atmospheric sounds. Backed with complex and varied sound effects, this pack’s warm sounds will be a perfect addition to your library.
Suitable for style such as: DNB, Breaks, Dubstep, music for video games, TV series, Soundtrack, Hardstyle, Experimental and more.
Price: €10.95
iDJ – designed for DJs with no skills
Numark, possibly inspired by the turntables are dead meme, has released a new iPad DJ app, iDJ, that’s designed for DJs with no skills:
iDJ allows anyone to make instant, continuous mixtapes of their favorite songs all blended together as one in perfect rhythm.
As fun as it is powerful, iDJ’s elegant interface and patented technology will have you assembling customized soundtracks that ignite, accompany and enhance every occasion. Whether for workouts, road trips, dance parties or any other event, iDJ keeps your music moving and completely in time for an exciting new playlist experience.
When apps like this are getting put out by Numark, Hell might as well go ahead and freeze over.
DJ beatmatching is now consumer technology. iDJ (App Store link) is $9.99. Details below.
Features:
- Create seamless, synchronized playlists of your iTunes music library on iPad
- Automatically detects songs’ tempo and performs crossfades in perfect time
- Mix up to four songs at once for a completely new playlist experience
- Playlists can contain an unlimited number of songs
- Playlists can support audio WAV, MP3 and AAC files
- Easily manage your iDJ music using Itunes 9.2 (or later) on Mac or PC
KORG goes circuit bending
Korg has released the schematics of their little Monotron synthesizer. Allthough this little cuty was being hacked the day it came out, now there is an official schematic to follow. As the Monotron is a complete analog synth it is ideal for ‘circuit bending’.
Furthermore, with the price of a Monotron low enough it lets users experiment with it without the fear of going bankrupt if the ‘experiment’ fails! The Monotron seems to be popular as well with the educational institutes. Mainly because the Monotron is so easy to modify/repair (fully analog circuitry), giving students a good insight and making it ideal for school. How about that!?
Well, there is one warning Korg is handing out. If you choose to start an ‘experiment’ with your Monotron beware of the fact that any full factory warranty expires. So circuit bend at your own risk!
Via GJ
Using a checker board as a step sequencer
Josh Silverman has provided us with this interesting demo featuring a checkerboard sequencer
This is a demo video to demonstrate the use of a checker board as a step sequencer. This video should make obvious the relationship between the position of the checkers pieces and the noises they represent and trigger. It’s still a work in progress, but for now I won’t subject you to the cacophony that is the sound of an actual game of checkers.
Aside from the kick drum, which just keeps pace on every beat, all other drum samples are triggered off the board.
In this version, I’ve implemented a Mute Region that surrounds the board. When the application sees activity in the mute region, it disables the updating of the sequencer. This way, my hand doesn’t trigger a cacophony when I move the pieces.
More details at prettyextreme.com/?p=124
Built with openFrameworks and Ableton Live.
Sound Magic launches Ruby Piano3D
Sound Magic launches Ruby Piano3D, a piano instrument for Windows.
“Ruby Piano3D achieves an entirely new level of realism and playability. Physical modeling is at the heart of the Ruby Piano3D sound, but both sampling and synthesis are incorporated to add to the realism. This combination creates a sound as authentic as monster sample libraries but at a smaller size and a much smaller CPU demand.
The Ruby Piano3D starts with the famous Yamaha sound, utilizing these powerful harmonics to create the unsurpassed authenticity and complexity that has long been a standard in concert halls around the world. Add complete 3D Audio Control to this Patented Hybrid Modeling Technology and the instrument becomes as versatile as it is realistic. Design your own piano from detailed physical parameters, such as hammer hardness and velocity, dynamic response, the interaction between different strings (sympathetic resonance), and even how much the soundboard reflects or absorbs sounds. Not a tweaker? Right out of the box, there are 8 pre-set modules to choose from.”
Features:
Multi-microphone positions enable users to mix between different microphone positions and create new sounds that easily fit into a mix.
Meticulous Dynamic Response controls enable users to adjust the dynamics of the piano, change the keyboard response, and achieve both realism and playability at the same time!
New! Our 264-string Sympathetic Resonance System adds beautiful harmonies to both pedal up and pedal down notes.
Ruby Piano3D is able to detect repeated notes and activate True Staccato Mode which precisely reproduces staccato notes.
Built-in professional Reverb Engine simulates resonances with environment and soundboard, adding extra realism to the sound.
Actual modeling and soft pedal samples vividly present the sound of three kinds of pedals.
The separate 3D Effect unit can place the piano into a real 3D space, adding realism to the whole sound.
Faster load times. Smaller hard drive footprint, less memory and less CPU usage.
Price: €99/$129
Pretty girls working the Kaossilator
Fun music video from the album Kaossilatron by Crystaline: http://crystaline.bandcamp.com/
Featuring: CG (Crystal Gals), Korg Kaossilator Pro, Korg Monotron and several Indonesian Traditional Bamboo Instruments, such: Angklung, Gambang, Suling and Pripitan.
Tenori goes ambient
Visual Patterns become music! Never was this more evident than to a player of the amazing Tenori on. Notice the wave shape of notes! Bringing to mind the masterpiece of Hokusai, “the great wave over hanagawa
Nice review of the KORG iMS20 for iPad
ipaddj has provided us with a review of the recently launched iMS20, check it out and see if you agree:
Anyone who has used the Korg Legacy plug-in will know what they are in for and the fact that you can grab patch cables and route them using the touchscreen is almost mind-melting. Like a childhood fantasy come true.
The huge sound of the MS-20 is totally there and I couldn’t stop making Daft Punk patches for the first few hours using the beast.
Korg just released an iPad version of their classic MS-20 analog synth. It is amazing. The only thing is, I don’t know what I am going to use it for…
The Overview
The virtual hardware included in the iMS-20 consists of an analog monosynth (the MS-20), an analog sequencer, a drum machine based on MS-20 patches, a drum step sequencer, a song sequencer a virtual keyboard, two virtual kaoss (x-y controller) pads and a mixer. I guess the word I would use to describe this setup is cool. It all looks and acts like you have a classic monosynth sitting in front of you. However, I wouldn’t exactly describe this as utilitarian. Just as with the iElectribe and even Rebirth (which was also just released as a dedicated iPad app) sometimes the decision to emulate analog hardware in an electronic, touchscreen, software environment is questionable. For example, the analog sequencer is totally cool, but it would have been much more conducive to songwriting and workflow to use a real multi-touch based sequencer. I understand that Korg is trying to keep it real, so to speak, but I want something that I can use more than something that is just totally cool.
Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go
“Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!” is the third single taken from Trentemøller’s acclaimed new album “Into The Great Wide Yonder”. With its thrilling guitars and blazing synths “Silver Surfer…” is the rockiest track off the album and comes with remixes by Anders Trentemøller, Andrew Weatherall and Lulu Rouge (DJ T.O.M. and Buda).
The fantastic live-video has been recorded at the main stage of the Roskilde festival in summer 2009. Trentemøller was invited to arrange a special show for the biggest European summer festival which led to an extraoerdinary and unique performance which remains unforgotten by “50.000 people floating 10 cm above the ground”. The show featured Trentemøller DJing as well as performing tracks from his debut album “The Last Resort” as well as the new album “Into The Great Wide Yonder” in a full band setup.
Directed by Katja Boom Philip the show included an outstanding light show and gorgeous dance performances in spectacular costumes by designer Henrik Vibskov.
Musicians:
Anders Trentemøller (Keyboards)
Henrik Vibskov (Drums)
Mikael Simpson (Bass)
Lisbet Fritze (Guitar)
Dorit Chrysler (Theremin)
Show:
Creative Producer/Director: Katja Boom Philip
Scenography & Costume: Henrik Vibskov
Visuals: Lasse Andersen (VJ Same Same)
Light Design: Christian Olsson.
Live Sound Production: Mads Nørregaard
Choreography: Helen Dohlmann
Dancers: Benedicte Dreyer, Ea Verdoner Jacobsen, Trine Tuxen, Alexandre Bourdat, Mathias Arvedsen, Mogens Eggemann, Claudia Sorrentino, Esther Lee Wilkinson, Toniah Coco Pedersen, Peter Lynggaard Petersen, Ronni M. Lichtenfels, Natasja Wulff Pedersen, Phillip Benjamin Jenkins, Thomas Møller, Catharina Izzo, Issa Jeppesen, Anna Hendrich, Cianne D. Evely Hende, Mejse Vedel, Stine Rønne, Julie Valentin, Sofie Kanneworff, Jan Strøbech.
Production Manager: Tobias Simonsen.
Set Production Manager: Svend Jacob Pedersen
Set Architect: Allan Lyth
Set Manager Live Stage: Svend Jacob Pedersen, Amdi Brøner, Morten Emil Engel, Emil Krøyer
Production assistant: Sofia Veronica Fischer
Camera crew: Thomas Busk, Kristian Boserup, Karsten Andersen, Jesper Jon, Simon Mouridsen, Christian Sønderby, Henrik Skov, Thomas Jessen.
Production & editing: Thomas Jessen.
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