Toontrack continues to deliver high quality demos on their Beatstation product, if you are a Beatstation user, please let us know what you think of it. I did a review of it some time back as well
The latest instalment of Toontrack’s Beatstation video series which explores how to use SDX and EZX expansion packs within Beatstation to enhance the already-huge bank of sound files.
Combining drums, bass and lead instruments with drag and drop, REX and MIDI support, Beatstation is your companion for quickly getting a full beat up and running or for diving into the smallest details of what you want your sound to be, to be able to realize your music, your expression. Just take WAV or MP3 files from any source to create unique and inspiring combinations.
You can combine and edit individual slices from your favourite REX files or create playable instruments from a single sound. All this can be done just with a few clicks of the mouse, making Beatstation a hugely powerful yet easy to use virtual instrument.
http://www.timespace.com/product/BEAT…
ZooZither has released an update to Voltage, a sample library featuring analog synth drum/percussion sounds.
The number of samples has been doubled to 256 and there’s another Battery 3 kit supplied as well.
ZooZither Voltage features
Voltage is available to purchase for $7 USD.
More information: ZooZither / Voltage
10 new refills are available for free download
Including MicroKORG, drums, Point Zero, Casio loops and more
Are you a songwriter, do you program your own MIDI or do you use one or more of the amazing packs in the Toontrack MIDI Collection? Are you short on some pro-played fills or need a creative booster? If so, look no further! Session veteran and drummer behind the Songwriters Drumpack, Ricard “Huxflux” Nettermalm, is back – this time with a fantastically useful and well-played collection of more than 500 1-2 bar fills in different tempos and styles!
· More than 500 individually played fills
· Swing/straight in 4/4 and/or 6/8
· Short fills with lead-ins
· Long fills with lead-ins
· Single fills
Works with EZdrummer®, Superior Drummer® (optimized for 1 kick, 1 snare, 2 toms, 1 floor-tom, 2 crash-cymbals, 1 ride-cymbal)
Visit this link to get it now: http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=79
Goldbaby Productions has released the ReFill version of When Alien Drum Robots Attack!, a drum and FX sample library.
WHAT IS THIS PRODUCT? Think of this as a drum tool kit with plenty of production ready sounds… plus all you need to create and customise your own.
WHAT WAS USED TO MAKE IT? Everything in Goldbaby’s studio and more! Using a studio full of vintage and new drum machines, samplers, synths, rack effects, vinyl, tape, real drums and perc, field recordings… this product will give you a huge palette of super solid drums and sweet FX.
Included in this product is also an 808 and 909 given the UBK Fatso treatment!
When Alien Drum Robots Attack! features
When Alien Drum Robots Attack! is available to purchase for $39 USD (all formats included).
More information: Goldbaby Productions / When Alien Drum Robots Attack!
So AR seems to be the ‘next big thing’ for the year ahead…and the folks over at Squidder.com have combined it with fiducial tracking to make a demo of an AR dumkit. Air drums anyone
This actually came about as a happy little accident while trying to bend FLARToolkit to our will (tracking multiple instances of multiple symbols – a total pain in the ass. But that’s a story for another time). It just so happened that we were rocking out to Kiss’ “God Gave Rock & Roll To You” and it suddenly occurred to us that “Hey, it wouldn’t be so hard to make these things make sounds when they disappear.” So we did. And it was awesome.
We’ve (for once) posted a usable demo, so you too can rock out at your desk. Below is a quick video demo of all four sounds and after the break, you can see the demo of using multiple instances of the same drum.
Looking for a place to find nice drum samples? At Cyberworm you can find a real nice collection of synthetic drum sample packs from the likes of the Polivoks above, the Jomox, the Access Virus and genre kits like glitch/electro house/minimal.
Gustavo Bravetti has put together a free, exclusive FM8 drum kit in Ableton Live for CDM readers. More on the kit, FM8, and how to make the most of it, plus our download, at the Kore@CDM NI minisite:
Free Exclusive Download: FM8 Drum Kit for Ableton Live from Gustavo Bravetti
