Nice knobs – early arc experiment
a micro-looper.
eight samplers, corresponding to columns of the grid.
record by holding second-from-bottom key.
focus arc to column by pushing bottom key.
left knob is loop selection. turn to move selection, push-turn to resize selection.
right knob is volume. turning changes velocity, not position, so a tremelo effect is easily achieved. pushing down stops the spin, like a turntable.
third key up is mute/unmute. top rows transpose up/down by octaves. top rows meter sound levels.
Plughugger brings you Nerd Electro
Plughugger has announced the release of Nerd Electro, a new loop and sample library in Kontakt 3, SFZ, Reason and WAV formats.
Before house, acid, techno and trance – there was a magical world often referred as ‘the 80s’. In the eighties the unicorns roamed free on the streets and people had hairstyles that defied style, sense and gravity. Before house – and particularly the nasty acid house – came and destroyed everything, and made everybody so incredibly hip, life was cute, poppy and quite naive.
Nerd Electro is the Plughugger take on the eighties, when synthesizers were expensive as hell, weighted a ton, were impossible to program, and sounded just slightly better than the keyboards for Very Small Children.
Nerd Electro features
- Nerd Electro is built around ten construction kits that includes loops, individual sounds and ready to go sampled instruments.
- All loops have a fixed tempo of 128 BPM.
- All drums both come as complete loops and individual stems.
- If a sound source is heavily processed, it also comes dry (if it makes sense).
- Everything was originally created in 24 bits and later resampled and dithered down to 16 bit.
- The Kontakt versions of the sounds comes with a special interface for quick editing of the most common parameters.
- Formats: Kontakt 3, Reason, SFZ and WAV.
Nerd Electro is available to purchase for €9.90 EUR.
More information: Plughugger / Nerd Electro
Devine Gesture Variations for the “Stutter Edit” plug-in by iZotope
Going through a couple of my gesture variations for the Stutter Edit plug-in. Using only one instance for this example and processing a single drum loop with no other plug-ins. The gesture effects are triggered by a M-Audio Oxygen-8 MIDI keyboard while changing to different banks in real-time.
izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/
VOX VDL1 Dynamic Looper
A candidate to challenge the reigning BOSS Loop Station line, there’s rival VOX. While they’re both loopers with some things to stomp on, the designs are quite different. The BOSS units can store up to three hours and 99 phrases; the VOX VDL1 stores two loops with a total recorded time of 90 seconds. Nor do you get the utility of the BOSS’ USB storage transfer. And the Vox is mono, whereas the BOSS is stereo.
In place of those features, the VDL1 focuses more on live looping and effects:
- Live effects: Pedal/Wah (Clean/Comp/Crunch/Overdrive/Distortion), Mod (Chorus 1/Chorus 2/Flanger/Phaser/Tremolo), Bass (Electric 1-4/Synth 1/ Synth 2), Acoustic (four models). Pitch, stutter, EQ, delay, reverb, “sci-fi.”
- Loop effects: volume, crossfade, reverse, “loop in loop” (no idea on that one), pitch, speed, scrube, stutter, mod, filter, delay.
- Master limiter.
- Mono input jack, mic in (no phantom power)
- Undo and redo in overdubbing.
- Infinite layers.
This video demonstrates using the VDL1 and the basic operation of the controls.
A demonstration of the VOX VDL1 Dynamic Looper using multiple instruments to build up a backing track.
Monotron feedback loop
Looping the output of the monotron back into the input give you a simple feedback loop – going to splice more in later to get a bit of control, but in the meantime you can get an idea of how to push the filter even further!
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Tech Tribal House Drum Loops
Bluezone Corporation presents Tech Tribal House Drum Loops. This Tech / Tribal sample pack gathers a wide range of awesome tribal Drum loops, tech house and percussion loops to download. This new sound library is great with a wide range of styles such as: Progressive, Dance, Tribal House, Deep House, Minimal House, Minimal Techno and more.
Tech Tribal House Drum Loops is a new collection of 99 Tech & Tribal House Loops that has been carefully designed by AV Production studios. This new series of percussion sounds is really useful and gives a lot of opportunities to work on popular productions. Everything is ready to use royalty free in your commercial compositions.
This new sound library is great with a wide range of styles such as Tech House, Progressive, Dance, Tribal House, Deep House, Minimal, Techno and more.
Tech Tribal House Drum Loops Contents:
Drum Loops
Percussion Loops
No Kick Loops
Technical Specifications:
103 MB Data / 205 Files
Formats : WAV / AIFF
Recorded at 136 bpm
Instant Download
Royalty-Free with no extra cost
Ready to use in commercial production
450Mb ambient textures and more
Prime Loops has announced the release of Trip Fantasia, a selection with over 450Mb of evolving ambient textures, mind-bending chill-out atmospheres and intricate IDM soundscapes.
Inside this extraordinary soundeffects pack you will find an inspired blend of 48 beautifully sculptured sonic adventures, ready-formatted to just drag and drop into your favourite hardware or software.
If you are looking to add some sublime ambiance, ear-tickling brilliance and satisfying depth to your productions then look no further: Ranging between 64 and 120 BPM “Trip Fantasia” delivers you a superb selection of wall-of-sound soundcapes and textures from beyond the ultraworld, all gathering great inspiration from the stunning works of pioneering ambient artists such as Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream or
Jean Michel Jarre.All the atmospheres in this SFX collection are presented as crystal clear 24-bit audio files, with each and every file expertly crafted, triple quality checked and professionally labelled. Also, as you have come to expect with all Prime Loops sample pack releases, “Trip Fantasia” is entirely royalty free, so there’s no need to worry about sample clearances and licensing fees!
Trip Fantasia is currently available to purchase for £7.48 GBP in the SuperProducer Sale (50% off regular price of £14.95 GBP).
More information: Prime Loops / Trip Fantasia
Deep Kicks – SET YOUR OWN PRICE!
Yes, that’s right. We’re celebrating the beginning of the new year with the ultimate no-brainer deal. We let you decide how much you pay for this collection of 500 deep and punchy kick drums from Simplosive.
This amazing offer will only be visible and available for 24 hours on Saturday January 1st, 2011.
Activation starts tonight at midnight (CET).
Looper for iOS – the newly released VoiceJam
What if you could create something musically amazing with just your voice? What if you didn’t need musical instruments, sheet music, or complicated recording software? What if you could create an entire song with your voice, simulating bass lines, melodies, rhythms and sound effects, all in one pass, without ever stopping to think about it?
If you answered “that would be freaking amazing”, then you need to download VoiceJam. VoiceJam is your access to performing, creating, and sharing amazing musical compositions.
Solina String Ensemble ( in the loop)
This synth jam features minimalistic looping, with the Solina String Ensemble and Boss RC-20 Loopstation.
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