PrimeLoops are giving away 500Mb of loops
Over 500Mb of free Loops & Samples!
This week we are giving away over 500mb of free Loops & Samples, including tasters from both up-coming and new releases such as NYC Piano Sessions, Dubstep Nation, Ghetto House Grooves, Orchestral Scores and many more…
Feeling excited already? Great! Wait until you hear this: In addition to this we also offer an exclusive 15% Discount Code for all our products, for one week only!
Enjoy!
80s drum beats
Motion Samples presents an 80s lover rhythm compilation featuring 244 drum loops composed into 38 beats of various styles from popular 80s music.
The sounds were recorded/mixed in analog throughout the project and programmed live to achieve that famous phat drum swing found in many 80s dancefloor hits. It’s all about the clap and snare!
This collection is the perfect ready-to-go drum beds for producers creating old school 80s Funk, Pop, Electro, Hip Hop and Disco.
Winter sales at Prime Loops – 25% off
Prime Loops Announce Winter Sale: 25% off All Sample Packs
As a big thank you to all their friends and fans, Prime Loops (ww.primeloops.com) have announced their biggest sale yet, you can get 25% off all their sample packs for a limited time only!
Prime Loops have reportedly had a great year, with their sounds featured on releases (such as Will Bailey’s Beatport no.1 smash hit ‘Big Bad Bass’) adverts ( most recently for O2 Mobile Phones) games (the huge ‘Assassin’s creed 2’ from Ubisoft) among many others.
Prime Loops said:
”You can expect some very exiting updates coming your way in the new year (top secret!) We feel we really have the power and artillery more than ever before to push the boundaries of sound, and deliver higher quality sounds with every new release. We will be moving forward in 2010 with our tasty array of world-class musicians, DJ’s and engineers to provide even more releases weekly with the very best audio possible today, and of course, continue to provide our much-loved music production articles, tips and tricks every week.!”
”You will also see some major changes to the website (you may have noticed a few small ones already) coming over the next few months, these are designed to make your browsing experience easier, quicker and more fun! If you have any suggestions, do get in touch!”
The Prime Loops Winter Sale is now live, so get grab yourself a bargain!
New stuff from Toontrack
Toontrack Music announces shipping of the Custom and Vintage SDX™ - The Return of a Classic! The Custom and Vintage SDX™ is a re-release of the award winning Toontrack Music sample packs Superior Custom and Vintage and Superior Vintage Add-on (both released for the original Superior Drummer) and they have now been combined to form the Custom and Vintage SDX™ for Superior Drummer® 2.0. Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten. The SDX™ gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums, built by craftsmen from the 1920's right up to the exceptional instrument makers of today, like Johnny Craviotto. The Custom and Vintage SDX™ is played by Chris Whitten. The drummer on classic hits like 'What I Am' by Edie Brickelland, The New Bohemians and 'The Whole Of The Moon' by The Waterboys, Paul McCartney's 'Flowers In The Dirt' album. The Custom and Vintage SDX™ is produced by Peter Henderson a key figure in producing Supertramp´s 20 million selling album 'Breakfast In America', for which he won a Grammy. He has also worked with Paul McCartney, Rush, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tina Turner and Ringo Starr. The Custom and Vintage SDX™ will be available as an upgrade with a special price from the legacy products and one regular SDX™ version for newer customers. Both with the same content. The Custom and Vintage SDX™ is available on the web and at your favorite retailer.
Primeloops Free Samples
Prime Loops, providers of low-cost, high quality sample packs are giving away 200MB of free samples from several of their releases. Some really nice stuff in there and a few more freebies to be found across the site. Stay tuned for a competition to win one of their sample packs coming soon!
NOTE: WAV only
Arash uses the new looping SW Cycler
Devine Machine has announced Cycler, a new looping software.
After four years of intensive development and extensive real-world gig beta testing, Devine Machine is proud to announce his revolutionary looper: Cycler.
Cycler is a totally new approach to looping on computers, designed to simplify creating music, with or without your screen!
Cycler is a radical departure from hardware emulation software and contains powerful and truly unique functions, such as multiple loop length capabilities, a comprehensive battery of effects and infinite undos for each of the 16 loopers, among many other truly unique features.
It aims to ease and simplify the relationship between musician and computer.
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Arash Khalatbari and Wise Washington performing using CYCLER, the new upcoming looping and remix system from Devine Machine. Flutes, jaw harp and percussion are recorded and mixed live.
Release date is set for early 2010, price is not yet fixed. Versions for all platforms will be included with purchase. An extensive feature list will be communicated by October 2009.
Ableton with microKORG session
A great loop recording session with microKORG XL and Ableton Live.
100 free loops from Loopcache
Loopcache are giving away 100+ free minimal, tech house and electro loops to anyone who joins their mailing list. The location of the free pack is http://www.loopcache.com/looppacks/100-minimal-tech-and-electro-house-loops.html
Review of PLP's latest EBM Industrial loop release
PLP has been kind enough to send me one of their latest loop releases for review. It’s called Industrial EBM, which I thought was very appropriate considering what this blog is all about; electro, EBM, synth music type stuff.
And I must say that one of the hardest things to find in loop universe is good, fat EBM bass loops – it really seems like everyone keeps these to themselves. PLP has actually thrown in a couple of high class EBM loops that I wouldn’t mind using in my songs, but greedy as I am, I of course want more of the same 
Overall impression is that this loop library is a very good start for anyone who wants to dive deeper into the industrial/EBM scene; several nice intro sounds and drum samples are available. I am especially fond of those that give that metallic feeling to the beat; good metallic sounding beats are fairly hard to get by. They have also added an entire section of midi-files that might trigger your creativity, although they do not take you all the way, which is not the intention either of course.
Apart from wanting more bass loops (as I always do) I think this loop release is good value for money, but (there always has to be a but) I would down prioritize on the one shot drum samples for the next release, since the market is totally swamped by one shot drum sounds and special FX sounds and very easy to come by.
I am very much looking forward to the next release in this field there are too few and PLP has shown us the way.
New fresh free loops from Beatmatch
After a small break beatmatch.info returns with big november update. Five totally new loop packs with over 120+ loops in WAV & AIFF formats. Go to downloads section to check out MNML Data Vol.5, Dubstep Vol.4, Future Hip-Hop Vol.3, GTL Vol.4 and second part of BEAT + recorded by Piotrus Pan.
All loops are available for free for non-commercial use at www.beatmatch.info ”
Cheers Ola
DATAMASKIN
