Ambient Injection – Evolving Energy
‘Ambient Injection: Evolving Energy’ from Bluezone Corporation gives you among the darkest and unheard sounds in Sci-Fi film scoring. This exceptional sample pack contains intenses soundscapes, unreal atmospheres, deep drones, processed Sci–Fi sound effects, finely crafted transitions, falls, impacts and more. This ultimate sample pack is suited for Ambient, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Breaks and film’s background music.
With over 400 MB of textured sounds, ‘Ambient Injection: Evolving Energy’ is an incredible selection of 114 pro audio samples thoroughly selected. Some samples go up to 1 minute recording. To add a clear and remarkable panoramic stereo, each sound has been designed with high quality hardware and software effects. This collection has it all.
This sound library delivers a large choice of static and heavy drones, a massive range of analogue soundscapes, layered elements and many more. This expertly processed sample pack is all the audio tools you need to start a new professional production. Just listen to the demo to have an idea of this downloadable pack’s potential. ‘Ambient Injection: Evolving Energy’ is 100% royalty free. You can use it in your music productions without any additional costs.
Suitable for style such as: Breaks, Dubstep, Ambient, Hardstyle, IDM, Drum & Bass, TV, Film & Soundtrack.
Ambient Injection: Evolving Energy Contents:
• Sound FX / Drones / Soundscapes / Textures
Technical Specifications:
• 398 MB Data / 118 Files
• Format : WAV
• Instant Download
• Requires Winzip or similar utility to unpack
• Suitable for use in all major sequencers
• Royalty-Free with no extra cost
• Ready to use in commercial production
Price : 14.95 €
Korg Monotron Rack for Ableton Live
The Korg Monotron is a great little analog synth with a big, thick sound and amazing filter. However it is controlled not with keys, but a ribbon controller. I find it extremely difficult to play in pitch. So I’ve sampled it and racked it up in Ableton. Now notes are easy to hit, and there are also a few extra goodies not possible in the original. Follow along as I take you through it and download it yourself and enjoy!
**Non Live users: You can use the samples in your DAW of choice**
Download the rack here: http://bit.ly/freesynth13
More information below:
For something about the size of a cassette tape, the Korg Monotron packs quite the punch. Don’t let that built in speaker fool you, plug this little guy into an amp and it can rattle the windows. The filter sounds great, and can even be used on external audio sources, very cool. The downside: I can’t play the thing in tune! Too bad it doesn’t have some cheap little buttons for keys instead of that ribbon keyboard. Hitting the exact pitch consistently, for me, seems to be out of the realm of possibilities. Thank goodness for samplers
This week, I have created a free Ableton Live Rack using samples from my Korg Monotron. Although some might argue that this rack lacks one of the most alluring qualities: the built in filter, it is now a much more playable synth, being that you can control it with a normal keyboard with actual keys. (Plus I think the filter in Ableton’s Sampler and Simpler are pretty nice substitutes). To take advantage of some of the possibilities offered to us in this computer age, I’ve done a few things the actual Monotron is incapable of. First, I layered a few Monotron samples to thicken out the sound. I’ve made it switchable from mono to polyphonic (Polytron?), Portamento and Glide are now options, you have control over Attack and Release, the Filter Envelope now has an attack you can play around with, and another macro knob allows you to select different combinations of samples. For the purists out there that don’t want layered samples, I’ve included an identical rack, with only one sample and a few different effect macros (chorus and delay.) For both racks, I have the mod wheel set to introduce some vibrato. So, watch along in the video and download it for yourself, it’s free and most importantly, from the heart. I think you’ll be pleased with just how much punch that little box can deliver. **Big thanks to Big C for giving me the Monotron for Christmas
xo **
Record sounds, cut and loop them and create rhythms out of them
Jörg Piringer has released RealBeat, a sampler software that enables you to record sounds, cut and loop them and create rhythms out of them.
RealBeat for Mac is not a fully fledged sequencer or sound software it rather offers simple and fast access to sampling and manipulating recorded sounds live or at home. Don’t expect a feature-laden software but lots of fun with your own samples & sounds.
RealBeat features
- Simple interface.
- Sampler (record sounds easily).
- Text to Speech (let your computer speak for you).
- Looping of sounds.
- Modify the sound (pitch, reverse, distortion, reverb, …).
- Sequencer (make rhythms).
- Semi-automatic rhythm creation.
- Patterns (modify the rhythm easily).
- Export sounds.
- Resample sounds.
- Works with internal microphone (or line-in) and external sound interfaces.
RealBeat for Mac is available to purchase for $5.99 USD / 4.99 EUR.
Classic Roland drums processed with an Ensoniq DP/4
TR-SONIQ is a collection of classic Roland drums processed with an Ensoniq DP/4. Apart from the 318 WAV files there are ten ready to use kits for Fxpansion Geist and Guru, Native Instruments Maschine and Akai MPC.
Once upon a time, there was an innovative American company called Ensoniq that quickly gained a reputation with affordable samplers such as EPS and ARS. Ensoniq was a bit like that kid you were sitting next to in school who did everything in his own way. Not clean and stylish as the Akais or as sophisticated as the Emus. But that was a long time ago and since then Ensoniq got bought up by Emu, and Emu got bought up by Creative – who unfortunately haven’t done much real caring for either brand.
While many producers (mainly hiphop producers) still treasure their ASRs for their coloring of sound – our favorite feature of the EPS and ASR samplers is without a doubt its effects. The Ensoniq DP/4 is a dedicated effect with four separate effect units you can set up as four individual sound processors, or create series of complex chains.
Ensoniq meets Roland TR909, TR808 and TR606
TR-SONIQ is the result of combining the classic sounds from the well-known Roland drum machines TR909/808 (and also some from the underrated TR606) with the sonic capabilities of Ensoniq. It must be said that the Ensoniq effects were never subtle and with this collection of sounds we wanted to capture the spirit of Ensoniq. The dirt, the noise, the odd cut-offs, the distortion, the compression – the whole lot – all over the place.
Sharp sample slicing with the SunVox
SunVox is a small, fast and powerful music sequencer with modular synthesizers. It is a tool for those people who want to compose music anywhere. SunVox available for desktop PC (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X), pocket computers (Windows Mobile, PalmOS, Maemo, iPhone/iPad) and netbooks.
Hard Techno Core from Bluezone
Bluzone has released a powerful sample collection for all techno fans out there:
Hard Techno Core from Bluezone Corporation is a WAV / AIF sample collection professionally recorded by AV Production. This fascinating sound library offers a wide variety of loops all created from scratch and expertly modified by different audio processors as amplifiers, fat distorsion, lofi and many more. All drum loops, top loops and percussion loops are licensed as Royalty-Free, so you can use them into your commercial compositions with no extra costs.
Very useful and ideal to be used with the best sellers Hard Techno Loops and Schranz Samples, this donwloadable sample pack allows effective and remarkable assembly in all sequencers. This latest samples library is designed and suited music styles as Hard Dance, Schranz, Hardstyle and more.
Hard Techno Core Contents:
Drum Loops
No Kick Loops
Percussion Loops
Technical Specifications:
232 MB Data / 206 files
Formats : WAV / AIFF
Recorded at 142 bpm
Instant Download
Requires Winzip or similar utility to unpack
Suitable for use in all major sequencers
Royalty-Free with no extra cost
Ready to use in commercial production
http://www.bluezone-corporation.com/catalogue/details/80/6/products/hard-techno-core.html
Price : 10.95 €
1977: Sound of the oscillator from the Logan Melody 2
The String Melody is an Italian string synthesizer from Logan Electronics, first released in 1973. At first, success was lukewarm as Logan Electronics was relatively unknown. But in 1977 a slightly updated ‘mark II’ model was released and Logan Electronics began to see some commercial success from the sales of this instrument. As a result, almost all String Melodies floating around out there today are the ‘mark II’ version, as the original is quite rare. Also of note: outside of Italy, the String Melody was distributed by Hohner International, so you will find them labeled either the Hohner or Logan String Melody.
There are three basic sounds available: ‘Violin’, ‘Viola’ and ‘Cello’. These three sounds are actually all the same sound, just in three different octaves. The keyboard is permanently split in the middle, with the lower half called Bass and the upper called Treble. There are three drawbar volume sliders for each of the three sounds in the Bass region (the red sliders), and another three sliders for the three sounds in the Treble region (the blue sliders). This allows you to mix in as much of each sound in either section of the keyboard as you want for some really customized string combinations!
In this video:
This is the sound of the oscillator from the Logan Melody 2 string synth from 1977, sampled to worn tape on 60s valve equipment, and synthesized with software samplers such as kontakt or esx24.
The idea is to emulate the sound of the mellotron or birotron, but to take it to the next level by being able to synthesize within software.
I’ve found some amazing sounding oscillators ‘locked up’ in these old keyboards that offer little if no synthesis possibilities.
A Journey in Sound Design
IAN BODDY is one of the UK´s most celebrated synthesists and sound designer and has been creating award-winning sample libraries since 1992. In this enormous compendium Zero-G has collated his last EIGHT sound libraries into one stupendously large library of sublime sound design which has been made available in all the most popular audio formats.
This collecion is packed full of ambiences, soundscapes, drones, loops, single hits and FX and is the perfect tool for any professional movie soundtrack or dance producer looking for some extra creativity and imagination.
Here Ian Boddy tells us about his background, the libraries in this collection and how the sounds were created.
Transition X – free sample library
Transition FX Demo by Bronto Scorpio
Bronto Scorpio Music has released a free sample library, Transition FX;
Almost everyone needs them but there aren’t many good ones out there (at least not for free).
I’m talking about transition effects like “Boooooom”, “Whoooooosh” and “Tsssssssssh”.
Some time ago I thought I might just design some of these FX from scratch to share them with you.
After some days I came up with 33 samples. Some of them are simple and some of them are quite unique.
I’ve given my best to ensure the best possible quality and usefulness.
The sample library is a free download.
Mechanical Morphs new library by Richard Devine and Jim Stout
The Hollywood Edge has released Mechanical Morphs, a sample library by Richard Devine and Jim Stout.
Mechanical Morphs represents the most recent work from Richard Devine and Jim Stout, two highly regarded sound designers with backgrounds in production and synthesizer programming. Bringing their unique styles together, Mechanical Morphs is a metal smashing, gear grinding, futuristic collection! This must-have set is perfect for science fiction and fantasy productions featuring robots, aliens, spaceships, futuristic landscapes, hi-tech interfaces, and much more!
Designed for film, TV, and multi-media projects, every sound has been recorded and processed at 24bit 96khz, resulting in a set with true HD fidelity!
1,300 plus sounds on 10 audio CDs and 2 DVDs.
Mechanical Morphs is available to purchase for $495 USD.
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