Sample library featuring analog synth drums
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
- 256 wave samples (16 bit 44.1 khz format).
- Sounds include:
- 108 kicks
- 39 snares
- 23 hihats
- 7 toms
- 24 drums
- 11 percussion
- 16 fx
- 28 noise
- 2 Battery 3 kits.
- Total sample size 5.8 MB.
Voltage is available to purchase for $7 USD.
More information: ZooZither / Voltage
Live Lounge, an eclectic mix of soulful, blissed out, and acoustic RnB backline studio essentials
Loopmasters has announced the release of Live Lounge, an eclectic mix of soulful, blissed out, and acoustic RnB backline studio essentials for producers looking for top class soulful samples to add to their sound library.
Live Lounge is a consummate collection of well crafted and original sounds, created by Andre Touhey of CueSounds, and inspired by the downtempo and soulful Cafe Del Mar artists, and the likes of Morris Capri, Bullitnuts and Luxury Grooves, along with RnB and Jazz artists including John Legend, Zero 7 and Ben Westbeach!
This pack draws inspiration from ambient electronica, funk, RnB and jazz – with over 60 Drumloops, 60 plus Soul and Funk bass lines, over 280 Music loops, including Brass, Guitar, Keys, Synths and String loops.
Live Lounge also includes a dedicated Percussion library with over 60 hand played loops, including Meinl Shakers, Congas, Bongos, Guiro and Tambourine samples. Rounding things off with an exhaustive collection of Drum hits and kits, Scratch loops created from the samples them selves for perfect syncronicity, plus a Pads and Fx library!
Live Lounge features
- 1 GB content, 474 loops & 424 single sound.
- Includes over 60 drumloops, 60 plus soul and funk bass lines, over 280 music loops, including brass, guitar, keys, synths and string loops. Also 60+ hand played loops, including Meinl shakers, congas, bongos, guiro and tambourine samples and an exhaustive collection of drum hits and kits, scratch loops created from the samples themselves for perfect syncronicity, plus a pads and fx library.
- Ready to play FX, Keys, Pads, Drum Kit patches for HALion, EXS, SFZ, Kontakt and Reason NN-XT (37 Patches total).
- 12 Redrum Patches for Reason, 12 Ableton Groove Templates.
- 3 Ableton FX Racks.
- Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions also available.
Live Lounge is available to purchase in various formats for £29.95 GBP.
More information: Loopmasters / Live Lounge
Metalix – a toolkit of morphed metallic instruments
Sample Logic tell us that Metalix is a toolkit of morphed metallic instruments, percussives, atmospheric soundscapes, pads, and tempo-synced audio loops for cinematic music production. Here’s what they have to say about it…
Based on recorded metallic instruments and sounds, Sample Logic has once again revolutionized sample programming by creating never before heard evocative organic instruments and bombastic loops. Following in the footsteps of Sample Logic’s long tradition of award-winning products that “blur the line between music and sound design”, Metallix is a must have for musicians, performers, and producers of all types.
Pricing and Availability:
$99.99
More information:
Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill
Tone Manufacture has released a Kontakt version of Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill.
We’ve been working late into the night to bring you our first Kontakt library and we’ve made sure that it uses Kontakt’s effects, modulators and script programming to their full potential.
All of our Kontakt libraries will include custom Performance Views to let you get straight to tweaking the most important controls and lots of lovely modulation wheel automation.
Error Tone for Kontakt features
- 32 instrument patches, from distorted drones to delicate mallet tones.
- 30 drum and instrument loop patches.
- 200+ singles hits, from tweeter shredding glitches to low end rumbles.
- 8 patches with the single hits mapped across the keyboard for ease of use.
- 46 REX2 loops.
- Includes mod wheel automation and custom Performance Views to allow easy access to the most important controls.
- 600+ Mb of content.
- 24 bit / 48khz high quality audio.
Error Tone is now available to purchase in Kontakt, Reason Refill or Wav / REX2 formats, for the introductory price of £19.99 GBP until August 11, 2010 (regular price £29.99 GBP).
More information: Tone Manufacture / Error Tone
Introducing the BOOM Library
Sound Designer Axel Rohrbach sent to me some information about his new SFX Label called BOOM Library and created with his partners at Dynamedion Sound Design & Music Company.
They are releasing the first title of the library, called Cinematic Metal. This is what Axel said:
The concept is to provide creative sound designers source material to work with (called a Construction Kit), similar to a color palette. In addition there is a common designed edition using just the corresponding Construction Kit. There are pretty cool things in the pipeline.
About the company
The BOOM Library was founded in 2010 by award winning audio guys from Dynamedion, the biggest European game audio studio based in Mainz, Germany.
The BOOM Library prides itself on providing high end, ultimate sound effects for all media and audio professionals. Our products have this specific edge you will not find anywhere else: every collection comes with a 96 KHz high definition, huge source library of our original recordings + a great variety of designed SFX, ready to use.
All BOOM Library products are royalty free – which means you get unlimited synch rights with every purchase.
Our mission is to provide top notch sound effects and source recordings in high definition. All treated with great Sound Miner metadata, fast to use, easy to access and epic sounding: BOOM!
About the “Cinematic Metal”
- Cinematic Metal – Impacts – 200 final designed sounds. From deep booms and high sweeteners, to huge cinematic impact and epic crashes – everything you need to really make an impression! All of these sounds were uniquely designed with the Cinematic Metal – Construction Kit.
- Cinematic Metal – Construction Kit – This brings all the original recordings to your hard disc, giving you a huge selection of source material. Be creative and innovative in designing completely unique metal hits the world has not heard yet. Check out our tutorials section to learn more about the Construction Kit and how to use it.
Both libraries ship in 96 kHz 24-bit High Definition audio (recorded in 192 kHz 24-bit), including well-grounded Soundminer Metada
There is a special discount code for all Designing Sound readers. Just include this number in your purchase and you’ll get a 5% discount. The coupon code is: DESS-BL10-20100717 (will be valid until July 17th)
New Brian Eno inspired sample set
Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategy “Honour they error as s hidden intention” is the inspiration for a new sample library, Error Tone.
Here’s what developers Tone Manufacture have to say about it:
In that spirit, we’ve created a library solely from errors. Some of them completely accidental, some where we just looked the other way whilst the accident happened. But all of them stem from a willful ignorance of instruction manuals and correct operating procedures.
Home movie soundtracks mangled with the wrong converters, musical toys tortured into revealing hidden sonic secrets and computer hard drives dying noisily, all of the sounds in this library started out life as errors.
Some of them have been further treated with a mixture of carefully applied computer processing and traditional studio techniques, some left as nature (never) intended.
Tone Error sells for £29.99 £19.99.
Contents:
- 30 NN-XT sampler patches, ranging from massive pads to sub-shaking percussion.
- 14 Combinator instruments, all with performance controls and extensive processing.
- 200+ single hits, from tweeter shredding glitches to low end rumbles.
- NN-XT patches with all the single hits mapped across the keyboard.
- 46 REX2 loops, from percussion to circuit bent transmissions.
- 600+ Mb of content.
- 24 bit / 48khz high quality audio.
- Available either in Reason Refill or Wav / REX2 format.
- Wav / REX2 format includes NN-XT instruments that can be used in Native Instruments Kontakt.
Two new fat sample packs from Prime Loops
Dark atmospheres from Bluezone corp
Bluezone Corporation Releases Dark Atmospheres & SFX 01, Dark Atmospheres & SFX 02 and Ethno & Tribal Ambient, with atmospheres, dark textures, soundscapes and pro sound effects. could you make a news about it?
Dark Atmospheres & SFX 01 DESCRIPTION :
Dark Atmospheres & SFX 01 is a new collection designed in the studios of Bluezone. This new sound bank offers a lot of possibilities for sound creation for films, TV, Soundtrack and video games, and can be used in styles such as Breaks, Dubstep, Grime, Drum and Bass, Downtempo, Ambient, Progressive and Trance. All the Atmospheres, Pads, Textures, Soundscapes, Hits and Sound Effects come with rights for commercial use at no additional cost.
All the samples of this downloadable pack have been created and reworked using plenty of great gear, which gives this pack a particular depth and breadth. The pack offers a wide range of options for creating film scores, providing the most demanding producers with new and innovative ideas. This pack is volume 1, and contains 165 of today’s best atmospheres, hits and sound effects. Suitable for style such as: Breaks, Dubstep, Downtempo, Ambient, Progressive, Trance, Grime, Drum and Bass, Soundtrack, Game & TV series.
Phazeform Volume 2 : The mothership of Casio synthesis
Phazeform Volume 2 : The mothership of Casio synthesis, the CZ-1 was a remarkable piece of technology in its day, emulated by other leading synthesizer manufacturers. Casio’s CZ line of Phase Distortion synthesizers are incredibly unique devices that used digital synthesis without a filter as opposed to traditional analog subtractive synthesis with a filter. The CZ line used phase distortion to somewhat simulate an analog filter, it had in total eight different waveforms: as well as the standard sawtooth, square, and pulse waveforms, it had a special double sine waveform, a half-sine waveform, and three waveforms with simulated filter resonance: resonant sawtooth, triangle, and trapezoidal waveforms.
The Casio SK-1 is a classic low fidelity consumer keyboard from 1985 and arguably the first toy sampler. Puremagnetik captured all of the uniquely kitsch and useful factory tones and processed voices with the gritty 9.83 khz / 8 bit sampler. You can bask in the raw nostalgic tones of this time machine and make use of these modernized instruments by using native effects in Ableton, Kontakt and Logic.
Price: Phazeform Volume 2 is now available for Puremagnetik subscribers. Subscriptions start at $5.75 USD/Month.
Visit: Puremagnetik
CM Studio adds another 100Mb
Soundation Studio, the online music making app, is giving readers of Computer Music a special offer of four sound sets and an AudioLocker with 100MB to store and import your own samples into Soundation Studio.
Soundation Studio is a sequencer that works directly from your web browser, which includes 400 drag n drop loops, 11 real time effects and 3 virtual synths, a drum machine and a sample player with 5 virtual instruments. You can save your work to your desktop as a wave file or publish to web as an mp3 file. Click here for instructions on how to take advantage of the offer.
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