2010-05-06

Sounds: Prime Loops - Acid Breakbeat Grooves

Prime Loops release "Acid Breakbeat Grooves"


Prime Loops release "Acid Breakbeat Grooves".

Brand new from Prime Loops' critically acclaimed Grooves Series, "Acid Breakbeat Grooves" delivers an array of acid-infused breakbeat construction kits.

Produced by pioneering Breakbeat DJ and producer Lee Coombs, "Acid Breakbeat Grooves" is also highly suitable for the electro and new school crowd. Lee is a heavyweight of dance music’s evolution and responsible for releases and remixes for artists such as Moby, Paul Oakenfold, New Order, Meat Katie and The Freestylers to name but a few.

Bursting with crystal-clear bass power to inject directly into your DAW, Prime Loops' new "Acid Breakbeat Grooves" sample pack delivers only the freshest ingredients to boost your dance productions. This cutting-edge sound suite boasts 12 intricately crafted, hyperactive breakbeat construction kits, all jam-packed with only the phattest pounding breaks, basses, synth hooks and drum hits.

Expect an energetic arsenal of over 200 slamming beats, mind bending bass grinders and twisted acid bleeps, all programmed, produced and mastered to ultimate perfection and with only one goal – to set the roof on fire!

Formats include: Wav, Acid Loops, Apple Loops, Ableton, Akai MPC and many more!

"Acid Breakbeat Grooves" is available to download at a regular price of £14.95

In connection with Prime Loops' 25% GROOVES promotion, "Acid Breakbeat Grooves" is currently available at a massively discounted price of £11.21 for a limited time only. Prime Loops

2010-05-05

Instrument: Rayzoon Jamstix 3

Jamstix 3

Rayzoon announces Jamstix 3, a Virtual Drum instrument for Windows that looks great!

Features:

  • supported sample rates: 44.1-96kHz


  • extensive MIDI controller mapping


  • limb-centric step sequencer allows manual adjustment of generated grooves and fills or creating them from scratch as well as importing existing MIDI patterns, MIDI fills and Jamstix 1,2 patterns and fills.


  • state-of-the-art virtual drummer capable of producing realistic drum performances from scratch (not using preset MIDI patterns) with in-depth style and drummer modeling, groove processing, advanced limb control and a flexible fill generator


  • built-in mixer with 3-band EQ, compressor and delay effect


  • VSTi subhost for integration of 3rd party drum plugins


  • high-quality drum sample player with controllable ambience, supports existing Jamstix 1,2 kits and expansion Paks


  • song arranger with unlimited parts, synched to host song position, tempo and time signature


  • 4-17 stereo audio outputs


  • MIDI input/MIDI output


  • VSTi 2.4 Plugin


  • Price: $99

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    "This ground-breaking virtual drummer VSTi runs synchronized with your sequencer and features in-depth real-time modeling of various styles as well as human drummers with their own habits, accents and fill characteristics. Together, they can create thousands and thousands of realistic drum performances, each one editable down to the last hit thanks to the built-in limb-centric bar editor." Rayzoon

    2010-05-04

    Plugin: Slate Digital - Trigger

    SLATE DIGITAL’s TRIGGER

    Slate Digital releases Trigger, a drum replacement VST effect plugin for both Windows and Mac OS X that looks great!

    Features:

  • Mac/Windows VST, RTAS, AU

  • Easy to use

  • Comes with Steven Slate samples

  • Complete control

  • Six stereo layers of samples

  • Phase accurate drum replacement


  • Price: $299

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    "SLATE DIGITAL's TRIGGER is the next generation drum replacement VST/RTAS/AU plugin. TRIGGER has a phase accurate multi layered triggering engine. This means that in one instance of the plugin, you can seamlessly trigger multiple samples simultaneously such as a close mic sample, stereo overhead sample, and a stereo room mic samples. Or, mix many direct mic samples to develop your own custom unique sounds." Slate Digital

    Synthesizer: MoDSP - Nocturne Bass

    Nocturne Bass

    MoDSP launches Nocturne Bass, a synthesizer for Windows that looks awesome!

    Features:

  • Low CPU usage with optimized code.


  • Preset manager.


  • Phase Modulation / Distortion.


  • LFO waveform generator.


  • LFO modulated 3 x oversampled low pass filter with resonance control.


  • Save and load LFO wavetable file.


  • Sync to host tempo or free LFO with 4 different waveforms and a unlimited waveform generator.


  • Slide (monophonic mode with portamento).


  • ADSR envelope generator.


  • 3 voices true unison with stereo.


  • 2 oscillators: Each oscillator has 5 different waveforms.


  • Up to 32 voices.


  • Price: 25 EUR

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    "MoDSP Nocturne Bass is an analogue / subtractive, dual oscillator, mono- and polyphonic synth with phase modulation / distortion, unison mode and oversampled LFO controlled filter. Made for techno, electro, club, drum n' bass, grime and dubstep wobble bass. Simply a workhorse synth to quickly get nitrous, pulsing and alive bass tracks for the clubs or your neighbours." MoDSP

    Sounds: ModernBeats - Pop Rhythmz Drum Loops 1

    Pop Rhythmz Drum Loops

    ModernBeats Releases Pop Rhythmz Drum Loops Sample Library.


    Featuring over 330 sample-accurate acidized drum loops in construction-style format.
    The drumloop library is organized into 2 popular Pop Top-40 Radio tempos: 125BPM and 130BPM. Each tempo group contains 10 multi-track drum loop themes with 3 variations per theme: "Main Drum Beat", "Drum Break 1", and "DrumBreak 2". Plus, all drum loops mix-match seamlessly, allowing users to combine and create thousands of original multi-track drum compositions.


    All loops are modeled in the style of platinum Pop recording artists such as Lady GaGa, Black Eyed Peas, Jordin Sparks, Britney Spears, Madonna, Jesse McCartney, Kylie Minogue, and Katy Perry.


    'Pop Rhythmz 1' Drum Loops Multi-Track Features:

  • - Construction-Style Format for 1,000's of Beat Combinations!

  • - Many Drums Recorded via World-Class SSL4000G+ Console!

  • - Vintage Dynamics Processing for Added Warmth and Punch!

  • - Both Live & Programmed Multi-Track Drum Beat Production!

  • - Bonus Sound FX Layers, Synth and Noise Percussion Loops!

  • - Multi-track Vocal Percussion & Vocal FX Hi-Hat Programming!

  • - Multi-track Conventional Percussion & Cymbal Programming!

  • - Modern Sample Kicks, Booms, Snares, Claps, Percussion, FX!

  • - Modern Analog Kicks, Booms, Snares, Claps, Percussion, FX!



  • Pop Rhythmz Drum Loops is offered as a download, priced at $39.95. ModernBeats

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    2010-05-03

    Instrument: FXpansion - BFD Eco

    BFD Eco

    FXpansion unveils BFD Eco, an acoustic drums instrument for both Windows and Mac OS X.

    Features:

  • Upgrade path to BFD2.

  • Compatible with FXpansion and 3rd-party expansion libraries.

  • Full plugin integration for your digital audio workstation.

  • Over 40 great-sounding presets.

  • Built-in Stereo audio export.

  • Customizable keymaps and electronic drum support.

  • Groove section with over 1500 patterns and advanced humanization.

  • 15 built-in effects including EQ, filtering, dynamics, drive, reverb and more.

  • 11 cymbals and selection of percussion.

  • 5 kicks, 6 snares, 12 toms and 3 hihats.


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    "BFD Eco is a streamlined, fun and affordable software instrument for acoustic drums, based on the award-winning BFD2 engine. Supplied with a selection of the best BFD2 sounds, it can also be expanded with the wide range of FXpansion and 3rd-party add-ons. " FXpansion

    Effect: Softube - Valley People Dyna-mite

    Valley People Dyna-mite plug-in

    Softube unveils Valley People Dyna-mite plug-in, a multi-dynamics effect plugin for both Windows and Mac OS X that looks useful.

    Features:

  • Built-in interactive guide that displays current settings and active mode.

  • Innovative Range knob that controls maximum amount of expansion or limiting.

  • Output volume with accurately modeled output distortion and clip LED.

  • Release ranging from 0.05 to 5 sec/20 dB with Anticipatory Release Computation (ARC) to reduce pumping.

  • Threshold knob with auto make-up gain.

  • Ducking or Keying modes with external side chain (where available).

  • Expanding: Hard or soft with extreme gate settings and detector HF filtering.

  • Limiting: Peak and average limiting, incl. negative ratio (-20:1) limiting and detector HF filtering (for De-Essing purposes).


  • Price: Introductory price of $229 until the end of May. Then $279 USD.

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    "Squash drums, get a snappy bassline, enhance track dynamics, duck, gate, key or de-ess - the Valley People Dyna-mite is a swiss army knife limiter/expander design with unique character that inspires to new sounds!" Softube

    2010-05-02

    Weekly Software Wrapup 04/25 - 05/02 (8)

    Weekly Software Wrapup

    I didn't have so much time to blog this week so there is not so much to wrapup this time.
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  • Music Composer: Propellerhead Software - ReBirth F...

  • Effect: AudioTeknikk - MidSideMangler / Pc / Free

  • Synthesizer: WOK - Cromina String Machine

  • Effect: Sir Elliot - Four Stage Compressor / Pc / ...

  • Music Player: Pavel Kounitsky - Quisple / Pc / Fre...

  • Nomad Factory - ALL-TECH 9063B EQ

  • Sample Player: Jeremy Wentworth - Grain Main Frame...

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  • 2010-05-01

    Music Composer: Propellerhead Software - ReBirth For iPhone!



    ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and made available for the iPhone.

    - This is so cool!

    ReBirth emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines.

    Features:


    • 2 x TB-303 Bassline synths

    • TR-808 Drum Machine

    • TR-909 Drum Machine

    • Pattern Controlled Filter

    • Distortion unit

    • Compressor

    • Mixer

    • 5 user mods

    • Pattern sequencing

    • Full automation

    • Combine patterns to build songs

    • Share songs with other ReBirth users




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