November news from Loopmasters! 8 stunning sample collections, Facebook and free samples!
(Loopmasters | Posted 2008-11-14)
NICK THAYER: BREAKS PRODUCER (Loopmasters)
Award-winning breakbeat whiz Nick Thayer has put together this
consummate selection of beats, breaks, and basslines for Loopmasters’
Artist Series – perfect for producers looking for a funky direct
injection of pedigree breaks and party samples tuned for the dancefloor!
Content: Over 350 samples, including 40 sub-crunching, resonant bass
grooves; 75 heavy-duty breakbeak drum loops; 45 atmospheric and groove-
based musical loops; 20 processed vocal loops and samples; searing SFX
and 100-plus single drum sounds for programming custom drum patterns
and breaks.
Tech Specs: 380MB collection, featuring 370 ACID Wav files; 130 Rex2
files; 30 ready-to-play patches for KONTAKT-, HALion-, ESX24-, NNXT-,
and SFZ-compatible soft samplers. Reason ReFill patches and Ableton
Live Pack presets are also available.
Price and availability: From £19.95 to £24.95 (depending on format) –
check it online at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/169
2. CHRIS COWIE: TECHHOUSE & TRANCE (Loopmasters)
Prolific artist/DJ Chris Cowie’s genre-defying productions have been
setting dancefloors alight for a decade, so now it’s your turn with
this exclusive sample collection packed with some of the best sounds
and samples from his Aberdeen studio. Techno, trance, and hard-tech
house music producers take note.
Content: 230 loops (50 bass loops and 60 drum loops with full and
broken-down elements, including 32 percussion loops, 60 synth loops,
and miscellaneous loops); 325 samples (90-plus single-hit sounds, FX,
and bass sound); and 19 popular soft sampler patches.
Tech Specs: 325MB collection, featuring 326 ACID Wav files and 230
Rex2 files. Additional Reason ReFill Apple Loops versions are also
available.
Price and availability: From £19.95 to £24.95 (depending on format) –
check it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/152#
3. DELICIOUS ALLSTARS FUNK CONSTRUCTOR (Loopmasters)
If you like your soul food hot then Loopmasters’ Delicious Allstars
Funk Constructor collaborates with some of the industry’s best groove
pioneers to serve up sizzling funk and soul loops with a side platter
of hot grooves to inspire next-generation soul and funk classics!
Content: Over 1,000 brand-new funk samples, including 115 live drum
and percussion grooves, 45 drum hits, 42 funky bass loops, 38 rhythm
and lead guitar lines, 100-plus authentic Rhodes, Clavinet, and
Hammond Loops, 70-plus flute, brass section, sax, and trumpet loops,
plus 60 vocal hits and loops from funk/soul legend Jocelyn Brown.
Tech Specs: Wav, ACID, Rex2, Reason ReFill, Ableton Live Pack, Apple
Loops, HALion, KONTAKT, EXS, Stylus RMX, and NNXT formats.
Price and availability: £29.95 to £34.95 (depending on format) – check
it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/70
4. DRUMDROPS IN DUB VOL. 2 PACK 1 (Drumdrops)
Horseman’s hard-hitting beats have backed the best reggae artists
around; here he delivers the first in a series remastered sessions,
featuring two full drum loops recorded through vintage Neve consoles
and authentic valve equipment as part of the original Drumloops In Dub
Vol. 2 collection.
Content: 40 loops in various formats and 65 single drum hits (Loop
Pack Version) and full multitrack drum recordings (Multitrack Version).
Tech Specs: 209MB collection (Loop Pack Version) featuring 65 and 69
bpm Apple Loops, ACID Wav loops, Rex2 loops, and single drum hits;
720MB collection (Multitrack Version) of 65 and 69 bpm drum tracks,
tempo-mapped for Cubase, Logic, and Pro Tools formats
Price and availability: £12.95 to £17.95 (depending on format) – Check
it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/81
5. ABSTRACTION 03 (Galbanum)
An eclectic, all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic ‘found sounds,’
purposefully polished, refined, and formatted into rhythmic loop
enhancers, all designed to spice up your percussive pallet and inject
freshness into your grooves, where any household sound — from power
drills to, literally, the kitchen sink — is fair game as substitution
for a drum machine!
Content: 1,792 cutting-edge 24-bit/44.1kHz sounds, divided into 768
loops plus 1,024 single-hit abstract electronic percussion samples.
Tech Specs: Loops available in Apple Loops, Acid Loops, or Rex2
formats (each being two measures long, with partial usable segments to
give thousands of variations); single-hit samples are grouped into 32
instrument folders with MIDI note names to facilitate auto-key
mappings for supported samplers.
Price and availability: £19.95 to £29.95 (depending on format)
Check it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/171
6. TREMORS (Sonic Couture)
Tremors is a stunning new collection of dark, paranoid, funky, and
downright unclassifiable drum loops that are sure to prove
inspirational to film composers, DJs, electronica producers, and dub-
heads alike. A veritable melting pot for breakbeat culture!
Content: 301 four-bar loops forming part of one of 63 grooves with
each part available as a separate loop allowing users to break down a
groove or mix and match different elements of different grooves to
form new combinations.
Tech Specs: Fully processed into Rex2, ACID Wav, and Apple Loops files
for full drag-and-drop compatibility with all major sequencing and
sampling packages.
Price and availability: £44.95 – check it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/166
7. MINIMAL GLITTER (Cluster Sound)
Minimal Glitter is a cute collection of solid glitch loops, micro
breaks, fragmented voices, and pseudo-rhythms, all designed for
minimalist music production.
Content: Includes 30 punchy minimal kick loops, 30 minimal snare
loops, 30 minimal upbeat hi-hat loops, 30 hi-hat break loops, 25
minimal beat loops, 30 minimal glitch beat loops, 25 minimal glitch
sound loops, 30 percussive loops, 25 filtered voice loops, and 30 tube
sequenced loops; 308 synth and drum samples; and 55 synth and drum
MIDI loops; and multi-format instruments.
Tech Specs: Reason ReFills include 80 NNXT and ReDrum instruments;
Wave Pack includes 30 KONTAKT 2 instruments; Ableton Live Pack
includes 310 simpler, impulse, and drum racks.
Price and availability: £15.95 – check it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/160#
8. RASTA VOCAL SAMPLES (Prime Loops)
Authentic rasta vocals exclusively recorded for Prime Loops by
acclaimed Jamaican vocalist Danman (a.k.a. ‘Sunny Voice’), this brand
new collection of powerful vocal samples are perfect for giving a rich
vocal edge to hype up your mix set.
Content: Contains 120 royalty-free, 24-bit samples, including a
selection of upfront vocals, including full shouts, single phrases,
adlibs, chorus, hits, and big hooks, plus a selection of urban
dancefloor-designed processed vocal effects.
Tech Specs: Includes ready-to-play patches for KONTAKT, HALion, EXS24,
NNXT, BATTERY, and SFZ. Also available in Ableton Live Pack, EmuX2,
and Reason 4 ReFill formats.
Price and availability: £14.95 – check it out at http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/165
Loopmasters now on Facebook!
Our new Facebook page is now officially ‘live’ – a place where
producers and musicians can interact, directly question the
Loopmasters team, share information, and exchange tips and knowledge.
Here you can also hear demos of all the latest products, watch
production videos from Loopmasters artists, read news and reviews of
our existing products, get the lowdown on forthcoming titles and
suggest titles that we should be bringing out, and download free
content!
Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loopmasters/47991037216
Finally… Free samples!
… for Ableton users. Free Ableton xmas holiday pack now available and
online – free to all registered Live/Live LE users!
http://www.ableton.com/solid-sounds
