Category Archives: Samples, Loops

New ReFill For Propellerhead Reason – Missing Pieces

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Sound designer Navi Retlav sent word of a new Refill for Propellerhead Reason 6:

I just released my brand new Refill from Missing Pieces series, for Propellerhead Reason 6 software.

This Refill was designed to deliver a ground breaking filter sweeps and sound effects to your music productions inside Reason 6.
Analog Sweeps Refill, will bring back your memories, about that unworldly oldschool modular synthesizers, noise and glitch generators.

The complexity of combinator patches included in this refill will astonish you. Don’t be afraid. Included PDF documentation explains everything, and makes it easy to use. You might be surprised how much it can absorb you into sweet analog synthesis madness.

These patches are perfect for crisp lead melodies, deep or distorted bass lines and epic noise transitions. You can use it in all kind of music genres, from psychedelic trance to drum and bass to dubstep and up to progressive rock.

You can preview Missing Pieces below:

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ModernBeats Releases Radio MAX Music Loops

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ModernBeats has released Radio MAX Music Loops – a sample library that features over 200 ‘Pop Radio’ style music loops, 600 files in 3 formats (WAV/AIFF/REX2), and 814MB in size,

The loopset was designed at 120BPM and provides 10 construction-style multi-track Radio/Pop/R&B/Dance music themes with up to 4 variations per theme. All loops mix-match seamlessly together in a construction-style layout, allowing for full mixing control and arrangement.

Instruments Included:

  • Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Bells, Analog Bass, Arpeggio Synths
  • Brass Section, Breath Sound Effects, Chorus Synths, Choir Pads
  • Electric Guitar, Ensemble Strings, Glide Bass, Guitar Harmonics
  • Horns Section, Marcato Strings, Muted Guitar, Portamento Synths
  • Phaser Pads, Piano, Staccato Strings, Saw Synth Leads
  • Square Synth Leads, Sync Synths, Synth Bells, Synth Pads
  • Synth Sound Effects, Violins, Vocoder FX, & Vocal Sound FX

Radio MAX Loops is offered as a download, priced at $39.95. See the Modern Beats site for previews and details.

New Sound Library From Ian Boddy, Analogue Workshop Vol 1 – Distortion & Feedback

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Time+Space & synthesist Ian Boddy have introduced a new sound library, Analogue Workshop Vol 1. Distortion & Feedback.

Distortion & Feedback is the first in the new series of Analogue Workshop sound libraries released by Ian Boddy Waveforms. It is intended that each volume in this series will focus in on one aspect of analogue sound design possible on modular and vintage synthesizers.

This library contains 300 samples (150 longer looped sounds & 150 one shots), programmed and recorded from analogue modular and vintage synthesizers.

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Steinberg Intros Dark Planet

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Steinberg has introduced Dark Planet, a new virtual instrument for HALion 4, HALion Sonic and HALion Sonic SE that explores dark and spooky ambiences.

Here’s what Steinberg has to say about Dark Planet:

The Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set is loaded with hundreds of creepy sounds, shattering loops and eerie instruments, including leads, basses, drums and effects that will inspire and give you the shivers at the same time.

Dark Planet’s earth-shattering sounds are equally suitable for impactful cinematic scores, massive industrial tracks and spacious dark ambient productions.

The integrated MorphFilter and the onboard effects provide everything needed to add spine-tingling ingredients to your productions and fuel your fantasies with the gloom of the Dark Planet.

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BeatCleaver Update Makes Beat Slicing Easier Than Ever

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Developer Albert Santoni let us know about a a major update to Oscillicious BeatCleaver that is designed to make beat slicing faster and easier than ever.

Here’s what they have to say about the update:

With new support for MP3 and AAC formats, sampling from existing songs and recordings has never been easier. DJs can now easily save loops from songs to use with sampler decks and artists can cut samples for remixes and mashups.

The new Advanced Slicing menu facilitates slicing audio by fixed bars or beats, perfect for chopping multi?track exports for live resequencing.

The update also adds fluid zooming. Here’s a quick demo of the changes:

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10CC I’m Not In Love Choir Sample Library

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In 1974 10CC recorded their third album, The Original Soundtrack. The album featured a song I’m Not In Love, written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, that was a production masterpiece, featuring amazing, ethereal choral parts.

Now Sampletekk has released INIL Choir, a new sample library based on the 10cc I’m Not In Love choir.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

These choirs are unique. There’s simply nothing else like them! The combination of voices and the way they where produced have given them a sound that’s truly one of a kind.

Now, SampleTekk, in cooperation with Eric Stewart of 10CC, are very proud to release of The INIL Choir, thus taking one of the most famous analogue samples into the digital era.

INIL Choir is available now for $49. See the site for audio demos and details.

Grain Science + A Mic Turns Anything Into A New Synth Patch

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Canis at Wooji Juice posted an interesting demo, embedded below, that highlights how you can use Grain Science to turn just about anything into a synth patch:

Recently, I posted a new Grain Science demo track to SoundCloud. It’s just a series of experiments, but quite a few people found it interesting because it demonstrates a side to Grain Science that maybe not everyone is aware of: the ability to bring to life the awesome synth instruments that are lurking in the everyday sounds all around you.

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Moog Intros Bowel-Shaking BASE SoundPack For Animoog

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Moog Music today introduced the BASE soundpack for Animoog – a collection of timbres and presets that radically extends the sonic capabilities of Animoog from the purely electronic realm of its Moog ancestry into a richly organic world of biological sound.

The BASE Pack is born from a quest Moog engineers embarked on, with help from researchers at The University of North Carolina at Asheville, to discover the most primordial sounds known to man. The result is the Biomimetically Augmented Synthesis Expansion Pack (BASE Pack) for the Animoog synthesizer.

In addition to the over 40 new Timbre files, Moog recruited top sound designers to craft 25 powerful new presets which demonstrate the range of BASE sounds that Animoog can now emit. Some of the Presets included are Extravasation, Eructations, Bad Beans, Bathtub Bubbles, and Oops Sorry Excuse Me. Some of the Timbres included are Sploot2, WetGas1, Dribbly, WetSquish2 and Excuse Me.

Above, Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess demonstrates some of his trademark licks using BASE for Animoog and UNCA’s Dr. Wayne Kirby explains the origin of the new sound library.

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Sound Design Based On The Human Voice

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Sound designer and composer Mick Gordon has shared this smart promo video, Voices of Devs, that’s entirely based on voice samples that he made at the Game Developer Conference 2011 in San Francisco:

I wandered around with a little microphone at GDC San Francisco 2011 to record vocal sounds from anyone who was willing to make them. I wanted to make a song out of these noises. In fact, I wanted to make a complete song, using nothing but these vocal recordings.

This is that song.

People grunted, groaned, moaned, screeched, screamed, and sang into my little microphone and I used this source material to produce Voices of Devs.

Absolutely everything you hear in this track was made by manipulating these recordings using various sound design techniques. Every drum, lead, chord and effect was, at one point in time, a recording of somebody making noises with their mouth at GDC San Francisco 2011. No other samples, synths, instruments or recordings were used in this track. Whatsoever.

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Free Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Live Pack

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We’ve been hard at work for the last couple of weeks, putting in the long hours to bring you the news from the Winter NAMM Show.

But we’ve been so focused on NAMM news that we totally missed some new gear that flew in ‘under the radar’ – the Paper Jamz Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar.

We don’t know how we missed a sick cardboard axe like this, especially since you can get it for $10 at Wal-Mart.

Fortunately, AfroDJMac has his finger on the pulse of the Justin Bieber action and he brought this Bieberific bad boy to our attention:

Hey Synthtopia, Thanks for all the great coverage over the last week, it’s been pretty exciting.

Surprisingly, however, you guys have never covered one of the years hottest electronic musical instrument, the Paper Jamz Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar ;)

Well don’t worry I have the scoop on it and have made it into an Ableton Live Pack consisting of a synthesizer, drum rack, some nasty samples, and a Slice to Midi preset for the enjoyment of all! There’s a gritty lo-fi charm bringing this Justin Bieber toy into Ableton and making synths and such out of it. I hope you guys like it!

Actually, listening to the demo for the Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Live Pack, it sounds like AfroDJMac’s come up with something a bit twisted and wrong.

But, if twisted and wrong + Ableton Live + Justin Bieber is right up your alley, check out AfroDJMac’s site for the details and the download.