audio loops

You already know that sexy 3D ads for software synths are a pet peeve in Synthtopia.

You know what else raises the hackles around here?

Sample libraries with porn movie names.

You know you’ve seen them.

Ghetto Grooves, for example, is a pretty descriptive title. You can figure you’re going to get some solid hip hop and r ‘n’ b loops, with a title like that.

By the time you get to Ghetto Grooves 3, though, you’re moving into porn movie title territory. You gotta figure that the sound developer has put things on autopilot.

Ghetto Grooves 3 sounds like something that you’re going to find in the back room at Guitar Center….through the 18 and over door. Read more…

Here’s a sample library that kicks ass: 9Soundware’s new Kung Fu: Hits of Fury.

Kung Fu is a sample library, in EXS24 format, inspired by kung fu films of the 70’s.

According to 9Sampleware – scenes from classic films were studied, and their sound effects were recreated with a combination of Foley-like techniques and painstaking synth programming.

The real reason this sound library kicks ass, though, is its 7 sound categories:

• face hit
• stomach hit
• swoosh
• sword clang
• sword draw
• gong, and
• crash

I’ve seen orchestral hits in sound libraries before, but not “face hit” and “sword clang”!

Heeeeeyaaaaahhh!

Kung Fu: Hits Of Fury retails for $19.99 and is available at the 9Soundware site. The 17 MB download includes 1 .EXS file and 100 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).

via SonicState

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Galbanum has released Abstraction 04: Found Sound Urban Intelligence, a new sample library in the Abstraction series.

Description:

Abstraction 04 is an all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic “found sound”, which has been purposefully polished, refined, and formated into rhythmic loop adders designed to spice up your percussive pallet and inject freshness into your grooves. This time around however, it is targeted directly at down tempo breaks, centrally-Intelligent hip-hop, and experimental urban futurism. Furthermore, this massive second helping of glitch rhythms and real-world sampled eccentricism, is for the first time paired together with analog kick and snare loops to synergistically co-create some seriously freaky future funk designed to make 3008 look old-school.

All Abstraction 04 loop content is produced at a native tempo of 106 BPM and is designed to effortlessly stretch from 90BPM to 120BPM and beyond to fit all tempo ranges used in current urban and down-tempo breaks music sub-genres. Read more…

Prolific music hacker Brian Green is looking for benders and others interested in collaborative circuit bending projects:

Ive been throwing this idea around for a few days, I really like the idea of social colaberations so i decided i would like to start one with circuit benders.

The idea is im going to pick a toy and do something to it, and make 1-5 loops out of it using the mod made then i will then pick someone off the list and send it to them and they will do the same thing, so on and so on

Then after we have been through everyone on the list the unit will come back to me and im going to make a big loop pack using everyones loops made durning the process and some other ones ill make running the unit through different things. The loop pack will then be posted for download.

The reason the unit is coming back to me is so i can make a lot of one shots and just dig for sounds that were left out during the colab so that we can get every little sound out of it for the sample pack.

After the loops are up i would like everyone who had the unit to make a track for a compilation.

Sounds like it could be an interesting project. Contact Green via his site, if you are interested in participating.

Check out Green’s YouTube channel, too, for examples of his creative circuit bending and audio hacking.