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Cinematique Instruments has released Experimental Box, a collection of rhythms, ambiences and instruments assembled from glitch, noise, hiss, hum and other weird and bizarre sounds, to create a tool for writing experimental and minimal music.

Description:

Experimental Box focuses on aspects of glitch, minmal and noise music and gives you a full toolbox of ingredients for cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, glitch, machines, hum, and repetition.

The rhythms, ambients and instruments of the Experimental Box were assembled from unique sounds such as stations-announcements, trains, paper crumpling, acoustic and electronic noise, station hum, underground-railway noise, pneumatic doors, crown cap shaking, glitches, noise, hiss, hum and other weirdness.

Check out the demos at the Cinematique site. Read more…

Hollow Sun has released PolyMoog Strings FreePack, a set of samples of the Strings 1 and 2 presets taken from a PolyMoog Keyboard by Joeri Peeters.

According to Peeters:

This FreePack is very detailed with long samples every minor third across the keyboard range. Each one is impeccably looped and is as good a representation of this classic keyboard as you are likely to find anywhere.

The PolyMoog Keyboard was a preset-only version of the bigger PolyMoog. The PolyMoog was not a huge success in the market, partly because of its hefty price tage (around £5,000) but the fact that it wasn’t actually truly polyphonic with just one filter to service all voices much like the ARP Omni and Omni II. It was also extremely unreliable and many of them spent more time in service centres than they did in studios!

The PolyMoog Keyboard was a scaled down version of its bigger sibling featuring a mere 14 presets (6 more than the original PolyMoog!) and limited editability. The most notable presets were the fabled Vox Humana sound and the two string sounds on offer here. It was more reasonably priced at £2,000. Of course, the PolyMoog Keyboard shot to fame in the hands of Gary Numan who used one extensively in his music.

The PolyMoog Strings FreePack is available as a free download in Kontakt 3, Akai S5/6000 and Fusion formats.

via Rekkerd

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

Andre from Cuesounds discusses new sound libraries for the Percussa AudioCubes.

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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…