audio samples

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…

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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