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We don’t talk much about country music at Synthtopia. Maybe it’s because we still have bad memories about Switched-On Buck.
If you need country music drum loops, though, Beta Monkey Music has released Pure Country IVa new drum loop library recorded in Nashville that features brushes in 3/4 and 6/8 time. There are 340+ brushed drum loops, including 3/4 brush ballads, mid-tempo 6/8 feels, and stick/brush combo grooves.
The library is priced at $29.99 until August 11th, $39.99 after that.
Beta Monkey has released Groove Construction Kits II, a collection of acoustic drum and cymbal samples.
Groove Construction Kits II offers 100% pure acoustic multi-velocity drum and cymbal samples for use in all software and hardware samplers. The samples represent some of the most popular drum and cymbals available, including such industry standards as DW, Pearl, Tama, Zildjian, and Sabian. The drum and cymbal sample library offers eight complete drum kits, extensively recorded to ensure realistic and dynamic drum tracks.
The kits available:
- DrumKit_01 Big and Brassy
- DrumKit_02 Garage Days (24 Bit)
- DrumKit_03 Big in Brooklyn
- DrumKit_04 Big in Brooklyn Again
- DrumKit_05 Saucy Sausalito
- DrumKit_06 Pearl in a Little Room
- DrumKit_07 Pearl Multi-Mic
- DrumKit_08 Dry Rock Kit
Beta Monkey Music has announced the release of Drum Werks VIII, with over 650 versatile acoustic rock drum loops in REX2 format. This collection is packed with rock feels and phrasings, both straight and shuffled, laying it down for any guitar-driven music.
Drum Werks VIII offers a cohesive single session of drum grooves for songwriters looking for a quick and easy way to write new music with believable and versatile drum tracks.
Drum Werks VIII was created for use as a powerful songwriting tool and highly inspiration groove collection. Quickly build all kinds of rock and blues-based rock tracks that feel right and sound great with this jam-packed toolbox of essential grooves.
Drum Werks VIII is also the companion disc to Drum Werks VII, utilizing the same drum sounds and same session tracks for complete compatibility. Drum Werks VIII also features a complete matching set of multi-velocity drum and cymbal samples – allowing users more options for their drum compositional needs. Read more…
Beta Monkey: Drums Get Odd
Beta Monkey has released what they call “the remedy to the common-time blues” – Odd Time Meltdown.
As the third installment in the Signature Series, Odd Time Meltdown is a complete package, inspiring users to get their grooves on in 5, 7, 9, and beyond.
Beta Monkey designed the collection to let users quickly build authentic yet more complex drum tracks. In addition to 500+ grooves in 5/4, 5/8, 7/4, and 7/8, Odd Time Meltdown includes a matching set of multi-velocity drum and cymbal samples from the kit used in recording the loops to allow greater flexibility in drum track construction. Create tracks from the loops, sequence patterns using the sample set or create a hybrid of the two, Odd Time Meltdown offers a rich rhythmic potential for more complex musical genres.
Features:
- 500+ Grooves and fills in 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, 7/4, and 4/4
- Focused Range of Tempos: 80-120 BPM
- Rhythmic Realism: 2, 4, 8, and 16 bar segments convey the authentic phrasing of the respective time signatures
- Cohesive Groove Sets: All loops are taken from the SAME recording session (all grooves, fills, one shots, samples are sonically-matched)
- Fully-Sampled Drum and Cymbal Samples: The sample kit section includes multi-velocity samples of all the drums and cymbals recorded. From the softest taps to the most powerful slams, you have it all. Build grooves from scratch or use them to augment any of the 500+ loops.
Odd Time Meltdown is available now for a limited time for $29.99. New release pricing available through February 28.
More information is available at the Beta Monkey site.
Beta Monkey Music is getting funky with the release of Rock Hard Funk, a two-CD collection of funk and funk-rock drum loops and samples.
“With this latest addition to the Beta Monkey collection of drum loops and samples, we’ve included the kinds of grooves and features that our users have requested over the past year. Plus, we’ve made this available for one of most affordable prices anyone could possibly find,” said Beta Monkey Music Creative Director, Richard Rice.
“We captured the grooves of several accomplished funk and rock drummers. We set them loose to a variety of different tempos and feels. We’ve recorded the beautiful sounds of a maple Drum Workshop recording kit and made sure to complement the 1000+ loops with a matching set of multi-velocity drum samples from the actual kit used in recording the loops. We then included a huge set of cymbal samples to allow writers even further flexibility in authentic drum track construction. We just think it’s essential to provide all of this to help our users unlock the full potential of their music. We know they will quickly build funk rock tracks that feel right and sound great with this jam-packed toolbox of funked-up grooves – that’s why we created it.”
