Big Fish Audio

Big Fish Audio has released a new world percussion sound library, Earth Tone.

The library retails for $99.95.  Audio demos are available at the Big Fish site.

Description:

Soak up the flavors of world percussion with Earth Tone: World Percussion. Big Fish Audio brings you the latest addition to their World/Ethnic section with this warm, enthusiastic library full of diverse and classic ethnic percussion instruments, including the bata drum, frame drum, hydraulic triangle, steel slip drum, talking drum, timbau, hadjini, large ocean drum and many, many more. Add a splash of the Middle East to your hip hop tracks, or a hint of South America to your jazz tunes. Earth Tone is a gateway to all things ethnic percussion. With 12 enormous kits and over 7 GB full of the most dynamic tones you can find in a library, this product will draw you back time and time again.

Contents:

• 6.1 GB on Disc (2.47 GB of 24-bit WAV files)
• 922 WAV loops on disc
• There are 12 loop performance folders in tempos ranging from 72BPM to 200BPM.

For more information, visit their web site at www.bigfishaudio.com.

At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Big Fish Audio released and showed a variety of new sound libraries, including libraries focusing on house music, Bollywood sounds, crunk, soul horns, chil-out music and jazz.

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Big Fish Audio has released Stratos: Drones & Atmospheres, a construction kit sample library featuring over 4.1 gigabytes of evolving drones and dark atmospheres.

Each construction kit contains a complete soundscape consisting of both synthetic and organic layers, allowing you to re-mix the component pieces as desired. All the kits were created with a common tonal center, making it easy to mix and match layers from any of the 50 kits, – yielding an almost limitless number of variations.

Features:

• 4.11 GB of 24-bit WAV files.
• 50 Construction kits.
• Each of the 50 construction kits contains a main mix, plus every element broken out.

Available now for $99.95 USD.

Demo (MP3)

Big Fish Audio has introduced a new sample library, The Jazz City Collection.

Description: Inspired by the classic 1950s and 1960s jazz albums of artists like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and others, Jazz City features 14 construction kits of traditional Jazz loops.

Also included is a substantial amount of extras and alternate loops, bringing the total content to nearly 3 GB in just the WAV format. An array of different ensembles are included, ranging from intimate-sounding jazz trios to quartets, quintets, and sextets.

Contents:

• 14 Construction Kits (1.6 GB of WAV files).
• 1.4 GB of extra and alternative WAV file loops.
• Tempos ranging from 55 to 205 BPM in various keys.

FORMAT: Apple Loops/REX/WAV/Acid/RMX
RETAIL: $99.95

Winter NAMM Show: Big Fish Audio announced several new sample libraries, including:

• Latin Jazz by Emmy-nominated musical director and producer Peter Michael Escovedo;
• Plush, a collection of smooth and sexy construction kits,
• Straight Outta NYC, a set of hits straight from the birthplace of hip hop
• Hip Hop Mood Swings, a moody collection of hip hop gems.

Also set for release in 2008 are the follow- ups to some of Big Fish Audio’s best selling products, including:

• Funk City 2
• Heat Seekers 2
• Nu Metal City 2
• Acid Jazz City 2
• Kontrol Freaks 2
• Divinity: World Percussion, featuring over 6,000 loops of pure soul-stretching vibes
• Found Percussion will also be released, with over 8 GB of unique and quirky percussion sounds from ‘instruments’ found in the kitchen, tool shed and other unorthodox places