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Nine Volt Audio has released Beat Bandit, a modular REX-based loop library of electronic drums and rhythms.
Beat Bandit grooves are designed to be appropriate for a wide range of musical genres. Every element of each full-mix loop is broken into individual loops so users can mix and match parts to create their own customized beats.
Beat [...]

Big Fish Audio has introduce two new sound libraries.
Descriptions:
Primal Drums features a collection of powerful and evocative rhythm beds, contained in 50 construction kits (over 700 loops). The kits range in style from massive cinematic drum scores to exotic worldbeat, ambient, and eclectic street beats.
An essential tool for producers and composers, Primal Drums also [...]

Ueberschall has released Liquid Instrument Series Vol. 8 Drums, a new VST that makes it possible to move, pitch, stretch or even delete any single note of the snare, hi-hat, or bass drum loop without affecting the rest of the groove. All loops and single sound loops automatically adjust their tempo to your arrangement.
Try radical [...]

Native Instruments has published a free tutorial video (.mov) on using Battery 3.

Blipdrums is a new web-based business specializing in unique electronic drum samples for musicians, sound designers and soundtrack creators.
“Blipdrums is dedicated to creating the best electronic percussion samples,” explains Bliphead and company founder Saul Stokes. Stokes creates Blipdrum’s sample using a mixture of software and hardware, combined with his own handmade analog modular music systems.
“We [...]

Native Instruments has released a free library add-on with three artist drum kits for the acclaimed percussion sampler BATTERY 3. The new kits were designed by NI endorsees Gorillaz, Einstuerzende Neubauten, and Turntablerocker, and are based on exclusive custom sounds from these artists’ own productions.
The “Dracula Eastwood” kit by Gorillaz producer Curtis Lynch provides BATTERY [...]

Toontrack has released EZdrummer 1.1, which introduces new functionalities as well as providing essential bug fixes for all users and compatibility for the recently announced EZX-s. It is required for the Nashville EZX but is otherwise highly recommended for all users. EZdrummer 1.1 is available for both Intel Mac and PC in VST, AU and [...]

MoReVox has released Drumbuster, their latest free drum library for Elektromorph users.
Description:
Recorded with a Neve VR on 2″ Studer A80 then digitally iperedited. Drumbuster (15 Kicks, 10 Snares for over than 100 samples) represents the sum of Analog Warmth and Digital Dynamic.
MoReVoX Drumbuster is provided in 2 formats : Drumagog and raw Wav Files. [...]

Smart Loops has released three new libraries as part of its SL MultiTracks drum loop series: 6-8 Medium Rock 1, Medium-Fast Bossa Nova 1, and Medium Straight Country Rock 1.
SL MultiTracks are designed to let computer-based musicians and producers discretely mix drums and cymbals on separate tracks using any ACID or Apple Loops-compatible Mac or [...]

Precisionsound has introduced a new percussion loop library, Ethno Percussion Collection Volume 1 - DAF.
The DAF is a Middle Eastern frame drum, a percussion instrument with a very distinctive sound. The library is the first release in the Ethno Percussion Collection series, which focuses on making very detailed single shot percussion libraries.
Several layers (up to [...]

Toontrack Music has announced the Claustrophobic and Twisted Kit EZX expansions for EZdrummer.
Descriptions:
The Claustrophobic EZX
The Claustrophobic EZX marks a new step for Toontrack in driving the development of percussive samples. The audio team at Toontrack has utilized drumhead selection, room and microphone configurations to fuse the qualities of a high end drum recording and the [...]

Groove Monkee has announced the release of Groove Monkee Rock, 1,500 MIDI beats and fills covering 10 styles of rock music: alternative, ballad, blues rock, classic, contemporary, hard rock, punk, metal, funk rock and pop plus sections of half-time, basic rock and prog rock.
In addition, there are over 200 extra drum fills, 100 intros and [...]

PowerFX has introduced VDM-1, a collection of vintage drum machines for Reason. The VDM-1 ReFill has over 50 Reason Redrum and NN-XT presets containing over 675 samples with Combinator graphics that emulate the original machine’s look. The ReFill also includes “Multi-out” presets for Rewire master hosts like Pro Tools, Cubase and others and includes “All [...]

Big Fish Audio has introduced Addictive Drums, a complete drum production toolkit.
Description:
Compatible with all major plugin formats, Addictive Drums gives you instant access to every parameter, so you can program realistic drum tracks in any style or genre.
Addictive Drums is built on three components:

superior multi-mic samples of a wide variety of premium drums,
full production tools [...]

 

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MoReVoX ELEKTROMORPH is a massive, electronically morphed drum sample library with 32 Kicks, 44 Snares, 14 Tom Sets, 94 Cymbals and several other multilayer percussion and Efx.
Description:
More than 800 24-bit samples ready to quickly regenerate your drum tracks. From Pop to Hard Rock , Hip-Hop to Extreme Electronic Music, MoReVoX ELEKTROMORPH can help you breathe [...]