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Soundsnap is a new site for finding and sharing free samples, sound effects and music loops that can be used in podcasts and other multimedia productions.

Designed as a resource and community for musicians, sound designers, producers, film makers and web/video game developers, Soundsnap offers content for use in any kind of media production. Users can freely download and upload content to be legally shared and used in any media project.

“We like to think of Soundsnap as ‘YouTube for sounds” where users not only download sounds for their own use, but submit their sounds and help the library grow organically,” said Tasos Frantzolas, creator of Soundsnap.com. “Free, on-demand, and publicly available audio clips and samples encourage experimentation and creation and makes for better audio within any kind of project.” Read more…

MPCsounds.com has released Vintage Machinez 2, a drum library for the Akai MPC500/1000/2000/2500/3000/4000 featuring over 2,100 hip-hop style sounds. The library comes as 3 separate MPC soundsets (Parts 1-3) or can be purchased together as one large collection.

Drum machines in Vintage Machinez 2 include: Boss Dr. Rhythm 55, Boss Dr. Rhythm 110, Casio PT-30, Casio PT-68, EMU SP-12, Fairlight II, Hammond Auto-Vari 64, Hammond Drumbox, Korg KPR-77, Korg Rhythm-55, Pearl SC-40, Univox Micro-Rhythmer 12, and Visco Space Drums.

You can preview Vintage Machinez 2 with an unfortunately narrated demo, below. Read more…

 

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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 includes a useful selection of accompanying drones, pads, and atmospheres designed to add even greater impact to your sonic creations. Primal Drums is ideal for recording and scoring projects, from TV to films, games, re-mixes, multi-media, and more.

Contents:

• 50 Construction Kits
• Powerful and evocative drum and rhythm beds

Format: AIFF/Apple Loops/REX/WAV
Retail: $99.95
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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 pitching and stretching to make everything sound more electronic. Unlimited control over the loops and multi channel layers, multiple variations, every tone of each drum instrument are editable for total flexibility.

More than 450 drum loop construction kits (over 2600 layered loops) including 100 breaks, intros, and outros (over 640 layered tracks) in all styles and variations. For Pop, RnB, Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, Disco, Jazz, Swing, Bossanova, Samba, Rock, IDM, Drum & Bass.

Ueberschall’s Liquid Instrument Series Vol. 8 Drums is available for USD $199(€174)

PowerFX hasreleased 2 new titles, Electro-House from SampleMagic and Elektro House Producer from Loopmasters, to provide producers and digital music makers with an arsenal of loops and samples for this popular club music style:

• Electro-House contains over 900 files of hypnotic tech-funk that will captivate any dance floor.
• Elektro House Producer is an up to the minute collection dance floor killers produced by Andy Lee of Barcoda and includes over 800 wav, 500 Rex files as well as 35 patches for NNXT, HALion, EXS-24 and Kontakt. Both products are available for $69 as a digital download.

Also released, Bass Massiva a huge collection of electro house bass sounds for HALion/EXS-24/Kontakt from Colour Sonics. This download contains over 640 patches of 24-bit sounds files available for $39 download is an essential bass tool offering which has sourced sounds from the Juno 60, ARP Odessey, Virus, Moog Voyager, Mini Moog and many more including some early Russian synths.