Kreativ Sounds has released Active eBass Plus 1.2 and Active eBass LE 1.2, revised and improved versions of the Reason Refills. Containing electric guitar, analog, and additive basses in one collection, this update comes loaded with 1280 presets and more cool stuff. New in 1.2 version: 23 new multisample sets: upright, precisison, analog and additive… Read More Kreative Updates Active eBass Reason Refills
SoundEngine.com has announced SargeMakesLoops Volume 1, a new sample CD ROM full of 600 MB of FreshBeatYo loops from “Sarge”. SoundEngine describes the unique collection like this: SargeMakesLoops represents a collection of sounds developed in between building new recruits into soldiers. These loops are NOT WORTHLESS AND WEAK! They are chock full of attitude, city… Read More SoundEngine Releases FreshBeatYo Loops
Toontrack has introduced Percussion and Cocktail, the first title in its Refill collection. The collection will be a series of soundbanks in the Refill format and Toontrack plans to release at least two titles a year. The first one out will be Percussion and Cocktail containing the Percussion and Cocktail kit sounds from Superior. Toontrack… Read More Toontrack Introduces Refill Collection
Voxengo has updated r8brain PRO, its sample rate conversion software. r8brain PRO implements sample rate conversion processing in its full: interpolation and decimation steps without exploiting any kind of simplifications; the signal is first resampled to a least common multiple sample rate for improved conversion quality. Version update 1.1 fixes a minor issue related to… Read More Voxengo Updates r8brain PRO Sample Conversion Software
Drum Spirit is the name of a new release from Sonic Vision, a South African producer of CD sample libraries. The CD is an interesting collection of traditional drum loops, percussive vocal hits and loops, and vocal phrases. The release features master African percussionist Mabi Gabriel Thobejane, who has traveled the world and toured with… Read More Sonic Vision Drum Spirit Sample CD
Precisionsound has released Monzter Guitars, a sample collection designed to provide an intuitive, playable “wall of guitar” sample-set. The CD is produced by Thomas Johansson, a guitarist and producer with over 50 CD productions to his name. The Monzter guitars SampleSet contains: Two programs for each format, Gigastudio, HALion & Kontakt. Fifths sampled both as… Read More Precisionsound Releases Monzter Guitars
Spectrasonics has released a series of four new expansion libraries, called S.A.G.E. Xpanders, to enhance the variety of choices for their recently released Stylus RMX virtual groove instrument. The four Groove Control activated Xpanders are based on the company’s Backbeat, Retro Funk, Liquid Grooves, and Metamorphosis collections. A fifth library, Burning Grooves is due to… Read More Spectrasonics Introduces Stylus Xpander Drum Sample Libraries
The Vienna Symphonic Library and its North American distributor ILIO have announced the release of all 13 Horizon Series products in HALion on Kontakt formats. All libraries including Vienna’s Performance Tool can be used on the samplers EXS24 mk II, GigaStudio, HALion, and Kontakt, on both Mac OS and Windows platforms. The Performance Tool for… Read More Vienna Symphonic Library New Products, Competition and Free Downloads
Big Fish Audio has released Hit Zone II, a 4GB library of Top 40 Pop/Hip Hop/R&B -basses,beats,keys,licks,fills & funky FX. In response to the success of Hit Zone Volume One, producers Bunker 8 Digital Labs have tricked out this latest “Hit Zone” release with more layers of complex sounds that rival even the first. Hit… Read More Big Fish Unleashes Hit Zone II
Beta Monkey Music has released Drum Werks Volume VI, featuring over 700 acoustic drum loops in eighteen different groove sets, from 6/8 blues ballad grooves to driving 180 BPM rock shuffles. Drum Werks VI is targeted towards the bluesman or classic rocker. For musicians writing Blues, Bluesy-Rock or related genres, Beta Monkey’s Drum Werks Volume… Read More Beta Monkey Releases Drum Werks Series V6
