Tonehammer has introduced Ambient Guitar – a massive collection of sounds, all derived from a number of different guitars. All source material is comprised of live guitar with various effects applied real-time and minimal post-production processing. Here’s what they have to say about it: Contrary to most guitar libraries, the focus of this library is… Read More Ambient Guitar Sample Library
Propellerhead Software has released Reason Disco School – a new ReFill that explores the classic sounds that came out of three of Disco’s biggest capitals: New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Ranging from old school Philadelphia layers of lush strings, through club beats of New York in the late 1970?s to the slick styles of Los… Read More Reason Disco School ReFill
Hollow Sun has released TriOsc, a new sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt: Styled on equipment retrieved from an ancient, disused rocket launch control centre, TriOsc features three oscillators with samples of valve sine and triangle waveforms taken from a rack of vintage test equipment to create dense clusters of retro sci-fi electronica. Unique to… Read More Hollow Sun TriOSC For Kontakt Designed For Vintage Radiophonic Sounds
Reader Jakob McKarter sent word of this collection of free drum loops: Here are 25 loops I made with additive synthesis and slight glitch. Feel free to download and use these loops in any way you see fit as I am releasing them under creative commons licensing. I hope you have as much fun using them… Read More 25 Free Drum Loops
RealBeat is a new sampler for Mac that focuses on ‘simplicity and fast results.’ According to the developer, “RealBeat for Mac is not a fully fledged sequencer or sound software it rather offers simple and fast access to sampling and manipulating recorded sounds live or at home. Don’t expect a feature-laden software but lots of fun… Read More RealBeat Sampler For Mac
Sonic Drive Media has released a new soundset – Dubstep Instrument Rack Presets for Ableton Live. The Soundset contains 33 ‘Ultra Heavy Dubstep Patches’, which use the Operator and Analog synths. Contents: 33 Deep Dark Nasty Basses, Wobbles and SubBass Instrument Rack Presets All Presets in this SoundBank take full use of the Instrument Rack’s 8… Read More New Dubstep Soundset For Ableton Live – Wub, Wub, Wub
The Electronic Garden has introduced Joystick Journeys – The VCS3 Collection, a new sample library featuring the EMS VCS3 synthesizer. Here’s what they have to say about the new sample library: Welcome to the weird, whacky and wonderful world of the EMS VCS3. This unusual instrument was developed by EMS in the late Sixties and… Read More EMS VCS3 Sample Library – The VCS3 Collection
Synthtopians – AfroDJMac has another Ableton Live freebie for you: Hello friends at Synthtopia, AfroDJMac here to share with you my latest free Ableton Live Rack: Found Percussion. I love when ordinary sounds becomes music, so this week I’ve sampled all kinds of objects from my kitchen, including bottles, cans, glasses, brooms, M+M wrappers, etc.… Read More Free Ableton Live Rack/Sample Pack Features ‘Found Percussion’
Apple has updated GarageBand for iPad, adding new audio output options, Apple Loop support, copy and paste for audio files and more. Here’s what’s new in GarageBand for iPad 1.0.1: Support for audio output over AirPlay, Bluetooth devices and HDMI with the Apple Digital AV Adapter. Import of AIFF, WAV, CAF audio files and Apple Loops… Read More GarageBand for iPad Gets Support For Apple Loops, New Audio Output Options
Unintelligible Voices is a new sample library, designed by Studio Wormbone, that features verbal communication that has been ‘obsessively warped, effected, and deconstructed to the extreme’. Here’s the official description: The information in what used to be the comprehensible verbiage of dialogue has been stripped away through the craft of tastefully intense signal processing. What’s… Read More New Sample Library, Unintelligible Voices By Studio Wormbone
