Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
This is a teaser video for the new Radikal Spectralis ambient soundbank, There’s no info with the video and I couldn’t find any info at the Spectralis site either – so if you know any more about this soundbank, please leave a comment!
Arman Bohn has released a free virtual instrument for Windows, the Glass Armanica VSTi. It’s a virtual recreation of Ben Franklin’s rubbed glass instrument, known as the Glass Harmonica, Armonium, Hydrocrystalophone, or Armonica. The Glass Harmonica makes gorgeous, ethereal sounds. Here’s a sample from Bohn’s Glass Armanica: [display_podcast] The samples were created by filling wine… Read More Gorgeous Virtual Glass Harmonica
Native Instruments has introduced True Strike Tension, a new Kore Soundpack with percussion sounds designed to add mystery and tension to cinematic film scores and similar musical styles. True Strike Tension is built on sample material that has been carefully selected from ProjectSAM’s acclaimed True Strike 2 library. It draws upon various percussion instruments from… Read More Native Instruments Intros Cinematic Percussion SoundPack
Precision Sound has released Stingers II, 150 sound effects, divided into 20 preset maps, specially designed for adding drama and impact to trailer, jingle or music productions. The SampleSet contains booms, blasts, transitions, hits and impacts with starts, tails and many separated elements so you can combine these as you like. You can preview Stingers… Read More Stingers Audio Sample Library
Pulse: Pure Analog Lifeforms is a new $29.95 sound library by Richard Devine and Josh Kay, described as a “rare and perfect exhibition of vintage and new school sounds.” There’s a related remix context you may want to check out, too. Description: Pulse contains all the musical maps and charts you need to plan and… Read More New Sound Library: Pure Analog Lifeforms
French dance gurus Justice offered a little lawyer-bait in an interview with MTV, revealing that they didn’t bother to clear many of the samples they used on their debut album, Cross. Speaking to MTV, Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay confirmed what many fans have suspected for a while when they said: “we sample really… Read More Justice Blatantly Rips Off Samples
Radiophonica (WFRP001) is the first title in UK sound designer Ian Boddy’s Waveforms series of independent downloadable sample libraries. Radiophonica provides a library of sounds that recall the BBC Radiophonic Workshops early work on seminal TV programmes like Doctor Who; as such, they embrace those appealing analogue, organic, retro scifi sounding characteristics of early synthesiser soundtracks. All 200 samples 24-bit/44.1kHz mono WAV, crossfade… Read More Sample Library Captures Classic Sound Of BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Little Scale has released a collection of free sound kits for LSDJ, Little Sound DJ for the Game Boy. They are free downloads from his site. Here are demo videos for each collection: Atari 2600 Kit for LSDJ
Sebastian Tomczak has created a free set of Debussy kits for the Game Boy music program LSDJ. These kits contain samples from Voiles, Danseuses Dé Delphes and of course La Cathedrale Engloutie. “These beautiful piano chords crushed down to 8 bit / 11.468 KHz actually sounds much better than I had anticipated,” notes Tomczak. If try these out, give Tomczak… Read More Play Debussy On Your Game Boy
