Tom of Music Thang has shared a sample pack of Fisher Price record player goodness: A pleasant evening at Music Thing towers, spent fixing up and sampling this ancient Fisher Price record player from my parent’s attic. The Swiss-made music box mechanism was rusted solid and the tiny clockwork motor doesn’t really give enough juice… Read More Free Fisher Price Music Box Sample Pack
Native Instruments has released four new Kore Soundpacks: “MASSIVE Expansion Vol. 1”, which contains 200 production-ready leads, basses and pad sounds based on the powerful MASSIVE wavetable engine; “Best of ABSYNTH” with 200 outstanding soundscapes, pads and keyboard sounds from the library of Native Instruments’ acclaimed semi-modular synthesizer; “Pop Drums”, featuring studio-grade acoustic drum kits… Read More Native Instruments Intros Four New Kore Soundpacks
The Vienna Symphonic Library has released seven Extended Libraries, complementing its already existing Vienna Special Edition download products. All Special Edition modules, including the PLUS libraries, now offer additional instruments: Special Edition Strings — Extended Library Special Edition Strings PLUS — Extended Library Special Edition Woodwinds — Extended Library Special Edition Woodwinds PLUS — Extended… Read More Vienna Symphonic Library Announces Seven Extended Libraries
This video, via Tom Cosm, is of Robert Henke, aka Monolake, giving a workshop in Christchurch, New Zealand. Topics covered include: Ableton Live Monodeck 2 in depth Ableton / Cycling 74 Partnership Surround Sound in Ableton Explanation of the Monolake Live Setup
For more than 50 years the shortwave radio spectrum has been used by for unknown purposes – perhaps by the world’s intelligence agencies – to transmit secret messages. The Numbers Stations transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round. The… Read More Shortwave Numbers Stations
BOLDER Sounds has released Tibetian Singing Bowls, a 760MB sample library. The bowls were struck by a number of items for a wide selection of tone colors. Also included are a few bonus Tingsha Bell samples. The Singing Bowls were “played” hit and also sustained. The sustained samples are what people refer to as “singing”… Read More Tibetian Singing Bowl Sample Library
Inspiration Sounds has released Electro Grime, a new sample library which features electro synths, bass lines, drums and synth fx for dirty electro house and minimal house production. Electro Grime was created using analogue synthesizers and drum machines. All loops are at 128BPM. The library is in Acidized Wav, Apple Loops, REX2, and WAV formats… Read More New Sample Library Features Dirty Electro & Minimal House
Equinox Sounds and BeatHive have released Binary Code, a downloadable loop pack from electronic composer and sound designer Stuart Sweeney (Node), containing 250 loops and phrases for creating Experimental Electronica, Glitch, Industrial and IDM music. The collection features melodic elements, beats, rhythmic pulsating textures and atmospheres, all presented in ACID / WAV format. You can… Read More Binary Code Loop Library Features Glitch & IDM Sounds
Soniccouture have released Balinese Gamelan, a new sampled instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt. A Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments originating from Indonesia. The majority of Gamelan instruments are percussive, and most of these are bronze. They include xylophone-like metallophones of different sizes and pitch, tuned gong chimes, very large pitched gongs, and an assortment… Read More Soniccouture Release Balinese Gamelan
Instasampler is a new free sampler for OS X. Description: The plugin takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length). When you play… Read More Free Sampler For Mac OS X
