Monthly Archives: June 2016

Splice Bright Lights Vocal Sample Pack
Size 123 Mb 

I proudly present the first ever “Bright Lights Vocal Sample Pack.” This bad boy contains over 80 royalty-free samples, loops, and FX to give your track that signature Bright Lights sound and vocal production. I’ve even thrown in several lead lines as well as full 8-bar phrases. There’s a little magic and enchantment for everyone in here.

I created this collection because I know how hard it is for young producers to find great vocals. In fact, when I first began producing vocals, it was extremely difficult to find great instrumental tracks. Let me know if you need any help and I can’t wait to hear what you guys come up with!

All my <333, Heather

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Splice Sounds Mixmash Essential Sound
Size 123 Mb 

Mixmash Records is proud to present to you the first ever Mixmash Essential Sounds!

The pack includes solely high quality essential sounds covering all the elements needed for Dance Music nowadays: from punchy drum hits to harmonic music loops and from funky bass loops to atmospheric FX to smoothen up your transitions. Use them to give that bit of extra sparkle to some of your sections or as go-to stand-alone song starters – they just really happen to do the trick.

Having been home to tunes by the likes of Laidback Luke, Avicii, Afrojack and Steve Aoki, Mixmash Records has proven its place among the biggest labels within dance music and responsible for helping out many producers climbing up the ladder. Currently home to quality producers like Laidback Luke, Inpetto, D.O.D, Shelco Garcia & TEENWOLF and HITS ‘O’ GOOD, Mixmash Records is to be named one of the pioneers within the creation of quality electronic dance music.

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Bass Boutique Ragga Vocals Vo 1
Size 1.15 Gb

In the early 1990’s Flinty Badman & Deman Rockers aka the Ragga Twins could be found ripping up the reggae dance floor on sound systems from around the NE London area, but it was on Unity sound that they made their name, playing all over England with a sound system which led to them being the hailed “the Kings of the Dancehall” in England, by some of the top Jamaican systems who claimed they could not compete with the versatility of this awesome duo.

Since then the Ragga Twins have continued to work with some of the biggest names and labels in the industry such as Shut Up and Dance, Shabba Ranks, Aquasky, Deekline and many, many more.

This first Ragga Vocals release from the Ragga Twins on the Booty Farm label features long and extended BPM and Key Synced Raps which can be used royalty free in productions, and are expected to be featured on many Dubstep, Breaks, DnB, House and Ragga/Dancehall productions for years to come.

Never before has such a comprehensive collection of royalty free vocal samples been available for producers to use in their music – the lyrics are inspirational, delivery perfect and the sound quality is perfect for use in pro productions, and to form the basis of future hits throughout the industry.

With Nick Deekline producing this collection its easy to see how such a unique and exclusive set of samples were created with Dance music as the main focus. Famous for his mashups and ghetto style, Deekline has extracted only the best recordings and put them down through the very best equipment in a top London studio.

In detail producers should expect to find over 1.8GB (wav) of royalty free 24 Bit Ragga Vocal samples between 94 – 174 Bpm, featuring 168 Separate long and developing samples (many 64+ bar loops!). Raps are included in FX and Dry versions for maximum flexibility and Rex and Apple Loop versions are also available!

Spear-headed by DJ Deekline, The Booty Farm brings together samples from top producers in genres such as Ghetto House, Miami Bass, Jungle, Crunk, UK Garage, Dubstep, Reggae, 2-Step and UK Funky. The content is quality controlled to the highest calibre and chosen specifically for all the creative junkies out there.

1.56Gb
136 Vocal Stems
18 Different Themes

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EDIROL Orchestral v1.0.3
Size 90 Mb 

Orchestral instruments come alive with rich ambient piano and stereo sampled string sounds in the new Edirol HQ-OR Software Synthesizer. The premium sounds in this synth are perfectly combined for lush soundtracks and beautiful classical arrangements. And its multiple output compatible with DXi 2.0 and VST 2.0 means you can enjoy your arrangements through several audio devices…simultaneously!

The Orchestral Plug-In Software Synthesizer Orchestral provides premium acoustic sounds, focusing on Strings, Wood winds, and Brass winds, as well as Percussion and Keyboards. These high quality samples include realistic articulations such as vibrato, spiccato, pizzicato, and tremolo. Using wave memory, Strings/Brass winds tones are selectable from solo, part section, and full section, making this ideal for the composition of contemporary music, sound tracks, and marching bands. The premium sounds in this synthesizer are perfectly combined for lush soundtracks and beautiful orchestral arrangements.

FEATURES:

– Premium acoustic sounds, focusing on Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion and Keyboards
– Realistic articulation such as vibrato, tremolo, pizzicato, and spiccato
– Up to 128-voice polyphony, 16-part, DXi2/VST2 plug-in software synthesizer
– Up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution, huge waveforms memory
– Multiple output, and full assignable MIDI control

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Samplephonics Owsey Ambient Garage
Size 455 Mb 

Retreat into Owsey: Ambient Garage, the perfect place for ambient inspiration and sculpted, detailed beats. Blending elements of future garage, tranquil Electronica, Chillstep and Balearic House, this beautiful Ambient sample pack is filled with live instrumentation and human rhythms, from the familiar to abstract and digital to organic.

Emotive and nostalgic pads and soundscapes are thrown against intricate found sound beats and warping digital bass lines. Lap steels, banjos, guitars, violins are dusted down and delicately performed whilst bright synth lines, frantic arpeggios and hyper real FX keeps the pack on it toes throughout.

This gorgeous collection of Ambient Garage loops and one shots comes with our royalty free royalty free license and is available as Wav file, with sampler instruments for Ableton Sampler, NNXT, Halion, Maschine, Kontakt, Motu MachFive, SFZ and EXS24. Download now and inject some blissed out melodies into your next composition.

Technical Specs:

280 Loops

151 One shots

Sampler instruments for Ableton Sampler, NNXT, Halion, Maschine, Kontakt, Motu MachFive,

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Illformed Glitch 2 v2.0.2
Size Win 6 Mb // Mac 7 Mb 

The infamous FSU plugin is back! And yes, there’s finally a Mac version!

Glitch is an audio effect plugin for Windows (VST), Mac (VST and AU) and Linux (VST), available in both 32-bit and 64-bit formats. Featuring a new and improved sequencer which can play multiple effects simultaneously, with the ability to trigger unique scenes from every note on your keyboard, Glitch can be as gentle or as brutal as you like.

Add the occasional splash of retrigger or stretcher to single hits within your drum loop, or fill the entire sequencer with random effect blocks for a totally chaotic trip down the digital rabbit hole… the choice is yours!

Features at a glance

Sequencer
Each program consists of 128 scenes that can be triggered via MIDI notes. Each scene has its own unique sequencer pattern, timing, and effect settings, allowing you to create tons of unique variations for every moment in your song, all ready to go at the press of a key!

Multi-lane sequencer allows many effects to be played simultaneously, to create interesting layered sounds.

Improved sequencer timing controls to better match your groove and song structure.

Intuitive pattern editor with drag’n’drop. Draw, erase, resize, split and join blocks with ease.

Effects
A collection of cheeky little effect modules designed to slice, dice, chop, screw, twist, turn and mangle your sounds into radical new forms.

Tempo-synced effects can easily be dialled in to precise musical timings such as 16th notes, 8th note triplets, and so on.

Filter, mix, pan and volume controls on each module, to help shape and fine-tune the output.

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Xfer Records LFOTool v1.6.5
Size Win 3 Mb // Mac 5 Mb 

LFOTool is an FX utility plug-in for both Macintosh OS X® and Windows®. It empowers music producers to create tremolo, auto-pan, trance-gate, side-chain compressor simulation, and dubstep-type wobble effects with minimal effort.
Features

– LFO with customizable point+tension-curve editor, 12 graphs in a preset (switchable via MIDI notes or automation)

– up to 5 graphs simultaneously (Cutoff/Reso/Pan/Var/Volume)

– graph preset shapes from a drop-down menu, able to save your own

– can optionally send MIDI CC out to control other softsynths, effects, or external hardware which responds to MIDI CC messages.

– BPM (with optional swing) or Hz LFO rate control

– sample-accurate sync

– dozens of presets included

– both Mac OSX and Windows versions included

– 64-bit VST and AudioUnit support

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Samplephonics Wondrous Curiosities
Size 512 Mb 

Wondrous Curiosities’ is a pack of wonder, smiles and delights. This sneaky little collection is sure to be one that you go back to over and over again. Exploring the most delicate of acoustic melodies, the cheekiest of processed instrument chops and the most wonderful of instrument lines, each loop is perfect for adding a sense of fun and amazement to your next production.

Nestled inside this sonic gem of a sample pack you’ll find delicious flute and kalimba loops, processed, twisted and textured guitar lines, bouncy and warm bass lines, devilishly fun ukulele and glockenspiel samples. Every folder opens the ears to more delightful sounds covering a whole world of different musical palettes. This is a journey you can hardly afford to miss out on.

To accompany such a wealth of sonic wizardry also included is a whole bunch of sampler instruments and one shots, covering all of your usual samplers and DAWS as well providing all loops in the usual formats of WAV Loops and Acidized WAVs to make things that bit easier for you. As always, everything is 100% Royalty-Free.

Technical Specs:

• 760.4 MB
• 264 Loops
• 151 One Shots
• Sampler instruments for Ableton Sampler, NN-XT, Halion, Maschine, Kontakt, Motu MachFive,

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Sonic Academy How To Make Deep House 2016 in Ableton Live
Size 2.14 Gb

Sonic Academy welcomes back Ian Bland AKA ‘Dancing Divaz’ for another monster course. This time Ian guides us expertly through ‘How To Make Deep house 2016 using Ableton live 9’

From a very detailed look at drum programming, groove creation and adding an ambient reverb, through to sound design using Korg’s Legacy M1 softsynth and of course, ‘ANA’.

Lastly we take a look at creating a Pre-master if your tracks are going to be mastered and how to master using Ableton’s own suite of plugins.

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Matthew Weiss Mixing with EQ
Size 3.45 Gb

Use basic and advanced EQ controls
We break down all the basic and advanced controls of various types of equalizers, as well as the technical concepts and theory behind their origin and purpose.
Identify and fix problem areas in a mix
Learn to evaluate a mix and identify problematic areas of frequency buildup. We’ll show you how to stylistically blend elements together or gain clarity and separation.

Enhance lead and background vocals
Learn techniques for making lead vocals cut through a mix without sounding harsh or unbalanced while ensuring the background vocals stay effectively impactful in a supporting roll.

Use compression and saturation for tone
Multiband compression and tape saturation are powerful tools for manipulating tone. We’ll show you what to listen for and teach you various techniques for using them in a mix.

Understand minimal vs linear phase EQ
Linear phase EQ can seem complicated, but we break it all down and teach you what it is, what it sounds like and the best applications for using it.

Negotiate mixing a kick drum with an 808
Sometimes two instruments occupy the same harmonic space in a mix. We’ll teach you how to embrace or resolve this to get a well-defined mix.

Identify and resolve frequency masking
Frequency masking can have a subtle or extreme effect on a mix. We’ll teach you how to identify it and what to do if you want to clean it up and increase clarity.

Master various types of EQs and filters
We’ll teach you the technical concepts and theory behind various types of EQ filters and designs and why it matters.

Use EQ filters as a special effect
EQ isn’t just a utility, it can also be used to great effect for creating special moments in a mix. We’ll show you tips, tricks and ideas for using EQ filters as a special effect in a mix.

Understand bells, filters and notches
Besides various types of equalizer designs, there are tons of applications for the different functions and controls. We’ll cover the best tools to use depending on the mix scenario at hand.

Create effective contrast in a mix
Bright, dark, close, distant — these are all vital aspects of creating an interesting and effective mix that serve the song. We’ll show you how different EQ moves can achieve this and yield a memorable and exciting mix.

Manipulate a drum mix with just an EQ
There are multiple directions you could go with any given mix. In our 40 minutes drum workshop, we’ll break down some of the places you can take a multitrack drum recording using just a basic EQ.

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SoundMorph Bloody Nightmare
Size 3 Gb

Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge & bone chilling productions out there. A horrifying box of tools for any sound designer, musical composer, or trailer editor, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments pf terror and dread!
Bloody Nightmare was a creative collaboration between Real Cardinal (BioWare, Comaduster, Sinematic), and SoundMorph.

Bloody Nightmare features 550+ sounds and 4.4GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata, including:
Stutters, Choppers, Cuts, Glitches
Horror Impacts
Nightmare Pulses
Breaths and Whispers
Stingers
Curses
Psychological Textures
Atmospheres
Risers
Dirty Dark Hits
Dark Bass, Kicks, and Tones

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Native Instruments The Giant & v1.2  Update For Kontakt
Size Library 3.65 Gb // v1.2 Update 1.24 Gb

You’ve never seen or heard a piano like this. THE GIANT captures the sound of the world’s biggest upright piano to deliver something even bigger: An intense, dynamic playing experience with a sound that’s nothing short of inspiring.

From urban pop, film score pathos, soft piano ballads, driving rock riffs or dim jazzy timbres, the untreated sound of THE GIANT instantly satisfies – straight out of the box. Add detailed control options and a dark, cinematic version of the instrument, and THE GIANT’s distinctiveness is matched only by its versatility. Meet your new go-to piano for virtually any style.

Sampled in amazing detail, THE GIANT is a unique instrument with an extremely strong low end, crystalline highs, rich overtones, plenty of punch, and a colossal sonic spectrum – from the devastating to the sublime.

This powerful sound is easily enhanced and modified to fit your productions. 40 meticulously-tweaked presets provide production-ready starting points, and detailed control features let you precisely shape the sound in every dimension, making the instrument supremely versatile, whatever the project.

THE GIANT is two instruments in one. A dark, cinematic alter ego, effectively a separate instrument alongside the main piano, offers an irresistible playground for sound design and dramatic effects. Create your own mix of unconventional, individually-sampled sound sources – overtones, resonances, plucked strings, release sounds and special techniques such as piano hits, kicks, sweeps or scratches – all directly and instantly playable from the interface, delivering professional results with a fast workflow.

These avant-garde sounds are also enhanced with detailed control options and a dedicated FX convolution engine with over 100 special piano effect impulse responses.

The original instrument is the Klavins Piano Model 370i. The ‘i’ stands for integrated – this huge upright piano is built into the wall of a room, effectively securing the soundboard. Over three meters high and weighing over two tons, the Klavins Piano Model 370i provides a soundboard that’s roughly twice the size of a typical 9′ concert grand piano soundboard.

This highly unusual instrument was meticulously sampled by sonic artisan Uli Baronowsky of Galaxy Instruments.

Galaxy Instruments have created a number of virtual instruments, including the KONTAKT-based ‘Galaxy’ line of pianos and ‘Galaxy X’ – a virtual instrument based on the same ‘effect convolution’ technique used in the Cinematic version of THE GIANT.

Update Notes:

Added advance integration with KOMPLETE KONTROL.
Added Kontakt Snapshots.
Added velocity curve specifically for KOMPLETE KONTROL S-SERIES.

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