Brandon Chapa is back with a ticket to the wonders and magic of the Circus Stem Kit. You’ll find many attractions such as 10 WAV Loops and an impressive 36 Individual Stems. You’ll enjoy the ride with the catchy melodies that are deep and dark, and find refreshment in the clean sound. Please do enjoy your stay at the Circus.
10 WAV Loops
36 Individual Track Stems
Labeled by BPM & Key
Compatible with All DAWs
Exotic is just one more reason why MLB is a top seller with us. 10 Incredible Melodic and Sweet Loops made up of 40 Individual Stems. Also included are 30 Unique Midi Files used to make each loop, so you can get as exotic with the sounds as you desire. The kit draws inspiration from artists such as Drake, Migos, Post Malone, & More.
10 WAV Loops
40 Individual Track Stems
30 Unique Midi Files
Labeled by BPM & Key
Compatible with any DAW
Slate Digital Virtual Buss Compressors v1.2.9.1 WIN
Size 199 Mb
VIRTUAL BUSS COMPRESSORS
Virtual Buss Compressors is a suite of three unique-sounding dynamic processors that are modeled from some of the most classic mix buss compressors in the audio industry. Careful attention was paid to recreating the unique nonlinearities of the circuit paths that give each compressor its distinct tone – including their transformers, tubes, VCA’s, amplifiers, phase distortions, harmonic distortions and timing. VBC is perfect for adding a professional final touch to your mixes.
FEATURE
FG-RED
This compressor is based on the classic RED-faced compressor that has been a favorite of mix legend Chris Lord Alge, who first showed it to me when I visited his studio years ago. I thought it was odd actually: here was this compressor that nobody else seemed to really use, and it was on a setting at 1.5:1 and the attack looked very fast for a Mix-Buss compressor. This was puzzling because I usually associated a faster attack with a loss of transient punch, but if you’ve heard Chris’s mixes you know that they are the exact opposite of that! So being the classic gearslut, I bought one, (I got the unit with both input and output transformers). The first thing I did was put it on my mix in the settings that Chris showed me… 1.5:1, attack around 10/11 o’clock, auto release, compressing just 2-3db tops. And…. WOW! One of the clearest, punchiest sounding rock mixes I’d ever heard come out of my own speakers. This unit was amazing!!!
When Fabrice and I analyzed the RED, we found out that it was indeed a very unique beast. The attack and auto-release work in an interesting way and are very musical, but the real magic we found was in the output section! We found that just pushing the makeup gain a few db did some insane things to the sound! A little push and things got a ton more punchy, fat, and aggressive. After more examination, we realized that this was due to a series of nonlinear reactions caused by the output transformer. Howie Weinberg, the famous mastering engineer who has a studio on our campus, let us in on a little secret: He uses his RED not for compression, but just to use the output gain to get that amazing effect! So I decided to do something that the original unit cannot…I put that output transformer effect on a knob called DRIVE. When you push the DRIVE knob, you get a beautiful punch and articulation of the transients, and you can control just how much you want, regardless of whether or not you use the makeup gain! Famous rock mixer Justin Netbank beta tested the FG-RED and loves the drive, suggesting ‘6.6’ as the magic number. But you can try cranking it all the way for an interesting effect!
FG-GREY
The FG-GREY starts off with a very precise model of the classic British “4000 series console compressor”. I’ve used the hardware model for many years but I never fully appreciated just how magnificent the piece is until studying it during the modeling process. It has a way of being able to tighten and ‘gel’ the components of a mix in ways that can go from fairly transparent in auto-release mode, to very aggressive in manual mode.
We did a small mod to the circuit in our virtual model which I think you’ll really enjoy. We took the classic British discrete transformer and added some of its characteristics to the signal path. This does something amazing to the clarity of the midrange and bottom end, where the hardware unit tends to start sucking out too much bottom as you start to compress more. The hardware unit can also get slightly ‘choked’ in the mids as well, but our virtual transformer stage keeps the bottom big and round and the midrange more open, while still retaining the classic sound of the original unit. You’ll notice that there is a bit less of a drop in the bottom and the rich mids will still be nice and present when you heavily compress with the FG-GREY – I love it in both manual and auto mode, and it’s amazing on drums and guitars too!
FG-MU
I’ve been lucky enough to hear and use some of the most classic and hard-to-find tube buss compressors on the planet (like the Fairchild 670 and Manley Vari Mu), and let me tell you, there is some real magic that happens when your mix goes through a brilliantly-designed piece of tube gear. The midrange thickens, the lows get tighter and rounder, and the top end opens up with a beautiful sparkle… even better, those harsh upper mid overtones seems to get tamed too. For the FG-MU, we put all of these wonderful qualities into the algorithm. To experience FG-MU for the first time you don’t even have to do any compression, as just going through the processor without any gain reduction will reveal a beautiful open sound due to the modeling of the tube circuit path. Even when I’m using the FG-GREY or FG-RED, I love using the VBC Rack just so I can have the audio pass through the FG-MU!
But the FG-MU is an amazing-sounding compressor in its own right. If you scan through the presets, you’ll get a great idea of what its capable of. Smooth rich compression, fat warm compression, and even slightly aggressive compression. Overall, this is a processor that has tons of analog mojo and vibe for days. A sure hit on your ITB mixes!
THE NON-LINEAR DIFFERENCE
During the development of the VBC, I spoke to many top pros in the audio industry about mix buss plugin compressors. There seemed to be an overwhelming consensus that even though many of them were advertised as ‘analog modeled’, they still didn’t have the classic sound of analog compressors. So Fabrice and I got to work – and the first task was examining the hardware compressors and the current crop of analog modeled plugin emulations to see what was going on! And what we found was surprising: the classic analog compressors that we studied added some very complex nonlinear artifacts in their signal paths. Their sound was not simply based on their specific compression topology like timing and compression curves, some of them also had modulations, dynamic harmonic distortions, dynamic phase distortion, saturation, crosstalk, and more.
And just like in our Virtual Console Collection plug-in, these artifacts added a sonic imprint to the compression. Was this the magic sound that made the plug-in compressors sound different than the analog compressors? There was only one way to find out. We had to precisely model it. All of it!
Several months later, we had algorithms that combined the exact compressor topologies, curves, timings, as well as the circuit’s nonlinear dynamic artifacts. We were able to bypass JUST the artifacts, and the answer was very clear: much of the magic tone that has been missing from many plug-in compressors lies in these nonlinear additives. When you hear the three VBC compressors, you’ll notice a depth, life, and analog ‘vibe’ that you’ve likely not heard before in a plugin compressor. I hope that you enjoy it on your mixes!
Tony Anthemz returns with another sequel, the Medieval V2 (Stem Kit). Filled with 25 Custom Loops w/ Individual Track Stems inspired by: Analog Pads, Mysterious Bells, Distant Leads, Deep Fx, Stunning Progressions, & More.
Learn to things you need to know, to write the music you need to write
This course covers some of the basic ideas in song-writing. Ever listened to a song you love and thought, how did they do it? This course offers some interesting ways to understand how lyrics and music are put together to write songs.
Learn The Simple Things That Make A Great Song
Learn how to analyse and break down lyrics
Understand how verses and choruses are constructed
Use easy ideas to create your own songs
Examine case studies of famous songs by various artists
Understand what makes a great chord progression
Learn about the different parts of a song
Since the dawn of civilization, people have been using songs to communicate with each other, express ideas, and allow them to express their thoughts and feelings. The song is the simplest way in which ideas can be spread with music. There are no methods of creating art that are more wide-spread and accessible than the song.
In this course, we look at how songs are put together. You will understand the important things to look for when listening to a song, and you will also know how to create your own songs based on these same ideas.
You will begin by looking at lyrics. How are they put together, do they rhyme, and do the words have any implicit musical qualities? You will analyse two songs from different genres and times and see how various tricks are used to understand the song. From here, we can write a new song based on the same ideas.
Next up you will come to understand harmonic progressions. Which chords should be used underneath your words? There are a few music theory tricks to help you here, and by analyzing a couple of different songs, you will start to see how these progressions work – many of them are made up of the same chords! From this understanding, you can create a chord progression for your lyrics.
Finally, we look at how to transform your chords and lyrics into a complete song. You will understand and be able to identify the parts of a song. You will also know about different instruments and some of the basic principles of arranging and producing music. We finish up at a point where you can go ahead and start looking at putting together your song.
A warehouse looms before you, silent and shrouded in shadow. Suddenly, the earth begins to shake and a metallic clamour builds from within, finally erupting into the cold air around you – welcome to the industrial, heavy-duty attack of our latest sample pack release, Impact Factory – Found Percussion Samples!
Prise the lid off of this huge collection of 435 momentous percussion samples and you’ll discover an entire factory line of metallic clanks, clunks and concrete collisions, recorded and sculpted from scratch in the field as well as in our sound lab.
With sounds ranging from the explosive clash of beaters on sheet-metal, to the intricate clinking of chains and the delicate, hollow decays of carefully struck, cast-iron tanks, this royalty-free percussive feast will deliver both the brittle and the brawn to your drum sound.
Arranged into 5 diverse folders of sounds, the library brings you 110 fast-moving Kinetic Impacts, 67 powerfully Deep Impacts, 123 characterfully Light Impacts, 90 shimmering Resonant Impacts and finally, an additional 45 Mixed Impacts fusing the raw samples with our favourite drum machine sounds.
All in all, this pack represents a complete selection of percussive treats that you can build into fully-stocked beats in moments – taking the 15 striking percussion sampler patches included into consideration also, and you have yourself a ready-made palette of wildly versatile drum and percussion inspiration!
As an added bonus, we’ve also crafted 5 custom channel strip settings for Live, Logic and Reason, offering you an instant panoply of processing options to play with.
Gift your drum sound a new dimension of deeply industrial delight – grab your hard hat and download Impact Factory – Found Percussion Samples now!
Academy.fm – Using Sugar Bytes Turnado Effect
Size 102 Mb
Using Sugar Bytes Turnado Effect
Turnado by Sugar Bytes is a highly customizable, easy-to-use FX plugin that can add interesting sounds to your track in seconds. In this tutorial, Jake Shanahan will walk you through its available features and parameters to give you a better understanding of how it can be utilized.
He’ll start with an overview of the user-friendly interface – demonstrating how to turn FX on and off, how to increase the intensity of them, and how to cycle through variations of each FX. Then, he will apply different FX to the bass track of a project he has loaded into Logic Pro so you can see this plugin at work!
We didn’t think we could make this happen and have been working behind the scenes for six months to get it all set up and ready to start producing. So with some excitement we are ready to present to you: “Rojin”. A traditional Kurdish vocal performance by Rojin Ulke which will give you some serious musical muscle and bring a voice to your music like you haven’t heard before. Her vocal range is so impressive that we felt like kids in a candy store with Rojin in our studio. So we sat down and created this very unique and versatile sound collection and built it into our successful structured virtual instrument environment. And so bringing another collection to our “Vocal Signature sampling line”.
The proven concept of vocal performances based on copyright free songs, improvisations, in all keys and multiple speeds combined with cinematic vocal fx like poems, shouts, whispers and much more, is now crammed into just one instrument patch.
This sample library features an alto – soprano voice, using traditional Kurdish melodic phrasing. Improvisations make up a large portion of this collection and are based on the same principles as the traditional copyright free songs but this time with a cinematic approach. This collection consists of hundreds of unique and authentic melodic phrases, improvisations and spoken words. As far as tradition goes, Sonokinetic keeps its tradition alive by providing you with word-by-word translations, with lots of traditional texts translated to English for the first time.
This is the second volume we release in the “Vocal Signature Sampling Line” and with that we feel we set the mark to beat. Sonokinetic specializes in cinematic soundscapes filled with rich cultural diversity and with much respect for historic musical heritage. Yemenite, Rojin and Aliye are a trinity to recon with and we hope to inspire composers and producers to colour their musical creations with this highly exclusive sound material.
So again we feel we prove the significance of a well-performed musical idiom, high-end technical recording, craftsmanship of user interface and a stellar sample library with an all-new shiny product like “Rojin”
One Kontakt 4 & One Kontakt 5 patch spanning:
4 Main categories in traditional Kurdish style:
Traditional Songs
Improvisations
Poems
Effects
Full key range, with up to 7 different songs per key*
Tempo synced by time machine
Automatic BPM group selecting (HOST slave)
10 copyright-free traditional songs
Improvisations spanning 2 octaves
Voice fx: whispers, shouts, cries, soft speech, mumbling, praying
One Kontakt 4 & One Kontakt 5 patch
Kontakt 5 with Timemachine Pro settings (64Bit)
2000+ samples. (1,26 GB sample content) accessible AIF pool
All songs, poems and spoken words in English translation (pdf).
Royalty and copyright free content license.
Rojin Reference manual (pdf).
Artwork: “Rojin” dvd cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa
Video tutorial: “Walk Through” hosted by Reuben Cornell
Toolroom Deep House & Future Garage WAV
Size 283 Mb
Toolroom returns with another massive sample pack filled with an extensive collection of the very best Deep House & Future Garage royalty-free samples.
From soulful vocals to dark and driving basslines, ‘Deep House & Future Garage’ is your essential collection of the highest quality drum, vocal, percussion, music & bass loops all grouped into key & scale at 123 BPM and in 16-bit WAV format for ultimate usability.
Equating to over 500MB with more than 350 loops, ‘Deep House & Future Garage’ is the perfect sample pack for newcomers & accomplished producers alike, giving you everything you need to create your own aspiring Deep House or Future Garage track.
Specifications:
– 70 Bass Loops
– 10 Chord Loops
– 150 Drum Loops
– 15 FX
– 60 Music Loops
– 10 Pad Loops
– 15 Rise & Sweeps
– 10 Top Loops
– 15 Vocal Loops
Download contains 355 x 16-bit wav loops at 123BPM. Download size 1.02gb (unzipped).
Academy.fm – Candy – How to Make Future Bass Start To Finish
Size 1.46 Gb
How to Make Future Bass Start To Finish
The rise of Future Bass over the last few years has had a huge impact on the EDM landscape. A genre that blended stellar writing and melodic runs with epic synths and trap-influenced drums took the scene by storm – and it continues to flourish.
Join veteran producer, Sem, in this 7-part course as he walks you through the entire process of creating a beautifully epic Future Bass track in Ableton Live – start to finish.
Witness this process and learn a ton of tricks and techniques that will help you with writing, processing, sound designing, and much more.
While this course is a must-watch if you’re looking to take your Future Bass productions to the next level, there is also plenty of information that can be applied to other genres and styles as well.
BeatMaker 808 Bass Module III v3.0.0 WIN-OSX
Size Win 777 Mb // Mac 596 Mb
808 Bass Module III
808 Bass Module III is a powerful 808 bass ROMpler for Windows and Mac users. 808 Bass Module III contains 185 ready-to-use and freshly designed layered presets, to bring grit and rumble to your productions. The sounds are now even more powerful and are ready to play in the key of your project.
Windows & Mac.
LPF Filter.
ADSR.
32/64 bit.
185 Presets for Electronic music.
LFO Modulation.
Glide Time Control.
Distortion Control.
Expansion Selector.
Pitch Bend Control.
VST3 Support.
Free updates.
Easy to use.
100% royalty free.
Download size: 364 MB – Unzipped size: 497 MB.
Available as a VST/VST3 & AU (Universal) instrument for Mac & PCs (32 bit/64 bit).
Compatible with the most popular DAWs on the market: Ableton Live, Cockos Reaper, Steinberg Cubase, FL Studio, Traktion, Mixcraft, Sony Acid, Presonus Studio One, Cakewalk Sonar, Reason 10 & Apple Logic Pro.
‘808 Wave 3’ from Ztar Audio introduces you to another level of 808 swag and Trap for a very affordable price. This sample pack contains five Construction Kits with WAV & MIDI. If you’re looking for that heavy 808 sub, this is the Kit that will blow your speakers through the roof.
Listen to the demo in your sub-speakers and you will be blown away. Tempo ranges are included and all drum tracks are separated for perfect drum loop mixing.
Toolroom Academy Essential Tech House WAV
Size 328 Mb
A comprehensive Tech House sample pack featuring bass loops, chords loops, drums & percussion, FX, synths, vocals and more across 513MB of content.
Toolroom Academy is proud to present the next feature in our genre based sample series – Essential Tech House. Curated from our top tier producers, each and every sample has been flawlessly crafted for sonic perfection and ease of use. Our mission is to deliver bespoke and exclusive sounds from some of the worlds most well equipped studios directly to your fingertips. Package contents are grouped for complete transparency & broken down in easy to navigate folders.
Dirty basslines, sexy chords, & funky FX, all the way to jackin’ top lines are just a simple click away. Further organization by BPM and key allows for effortless and straightforward integration with any of your new or existing projects. Tech House is our musical space.
It’s what we do best, and this definitive collection of samples will provide you with the tools that you need on your journey to rock the big room speakers.
Toolroom Academy Underground House & Tech WAV MIDI
Size 356 Mb
Focusing on the essential Tech House sounds of the present day, Toolroom Academy presents one of its largest packs to date: ‘Underground House & Tech’ – Offering over 670MB of expertly crafted loops, one shots and midi sequences curated by a selection of our top tier Toolroom collaborators, between them amassing countless Beatport top 10’s, bringing their tech house stamp of approval to this collection of sounds.
Package contents come fully processed and grouped into 5 categories including bassline loops, drum hits, drum loops, EFX loops and music / synth loops.
Our selection of bassline loops are guaranteed to bring fatness and groove to your music with fully customizable midi files for each loop.
Drum loops are each broken down into user-friendly variations that include full loop, tops loop, kick, hats, perc and more, while music / synth loops offer totally original, rich sounding melodies in both wav and midi format.
EFX loops offer killer transition tools and the drum hits collection is packed with fully processed drums giving you the tools to layer up your productions to build an entire track from scratch.
Create or enhance future productions from one essential pack, simply drag and drop into your DAW and get creative.
Sample pack contents :
• 560 Samples in 24bit WAV
• 54 x Bass Loops + Midi
• 274 x Drum Loops
• 45 x EFX Atmos Loops
• 45 x Music / Synth Loops
• 142 x Single Hits (34 x Claps, 24 x Snares, 33 x Hats, 20 x Percs, 31 x Kicks)
Findasound Oriental Soloist 2 KONTAKT
Size 2.58 Gb
Oriental Soloist 2 is a set of 335 sounds designed for oriental solo style playing sampled by Dr Raid Marji, sounds are designed to be mixed together through a four channel / sound output where the user can design, manipulate, and combine sounds together to get the desired results not only for solo playing but also for unison mixed oriental instruments. One unique feature in Oriental soloist 2 is the ability to select intervals of each of the four sounds separately according to scale, with the ability to control Octave, Volume, and pan separately as well. User can select legato/mono playing mode for each sound and control the volume envelope parameters for each sound. With four effects slots user can assign effects for each sound separately, effects rack includes: modulator, compressor, equalizer, filter, delay, and reverb.Glissando mode is another unique feature in Oriental soloist 2 where user can switch between monophonic glissando (glide) and legato glissandi (gradual notes), glissando is archived by playing low velocities for far notes.Qaurter tone scale option is available with the ability to save/recall scales with keys witches.
There are 12 key switches available in Oriental soloist 2, key switches are indicated with green color on the keyboard the red color indicates the active keyswitch.All parameters on the interface can be saved into a key switch except for effects on/off buttons and volumes envelope parameters (AHDSR), key switches can be turned on and off once turned on changing parameters will be saved automatically to the selected key switch, user can select kontakt snapshot option to save/recall his own presets, saving a snapshot will save all key switches and their assigned parameters.Scale and key menu will force played notes to be played within the selected scale/key, user can apply scale/key to all key switches by enabling the all keys witches button (ALL KS). The keyboard color menu allows the user to select keyboard color mode, default: all active notes blue, scale: all notes within a scale blue, rainbow: rainbow color keys.The harmonizer menu enables user to select chords presets that will recall intervals settings for each chord in the menu.Vibrato speed and pitch bend amount can be controlled their knobs at the top of the interface.
Features:
Quarter tone scale tuning with tune amount.
Pitch bend amount control.
Vibrato speed control.
Four channel instrument.
FX slot for each channel.
335 x 4 combinable sounds.
12 keys witches.
Full key range instrument.
Fully automated interface .
Harmonizer.
Scale key color.
Scale/key note.
36 scales.
Glissando modes.
Legato/mono mode for each channel.
Volume envelope for each channel.
Volume/pan controls for each channel.
± 4 Octaves control for each channel.
Intervals knob control for each channel.
Qucik sound browsing.
This library requires full kontakt player V 5.5.2 or later to work, otherwise it wont run or you will get library in demo mode.
This library can not be added to kontakt using the add library tab, just use file browser or quick load to load it.
Cubase users might hear clicks while using keyswitches.
