British dance group Clean Bandit found crossover success by weaving classical music with dance-pop for a beat-driven yet refined sound often delivered with high-profile guest vocalists. Collaborators have included Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, OutKast’s Big Boi, Craig David, and Sean Paul, among others. For their first pack, they’re delivering a collection of upbeat sounds with tropical influence for your pop or dance productions.
Beautiful melodies and professional song writing ooze out of Sunday Soul. Get comfy and sift through these staggeringly competent and rich samples.
The moods brought to you in this library blend rnb/soul/lofi in an exciting and eclectic way. Masterful chord progressions and professionally recorded vocal hooks make this library an essential. Incredible instrumentation and tasteful song writing push the boundaries of musicality without compromising listenability. The instruments performed live really bring this pack to life.
In Sunday Soul you’re going to find heaps of inspiration that you can’t wait to resample and chop up in your DAW. Enjoy.
Lil Texas is a producer who is known for his high-tempo hardcore dance anthems. He brings his energetic sonic identity to “Sounds of Texcore Vol. 1,” showcasing rave-ready synth stabs, punchy drums, and more.
SampleX brings you accurately modeled vintage sampler emulation. Dial-in the sample rate, bit rate, aliasing, input drive and filter settings to sound like any sampler, or design your own! Multiple sampler emulation presets already included.
In today’s advanced age of music tools that seek the “cleanest”, most “perfect” sounds, there has suddenly been a desire for the “Gritty” sounds of the machines of the past.
Once such quest has been the acquisition of old, primitive samplers and sample drum machines like the EMU SP1200, AKAI s900/950, and others. This has increased the rate of these machines to 10s of thousands of dollars.
The sound that producers and artists seek in these boxes is usually the low bit rates and sample rates resulting in an “aliased” sound or “artifacts” as we now call them. These limitations of the vintage machines have now become very desired and sought after sound. Just sample rate reduction and “Bit crushers” have yet to actually sound like old machines.
Our team at Beatskillz went on a quest to study the actual circuitry and found each and every step right from the A/D converters, preamps, analog and digital filters and processes involved to recreate each stage and bring you a plugin that can not only emulate a sampler but many, and also lets you design your own sampler or vintage chip!
The Sample Rate Interpolation system that we have built in DSP, lets you dial in any sample rate from 96 kHz to 2 kHz. You can also ” type ” in the values!
We have also done a very accurate emulation of a well-known Ladder Filter with Resonance, this gets you the “Warm” Filter sound of a very desired analog synth. We have also carefully emulated the input drive of the S900 to give you all the parameters needed for multiple variations of the sound!
E-Dub X-Breed by Industrial Strength is a Hardcore sample pack designed by E-Dub with over 600 MB of pure Hardcore content.
The tempos of this pack range so you can keep your tracks moving in the essential tempos that E-Dub uses to get that evil feeling when producing his chart topping tracks.
FRASER T. SMITH PRESENTS SOUNDS OF FUTURE UTOPIA WAV
Fraser T. Smith is a UK-based multi-Grammy Award-winning record producer, songwriter, and musician. In 2020, he released a debut album under the moniker Future Utopia called 12 Questions. He tapped the talent of some of Britain’s most vital and brilliant artists to contribute including Stormzy, Dave, Kano, Ghetts, Bastille, Es Devlin, Simon Armitage, Idris Elba, among others.
The album is based on a series of twelve universal, human, and urgent questions, all born of Smith’s own anxieties about the world today. The album discusses issues including faith, freedom, race, gender, wealth, equality, and ecology. He also started a podcast also called 12 Questions where he pairs some of the sharpest minds in popular culture to answer these questions in order to examine the breadth of their answers, and to help him and others navigate living in the modern world.
This pack features selected sounds crafted in the making of 12 Questions, providing you with both a glimpse into Smith’s process and an opportunity to use his thoughtful, original compositions in your productions.
He has co-written, produced, and mixed six number one singles and has contributed to multiple number one albums in the UK and US. These include Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain” single, Stormzy’s recent UK number one album “Gang Signs & Prayer”, James Morrison’s “Broken Strings (feat Nelly Furtado)” and Taio Cruz’s UK and US number one “Break Your Heart”.
Dua Lipa Break My Heart (Protools + Multitracks + Vocals)
In this pack, we’ll go over the mix session of Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Break My Heart” .
Samples, Loops, Vocals …
We go over her vocal chain, listen to before and after and review the vocal routing and effects.
You will love this!
“Break My Heart” is a song by English singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa, Ali Tamposi, Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson, and Andrew Watt, with the latter of the five handling production alongside the Monsters & Strangerz. Due to a similarity to the guitar riff in INXS’s 1987 song “Need You Tonight”, band members Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence are also credited as writers, and the similarity is credited as an interpolation. The song was released for digital download and streaming on 25 March 2020 through Warner Records as the third single from Future Nostalgia, and impacted American contemporary hit radio on 31 March 2020 as the album’s second single in the United States.
Splice Explores: Natural Reverbs is based on the idea of music responding to nature. Producer Charles Van Kirk collaborating with musician Julia Easterlin visited three distinct outdoor environments in Midcoast Maine – granite quarries, forests and a sea cave, and wrote short pieces of music inspired by the natural acoustic properties of each space. The duo used their voices, percussion, melodica, and a baritone ukulele to explore their acoustic surroundings and create a beautifully spacious yet intimate collection of music.
Bass king Vellum is back with BASS TECHNOLOGY vol. III, a fresh new collection of destructive Serum presets.
With 100 masterfully engineered reeses, stabs, and wall shaking growls, this finely tuned arsenal of Serum presets will take your production to new levels of sound design prowess.
Perfect for Riddim, Halftime, House, or Drum & Bass, BASS TECHNOLOGY vol. III is the perfect companion for your next low-frequency hit song.
Acrone & Vellum House Theory – House Music Sample Pack
Acrone and Vellum (Inspected/Saucy) combine their proven sound design skill to provide a staggering array of oneshots, loops, and kits that draw inspiration from the mainroom and reimagine it for the warehouse. The typical deep grooves, dark synth lines, and gnarled basses make a brand-new appearance in House Theory – a classic sound reimagined.
Professionally crafted and curated, this collection provides all the tools needed to make influential bangers, hypnotic slow burners, and everything in between.
Inspired by Latin trap artists coming out of NYC such as Tali Goya, Chucky 73, and Lito Kirino, Splice Originals producer, Erick Bardales presents his take on the dark, brooding, thumping sounds of Latin-influenced trap music.
Explore menacing 808s, haunting bells, effected strings, melodic stacks including vocals in 80-160 BPM, and way more. Bardales used a Moog Sub37, Tascam Portaone Ministudio Tape Machine, Roland JU06A, UAD plugins, and the Ableton Live 11 Suite in making this pack.
We dove deep into the darkness for uour first-ever Astra offering. These patches are crafted for the club or brooding productions. We leaned more into the machine and metallic side of the synth, pulling influences from electro, lo-fi, industrial, and synthwave. We brought neon-tinged retro sounds into the contemporary repertoire of synth-forward music. From booming bass to luscious arps, these patches will take your project into another dimension.
This Splice Originals release was created in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and music producer Stuart Bogie on winds. With an eye on the cinematic orchestral styles of jazz and soul from the ‘60s and ‘70s, this pack contains strings, saxophones, flutes, Rhodes, piano, guitar, harp, vocals, and Hammond organ.
We pulled influence from Philadelphia orchestral soul acts like the O’Jays and Billy Paul crossed with soul-jazz acts like Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers. There’s also a heavy dose of Henry Mancini, Ray Conniff, and Ennio Morricone for orchestral sensibilities.
As much as we love the iconic style of cinematic orchestration, we couldn’t leave these sounds at that. We resampled the stacks and other elements in the style of J Dilla, KRS One, and other boom bap hip hop acts. There’s also a heavy dose of hip hop and trap drums featured in the collection, processed to thump for any banging hip hop or pop style.
Splice Originals Lofi Essentials For Astra MULTIFORMAT
This Splice Originals release focuses on the warbly, warm, analog, and dirty side of synthesis. Expect noisy warm patches that will fit with any sort of lo-fi or vintage production. The midi and loops included fall on the soulful side of things, featuring R&B and jazz-tinged chord progressions. Made specifically for Astra, Splice’s digital synthesizer, this is a deep dive into the warmer, fuzzy side of synth-based music.
In collaboration with Sam Obey (fka Obey City, and one-half of Ensemble Entendu and Dave + Sam), we dove deep into the grooves of the 1980s and early ‘90s R&B. This release doesn’t represent straightforward R&B. It zigs and zags, swings and swaggers. We pulled influences from fusion genres like new jack swing with its Roland TR-808 drum machines and syncopated rhythms. We borrowed from ballads, tapping our deepest emotions. We added danceable tempos from disco boogie and basslines from deep and neo-funk.
We pulled influences from artists like Mary Jane Girls, SOS Band, Babyface, and Shalamar. You can expect lots of DX7 synth and classic drum machine sounds. If you’re looking to take a sonic journey through the classic sounds of ‘80s and ‘90s hits with modern, high-quality production, look no further. These sounds are sure to add a touch of sweetness to your productions.
