Trance music icon Dennis Sheperd has teamed up with UK vocalist Katty Heath to bring a ridiculously well produced and musically expressive vocal sample pack. The dream team of Katty’s amazing voice with Dennis Sheperd’s professional engineering and mastering experience has created a must have vocal pack for any producers. This pack will add life, story, and musical brilliance to your tracks.
The pack includes 9 full songs with BPM’s ranging from 120 to 150, each including Dry, Wet, Send FX, adlibs, Choruses, Verses, and Harmonies; literally everything you need to produce a smashing vocal driven hit. The original songs are written with meaningful lyrics that deliver emotional messages and spine tingles to your audience. This pack also includes highly usable and versatile vocal tones as well as a robust spoken word section. Spoken words in music can add drama to your mix in a way that no other instrument can.
When we say Dream Team we mean it. Dennis Sheperd has achieved over 30 Million streams on Spotify, officially remixed for Armin Van Buuren, Above & Beyond, and Gareth Emery, as well as performed at the worlds best clubs and festivals. Katty Heath has collaborated with Bent, Mylo, Slyde, and Crazy P. Your music can directly benefit from a world class vocalist and a world class producer and mastering engineer.
With this pack you can count on hours of studio enjoyment, boosted creativity, and engaging your fans’ attention in a way that only pro vocals can.
Important notice: Both Dennis Sheperd and Katty Heath both request that you do not use their names in production credits or track titles. You are allowed to use this sample pack royalty free and use your own artist name only. You are not allowed to consider Dennis Sheperd or Katty Heath as collaborators.
PACK CONTENTS:
639 Total Sounds
190 Spoken Words
48 Vocal Tones
9 Full Songs
401 Vocals
Includes Dry,Wet, Send FX, Adlibs, Choruses, Verses & Harmonies
A collaboration with Oscar-nominated, world-renowned composer and soundsmith Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka (Lion, Adrift), this multifaceted toolkit has been designed for adding incredible depth, tension and texture to your scores. Discover unique soundscapes ranging from industrial sounding percussive rhythms and thunderous basslines to offbeat, atonal plucks and beautiful, shimmering pads. Performed on a Steinway grand with over 40 experimental preparations and expertly multi-sampled at Berlin’s legendary Voxton Studios, we have bottled Hauschka’s signature sound palette into a highly interactive and inspiring toolkit, ready for you to apply your own creative ideas. Presented in our sophisticated Evo Grid and Mercury synth, mix and match multiple signal options, from Pedal FX, Distorted, Modular to Binson Echorec tape delay, or choose from 50 curated presets made by the Spitfire team, for endless combinations of instantly playable sounds.
Our collective ambition was to capture the sound world and creative spirit of a true innovator, drawn from Volker Bertelmann’s 30 years experience as a pianist and Oscar-nominated film composer. Enhanced by Spitfire’s sampling expertise, the finest recording gear and pioneering Evo Grid technology, we give you access to a unique set of cutting edge sounds, designed by and for soundsmiths, enabling you to create your own range of new instruments. Hauschka’s intention with the library was to give anyone the opportunity to collaborate with him and his ideas: “Creative exchange is essential. If you do not have it as an artist, you get to a very boring place. I always try to work with people who bring me into new territories.”
Randomness, with intent
Berlin’s legendary Vox Ton studios (where we recorded our acclaimed Olafur Arnalds Evolutions library) is the go-to recording space for some of Europe’s most renowned composers, from Jóhann Jóhannsson to Dustin O’Halloran. Each sound has been expertly recorded by the Spitfire team, led by producer Harry Wilson, with Vox Ton’s in-house engineer and Hauschka’s long-term collaborator, Francesco Donadello, who was instrumental in curating each sound. Though performed on a heritage Steinway D grand piano, most of the sounds are far removed from the original instrument.
From conception to recording, we worked in close collaboration, perfecting and expanding on tried and tested preparations used in his existing works, capturing both standalone notes and rhythmic performances. Hauschka’s approach to writing and sampling is “randomness mixed with intent”: an adventure into the unknown. With this in mind, we allowed ample room for experimentation in the recording process, taking the piano to places it has never been before.
Hauschka’s signature, multifaceted sound is born out of his endless fascination for the interaction between existing instruments and other materials and textures. Inspired by sounds in nature, Hauschka’s sounds are chaotic, unpredictable, and never the same twice, from jarring and noise-like to melodious and spine-tingling, the combination of which creates compelling results, in contrast to the minimalism of his predecessors.
AN interactive toolkit
Hauschka Composer Toolkit is unlike any other prepared piano, as each prepared sample is available both as an organic sound, while multiple signal options give you extra control to dramatically change the sound of each sample. Utilise the effects from Francesco’s enviable modular rig, Hauschka’s pedalboard, Spitfire’s distortion, and the Binson Echorec (a tape delay made famous by Pink Floyd in the 70s), to take each sound to a new place.
The library is split into six sections, four of which are presented in Evo Grids: Plug Hits, Plug Rhythms, Pad Sounds, Pad Hits, Swells, and Drum Kits. Each are distinctive in sound — from rhythmic hits to thunderous basses, sustained notes to atonal stabs — but are designed to complement each other when layered together. We also give you 50 presets created by the Spitfire team, for extra inspiration. The Plug Rhythms are made by playing rhythms while objects such as tea lights and ping pong balls bounce or fly off the strings, creating dynamic, multi-layered textures. Other objects used range from saxophone reeds to toy drums, tambourines to gaffer tape and light filters to wooden pegs, creating a huge range of new instruments. Both the Evo Grid layout and multiple signal options give you endless possibilities for each sound, with different results for every user.
Our interactive and highly intuitive Evo Grid technology makes this library much more than a collection of samples — various editable parameters enable deep customisation, and each setup gives you the tools to create your own unique prepared piano. Our bespoke, sophisticated Grid UI positions ‘pins’ via an onscreen 11 x 12 grid arrangement, with access to recordings across 12 intervals. Instantly select which sound sits on each of those 12 key ranges, or explore endless possible combinations and instant gratification with built-in randomisation features.
This toolkit is for any composer inspired by the avant-garde, or any sound designer looking to explore new sonic territories — perfect for building textural beds, creating tension cues and for adding the unexpected to any composition. The sounds can be applied to a wide range of compositions, from leftfield electronic music to orchestral scores. With over 40 original preparations, 50 curated presets, and 16000 samples, you have access to almost endless combinations of thousands of sounds and a new world of inspiration.
PRODUCT INFO
~15978 SAMPLES
24.5 GB DOWNLOAD SIZE
25.00 GB DISK SPACE REQUIRED DURING INSTALL
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.10 or later, Intel Core 2 Duo
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
Sonic Academy Track Walkthroughs Marsh Heaven TUTORIAL
Here at Sonic Academy, we are super excited and proud to bring you a brand new tutor and Ajunadeep virtuoso Marsh for an in-depth ‘Track Walkthrough’ of his floor-filling classic Heaven!
Taken from his new EP of the same name, this is a track originally born from a YouTube challenge using computer game samples that has grown into a surefire dance floor classic with a definite nod to some 90’s vibes thrown in for good measure.
Over 2 hours of first-class content, Marsh takes us through each element of how he built this track and the processing and plugins involved. From getting the mix on your kick and bass just right to creating your own synth sounds by editing samples, this is a walkthrough from a true pro who has a passionate understanding of what his fans want in a track and how to achieve it.
As Marsh says himself, this is the most in-depth and detailed walkthrough he’s done to date so don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best.
CYCLES is an innovative and powerful loop manipulation and granular synthesis environment. Through a variety of idiosyncratic and interactive processes pull apart and reconstruct audio instantly into an endless myriad of collaged loops, performable textures, modulating rhythms, generative sequences and playable pads.
REIMAGINE SOUND WITH LOOPS + GRAINS
The LOOPS engine is an audio looper, splicer and synthesiser. Audio is manipulated using an interactive visual timeline that slices the loops into rhythmic segments and re-collages them to create new and irregular formations. Playback parameters facilitate detailed loop manipulation whilst parameter modulation and slice randomisation can create further rhythmic evolution.
The GRAINS engine operates at the micro level, deconstructing the loops into tiny fragments and then rebuilding them into diffuse and amorphous clouds of texture. Grains of variable size, shape, pitch, volume, pan and direction interact to create a multitude of generative soundscapes and gestural movements, with physically simulated modulation introducing natural repetition by animating parameters in cyclical patterns.
EXPLORE NEW SONIC WORLDS
CYCLES includes over 450 loop sources divided into six distinct packs, each designed to inspire new and idiosyncratic directions in music creation. Loops can be used straight out of the box in order to generate and develop existing ideas, or alternatively taken purely as source material to be manipulated within the engine into entirely new worlds of sound.
TRANSFORM LOOPS INSTANTLY
CYCLES includes 100 preset engine states to help find inspiration and aid exploration. Each of these transforms the engine into a different set of parameters, settings, and modulation, creating an entirely new world of sound in which a loop or sample is then performable. This produces a huge palette of tens of thousands of unique processed loops and textures, existing anywhere from energetic pulses and plucks to rich cinematic ambiences.
A VAST LIBRARY OF UNIQUE SOUNDS
As well as the source loops, over 150 bespoke pads, textures and sequences are included, each created by taking a single source loop and transfiguring it within the CYCLES engine. The result is a vast library of unique timbres and rhythms full of granularised swarms, lush organic textures and precise cyclical pulses. Patches can be performed interactively, with mod wheel movement creating dynamic rises and evolving cinematic transitions.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
189 presets patches
100 preset engine states
494 sound designed loop sources
Approx 2.8GB samples compressed
Up to date and powerful CPU recommended
Runs in the free Kontakt 6.3.2 Player or full Kontakt 6.3.2 or higher
Al Hug Flutes Pack – Volume 2 is a collection of 55 flute chops, 20 flute loops and 22 long one shots. Use the chops to spice up your melodies, the loops as starting points for your beats and the long one shot notes to build your own sampler instruments.
All sounds were recorded with real instruments: Western classical flute, piccolo flute indian bamboo flute & argentinian stone flute.
Everything performed by Al Hug and captured with vintage ribbon and tube mics.
The recordings included in this pack are a collection of original compositions and master recordings created by Alessandro Hug aka Al Hug.
Unity Samples Vol.20 by D-Unity, Dino Maggiorana feat. D.Mongelos
“Unity Samples Vol.20 by D-Unity, Dino Maggiorana feat. D.Mongelos” consists of over 393 samples targeted towards your layered loop creation enabling you to start making fat sounding techno tracks in just minutes!
In Vol.20 we decided to add an extra bonus folder of extra 25 Techno synths as a THANK YOU for all the support from our techno producers!
But.. It’s not over! On top of that we decided to add extra .MIDI Files in our Beat loops section to add more diversification in your productions!
The Idea behind all Unity Samples projects was to focus on giving you endless production possibilities with ready to go Synths, Drum loops, Synth Arps, FX Drones, Techno loops and Hypnotic techno Vocals specifically targeted towards techno as well as Tech house.
Unity Samples are packed with the hottest and most recent sounding techno samples that help to lead trends within the techno scene for many.
Our Sample Packs provide a huge variety of single shot sounds with layered down stem loops which will enable you to start making fat sounding techno tracks in just minutes.
Our goal is to make music production easy at the most highest quality possible whether you are just starting out as a producer or already are an experienced techno veteran looking for that extra edge and quality in your productions.
Our sample packs are inspired by record label likes of Drumcode, Intec, Terminal M, Tronic, Suara and acts like Adam Beyer, Umek, Monika Kruse, Pan-Pot, Pig & Dan, Dino Maggiorana, D-Unity and many others…
‘Grown Soul RnB’ by Intentional Music includes the first instalment of this incredible Soul and RnB series including five Construction Kits. The combination of heart-gripping melodies along with that bouncy RnB Soul feel is an instant attention grabber. It comes fully loaded with all of the elements needed to create your next hit song or take tracks you’re working on to a whole new level.
‘Grown Soul’ brings five Construction Kits, bass, piano, strings, nylon guitars, and more, you’ll find something inside to suit your productions whether you’re making RnB, Soul, or creating that Old Soul sound. This is a product that will give you that creative Soul edge that will take you straight to the top of the charts.
for all the support from our techno producers!