Monthly Archives: January 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Ill Jointz v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Ill Jointz v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Ill Jointz v1.0.0 WIN

New York producers Anthony “Jovier” Kerr and Eddie “E Smoove” Bell present Ill Jointz – Hip-hop and R’n’B Loops, the cutting edge of street flava all here for your sampling pleasure!

Over 2 1/2 hours of construction kit style loops, with all loops broken down into their basic elements! All loops are at least 4 bars long so that you can feel the flow, cut them up, and combine them into all new combinations. Keyboard magazine gave Ill Jointz 9 out of 10 and wrote, “The vibe is strictly mellow hip-hop with this set, but within that is a remarkably wide range of grooves and colors. The instrument combinations are very inventive and effective. There is more of a live instrument feel to this collection than on some other sets I’ve heard, which is a nice change.”

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Joey Kramer Drums v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Joey Kramer Drums v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Joey Kramer Drums v1.0.0 WIN

Aerosmith’s drummer Joey Kramer, has put together the most comprehensive collection of “Pump & Thump” drum loops and samples available anywhere.

“The loops are hard-hitting, full-kit performances of four or more bars in duration, mainly in straight 4/4, but occasionally slipping into 12/8 or a 4/4 swung feel. Most loops have a generous number of variations for song construction, and there are tons of useful fills and a comprehensive (and highly usable) menu of 90 single hits. Tempos are listed from 71 to 149 BPM. This multitrack version enables custom drum kit mixing. The multitrack layout is: 1. kick; 2. snare; 3. hi-hat; 4+5. toms and overheads; 6+7. stereo room; 8. cowbell
(where played). Truly a producer’s dream.” (Sound On Sound)

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Percussive Adventures Vol.2 v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Percussive Adventures Vol.2 v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Percussive Adventures Vol.2 v1.0.0 WIN

Percussive Adventures 2 includes 70 full multi-layered pieces. Full beds (full mixes), full bed loops, alternate mixes, phrases, endings, individual elements/layers, and some individual hits. Most of these pieces are complete in their own right and can stand on their own. You can easily expand, contract, rearrange, and remix to fit your needs. And it’s not just percussion. There is a world of fresh ambient flowing textures and events perfect for combining with the rhythmic beds for complete soundtracks.

“Percussive Adventures 1 was a huge success – and a Keyboard magazine Key Buy Award winner! This is the original go-to-must-have library of extended performances used by countless big name film and TV composers not to mention remixers and electronica maniacs and is kind of legendary in the scoring world. If you’ve experienced Percussive Adventures 1 you will be blown away with this sequel.”

You need East West PLAY release to use this library.(Keyboard)

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Phat & Phunky v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Phat & Phunky v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Phat & Phunky v1.0.0 WIN

Rich Mendelson is the programmer of the five-star rated EastWest sample collections Dance/Industrial 1 and 2. Phat+Phunky includes over 2 hours of complete loops (165 loops and over 2000 samples); plus the individual components for each loop.

The featured material is R&B/Hip-Hop/Slo Jamz, perfect for any type of project. Many of the loops are almost complete tracks except, unlike other loop collections, Phat+Phunky enables you to completely customize the loops.

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Public Enemy v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Public Enemy v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Public Enemy v1.0.0 WIN

With this “beats and loops” collection, Public Enemy became the first major hip-hop act to release such a collection. The collection includes over two hours of “beats and loops,” presented in a “construction kit” format (fully mixed loops and all of the individual samples used to make up the entire loop).

“What’s most important here are the samples themselves. So are they any good? Well, the content of the kits is, in a word, excellent. Style-wise the kits are quite unique, rather than emulating any trends. And the sound quality is top notch, as is the selection of samples and elements. All the drum loops
have the required beef and bite and contain a mixture of played and programmed beats that works well. The rhythms themselves range in style from the standard ‘boom-bap’ to more complex patterns giving a varied palette of loops to choose from. 5/5.” (Sound On Sound)

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Scoring Tools v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Scoring Tools v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Scoring Tools v1.0.0 WIN

Scoring Tools is a composer’s dream come true. Immaculately recorded with a 60 piece world class symphony orchestra, Scoring Tools provides you with original orchestral loops, beginnings and endings, in three different keys, two different tempos, and seven different styles of music including Adventure, Fanfare, Magical, Mysterious, Suspense, Romantic and Western.

All you have to do to create finished songs, commercials, or soundtracks for film, theatre, musicals, computer games or multimedia is add your own melodies to the orchestral backgrounds. Over a year of writing, arranging, recording, editing and programming went into the making of Scoring Tools by talented Hollywood composer Lisa Bloom Cohen and French producer Serge Colbert.

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Smoov Grooves v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Smoov Grooves v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Smoov Grooves v1.0.0 WIN

From the former rhythm section of “Prince and the New Power Generation,” comes the sequel to the smash hit “Funky Ass Loops.” Smoov Grooves contains all the loops you need to lay down everything from slow grooves to 70’s funk (tempos range from 70 to 120 BPM), plus you get all the breakdowns (a full mix of each loop, then the drum part, bass, guitar, percussion, keys, etc). Smoov Grooves is, without doubt, the finest collection of laid-back and 70’s funk grooves available anywhere for any price. This is the real deal from one of the top rhythm sections in the music business

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Loops v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Multi Samples v1.0.2 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Loops v1.0.0 WIN

What would happen if you gave Godzilla drumsticks? This is the original Stormdrum collection that took cinematic percussion to a new level.

“The content is classic film score stuff: big fat booming drums, smaller ethnic hand percussion, enough metallic hits to make a steelworker feel at home. The ability to load up any patch and have a series of related loops synchronised to the tempo you want is heaven for any composer. Stormdrum is one of the few products these days that you could accuse of under-selling itself: a fairly plain box with no images of Mel Gibson or the like, and not smothered in endorsements from Hans Zimmer or Jerry Goldsmith, but it’s most certainly worthy of sitting where it does beside the great Symphonic Orchestra Library.” (Future Music)

The content of the first Stormdrum library is provided in two separate parts. Part 1 contains all the loops. You can use them as they are, or you can modify them to fit your project exactly. Part 2 contains the multi-sampled instruments from the original Stormdrum 2 Pro Upgrade, to be used as you would any other instrument in your orchestration.

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Steve Stevens Guitar v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Steve Stevens Guitar v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Steve Stevens Guitar v1.0.0 WIN

Steve Stevens is responsible for some of the most innovative jolts on the musical seismograph. As Billy Idol’s guitarist, Stevens is the force behind “Idol’s” wall of sound, the sonic wail of the smash “Top Gun” soundtrack and Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana.”

Reviews: “Sound quality is superb … the power chords kick like no other guitar samples I have ever heard … hard rock, metal, progressive etc. … meticulously recorded and compiled.” (Sound On Sound) “Raw textures that cut, pummel, and soar … even the acoustic samples have attitude … the effects are killer – enough to keep headbangers happy … the key to the Steve Stevens collection is quality and dynamic effects.” (Keyboard)

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Multi Samples v1.0.2 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Multi Samples v1.0.2 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Stormdrum 1 Multi Samples v1.0.2 WIN

What would happen if you gave Godzilla drumsticks? This is the original Stormdrum collection that took cinematic percussion to a new level.

“The content is classic film score stuff: big fat booming drums, smaller ethnic hand percussion, enough metallic hits to make a steelworker feel at home. The ability to load up any patch and have a series of related loops synchronised to the tempo you want is heaven for any composer. Stormdrum is one of the few products these days that you could accuse of under-selling itself: a fairly plain box with no images of Mel Gibson or the like, and not smothered in endorsements from Hans Zimmer or Jerry Goldsmith, but it’s most certainly worthy of sitting where it does beside the great Symphonic Orchestra Library.” (Future Music)

The content of the first Stormdrum library is provided in two separate parts. Part 1 contains all the loops. You can use them as they are, or you can modify them to fit your project exactly. Part 2 contains the multi-sampled instruments from the original Stormdrum 2 Pro Upgrade, to be used as you would any other instrument in your orchestration.

You need East West PLAY release to use this library.

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East West 25th Anniversary Collection Symphonic Adventures v1.0.0 WIN

By | January 3, 2022

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Symphonic Adventures v1.0.0 WIN

East West 25th Anniversary Collection Symphonic Adventures v1.0.0 WIN

Similar to Scoring Tools in concept, Symphonic Adventures from producer Christopher Page explores the darker side of the Orchestra.

Perfect for film composers or any musician who requires powerful stings, FX, phrases, suspense, moods, etc.

A truly huge set of immaculately performed and recorded stereo phrases and FX.

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Oblivion Sound Lab OSL Side Effects v. 1.1.2 VST3 [WIN]

By | January 3, 2022

Oblivion Sound Lab OSL Side Effects v. 1.1.2 VST3 [WIN]

Oblivion Sound Lab OSL Side Effects v. 1.1.2 VST3 [WIN]

Mid/Side processing and stereo widening

OSL Side Effects is a versatile audio plugin that allows the stereo field to be manipulated in both subtle and creative ways.

It separates a stereo signal into Mid and Side channels which can be independently equalised, compressed, saturated, boosted, attenuated and panned using an intuitive processing chain. This makes it possible to alter the width of a mix in ways that would be impossible using conventional stereo processing techniques.

Features:

  • 4 band Mid/Side EQ with interactive graph
  • FFT spectrum analyser
  • Mid/Side compressor with transfer curve graph
  • Gain reduction meters
  • Tape-style saturation
  • Mid/Side stereo panning
  • Input and output gain controls
  • Stereo visualiser (goniometer)
  • Phase meter
  • Mid/Side and Left/Right output meters
  • Left/Right mode
  • Oversampling up to 16x
  • Preset system including 17 factory presets
  • All parameters can be automated from the host DAW
  • Light on CPU
  • Plugin formats: 64-bit VST3

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A Samples Khaliji Groove Quantize Pack MIDI

By | January 3, 2022

A Samples Khaliji Groove Quantize Pack MIDI

A Samples Khaliji Groove Quantize Pack MIDI

We know that most Gulf rhythms have a special ‘swing’ in tempo, so the rhythm isn’t compatible with the standard Quantize available in your DAW. The degree of swing varies depending on the genre, and even the player being used.

Usually music producers create their own custom Groove Quantize, but this process is very difficult and takes time.

‏That’s why we decided to do all the hard work for you and create all the Quantize Grooves you’ll ever need to produce Khaliji songs.

‏You’ll receive 50 Quantize Grooves from a wide range of Khaliji music genres including:

  • Hewa
  • Emarati
  • Khbaiti
  • Bara’a
  • Bandari
  • Atbah
  • And more

Each groove is in MIDI Format, and there’s a different feel of swing for each genre.

The Khaliji Grooves Quantize Pack is compatible with all major DAWs like:

  • Cubase
  • Logic
  • Pro Tools
  • Studio One

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A Samples Khaliji Drums of Arabia Core & Emarati Expansion KONTAKT

By | January 3, 2022

A Samples Khaliji Drums of Arabia Core & Emarati Expansion KONTAKT

A Samples Khaliji Drums of Arabia Core & Emarati Expansion KONTAKT

Made for Kontakt 5.6.0 (full version required), our library contains 140 sampled percussion instruments, mostly from the Arabian Peninsula. For the first time in history, producers and composers can capture the essence of these instruments with such incredible depth and user-friendliness.

Frame drums in various sizes make up the majority of the instruments, with Zeer, Ranna, Kaser, Darabuka, Mesendo, and many more. Various percussion instruments from other parts of the world are also included, as producers often fuse an Arabian percussion ensemble with some percussion instruments from around the world to give their Khaliji music a modern flavor.

With Khaliji, you will receive the following:

  •  140 Instruments
  •  10 Multis
  •  122 MIDI grooves
  •  2.23GB size Uncompressed
  •  48khz, 24 bit

Khaliji libraries made specifically for Kontakt offer the benefit of an easy to use interface. It requires Kontakt full version 5.6.0 or higher.

Our goal is to create a percussion library that’s as natural as possible, without adding any, or very little, processing to the actual samples.

Some of the note-worthy aspects of Khaliji are as follows:

Instruments
The Instruments library contains a huge number of instruments which are mainly from the Arabian Gulf, Iraq and Yemen, and some world percussions added to compliment those instruments and provide composers a larger pallet to create even more unique combinations.

Multis
You need to load Multis in order to play the MIDI files, so we have created several Multis to get you started immediately. We also encourage you to create your own Multis and build your own kit to truly take advantage of the library.

MIDI Grooves
The MIDI Grooves library also more than 122 MIDI grooves of the most popular styles to help composers improve productivity while showcasing what the instruments can do, and how the instruments work together to inspire music producers.

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Mastering Chopin Etudes (Op. 10 No. 2) TUTORIAL

By | January 2, 2022

Mastering Chopin Etudes (Op. 10 No. 2) TUTORIAL

Mastering Chopin Etudes (Op. 10 No. 2) TUTORIAL

Did you ever feel like the Chopin Etudes were simply forever out of your reach? With this course it will be possible for you, with the skills you currently possess, to make the Chopin Etudes (a vital foundation for the core repertoire of any serious pianist) not only playable, but performable at a very high level once you make it through this course.

In this course, I act as your guide showing you the way to mastering the Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 1 in 30 days. Together we go through the complete process with clear objectives every step of the way. I will hold your hand and personally take you through each stage of learning this Etude.

I will even give you my personal fingering for every part of the Etude so that you are left with no questions or doubts. I will explain the proper way to execute each passage and portion of every part.

Not only will you learn the valuable technical aspects that these etudes have to teach you, but you will also learn their musical techniques and how to express them fully. This truly brings into harmony the full vision of the Chopin Etudes.

All aspects of each Etude are covered fully: from pedaling and phrasing to articulation, fingering, slow/fast tempo execution and even interpretation!

The goal of this course is to provide you with the necessary knowledge to cut great amounts of time in your journey of learning the Chopin Etudes. I have taken the knowledge and practice of countless professional pianists and pedagogues and combined that with the experience attained from over 15 years of teaching students of a staggering variety of abilities and distilled and condensed everything you need to learn and MASTER this Etude in 30 days!

It has been said that it can take a lifetime to master even a single Etude; and although there is a degree of truth to that statement, it does not represent the full scale of what it means to learn and master anything. If that were the case, then nobody would ever have anything to show for their work and progress. The deeper meaning to be derived from a statement like that is that a successful life is dependent upon constant striving and that the bar of perfection is always being raised as new achievements are reached.

What this course is offering is a clear and guided path to the ability to play this Chopin Etude at a performance level. It offers to take you by the hand and guide you to success. Just remember when someone takes you by the hand, they are not carrying you. You must still walk yourself. But with this hand holding yours, there is no chance to go astray. You will come out on the other side with a new Etude at your fingertips.

Sincerely from your teacher,

Calin

What you’ll learn

  • Ability to understand this Etude in the simplest terms and transmit this knowledge unto your own students.
  • Easily followable steps that any piano pedagogue can do.
  • Designed so that the intermediate student can transcend the barrier of difficulty associated with these Etudes and master them to boot!
  • Fresh insights that advanced students will also find useful.

Who this course is for:

  • Intermediate to advanced classical pianists. This course will be a delightful challenge to any intermediate pianist while advanced pianists will glean fresh perspectives and approaches to these masterful works: the Chopin Etudes

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