Monthly Archives: February 2024

Samplesound Drum & Bass Vol.2 [WAV MIDI]

By | February 17, 2024

Samplesound Drum & Bass Vol.2 [WAV MIDI]

Samplesound Drum & Bass Vol.2 [WAV MIDI]

‘Drum & Bass Volume 2’ by Samplesound presents the second volume of these outstanding Drum and Bass series.

This huge 1,2 GB sample pack contains everything you may need to produce your next Drum and Bass bomb! This collection is 100% Royalty-Free to use with your musical elements.

This DnB pack includes 50 dark bass loops, 30 bass hits, 28 bass MIDI to provide you with the valued freedom of experimentation. All loops are locked in at the powerful 170 BPM. Also included are 20 drum one-shots that you can use to construct your own unique and weighty rhythms. ‘Drum and Bass’ features more than 300 Loops, includes six Construction Kits ready to play in your favourite software as Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Fruity Loops and more.

In detail, expect to find 1,2 GB of content, with all audio recorded at 24-Bit and 44.1kHz. There are 50 bass loops, 300 bass hits, 12 break fill loops, 20 drum one-shots, 17 full drum loops, 12 kick loops, 23 pad loops, 20 percussion loops, 22 FX, 15 shaker loops, 12 clap and snare loops, 24 synth loops, 39 synth loops, 22 top loops and 6 Constructions Kits.

The pack is inspired by music labels such as Souped Up, 1985 Music, Born On Road and more!

Product Details:

  •  6 Construction Kits
  •  30 Bass Hits
  •  50 Bass Loops
  •  28 Bass MIDI Files
  •  12 Break Fill Loops
  •  10 HH One-Shots
  •  11 Snare One-Shots
  •  6 One-Shot Kicks
  •  17 Drum Loops
  •  12 Kick Loops
  •  23 Pad Loops
  •  20 Perc Loops
  •  22 FX
  •  15 Shaker Loops
  •  12 Clap & Snare Loops
  •  24 Synth Hits
  •  39 Synth Loops
  •  15 Synth MIDI Files
  •  22 Top Loops
  •  100% Royalty-Free

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EmptyVessel TAL Sampler Entropy [WAV PRESETS]

By | February 17, 2024

EmptyVessel TAL Sampler Entropy [WAV PRESETS]

EmptyVessel TAL Sampler Entropy [WAV PRESETS]

64 original patches for TAL Sampler comprising long, evolving, dark, chaotic, organic textures varying from gently dusty and characterful with slight wonkiness to quite broken, digital, glitchy and disturbing.

Many of the patches are complex and evolving, some take up to minutes to fully play through. Embrace the chaos!

In the pack there are:

  • Drone/FX bed – 25 patches. Some harmonic, some noise and textures
  • Keys – 5 patches. Wonky, dusty, noisy, some warm some cold and icy
  • Pads – 34 patches. Very varied from subtly noisy and pleasing to glitchy, crackly and noisy

The sounds would be a good fit for ambient, dark ambient, soundtrack, techno, glitch, D&B, psytrance, lofi and IDM

  • #glitch
  • #ambient
  • #darkambient
  • #sounddesign
  • #techno
  • #D&B
  • #d&b
  • #drumandbass
  • #psytrance
  • #IDM
  • #soundtrack
  • #lofi
  • #lo-fi

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Espen Kraft The Digital Collection Vol.1 [TAL Sampler Pack + WAV]

By | February 17, 2024

Espen Kraft The Digital Collection Vol.1 TAL Sampler Pack WAV

Espen Kraft The Digital Collection Vol.1 [TAL Sampler Pack + WAV]

Do you want the best old-school synth patches from 11 different classic synths?

128 awesome patch presets and 8 performance presets ready to go. The best sounds from my vintage collection.

Sounds from the Roland JX-3P, MKS-80, D-50, Yamaha DX7, FS1R, Sequential Six-Trak, Korg DW-8000, and MS10, PPG V2.2, Kawai PHM, all tailored and made to sound ready-to-go. Change your sounds easily in the best old-school VST sampler you can get your hands on in my opinion. The video tutorial will show you how to install and use the pack.

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Mastering The Mix ANIMATE v1.1.8 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix ANIMATE

Mastering The Mix ANIMATE v1.1.8 [WIN]

ANIMATE helps you inject life into your mixes in a precise, versatile and colorful way. With four different movement modes, each with individual frequency assignments and mid/side functionality you’ll get your music jumping out of the speakers precisely how you want.

Key Benefits

🌎 Overview: ANIMATE has 4 energy enhancing modules to help you breathe life into your music

⚠️ Problem Solved: If your music is sounding lifeless, lacking energy, and missing character then it simply will not connect with your listeners. ANIMATE helps you revitalise your music with precision.

✅ Get Started: ANIMATE works great on any channel in your production that needs enhancing. Select a module (Expand, Ignite, Punch, Grow) and increase the central ‘amount’ bar to your taste. Adjust the filters, mid/side and attack/release settings so the effect works perfectly with your audio.

🤩 Highlight 1: The Ignite module gives you a rich, expensive sounding harmonic distortion with 16x oversampling which sounds incredible when adding power during mastering.

🤩 Highlight 2: The phase reducing all-pass filters makes ANIMATE a great choice during mastering. Other filters can introduce transient smearing, reducing the impact of your music.

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Mastering The Mix BASSROOM v1.0.9 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix BASSROOM

Mastering The Mix BASSROOM v1.0.9 [WIN]

The struggle for the perfect low-end is over. BASSROOM is a final mix and mastering EQ that helps beginners and pros nail their low-end in seconds.

It does this by delivering exceptional sound quality and suggesting genre-specific EQ adjustments a great audio engineer in a world-class studio would make.

How Will BASSROOM Transform Your Music Productions?
🌎 Overview: BASSROOM is an EQ designed to fix the low-frequency balance of your overall track.

⚠️ Problem Solved: Getting the low-frequencies right in your mix or master is a huge challenge, whether you have acoustic treatment and pro monitors or not. BASSROOM analyses your production and shows you the EQ settings needed to get a powerful and well-balanced sound.

✅ Get Started: Load up BASSROOM on your master channel before your limiter. Select a preset or import your own reference track. Match the bands to the EQ target suggestions, then tweak to suit your preference.

🤩 Highlight 1: The preset system is 100% unique to your music. It uses a revolutionary algorithm that is based on how the human ear perceives sonic energy, and it works REALLY well.

🤩 Highlight 2: The unique filters in BASSROOM are optimised to shape low-frequencies. You won’t find another plugin that can adjust bass more transparently, retaining the punch and clarity of your music.

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Mastering The Mix EXPOSE v2.0.6 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix EXPOSE

Mastering The Mix EXPOSE v2.0.6 [WIN]

EXPOSE 2 is an audio quality control application that helps you identify issues with your music. So many tracks get distributed with a poor EQ balance, true peak clipping, over-compression, phase issues, and more. We want you to catch these issues before it’s too late. With EXPOSE 2, you can deliver the best listening experience and release your music with confidence.

How Will EXPOSE Transform Your Music Productions?
Overview: Drop your music into EXPOSE to identify any technical issues before releasing it to the world.

Problem Solved: So many tracks get distributed with a poor EQ balance, true peak clipping, over-compression, phase issues, and more. It takes 3 seconds to identify these issues in EXPOSE before it’s too late.

Get Started: Open EXPOSE (it’s a standalone app, so you won’t need a DAW) then drag and drop your music into it. Select the preset based on your distribution method (streaming, club, CD, etc). The analysis feedback gives you specific feedback on how to resolve the issues and optimize your music for release within your DAW.

Highlight 1: Helps you hit your technical goals, whether you’re aiming for a super-loud club master, or trying to optimize your music to sound great on streaming sites.

Highlight 2: See how the average tonal balance of your song compares to your reference track, or our genre-specific presets. All of which were created using sonic profiles from commercially successful tracks.

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Mastering The Mix FUSER v1.0.1 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix FUSER v1.0.1 [WIN]

FUSER is the ultimate solution for creating sonic clarity in messy mixes.

FUSER resolves conflicting channels by assisting you in adjusting volume balance, enhancing phase optimization, and implementing intelligent mid-side sidechain ducking

With FUSER’s smart ‘Conflict Detection’ and groundbreaking ‘Resolve Conflicts’ feature, you’ll effortlessly find a great starting point to fix those audio clashes without overdoing it.

Rapid Mix Transformation
With FUSER’s smart conflict-detection and groundbreaking “Resolve Conflicts” feature, you’ll effortlessly find a great starting point to fix audio clashes without overdoing it.

Incredible Clarity
The innovative Phase Analyze feature automatically finds the optimal phase rotation ensuring minimal phase cancellation when layering similar sounds such as kicks and basses.

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Mastering The Mix LEVELS v2.0.4 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix LEVELS

Mastering The Mix LEVELS v2.0.4 [WIN]

Ever felt that your music could have sounded better? There are so many technical details to focus on when mixing and mastering that mistakes are common. LEVELS has presets for CD, Club, Streaming, Youtube and more to help you make sure your music sounds great wherever its heard.

How Will LEVELS Transform Your Music Productions?

🌎 Overview: LEVELS is a metering plugin that identifies problems with your music’s loudness, peaks, dynamic range and stereo spread.

⚠️ Problem Solved: Metering is boring and confusing, but necessary if you want to create pro-sounding music. LEVELS was created to make metering simple for artists who want to stay in their creative flow. If an issue is detected with your music, the problematic section will glow red. All green = no issues and you can get back to making music.

✅ Get Started: LEVELS should sit constantly on your master channel, after your limiter if you’re mastering. Select the preset (Mixing, Mastering, Spotify, Club etc) then play your audio so LEVELS can analyse. Any section that turns red will need your attention.

🤩 Highlight 1: Get your music sounding it’s best on any playback platform.

🤩 Highlight 2: Hover your mouse over the section icons to get feedback on how to resolve the issues that LEVELS has identified.

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Mastering The Mix LIMITER v1.0.3 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix LIMITER

Mastering The Mix LIMITER v1.0.3 [WIN]

Don’t let bad limiter settings un-do hours of hard mixing work… LIMITER is a great-sounding, smart mastering plugin that analyses your audio and suggests the best settings for your music. Avoid the hassle and create incredible sounding masters in less time with LIMITER.

Overview: LIMITER is a great-sounding, smart mastering plugin that analyses your music and suggests the best settings for your music.

Problem Solved: Bad limiter settings can un-do hours of hard mixing work. Our plugin LIMITER analyzes your music to help you dial in the best settings to master your audio, whether you’re shooting for a super-loud master, or optimizing your audio for streaming.

Get Started: Load up an instance of LIMITER on your master channel and select your preset (i.e Loud, Spotify, Apple Music, etc). Monitor the loudest section of your track, and click analyze. You’ll see a target range on the input gain slider showing you what gain adjustment is needed to achieve your sonic goal. You’ll also see target arrows on the other controls to help you optimize your sound.

Highlight 1: You can dial in rich harmonic distortion using the NRG slider, and enhance your transients with the PCH slider. This drives more perceived loudness and punch to help mitigate the effects of limiting.

Highlight 2: Great sounding limiting that gives you incredible transparency and clarity (especially in the low-end), even when mastering loud!

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Mastering The Mix MIXROOM v1.1.0 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix MIXROOM

Mastering The Mix MIXROOM v1.1.0 [WIN]

MIXROOM is an intelligent EQ that guides you to set the perfect balance of richness and clarity whether you’re working on a vocal, a synth or mastering your music.

MIXROOM analyses your audio and shows you which frequencies could be adjusted to improve your sound. The EQ target suggestion helps you get a solid starting point, from which you can tweak your sound to suit your preference.

How Will MIXROOM Transform Your Music Productions?
Overview: MIXROOM is an EQ that analyses your music and suggests the best settings to give you optimum richness and clarity.

⚠️ Problem Solved: No more muddy, dull, thin or harsh sounding mixes. Get a great sound with presets that are completely bespoke to your music.

✅ Get Started: MIXROOM is an effective solution for any channel in your song, whether you’re working on a vocal, a synth, or mastering your song. Select a preset or import your own reference track. Match the bands to the EQ target suggestions, then tweak to suit your preference.

Highlight 1: Speed of workflow! Click ‘Add Smart Bands’ to instantly dial in a great sounding EQ curve.

Highlight 2: Pristinely clean adjustments. MIXROOM uses optimised filters for the mid-range and high-end to give you ultra-clean mastering-grade EQ adjustments (without a hit to your CPU).

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Mastering The Mix REFERENCE v2.0.6 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix REFERENCE

Mastering The Mix REFERENCE v2.0.6 [WIN]

It can be frustrating not knowing exactly how to get your music comparable to your favorite mixes.

REFERENCE Is packed with powerful tools and insights to help you get closer than ever to the sound of your favorite music.

How Will REFERENCE Transform Your Music Productions?
Overview: REFERENCE will help you compare the original production you’re working on in your DAW to your chosen reference tracks.

⚠️ Problem Solved: If your mixes don’t sound as professional as commercially successful songs, REFERENCE will give you the tools and guidance to resolve this.

✅ Get Started: Load REFERENCE as the final plugin on your master channel. You can drag and drop your favourite songs into the UI, then jump back and forth between your original and your reference. We recommend that you loop the chorus as a starting point.

Highlight 1: REFERENCE will level match your songs by default. This crucial feature will allow you to compare songs without bias, as humans perceive louder songs to have more bass and more clarity. So you’ll make better, more informed mixing decisions using REFERENCE.

Highlight 2: The Trinity Display visual in the lower part of REFERENCE will show you the exact EQ curve you need to use on your track to get it sounding like your reference track.

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Mastering The Mix RESO v1.0.6 [WIN]

By | February 17, 2024

Mastering The Mix RESO v1.0.6 [WIN]

Excessive resonances ruin mixes, giving them a harsh and unpleasant sound. RESO helps you identify which specific frequencies are causing problems. It also guides you on how much reduction is needed to dynamically resolve the resonance without making your mix sound thin.

???? Overview: RESO is a dynamic resonance suppressor that helps you quickly identify and resolve resonances in your audio.

⚠️ Problem Solved: Excessive resonances ruin mixes, giving them a harsh and unpleasant sound. Our plugin RESO helps you quickly identify and resolve resonances. The smart features help you get the best possible sound by dynamically fixing the problematic resonances without making your music sound thin.

✅ Get Started: Load up an instance of RESO on any channel and listen closely for resonances. The display, frequency sweep, and ‘calculate targets’ features will help you identify resonant frequencies. Double click anywhere within the main window to create a node. Position the node where you want the resonance suppression to start. The Q is automatically optimized for the frequency of the node. You can scroll to adjust the Q to suit your preference.

???? Highlight 1: The Calculate Targets feature will analyze your audio, find the resonant frequencies, and give you ‘Target Nodes’ showing how much reduction is suggested to transparently resolve the resonance.

???? Highlight 2: RESOs super-transparent mastering-grade filters allow you to clean up resonances without affecting your transients and phase

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NI Play Series Stacks v2.0.0 [KONTAKT]

By | February 17, 2024

NI Play Series Stacks

NI Play Series Stacks v2.0.0 [KONTAKT]

DOWN IN THE CRATES
Crates of wax, dusty sleeves, and sampled beats: STACKS packs the building blocks of 2000s-era, sample-heavy hip hop into a Play Series instrument full of leads, strings, horns, bass, and sounds influenced by crate digging dedication. Dive deep into the same sounds you’d hear on old-school gems – electric keys, organs, glocks, strings, horns, live bass, and beyond – resampled and processed using tape decks and hardware until they hit the spot. Think collages of funk fused with lo-fi soul, pop lines, and organic left-field bass built for the art of beatmaking.

DIGGING DEEPER INTO STACKS & BURNT HUES
Beau Tyler got his hands on Play Series: STACKS and the BURNT HUES Expansion to cook up a beat and take a closer look at the tones and textures hidden inside.

CONTEMPORARY CRATE DIGGING TEXTURES

  • Dusty textures and organic blends from the sample-drenched soul of cult underground hip hop
  • Over 150 presets of loose leads, off-kilter keys and organs, live bass, horns, strings, and vintage synths
  • Sounds sampled and resampled using original hardware and effects, plus tried-and-tested signal chains and techniques
  • Part of the Play Series: Great-sounding presets and real-time control in an intuitive interface

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Toontrack Basic Rock EZbass MIDI [WIN & OSX]

By | February 17, 2024

Toontrack Basic Rock EZbass [MIDI WiN & OSX]

Toontrack Basic Rock EZbass MIDI [WIN & OSX]

Most of us songwriters would likely agree: When we’re scrambling for ideas, we tend to overcomplicate, procrastinate and overthink. In the end, it all boils down to managing the balancing act of keeping it easy but still intriguing. This, of course, sometimes means treading on the very fine line between hit and miss. For this EZbass MIDI pack, we returned to its sibling for EZkeys and used it as a foundation to create the perfect swatch of complementing basslines. Expect basic, nuts-and-bolts-like basslines that all are inspired by songwriters who master this very art: making songs that are easy but still fashionably smart and effective.

Get ready to bolster your EZbass with a fundamental collection of basslines. Don’t expect any frills or extravagant extras – just good old plain rock. Pure and simple.

  • EZbass MIDI inspired by traditional/mainstream rock music from the ’60s through to today
  • 4/4 and 6/8 in straight feel with tempos ranging from 78 BPM to 172 BPM
  • Intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus and bridge sections

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