Checking Out Cue Builders – Cinematic Rhythms

Red Room Audio’s Cue Builders – Cinematic Rhythms is the ultimate percussive loop engine for epic, cinematic and world music. Many of us are familiar with percussive, loop based libraries such as Action Strikes or Damage, but Red Room Audio’s approach is more natural and offers more flexibility and versatility.

Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms contains a huge amount of loops and percussive layers, and they’re available in an impressive variety of time signatures as well. Of course we have the tried-and-true 4/4 (FOUR whole banks of 4/4), but we also get more unique and less used time signatures, such as 2/4, 5/4, 12/8, 6/8, and 7/8.

There are two main categories, Epic Rhythms and World Rhythms. When you load one of the instruments, the loops are mapped all across your keyboard, and each loop contains multiple layers (up to 6 different layers): Low 1, Low 2, Mid 1, Mid 2, High 1, and High 2. You can mute or solo any of these layers at any time, so you have access to the full spectrum of each rhythmic section.

Many percussion/loop libraries sound very processed or “hyped”, but Cue Builders is very natural and organic sounding, which I think many composers will appreciate. There are multiple mic positions as well, to get a more up-close and intimate sound, or a more epic and roomy sound. This library can be used for practically any cinematic genre, from epic trailers, traditional action scoring, and world/ethnic music from all corners of the globe.

In this video we will explore how to use the library to build an actual cue, one that’s very bold and intense, and one that’s more subtle and textured. Check it out!

Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms by Red Room Audio

Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms (Affiliate Link) provides a fast and flexible way to add dramatic epic and world percussion to your music. See also our Review of Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms.

Red Room Audio has launched Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms (Affiliate Link), the first in a new range of CUE BUILDERS products, designed as a fast and flexible way to write music. CUE BUILDERS libraries are thematic collections of time saving compositional building blocks for instant inspiration. The product’s ingenious multi-stem approach offers a level of depth that goes beyond that of other loop-based libraries, allowing you to dissect and tweak individual elements to dial in just the right flavors.

CUE BUILDERS CINEMATIC RHYTHMS contains over 400 tempo-synced percussion loops in 2 categories (Epic and World). Each category offers a wide selection of phrases in 6-time signatures with up to 6 layered (and fully accessible) stems per phrase, conveniently separated by tonal color (High, Mid and Low).

A hand-picked team of 10 sound designers from around the world constructed these phrases using Red Room Audio’s vast boutique collection of meticulously deep-sampled percussion instruments, recorded on a scoring stage. This unique method allows for several valuable features including two microphone positions (close & hall) and perfectly synced and fully mixable stems that can be exported individually. The phrases have been exported at four different BPM for exceptional quality regardless of your project’s tempo. For convenience, all phrases are also available as drag-and-drop .wav files.

Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms (Affiliate Link) is a thematic collection of time-saving compositional building blocks for instant inspiration. A fast and flexible way to add dramatic epic and world percussion to your music. Over 400 deep percussion phrases/loops, each with up to 6 mixable stems organized by tonal color. 16GB and 19,000+ samples, plus an 8-slot FX rack.

Pricing and Availability

Originally $99, Cue Builders Cinematic Rhythms (Affiliate Link) is available from today until October 1st, 2020

SALE on Symphonic AI by Sample Logic & Red Room Audio

Symphonic AI is the newest epic release from Sample Logic, highlighting all-new orchestral samples in an exceptional partnership with Red Room Audio.

I did already use many of the patches from Symphonic AI (Affiliate Link) in my Eurorack system with effect modules from Make Noise (Morphagene, Mimeophon, and QPAS), 4ms (Spherical Wavetable Navigator), and Instruō Modular (Lúbadh, arbhar).

SYMPHONIC AI – Animated Intelligence: is an awe-inspiring fusion of orchestral samples and synthesis driven by motion that results in intelligent, elegant and dynamic symphonic instruments.

Developed in the Kontakt engine, Sample Logic has combined cutting edge performance engines with the pristine symphonic samples of Red Room Audio to deliver a 13 GB virtual instrument of 938 sleek and intelligently designed multi-sampled instruments and presets.

Symphonic AI Features

• 938 Instruments & Presets
• 13 GB Sample Content
• Made entirely from multi-sampled orchestral instruments
• Sample Logic’s proprietary quad-core audio engine with Step & FX Animators, LFOs and XY Core Mixer
• Dynamic tag-based preset browser
• Randomize presets, sounds and parameters for instant and infinite inspiration
• Drag & Drop MIDI patterns to a DAW
• Hot-swappable effects chain technology
• Full paid version of Kontakt, version 5.8.1 or higher. Will not work in the free Kontakt Player!
• Mac OS X 10.11, i5, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
• Windows 7, 8, 10, Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
• 13 GB free disk space for SYMPHONIC AI sample content
• COMPATIBILITY (Mac 64-bit only; Windows 32/64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, (AU) Audio Units, AAX

Symphonic AI (Affiliate Link) is an extremely versatile platform for unlimited creativity combining real world organic performances with algorithmic synthetic perfection.

Pricing and Availability

Symphonic AI (Affiliate Link) is available until July 26th, 2020 at an introductory price of $249.99 instead of $499.99.