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Polaris, the latest sound library from Grammy-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer & technologist Brian Transeau, AKA BT, is a mesmerizing aural innovation. Polaris tastefully pairs the worlds of synthesis and orchestra to take your scores into 2022 and beyond. This sophisticated yet eclectic sound library offers massive multi-layers of organic string orchestral recordings, performed by…
Loop Slicer and Sampler Initial Slice is a loop slicer and beat making plugin. Load audio loops via drag and drop to slice, loop, reverse, pitch shift or even time stretch them. Initial Slice also comes with multiple built in piano rolls so you can create sequences right in the box. On top of this…
Your First Sound Library Let’s be honest, we’re all spending more time at home than ever before! In this video, we show you fun and creative ways to record sounds around the house. If you’re new to sound recording and wonder where to start, then where you live could be a treasure trove just waiting…
How I Record Hardware Synths In this video, I go through my entire workflow for recording hardware synths. I use Ableton Live in the video, but all of these concepts should carry over pretty easily into other DAWs.
Why Modular Sample Players Rock Hi! Today we are going over the basic features of my favourite sample player, the 4MS Stereo Triggered Sampler. More importantly, we’ll have a look at some things I like to do with sample players. Like turning them into a piano or synth voice. We’ll have a look at a…
How I make Sample Libraries In this video, I go through the entire process of creating a sample library from start to finish. I do my recording and chopping in REAPER. I then make a Kontakt instrument, a Decent Sampler instrument, and an SFZ. MY REAPER SCRIPTS here COMMERCIAL REAPER SCRIPTS The REAPER Aubio pitch…
What’s in my sampler case – A detailed overview of a portable eurorack system Hey there, welcome to my new Tech Talk channel! Today we’ll have a look at my compact eurorack modular sampler case. A small system revolving around the 4ms Stereo Triggered Sampler and Mutable Instruments Clouds. Most of the time I use…
Decent Sampler Tutorial The Decent Samples plugin is a FREE sample player plugin that allows you to play sample libraries in the DecentSampler format (files with extensions: dspreset and dslibrary). It is available in the following formats: Windows: 64-bit VST, 64-bit VST3, 64-bit Standalone Mac: 64-bit VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, Standalone With just a basic piano sample, it…
AUM + Fugue Machine + Decent Sampler The iOS music ecosystem has yielded a number of cool, nonstandard ways of writing music. Central to many of them is an app called AUM, which acts as an essential thread to get all of your different apps talking to eachother. In this video, I use AUM along…
Serato Sample Sale The fastest way to sample: Serato’s latest plugin is a powerful and intuitive new sampler for producers that allows you to quickly find, chop, key shift and time-stretch samples. The Fastest Way to Sample A powerful and intuitive new sampler plugin for producers that allows you to quickly find, chop, key shift…
Korg Volca Drum Editor by Tobias Hunke Created by the leading man in the world of E-Drumming and Ableton Live the Korg Volca Drum Editor from Tobias Hunke. The Volca Drum Editor is a Max for Live device which lets you edit, control, save and recall every parameter from the Korg Volca Drum digital percussion…
Akai Launches MPC Live II Meet Akai’s MPC Live II, the complete MPC experience in its most portable configuration yet. Everything you need to produce music, everywhere. MPC Live II is a comprehensive MPC experience without missing a step. A rechargeable lithium-ion battery means you can work anywhere for hours. Full-size MPC pads give you…
Win an MPC2000xl Samples From Mars is running a competition where you can win an MPC2000xl. Produce an original composition using only the MPC2000 Snacks From Mars for your drum sounds. and enter for a chance to win an MPC2000XL and free samples for life. PRIZES: Prizes WINNER gets an MPC2000XL, free sample for life,…
ALM Updates SQUID SALMPLE – Firmware Update 125 The ‘Squid Salmpler’ is a Eurorack 8 channel audio & CV sampler. It is designed for immediate real-time sampling, editing and mangling within a modular context. ALM/Busy Circuits now updates SQUID SALMPLE to Version 125. New features include auto chop drum breaks, internally route EOS triggers, and…
Puremagnetik launches Swarm | Particle Diffusion Sampler Swarm is a sound design effect inspired by “swarm intelligence” and “particle masses” such as those employed by composer Iannis Xenakis. It clones a segment of a sample and puts those members into a “flock” that disperses in unified, sometimes stochastic, coordination. Swarm excels in creating dense pizzicato…
Nuance 2.1157 Released by New Sonic Arts A new version of Nuance is now available. Nuance is a sampler designed the way you want it. Fast workflow, pristine sound, ultra-low CPU usage. Nuance 2.1157 Improvements – Improved Choke Group logic (overlapping zones inside the same choke group no longer choke each other)– Plugin Embed Samples…
SampleRobot 6.5 by SKYLIFE The SampleRobot 6.5 update is available from the SampleRobot website. SampleRobot 6.5 is a massive update. The developer has grown on the export functionality and included 3 new multisample formats for SampleRobot Pro and SampleRobot Multi-X and there’s more. Sequential Prophet-X Supporting hardware samplers was a high priority already from the…
Serato supports Catalina: Serato Sample 1.1.1 Added support for macOS 10.15 Catalina Fixed knobs and drag fields not working correctly on macOS Mojave 10.14 Fixed a possible crash when activating with non-working DNS settings (macOS only) Fixed an issue where playback can be cut short with low buffer size settings Fixed an issue where Release…
The Ghosts library for the TAL Sampler is the result of the continuing fascination of Empty Vessel with the imperfection of all types, the bruises, and battle-scars, the ghosts, and dust which are inherently missing quite often from software instruments and ITB production. Empty Vessel is Greg and his cat. He creates a set of playable,…
Bliss Performance Sampler Updated to Version 1.7 discoDSP has released Bliss 1.7 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. What’s new in Bliss 1.7 macOS Catalina ready. Notarized installer and a standalone app. Linux standalone. Fixed LUA based import not working. Fixed crash loading recent banks from the drop-down menu. Fixed macOS standalone issue loading VST plug-ins. Availability and…
UVI’s new and enhanced flagship hybrid instrument has taken off! I would argue that Falcon version 1 and now version 2 is one of those best-kept secrets in the composer community as many of us use Kontakt or one of the many available synths and miss out on this robust tool that has excellent usability…
Akai Professional is proud to announce two new firmware updates for the Force as well as the MPC X and Live products. The updates feature multiple workflow enhancements alongside Ableton Live Set Export functionality, enabling users to move their projects from the MPC and Force ecosystems to the Ableton Live platform. To learn more about…
Squid Salmple a Eurorack Sampler is for a sound designer and professional composer highly interesting. We all have tons of samples from our DAW based sample player like Kontakt, Falcon or other synths available that can be loaded into Squid Salmple. The ‘Squid Salmpler’ is a Eurorack 8 channel audio & CV sampler. It is…
New Sonic Arts updates Nuance 2 to version 2.1004. Nuance 2 is a sampler that wants to grow with your experiences. The approach of the sampler is that it wants to make the process of software sampling easy and more usable. Nuance is a modernized sampler and can load different sound formats via drag and drop.…
Nuance 2 by New Sonic Arts Review Nuance 2 is a sampler that wants to grow with your experiences. The approach of the sampler is that it wants to make the process of software sampling easy and more usable. Nuance 2 is making the process of sampling easy when you compared it to Native Instruments…
