Sample CDs & loops CDs

Review: 'Action Drums: Cinematic Edition' is a dynamic collection of performances designed to fill the percussive needs of motion picture, television, video game and production music. Recorded in a concert hall, 'Action Drums: Cinematic Edition' mixes close and distant microphone positions of soloists and ensembles to create natural recordings that range from subtle and understated; from ethnic and exotic, to high-powered and relentless.

A wide range of instruments were used including concert toms, concert bass drums, shime-daikos, surdos, djembes, batas, talking drum, udu, tabla, congas, small percussion and more. And as part of Nine Volt Audio's BPM Flex Series™, musicians can be assured that any of the REX-based loops can be used at a huge range of tempos (supported by Stylus RMX, Reason, Kontakt and most sequencers). Apple Loop and Acid Wav users will also find an extended range available since every full mix loop is presented at two different tempos.

Specifications:

- Contains 850 loops in the REX2, Stylus RMX, Apple Loop and ACIDized Wav formats.
- Uncompressed .wav file content is 1.84 GB.
- Nearly 200 single and ensemble hits are included for endings, breaks and dramatic impacts; plus an additional 20 unique one shots (bowed gong, metallic impacts, cymbal rolls, etc.).
- Organized into 12 Beat Themes: Each Beat Theme contains between six and 26 full mix loops (152 total), as well as the individual parts used to make the full mixes (698 loops). This allows the user to easily edit and mix-and-match parts to create custom passages.
- Contains Beat Themes in time signatures 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 and covers a tempo range of 90-170 BPM.
- Using within Stylus RMX requires the user to drag-and-drop only one folder into RMX's included SAGE Converter.
- Forty-four patches/multis for Kontakt are supplied. The patches and multis are organized into three different styles for three levels of mix, performance and RAM usage.
- The Kontakt patches/multis utilize the REX2 format (compatible with full versions of Kontakt 3.5 and up. NOT compatible with Kontakt Player).
- Includes 304 Stylus RMX multi presets that allow the user to pull up full mixes of individual loop parts for quick and easy customization of the mix. Presets are presented in both single and multi-channel versions.
- Suggested tempos have been given to each suite, but as part of the BPM Flex Series™, every loop can be used at an unusually large tempo range while retaining their feel and groove (not applicable to the ACID wav and Apple Loop files).
- Full mix loop performances are offered at two different tempos for the ACIDized Wav and Apple Loop formats for an additional 152 loops.

Review: Best Service presents Groove Codex & B Braxe's 'Black Pearl', the sample collection for the hip-hop, RnB or media producer looking for that modern original sound of today's urban music. Here is everything you need to produce radio-ready hip-hop and RnB hits. This sound library contains 35 construction kits (63bpm to 120bpm) inspired by the hottest urban producers like Timbaland, Kanye West, Swiss Beatz, Darkchild, Danjahandz and Polow Da Don. The sound content includes bangin' drum loops, monster kicks, hard hittin' snares, fresh claps, crunchy snaps, ethnic percussion, hihats, cymbals, shakers, synth and electric basses, keyboards, pianos, electric pianos, orchestral instruments, string ensembles, brass ensembles, hits, acoustic and electric guitars, new age instruments, bells, arpeggios, synths and modulated synths, morphing atmospheres, leads, noises and special fx-sounds. This groundbreakin' sound library brings the heat to any of your urban productions. If you're looking for the hottest sounds of today's urban music, look no further, 'Black Pearl' is the real deal.

Produced by Groove Codex & B-Braxe for Digital Loopline.

Review: Smokin' new material for RnB & HipHop productions, inspired by the likes of Timbaland, Just Blaze, Dr. Dre, Neptunes, Erick Sermon, Kanye West and Scott S. Fresh kicks, basses, snares, claps, synths, fxs, keys, guitars (spanish, electric and acoustic), pianos, horns, strings, percussions, congas, bongos, shakers, saz and other ethnic instruments, live drums and fills, male and female vocals, pitched male and female vocals, scratches (babyscratches, crabs, steps, combos, transformer and special scratches) and effect noises were designed especially for this library. Contains over 1000 samples.

Review: Big Fish Audio's Chill 2 is over 4 gigs of fresh material with sub-zero tempos. Is it cold in here, or is it just the chillin' tracks? This second installment of the 'Chill' line applies a cold compress to the frenetic headache of modern life. Sub-zero tempos, slippery breakbeats, and a vibe that lets you relax into hypothermia. Chill 2 is sometimes jazzy and fluid, and sometimes tense like the rumble of distant thunder. It features 30 cold cuts of construction kits, and over 4 GB of material we're keeping on ice, for your newest productions. Grab a cold one with Chill 2.

Review: 'Dancehall Vibes Vol. 2' is the sequel to bestservice' s bestselling 'Dancehall Vibes Vol. 1' sample library.

It contains 30 powerful construction kits guaranteed to burn up the dancefloor! In the styles of the top Dancehall artists such as Sean Paul, Elephant Man, Shaggy, Wayne Wonder, Mr. Vegas and many more. This sound library is packed with over 1000 premium brand new loops and one-shots (club oriented drums, snares, claps, snaps, shakers, hihats, bells, drum loops, synth and electric basses, arpeggios, pianos, strings, organs, hits, ethnic ensembles, orchestral ensembles, brass ensembles, modulated club-synths, filtered sounds, leads, noises and FX-sounds).

Live recorded material:
Indian percussion, acoustic drum loops, acoustic and electric guitar, middle east percussion, sitar and human claps.

Bonus material:
Drum loops, acoustic drum loops, synth and electric bass loops, melodic loops, special grooves and synth loops.

Construction Kit Format:
Wav, Acidized Wav, Rex2, Battery 3, Kontakt 3, Halion, Soundfont, NN-XT. Perfectly suitable for the production of almost any genre of electronic and urban music 'Dancehall Vibes Vol. 2' has all the elements you need to produce the next club hit!

Produced by Sir.Martin & Groove Codex - This is the sound of modern Dancehall!

2.69 GB of hits, loops & construction kits in 24 bit Aiff, Acid, Wav, RMX, Rex2 & Reason Refill formats

Review: The Hip Hop Hotness is the hottest hip hop and R&B sample pack. It was created with the serious producer in mind, those that want the platinum selling sound of the scenes biggest producers and engineers. This library contains professionally produced and mixed construction tracks, club beats, hot percussive and ethnic loops, phat club bass, synth leads and an extensive kits samples folders. It also contains a dope selection of musical chords and stabs, organized in groups such as orchestral, guitar, keys, horn and brass stabs, labelled in key and ready to go.

This library is 2.69 GB in size and is packed with the freshest sample material recorded in 24bit. Containing 660+ Audio Samples and 215+ REX2 Loops, It's an essential tool for any serious producers of Hip Hop, RnB or Street Level music. This product is intended for use by recording artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, DJ's, recording studios & sound designers, to aid you in creating your demos, records, remixes, commercials, jingles, post productions, sound tracks for film, theatre, musicals, live performance, computer games and multimedia productions.

Review: Smashing drums and sounds - up-to-date midi files!

Electronic drums is a high quality sample collection with electronic & synthetic drum sounds for the club-sound of today. Compiled with Battery 3 and Kontakt 3, these samples are tweaked to perfection with the use of internal effects like reverb, delay, compressor, bitcrusher, eq and more.

Load a set, named by genre like Electro, Minimal, House, Progressive, Trance and start your production instantly. There's no endless search for samples that could fit together and you can easily combine all the sets with each other. Also playable instruments like bass, effects and leads are included in each set to give you the ultimate creative flow, as well as up-todate midi files!

Sample CD in Wav/Esx format

Review: FX Pearls offers well over 300 high-grade and royalty free effects!

The samples are available in two different formats: in WAV format, which means, that the sound pack also is suitable for Reason and Fruity loops users, as well as sampler instruments for the EXS software sampler.

Moreover it is usable for both, PC and Mac users! FX Pearls offers all music producers, recording studios, game producers, songwriters, and web designers a large spectrum of immediate usable effects, such as hits, scifi fx, ambiences, sweeps, mutant voices, noises, delay fx, scratches, pitch and harmonizer fx, shocks & drumloops.

Those have been created with high-end equipment of brands such as Eventide, Manley, Urei, Lexicon, Sontec, TC, TLA, Pro Tools. A high-quality effects collection, which cuts out standard effects and starts right where many conventional CDs stop.

Review: A fresh installment of cross-cultural Hip Hop and World Beat. The Track Star team delivers this second installment of cross-cultural Hip Hop and World Beat with 'Hip Hop Exotica'. Producers Josquin des Pres and Fabien Renoult once again morph musical styles in these uniquely crafted, one-of-a-kind compositions. 'Hip Hop Exotica 2' soars over all continents blending the sum of most exotic Asian, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, Latin American and African instruments with east and west coast grooves. Sitar, santur, baglamas, bouzouki, flutes, koto, tzoura, marimbas, jubus, shamisen, oud and malawi flow over beds of scorching gangsta beats. The result is the most ground-breaking new millennium Hip Hop you've ever heard!

Review: Hip-Hop artists the world over consider the crucial element of Hip-Hop to be Akai MPC. Hotbox Volume 2 embodies the very soul and rhythm that has inspired so often in this second volume of powerful and versatile Hip-Hop drums.

Hotbox Vol. 2 features over 175 unique Hip-Hop drum loops and 80+ one-shots complete with Hats, Kicks, Snares, Percussion, FX and much more for superior track construction.

Review: From dirty lo-fi to hi-tech to modernized classics

Hip-Hop artists the world over consider the crucial element of Hip-Hop production to be Akai MPC. In continuing with this tradition,

Hotbox Volume 3 delivers a deliciously grittier sound than previous editions. Get inspired with over 175 world-class Hip-Hop drum loops and "enhancing elements". From dirty lo-fi to hi-tech to modernized classics, this collection has the power and versatility for serious Hip-Hip production.

Review: 15 complete Style Kits designed for modern Derty South style

Watch out- Bandmates Inspiration Hip-Hop - Derty South is invading your music system with lusciously gritty southern style. Bandmates Derty South includes 15 complete Style Kits designed for modern Derty South style.

Start building your own super Hip-Hop beats and grooves fast. Complete instrument breakdowns are included with each kit for maximum power and versatility. Take your compositions to the next level by mixing and combining kits for an entirely new sound.

Plus, Inspiration Hip-Hop Derty South includes an extra-Derty bonus set of Extras with over 45 additional drum loops for further customization.

Review: An explosion of modern Hip-Hop and RnB. Loop connoisseurs, prepare to be inspired. Bandmate's 'Inspiration: Hip-Hop& RnB' brings an explosion of modern Hip-Hop and RnB right to your music production workstation. 'Inspiration: Hip-Hop & RnB' is bursting with 15 complete Style Kits produced in a full range of modern styles. Add to that a complete set of matching drum and percussion elements designed to help you build your own Hip-Hop/RnB masterpiece. This collection has it all, from west-coast to east-coast, dirty south to exotic, many styles are represented. Where you wish to take them is entirely up to you. For further customisation, take advantage of the top-notch extras also included. Then, go to the next level by mixing and combining individual kit elements.

Over 2500 loops & sounds

Review: Best Service and K-Size are ready for the next step by adding the K-Size Electro Edition.

With more than 2500 exclusively produced sounds and loops, this library offers the hottest and most trendy sounds in club universe. The content is not just limited to electro-house. There''s plenty of material which covers various styles like House, Techhouse, Progressive and Dirty-Dutch.

As with all K-Size releases, every loop has its own unique name, which makes it easy to find and remember your favorite sounds in no time. No more endless numbered lists with hundreds of Loops in one folder. You can use the K-Size within your favorite DAW. All loops are available as WAV/ACID, REX2, APPLE LOOPS and Stylus RMX SAGE files.

All One-Shot-Samples are mapped and immediately usable in all common software samplers like Kontakt3, Battery3, EXS24, HALion, Live and Reason (NNXT).

The K-Size electro edition sample library gives your productions the well needed pressure to smash every dancefloor in the world.

In tradition of K-Size, all samples were produced on High-End Studio Equipment to ensure maximum sound quality.

2.3GB of hits, loops & construction kits in Wav, Rex2, Apple Loops, RMX & Acid formats

Review: The Kings of The South: Dirty Crunk Kits brings you the hottest beats, loops and sounds in dirty southern hip-hop style. The Dirty South Hip Hop has been dominating the charts with artists such as, Lil Wayne, T.I. and Young Jeezy. 40 radio ready kits are included along with all the break outs, drum hits and multi track drums from each kit.

Over 2 GB of original WAV content gives you plenty of variety to work with in creating original southern beats and tracks. Whether you produce Dirty South, Crunk, or straight up hip-hop, these authentic sounds are straight from the south and are production ready.

4.27 GB of hits, loops & construction kits in Apple Loops, Rex, Wav, RMX & Acid formats

Review: Big Fish Audio let the crunk juice flow once again with Off the Hook: Dirty South 2.

After breaking new ground with volume one, the Dirty South 2 comes back strong with a fresh new collection of authentic southern hip hop flava. This fluid mix of crunk-style hip-hop hits you right in the face with the sounds you need to get it done. The construction kits are packed with drums and beats, synths, piano, bass, guitars, Rhodes, strings, percussion and a whole lot more.

In the styles of Lil' Wayne, Young Jeezy, TI, Young Joc and more, the Off the Hook set takes Dirty South to a whole new level.

2 GB of Dhol, Tabla, Dholak, Duff, Ghunghroo-Tabla & Dholak-Tabla loops in 24 bit/48 kHz Wav, Rex & Apple Loops

Review: Bollywood Grooves is a premium sample library on DVD-ROM, inspired by the sound of Bollywood, using the same instruments and styles typically featured in films of the genre. Produced by Bollywood composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, Bollywood Grooves will give you that extra edge for your music productions.

Review: Latin Street delivers a deep, funky vibe packed out with pure Latin hip-hop and R&B nastiness. Produced by one of today's best Latin songwriter/composers, James Galvez, this stunning array of loop-based tracks and one-shots simultaneously blends and destroys musical boundaries. Every track gives instant inspiration and pulse-pounding rhythms to create your own intricate, infectious grooves that stay true to the street. Turn up the heat with Latin Street.

Review: Hella Bumps Disc 1 delivers the essential toolkit for hip-hop/rap artists. Inspired by the great producers, these CDs provide fresh new source material for tomorrow's platinum hits. You get the tightest drum kits anywhere, including killer individual samples to construct your own kits. There's also a slew of unique new melodies and the thickest, sickest bass lines around. All samples are in AIFF, WAV, REX2 and Acidized WAV formats.

Review: Hella Bumps Disc 2 delivers even more of the essential toolkit for hip-hop/rap artists. Inspired by the great producers, these CDs provide fresh new source material for tomorrow's platinum hits. You get the tightest drum kits anywhere, including killer individual samples to construct your own kits. There's also a slew of unique new melodies and the thickest, sickest bass lines around. All samples are in AIFF, WAV, REX2 and Acidized WAV formats.