SACRED SENSATION

 

SACRED HYMNS - ZTEKNO - ZIP MAIN £27.95

How the heck can ZTEKNO slap out a whopping 5.61 gig pack for under 30 notes? Almost unbelievable but true!

It's gasp-inducing the minute you open this treasure trove of titillation.

I cannot describe it well enough, so let the experts do it:

"Embark on a musical journey like no other as you delve into the depths of this extraordinary pack. Picture yourself standing in a vast cathedral, where time-honoured melodies intertwine with cutting-edge production techniques.

At the heart of Sacred Hymns lies the ethereal beauty of Slavic vocals, flawlessly performed by the renowned Sheri Marshel. Her captivating voice transports you to a realm of sacred chants, infusing your productions with a haunting and uplifting atmosphere.

This pack is a harmonious blend of tradition and innovation, featuring a rich collection of original, contemporary synthesisers. Immerse yourself in the seamless fusion of ancient melodies and modern sound design, as you sculpt intricate sonic landscapes that captivate the listener's imagination."

Yo!!!

The musical choice is simply superb but as the blurb above states, the vox are the magnet here.

Of course, if you are unfamiliar with the 'Slavic' language...er...hands up...that matters not a jot because Sheri's voice deffo transports you into another universe.

As for the sounds themselves you get heaps, compatible with all DAWS and they are:

• 80 Synth Loops (40 Dry & 40 Wet)
• 80 Pad Loops (40 Dry & 40 Wet)
• 81 Arp Loops (40 Dry & 41 Wet)
• 79 Bass Loops (Inc. Side Chain)
• 40 Synth MIDI Loops
• 40 Pad MIDI Loops
• 40 Pluck MIDI Loops
• 40 Bass MIDI Loops
• 40 Full Drum Loops
• 40 Top Loops (3 Variations)
• 40 Snare Loops
• 39 Hi-Hat Loops
• 40 Kick Loops
• 54 Vocal Loops (9 Full Vocals, Plus Variations)
• 110 Total Drum Hits
• 10 Crash One-Shots
• 40 Hi-Hat One-Shots
• 20 Snare One-Shots
• 20 Kick One-Shots
• 20 Percussion One-Shots
• 50 SFX
• 16 Soft Sampler Patches (NI Kontakt 3+, EX2S4, NNXT, SFZ)
• 8 Full Construction Kits (Bonus)
• 1 Ableton Live Project (V.9.7.5+)
• 10 Xfer Serum Presets

Everything is up to the excellent ZTEKNO standard - check out their other ace collections on the Loopmasters site - and this pack is a definite 'head and shoulders' standout in the world of loop collections.

Yes....zap the link for the product page, check out the audio demos then of course buy with complete confidence and start creating pure magic!

SACRED HYMNS

FAB FUNK

 

POST DISCO FUNK - VIBES 18 - LOOPMASTERS - ZIP MAIN £39.95

Well, well, well. Yet ANOTHER ACE PACK from Loopmasters' Vibes series. Hard to believe we are up to collection 18 already and this one is a definite beauty for all of us who simply love the era of flared trousers, hot and sweaty discos and simply great music.

Some detail from the original press release to whet your appetite:

"On this deeply groovy, universally appealing tribute, musicians Duncan White (Cornershop) and Phil Williams (Galaxian) tune up vintage studio gear including a Yamaha drum kit, Ibanez bass guitars, Rhodes Mk2, Korg SH101, Polymoogs and the timeless Juno 106 to record an expansive 1,57GB sound collection. Freaky, spiky electric guitar riffs rub alongside organic live drum work and wild synth work, allowing you to build a true collage of funk."

What more can you need? You are in skilled hands indeed.

Packed to the proverbial rafters with 'earworms', you again will get shedloads to enjoy and play with.

You definitely will be like a kid in a sweetshop when you audition all the sounds in this hot collection.

You get no fewer than:

• 1.57 GB
• 201 Live Drum Loops
• 189 Electric Guitar Loops
• 140 Keys Loops
• 126 Bass Guitar Loops
• 88 Synth Loops
• 26 Synth Bass Loops
• 22 Percussion Loops
• 11 Snare Loops
• 2 Drum Fill Loops
• 1 Tom Loop
• 69 Drum Hits
• 42 Bass Hits
• 13 Instrument Hits

Plenty to play with? You bet! This will keep you going for years because how many tracks can you build with all those drum loops and instruments? Tons to create tracks with especially if you use other tracks from your home library.

Keys and tempos are:

• Ebm - 108bpm
• C#m - 115bpm
• F#m - 118bpm
• Cm - 125bpm

You can see by the tempos that you (as always) can easily mix and match the loops to other genres - chillout, electro, house etc - the choice is yours.

Another Loopmasters 'FIVE-STAR' pack to make your heart sing!

This collection is also LOOPCLOUD ready.

LOOPCLOUD

Zap the link to be taken to the product page, love the audio demos, download a free taster pack then snap this bumper pack up.

POST DISCO FUNK - VIBES 18

BRILLIANT BLUEGRASS

 

BLUEGRASS 2 - VIBES 16 - LOOPMASTERS - ZIP MAIN £24.95

I know you will have really enjoyed the first outing in this excellent Loopmasters series so if you haven't laid your mitts on this second journey into good old country bluegrass then what are you waiting for?

Again, Loopmasters never stint on the content of their own label offerings and this pack proves you'll get loads to play with.

Cutting to the chase you get:

• 763MB
• 51 Bass Loops
• 51 Drum Loops
• 51 Piano Loops
• 50 Banjo Loops
• 45 Guitar Loops
• 41 Mandolin Loops
• One-shots
• 11 Instruments
• 7 Drum Hits and 4 Bass Hits
• Also included are 16 Soft Sampler Patches for Kontakt, EXS24/Sampler, NNXT and SFZ.

Loopmasters have always made things easier by ensuring everything they produce is key and tempo labelled and with this pack you get tempos of 70bpm right up to 140bpm, so lots of scope indeed.

The five kits you get give you 'beginnings, middle and end' so you can use the whole lot or, as always, easily mix and match with other loops in your collection to add that nice touch of bluegrass to other genres of your choice. The kits you get are: Grass - Em - 70bpm; Barley - A - 110bpm; Clover - Bb - 115bpm'; Wheat - G - 130bpm and Oats - Eb - 140bpm.

Everything is superbly produced and my personal faves are the guitars and pianos.

Oh yes, the collection is also available on the excellent Loopcloud site at

LOOPCLOUD

Hit the link for the product page, enjoy the audio demos and download a free taster pack then buy this piece of brilliant bluegrass!

BLUEGRASS VOL 2

80s TIME TRAVEL

 

FLASHBACK - 80s DREAM POP VOLUME 2 - LOOPMASTERS -

 ZIP (MAIN) £29.95

It's so true! Yes, the good old 80s will NEVER die.

The days of synthwave will carry on long after all of us today have snuffed it. The only hope is that we can all listen to it forever if they have it 'up there in heaven! 😁

Anyway, enough tomfoolery. This Loopmasters collection of course follows on from their highly-acclaimed first volume and this outing is of the same top quality as you'd expect from this label and Loopmasters say: "This pack is filled to the brim with everything you need to create dreamy, synth-laden soundscapes."

True indeed and everything is at the sedate pace of 80 to 90bpm giving you so much flexibility for creating highly-enjoyable sound textures from chillout to even using the samples in good old 90bpm hip-hop if that floats your boat.

Yet again, as it is a Loopmasters pack, expect it to be full to the brim and it is with...

• 959 MB of 24Bit 44.1KHZ wavs
• 50 Synth Loops
• 35 Guitar Loops
• 28 Drum Loops
• 24 Drum Variation Loops
• 24 Drum Fill Loops
• 24 Hat Loops
• 20 Bass Guitar Loops
• 17 Keys Loops
• 17 Percussion Loops
• 11 Fx Loops
• 6 Synth Bass Loops
• 5 Vocal Loops
• 2 Instrument Loops
• 1 Snare Loop
• 106 Instrument Hits
• 59 Drum Hits
• 27 Fx
• 13 Vocals
• 7 Perc Hits
• 18 Instrument Phrases

Everything, as per usual from Loopmasters is key and tempo labelled and the loops are in Am, B, D#m, Dm, D, Em, F, F#m, Fm, G, G# so you can see what great scope you have for mix and matching with other keys from the collections of sounds you already have.

All the sounds are first-class with my personal faves being the bass, synths and the great collection of drums.

Roll-on Volume Three 👍👍👍

Hit the link, love the audio demos, download a free taster pack then add this brilliant 'nostalgia' pack to your hard drive today!

FLASHBACK 80s DREAM POP VOL 2

VIBRANT VOX

 

VIBRANT HOUSE VOCAL PACK - VOCAL ROADS - ZIP MAIN £23.95

It really does seem a long time ago now where often you'd have a fruitless search for packs of vocals.

If you were very lucky you'd come across some packs that contained hooks or chops but there was definitely a dearth of proper vox.

Thank goodness that as the years have marched on in the production of loops and samples that there are so many vox packs out there that you often feel like a kid in a sweetshop.

Vocal Roads is a label that has been turning out 'just what you need' for a good few years now and thankfully will carry on ad infinitum.

This pack is another feminine vox goodie and the blurb is so correct when it states: "This pack brings meaningful power to your music through emotively captivating lyricism." 

You also get music loops AND lyrics plus....15 Drum Loops, 39 Drum One-Shots and 47 Music Loops.

The vox kits (with dry and wet versions) are:

• Be With You - Em - 124bpm
• Bring Me To Life - D#m - 125bpm
• Breathe - Gm - 125bpm
• Love - Em - 126bpm
• Feel - D#m - 127bpm.

And you also get a folder of lyrics in each song kit.

What more can you want?

Hit the link, enjoy the audio demos and even download a 'taster pack' then buy these great vocals.

VIBRANT HOUSE VOCAL PACK

 

SIGH FOR PSYTRANCE

 

PSYTRANCE HYPNOSIS - SINGOMAKERS - ZIP (MAIN) £34.95

Yet another label that gives you plenty of bang for your buck is Singomakers and this 'rammed' psytrance pack is no exception.

It's also great to get a psytrance pack which contains vox as well so you can really make an impression on your listening public. This pack gives you 30 such loops in both wet and dry versions and they are 'non-specific' so you don't have to faff about with key signatures.

I remember just a few short years ago when, for some unexplained reason, the trance genre rolled back the bpm a few beats BUT BUT BUT it's good to see ye olde psytrance is back to normal and everything rattles along at good old 145bpm.

The synth content is stupendous as well with no fewer than 167 of them which includes acid, drones, pads, FM, plucks, Psy Leads and fills.

Keys are in C#, D#, E and F# so you have plenty of scope.

MIDI users are catered for as well so dust off your keyboards!

All in all you lay your hands on:

• 2 GB24-Bit Samples
• 167 Synth Loops (Acid, Drones, Pads, FM, Plucks, Psy Leads, Fills)
• 123 Drum Loops (Full, Top, Hi-Hat, Snare)
• 62 Bass Loops
• 192 Total One-Shots
• 72 Bass One-Shots
• 13 Crash One-Shots
• 48 Hi-Hat One-Shots
• 36 Kick One-Shots
• 23 Snare One-Shots
• 34 Drum Fills & Build-Ups
• 30 Vocal Loops (16 Dry, 14 Wet)
• 53 SFX33 Xfer Serum Presets
• 88 MIDI Files
• 12 Sampler Patches (EXS24, Kontakt 2+, NNXT)

As always, zap the link below for the product page, enjoy the streaming audio demos - and even watch a great YouTube demo of the sounds - then buy today!

PSYTRANCE HYPNOSIS

SUPERB SLAVIC SENSATION

 

FOLKTRONICA - ZTEKNO - ABLETON LIVE £27.95; APPLE LOOPS £27.95; WAV £24.95; ZIP (MAIN) £27.95.

Yes indeed! When it comes to loops from the superb Loopmasters' stable you can be sure of one thing - QUALITY - and this collection from ZTEKNO is definitely 'up there' in the realm of 'must haves' for your delight, inspiration and pure enjoyment.

The price is stunningly great too because you get no fewer than 3.16 gigs of excellence.

Of course, the standout loops in this pack are the first-class Slavic vocals which come with really brilliant musical accompaniment.

As always you can use the vox kits as they are or, like most of us, create a track using other loops/samples you've bought from Loopmasters and then add loops from this ace selection to enhance things.

Whatever your penchant for song creation you will NEVER be stuck for ideas with this wonderful pack.

Whaddya get? The proverbial SHEDLOADS!!!!

• 3.16 GB24-Bit / 44.1kHz High-Quality
• Key & Tempo-Labelled
• Compatible With All DAWs
• 104 Synth Loops (Dry & Wet)
• 52 Arp Loops (Dry & Wet)
• 42 Chord Loops (Dry & Wet)
• 40 Pad Loops (Dry & Wet)
• 96 Bass Loops (Inc. Side Chain)
• 52 Synth MIDI Loops
• 26 Arp MIDI Loops
• 21 Chord MIDI Loops
• 20 Pad MIDI Loops
• 48 Bass MIDI Loops
• 40 Full Drum Loops
• 40 Top Loops (3 Variations)
• 40 Clap Loops
• 40 Hi-Hat Loops
• 40 Kick Loops
• 60 Percussion Loops (Dry & Wet)
• 10 Drum Builds
• 130 Total Drum Hits
• 10 Crash One-Shots
• 30 Hi-Hat One-Shots
• 30 Clap One-Shots
• 30 Kick One-Shots
• 30 Percussion One-Shots
• 68 SFX
• 40 Female Vocal Chops (Dry & Wet)
• 48 Female Vocal Loops (5 Full Vocals, Plus Variations)
• 6 Soft Sampler Patches (NI Kontakt 3+, EX2S4, NNXT, SFZ)
• 20 Xfer Serum Presets (V.1.363+)

If that isn't enough to whet your musical appetite then there is no hope for you 😁😁😁

Seriously, this will 'keep you going' for years and even your DAW will cry tears of joy when you buy it.

Click the link below to be taken to the product page, listen to and love the streaming demos then snap it up!

FOLKTRONICA