YES!!! TRAVEL BACK TO THE '80s

80s Retro Pop Vol 2 - Producer Loops - PC/Mac - ACIDized WAV/Apple Loops/AIFF Files/MIDI - Royalty-free - £24.95/28.79 euros.

What a great inspirational tool this pack is. Superb in every way, this will yet again make your DAW drool as the sounds take you back like a mini Tardis to what was a decade of excellent foot-tapping music thanks to amazing advancements in the word of drum machines, synths etc.

Producer Loops say this pack 'is inspired by the recent return of the 80s vibe in today's charts, bringing the old school elements back, but with a modern twist. Drawing from influencers such as The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Doja Cat - who have been at the forefront of this new wave nostalgia - this pack contains all the sounds you'll need to make your next Retro track pop.'

Many a true word indeed and, as always, my favourite bits are the basslines and arps - melodic and magnificent to say the least.

Of course it's another 'rammed' library and each kit gives you sub-folders of MIDI, FX, dry loops and one-shots.

All the kits move along very nicely and are:

Bm - 115bpm

Am - 120bpm

Fm - 148bpm

Dm - 152bpm

G#m - 160bpm

So, all you need is a vox or three to create a stunner - and don't forget Producer Loops has the proverbial shedloads of vox/accas on the site so check those out if you need some top singers to enhance your next hit.

This is yet another Producer Loops '10 out of 10' release and includes the likes of arps, bass, guitars - including the likes of 'funk and  gliss' guitars - lots of leads, saws, chords, pads, plucks, drums percs etc and you even get 'intro arps and bass' as well so that makes starting a track nice and simple. 
Everything is nice and tuneful too. No boring 'thump, whack, twang or beep' in this lot!

Yes sir, a MUST HAVE for all fans of the 80s.

Hit the links below to check out this pack via the site's streaming audio then of course BUY TODAY with security and confidence.....and if you missed Volume 1 it's still available...

PRODUCT PAGE: 80s RETRO POP VOL 2

PREVIOUS: VOLUME 1

MAIN SITE: PRODUCER LOOPS

AN EXCITING AMBIENT ODYSSEY

Essence of Analogue Vol 3: Ambient Odyssey - PC/Mac - ACIDized WAV/Apple Loops/AIFF Files/ MIDI/REX2 Loops/Reason ReFill/Ableton Live Pack 8.1.3+ - Royalty-free - £49.95.

WOW!!! Another blockbuster of a pack from Producer Loops in which you lay your hands on no fewer than TEN great kits to bring great inspiration to all of you who love creating that perfect soundtrack.

And for the tech heads out there, the music is created using  the likes of Moog Voyager, DSI Prophet 6, DSI Poly Evolver, Novation Peak and SH-101 Analogue Outboard: SSL G Series Stereo Compressor, Empirical Labs Distressor, Pultec EQ.

A nice step back in time...

The kits you get are: 
Four at 75bpm in B, C, Cm and G
Two at 90bpm in C and Cm
Four at 110bpm in Am (2), E and EM 

Enough for you? You bet. Plenty of arps, synths and pads to make you drool.

Everything is sublime indeed and, as Producer Loops says: 'This instalment takes you on an ethereal adventure through a retrospective 70s/80s landscape defined by otherwordly soundscapes, textures, pads and more.'

Click the link below to check out the fascinating audio demo and, as always, buy with security and confidence.

PRODUCT PAGE: ESSENCE OF ANALOGUE VOL 3 - AMBIENT ODYSSEY

MAIN SITE: PRODUCER LOOPS

FREE MUSIC AND PLUG-INS FROM LOOPMASTERS...

Following April’s #StayInCreate initiative, Plugin Boutique, Loopmasters & Producertech have teamed up with Loopcloud, Pulsar Audio, W.A Production & Baby Audio to deliver another giveaway of free Plugins, Courses and Sounds to help producers everywhere to #StayInspired. 

PAY A VISIT TODAY: STAY INSPIRED

It’s always been important for artists to express themselves, but at times like these, it becomes completely essential. To interpret our present and to bring about a new future, creative people must be free to turn their ideas into reality.

What’s free in the #StayInspired package?

FREE SOUNDS - For Loopcloud Users

Loopcloud gives you access to 4 million sounds right inside your DAW, in tempo and in key with your current project. 
Start a free trial of Loopcloud’s Studio plan via this page
https://www.loopcloud.com/cloud/register/stayinspired and you’ll get an Exclusive 1GB Stay Inspired Vocal Sample Pack, 1GB Welcome Pack, up to 750 free samples per month, plus over 300 points to spend on sounds which you’ll get to keep even if you cancel your trial period.

Loopcloud Studio doesn't just come with free points and samples, it also increases Loopcloud’s capabilities with eight multitrack, unrestricted effects rack, and 50GB of cloud storage for your own samples.

1GB  Stay Inspired Vocals Pack

From the 2nd of July until 19th July, if you start a free 30-day trial of the Loopcloud Studio plan, via this page https://www.loopcloud.com/cloud/register/stayinspired, or if you’re a current Artist, Studio or Professional User (including Studio Free Trial users) on the 2nd July, you will get the 1GB Stay Inspired Vocals sample pack added to your Loopcloud account for free, to help you #StayInspired. 

This pack is full to the brim with vocals courtesy of some of the leading names in samples: Blind Audio, DABRO music, House of Loop, Industrial Strength, IQ Samples, Keep It Sample, Mask Movement, SHARP, Singomakers, Soundbox, UNITY Records, ZTEKNO and Loopmasters.

FREE COURSES - 3 Months of Producertech All Access Membership

Whether you’re looking to get better with your DAW, sound design, mixing, DJing or writing music, Producertech is a highly trusted name in online music production education. Producertech’s All Access Membership gives users unlimited access to 400+ hours of tutorials, over 10GB of Loopmasters samples, hundreds of projects and presets, plus written notes and assessments.

While all this usually costs £9.99 per month, Producertech is extending their free access period (usually 14 days) by an extra three months, helping you to kick your tracks up a gear with expert tutorials and resources.

Try the Free Producertech Compression Fundamentals Online Course 
Compression is one of the most essential techniques to master when producing great music, and you can get your head around it with this course from ProducerTech, which is also free for a limited time. Senior Tutor Rob Jones takes you from first principles to advanced techniques in this three-hour course, which is free as part of #StayInspired.

FREE PLUGIN - Baby Audio - I Heart NY

Thanks to Plugin Boutique and Baby Audio, this parallel compressor plugin for PC and Mac (VST/AU/AAX) is free as part of the #StayInspired campaign. 

Usually £25, I Heart NY gives you that punchy, powerful sound without setting up parallel routing in your DAW. The Spank control lets you add an extra edge to the parallel compression process, heating up your audio even further.

FREE PLUGIN - WA Production - Vocal Splitter 

Vocal Splitter is a plugin for turning mono vocals into thick, modern-sounding stereo ready to add to a track. Not only have WA Production taken a classic effect applied to vocals and made it easier to perform, but they’ve also added more customisation into the bargain.

With its Frequency and Drive parameters, Vocal Splitter can add grit and increase definition to a certain frequency range of your choice, helping your vocals stand out against the crowd even more. Vocal Splitter usually costs $28 but is free as part of #StayInspired.

FREE PLUGIN - Pulsar Audio - Smasher

A plugin emulation of the legendary Urei 1176 compressor, this effect can give you an explosive sound on a drum bus, add body and sustain to a snare sound, and bring out the bite in a bass guitar.

The 1176 was famed for its quick attack time and it's all-buttons-in mode, which put the compressor into an extreme mode of operation. Smasher gives you all-buttons-in, all the time. The usual price for Smasher is €49, but as part of #StayInspired, it’s yours for free.

MORE DELICIOUS DISCO

Discoteque - Singomakers - PC/Mac - Ableton £29.95/Apple Loops £29.95/MIDI £8.95/Reason Refill £29.95/WAV £23.95/Full zip £29.95 - Royalty-free. 

For all you fans of ye good olde disco, Singomakers have delivered another DAW-dropping collection of ace sounds with the full package weighing in at 1.06gb.

Crammed to say the least with 184 One-Shots, 50 Bass Loops, 60 Melody Loops, 40 Full Drum Loops, 40 Top Loops, 20 Vocal Loops, 110 MIDI, 40 FX, 210 Rex2 Files, 30 Sampler Patches (Incl. 10 Bass Shots, 10 Synth Shots, 6 Drum Kits, 4 FX Kits) this will definitely keep you dipping in and out for years.

All sounds move at 120bpm and come in the keys of A, C, D and G, so yet again plenty of scope for using the sounds in house etc if that floats your boat.

You get seven folders containing bass, drums, FX, melodies,one-shots, tops and vox. The vox are a great touch - choppy, surreal and atmospheric while the basslines are really banging and will blow your headphones away they are that good.
As for the melody loops, well, superb to say the least - especially the synths - and it's good to see some Rhodes piano included as well.

Yes sir, another disco delight and one to whet your appetite for creating more blockbusting dance tracks. 

Hit the link below, listen to the audio demo then, as always, hesitate ye not and buy!

PRODUCT PAGE: DISCOTEQUE

MAIN SITE: LOOPMASTERS

'MUST HAVE' VOX

Ultimate Vocals 2 - Loopmasters - PC/Mac - £44.95 - Royalty-free.

If you were savvy enough to snap up the first volume in this series then don't miss this corker of a collection.

Volume 2 is a real STUNNER and will have you champing at the bit to create something as soon as you open the pack. Be prepared though to spend at least a whole day auditioning the sounds because you get a whopping 3.41 gigs to delight you. Amazing!

Make sure you have enough hard disk space for:

• 183 House Loops & Phrases
• 138 Blues Loops & Phrases
• 137 Movie Dialogue Loops & Phrases
• 129 Tech House Loops
• 116 Trap Loops
• 102 Indian Loops
• 73 Electronica Loops
• 63 Hip Hop Loops & Phrases
• 57 Garage Loops & Phrases
• 52 Future Bass & RnB Loops 
• 43 Drum & Bass Loops & Phrases
• 34 Soul & Pop Loops
• 27 Dub Loops
• 13 Vintage Loops
• 201 Spoken Vocals
• 172 Vocal Fx
• 166 House Shots & Adlibs
• 103 Dub Shots & Phrases
• 45 Soul & Pop One Shots & Adlibs
• 38 Tech House Shots
• 32 Vocal Multi Hits
• 28 Trap Shots
• 27 Future Bass & RnB Shots & Phrases
• 15 Garage Shots
• 4 Hip Hop Acapella Stems
• 2 Dub Acapella Stems

You also get 20 Soft Sampler Patches.

Loopmasters have selected these sounds from theses top-selling packs: Aurora Ambient Chill, Dark Underground Vocals, House Nirvana, Bass Music Lockdown, The Blues Sessions Vol2, Immersion, Chilled Trap,  Deep Trap, Double Tiger Presents - Dub Vocals, RV Electro Swing, RV Future Bass & RNB, Flip The Script - Hip Hop Vs Trap, Future House Foundations, Deep Jazz House Vocals, Sacred Indian Chants, Jackin Tech House, Kate Wild - Vocal Hooks & Acapellas Vol3, Indian Vocal Sessions, Leanne Brown House Acapellas, Beatman & Ludmilla Electro breaks, Maison Records - Tribal House & Tech, Movie Dialogue Vol. 5, Messy MC - Lyrical Poetics, Omar Vocals, Papa Records Present House Vocals, Reel People Present Soul Vocals, Riya - Vocal Acapellas, Styline Power House, Trap Vocal Drop, UK Garage & 2 Step, Utah - Complete House, Urban Stories, DJ Vadim - The Dubcatcher Loops, Variavision - Tech House, MDE-Vocal Underground  and Wideboys Deep House & Garage - Vol 3 .

There is simply NO NEED for me to waffle on ad infinitum about this pack - check out the demos for yourself via the links below and you'll realise this is another of those packs that deserve a '10 out of 10' accolade and is one of those 'must haves' that'll keep you going for years.

PRODUCT PAGE: ULTIMATE VOCALS 2

PREVIOUS: ULTIMATE VOCALS

MAIN SITE: LOOPMASTERS

LATINO GOES TRIBAL

DJ Wady - Latin Tribal - Loopmasters - PC/Mac - Ableton Live 9.7.5 £29.95/Apple Loops £29.95/Bass & Fx Wav Loops £6.95/Drum + Perc Wav Lps £14.95/Music Wav Loops £11.95/One Shots + Patches £7.95/Reason 5+ Refill £29.95/ ZIP (main) £29.95 - Royalty-free.

It's always nice to have something different  in your collection and DJ Wady turns on that Latino vibe to spice things up with this pack.

Again this is a 'good speed' collection at 125bpm BUT BUT BUT the icing on the cake is definitely the Latin instruments included which feature the likes of pianos, marimbas, sax, trumpets - and one kit even has an 'ethnic flute'. Nice one Mr Wady AND everything is available too on Loopmasters' award-winning Loopcloud software - see the link below.

If you haven't come across DJ Wady before then let Loopmasters fill you in: 'DJ Wady is a world-class world DJ, recording artist, sound engineer, remix producer and director of his own label - Bedroom Muzik. In a world where music is often limited to genres and sounds, DJ Wady has proven to be an integral heavyweight artist. With a track record spanning more than a decade, he has also been recognized as the best DJ in Colombia, with a prestigious Premio Nuestra Tierra award.

'His production entitled "HULK" reached the top of the charts and was supported by Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Pete Tong, Tiesto, Solomun, Erick Morillo and many more, with Wady also boasting original productions on labels such as Toolroom Records, Subliminal Records, Cr2 Records, Material, Safe Music, Great Stuff, Unity Recordings, Happy Techno Music, Witty Tunes and more!'

Yep, another stuffed pack giving you 60 top drum loops, 33 bass loops, 30 full drum loops, 30 kick loops, 30 percussion loops, 26 synth loops, 23 brass loops, 20 Latin instrument loops, 18 drum kit loops and 4 FX loops. One-shots included are 91 drum & perc hits, 30 bass hits, 30 synth inst hits and 29 synth hits. Also included are 274 Rex2 Files, 104 Soft Sampler Patches (for Halion, EXS24, Kontakt, SFZ and NNXT) and 10 Kong.

The synth loops have great names too such as 'Sonado', 'Tonk', 'Yonko' and 'Whool' to name but four.

Keys include A#, B, D, G and G# plus many more so lots of scope for adding vocals if you fancy - and Loopmasters have plenty on their site.

Zap the link, check out the audio demo then go Latino with Mr Wady....

PRODUCT PAGE: DJ WADY - LATIN TRIBAL

LOOPCLOUD: LOOPCLOUD

MAIN SITE:  LOOPMASTERS

SWISS ROLE

Yvan Genkins Swing Tech House - Loopmasters - PC/Mac - Ableton Live 9.7.5, Apple Loops, Reason 5+ Refill £29.95/ Bass & Fx Wav Loops £7.95/Drum + Perc Wav Lps £9.95/One Shots + Patches £7.95/Synth Wav Loops £8.95/ZIP (main) £29.95 - Royalty-free.

If you are (like many of us) a die-hard synth freak then worry ye not because this collection delivers no fewer than SIXTY-SEVEN synth loops in a variety of styles including stabs and glitches and 'almost surreal' sounds.

These are topped off with nice and tuneful electric bass and synth bass plus of course superbly banging drum loops.

Expect to find 67 Synth Loops, 57 Top Loops, 51 Percussion Loops, 48 Bass Loops, 25 Drum part Loops, 15 Full Drum Loops, 9 Fx Loops, 139 Drum Hits, 37 Fx and 14 Vocals in keys of A, B, C, D, E, F,G, A#, C#, D#, F#, G# all moving along at 124-127bpm.

The vocal hits are good too with chants, glitches and other twisted sounds.

I must admit, when I first saw the name, I thought Mr Genkins was Welsh and had just changed the J of Jenkins to a G for artistic reasons. Yeah, wrong...he is from Switzerland as Loopmasters point out: 'Yvan Genkins lives in Switzerland where he was born in 1979. His first impact with electronic music came in the middle 90s, sharing this passion with friends who were organising parties around his city. On the production side, Yvan strives to find rare patterns and beats from every kind of rhythmical music like funk, afro-beat or soul to transform them into his very personal groove and building relentless loops that can bring energy into his powerful tracks. With releases on Material Series, NastyFunk Records, Sagmen, Sola, Safe Music and many more, Yvan is one who’s production is to be applauded.'

Nice words indeed and very true as this pack shows his production skills are 'up there' with the best of them.

This is yet another pack available as well on Loopmasters' award-winning Loopcloud software so why not sign up to the FREE trial and give that a go? Hit the Loopcloud link below.

Meanwhile, check out the audio demo via the Product Page link below, buy this top-notch pack and enjoy!

PRODUCT PAGE: YVAN GENKINS - SWING TECH HOUSE

LOOPCLOUD: LOOPCLOUD

MAIN SITE: LOOPMASTERS