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Audiovapor releases Electro Bass MIDI Loops volume 2


Audiovapor has released Electro Bass MIDI Loops volume 2, which they describe as 250 original 16-step MIDI bass loops for electro, techno & house, inspired by vintage analog sequencers.

Features

  • Wide variety of keys and scales that are indicated in the file name.
  • All loops are exclusive to this product. Instant download after payment received.
  • No filler! Each loop has been carefully programmed by hand.
  • Royalty-free to use in your own commercial or private compositions.
  • Works in all DAWs that can import MIDI including FL10, Sonar, Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, Reaper, Ableton Live, etc.

Pricing and Availability:
$9
Discounted combo pack of Electro Bass MIDI Loops volumes 1 & 2: $15

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Electro Bass MIDI Loops

PowerFX Releases BroStep

Collection of loops for dubstep and more


PowerFX tells us that Brostep is the white hot production tool for anyone making cutting edge Bass/Dubstep music. They say that this collection contains 265 files and 373 MB with 119 aggressive bass loops, 67 Bro bangin drum loops, 30 harsh FX loops, 17 Synth ambiences and 32 Percussion grooves to "Take your music into orbit BroStepSphere." Right, OK then...

Pricing and Availability:
BroStep is available for £25

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BroStep

Gui Boratto Album in Reactable Format

Remix and perform with special edition release


Reactable for iPad gives you a real flavour of the full Reactable experience - with discrete components you drag onto the table surface to create complex synthesized textures. The full size Reactable has been used live by Bjork and others but will set you back a few quid (like a lot).

In a new collaborative venture with Reactable, Gui Boratto has made his latest album available as an Interactive Music Album, using the Reactable App Engine to allow remixing and adding to the music.

The songs were hand-picked by Gui Boratto himself and include his critically acclaimed hit

Beautiful Life, which comes alive step by step, taking you right into the complete yet exclusive

version only available to "Reactable Gui Boratto" users.

The complete track list includes:

Like You (Single from 2006)

Beautiful Life - Chromophobia (2007)

Azzurra - Take my breath away (2009)

Stems From hell - III (2011)

Reactable Boratto will be released on December 13.

Available via the Appstore

Google Play from December 13th 2012

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Reactable.com
Gui Boratto

New Sounds And Song Submit Service

ModernBeats offers the opportunity to submit your music to labels etc while downloading samples


ModernBeats.com has just unveiled new products & services for modern music producers and musicians. Covering all aspects of Hip-hop, Pop, R&B, & Dance music production, the site provides new downloads to sounds, loops, music tutorials, music contracts and VST plugins. Additionally, its new song submission service "Song Submit" now allows musicians to submit music directly to Record Label, Radio, Film, & TV music executives online. Here's what they have to say...

As an added value to customers, all sample, loop, & contract downloads come bundled with free Song Submit upload credits. With every download order, customers can apply the upload credits to submit their music free to numerous film, tv, & record label opportunities worldwide.

ModernBeats sample libraries include 6 music software formats within a single download allowing musicians to quickly load music & drum samples into their software sampler of choice: Halion (.FXP), EXS24 (.EXS), Kontakt (.NKI), Battery (.KIT), Reason (.SXT), Soundfont (.SF2), & WAV (.WAV). All drum loop libraries include 3 formats within a single download: Acidized WAV Loops (.WAV), Apple AIFF Loops (.AIFF), & Reason REX Loops (.REX2).

By bundling free Song Submit uploads with sound/loop downloads, ModernBeats has conveniently integrated the shopping experience for customers. Musicians download libraries instantly to produce music with and then, by applying earned upload credits, submit their music free to Record Label A&R & Film/TV Music Supervisors from Def Jam, Interscope, Bad Boy, Atlantic, Columbia, NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, E! Entertainment, NOVA, A&E, Oxygen, & more. Several Song Submit musicians have already landed major placements on albums, television, & commercials using the service.

Pricing and Availability:
See website

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www.modernbeats.com

Organic Synth Sound Collection

Soundiron releases Ambius 2: Systematik


Soundiron has released the brand new Ambius 2: Systematik, which they describe as a 4.9GB beast of an organic synth collection built on adaptive groove-building and inspiring tone and texture shaping features! To celebrate, they tell us that they are knocking $30 Off the price and offering some amazing deals on Apocalypse Percussion, Cymbology, The Struck Grand and their Montclarion Hall Steinway until 12/21/12. Here's what Soundiron told us:

Ambius 2 Systematic is an exploration of organic synthesis and a huge new step forward in our quest to build a truly flexible and adaptive sample-based atmospheric synth. This broad collection of richly nuanced flavors is designed to freely layer, blend and reshape into endless contortions, with a wide mix of percussive, tonal and textural elements programmed into unique dynamic and evolving instruments. It has an extraordinarily powerful GUI that combines detailed performance and tone shaping controls with an incredible step sequencing engine that lets you compose your own filter grooves and lock any parameter to your project tempo. Ambius 2 is all of that and far more.

One of the driving forces behind the development of our second atmospheric synth collection was the desire for a fresh sound based on real organic recordings that was both super flexible for those of us who like to knob tweak and yet still easy to dive into for those who want it to sound great right out of the box with minimal fuss. It allows you to blur the line between lead and ambient textures. You can easily morph between tight, tuned percussive and smooth, dreamy pads. Using only organic source recordings as our raw elements, we've created a deep pool of content to choose from and shape, with a wide palette of sonic flavors ranging from fat lo-fi leads to crisp, complex hi-fi soundscapes.

The foundation of Ambius 2 is our Instrument Designer system, which allows you to combine a range of tuned percussive attack samples with a broad variety of richly detailed sustaining pads and leads. Each layer is equipped with independent core parameter control and can be swapped out on the fly so your instruments can evolve with the music. We then take it a step farther with the Layer Builders, powered by 6 independent hand-picked layers that absolutely blow the creative possibility wide open, with independent dynamic, envelope, tuning and shaping controls. Each instrument is driven by our unique 32-step-sequencing rhythm-based Dual-LFO System with selectable filter modes and the ability to synch any parameter's automation to your host tempo. Our custom convolution loading, mighty Uberpeggiator and full EQ controls complete the package and give you total control over your total sound.

Ambius 2 Systematic includes 1672 sounds and clocks in at nearly 5GB, but its freely mixable instrument design and shaping controls give you nearly infinite sonic possibility with just the twist of a few knobs.

Pricing and Availability:
Ambius 2 Systematic is priced at $129, but it's available now at a special Christmas intro price of only $99 through Dec. 21st.

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Ambius 2 Systematic

The Stylophone Grows Up

New S2 model is a serious British-made analogue synth


The iconic Stylophone pocket synth, played by everyone from David Bowie to Kraftwerk to Orbital to Gotye, which has sold over 4 million units since it's creation by Brian Jarvis of Dubreq in 1968 has just grown up....

Dubreq Ltd, now run by Ben Jarvis, a product designer and son of the Stylophone's original inventor, today launches the Stylophone 'S2' on the world synth market. The S2 is a portable (just 308mm X 120mm X 26mm and less than 1kg/2lbs in weight) fully spec'd analogue synthesizer that is designed and built entirely in the UK.

The S2 features the famous Stylophone metal keyboard, now 3 octaves long and playable with the included wire-free stylus or by finger touch, a +/- 2 octave shifter, an all analogue signal path, a classic British style 12dB/octave state-variable filter, dual all-transistor voltage controlled oscillators, sub-oscillators for super-fat bass, an eight waveform LFO with a 14 octave range, an auxiliary-input to use the filter and envelope-generator for other instruments, a 1/4" output jack socket as well as an internal speaker and headphone socket and a CV and Trigger input sockets.

Pricing and Availability:
Recommended retail Price of the S2 will be £299 GBP or $479 USD
The S2

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Stylophone S2

Robert Lippok On Ableton Live 9

Still in Beta, Robert shares his findings


While the rest of us have to hang on till Ableton Live 9 is fully released, the date still to be finalized. Robert Lippok, the has been privvy to a working version for some time - heck he's even been gigging with it - which shows balls of steel or the fact that Live 9 is really very solid.

One of the reasons we're told that Live 9 has taken the time that it has is that there's been a hell of a lot of work on bug fixing and tracking them down which has resulted in a much more robust package.

Robert has recorded some of his thoughts in this promo/teaser for Live 9 - released by Ableton. Excitement is also mounting for the Push controller - the Akai Professionally built, Ableton designed hardware interface that is going to be the top Live 9 bundle - we hope to actually get our hands on one at NAMM early next year if not before.

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Ableton