Monday, March 30, 2009

I Love Tibet Now on Loopmasters

Most of you producers most likely already know that Loopmasters went digital and you can now get your music and sounds as quick as your internet connection allows. I Love Tibet is now one of those samples you won't have to wait to get the CD in the mail to start mixing your productions.

Of course I Love Tibet is not the only sample CD available on Loopmasters...(too many to name) but it is a very popular sample CD that sells fast and is pretty hard to keep in stock most of the time. With Loopmasters you don't have to worry about an item not being in stock. They are stocked 24/7 365 days a year.

The first person that orders the I Love Tibet CD from Loopmasters from this post will receive $10.00 rebate in cash from me. Once you order let me know and after I get confirmation from Matt over at Loopmasters I will fund your Paypal account 10 greenbacks.

Until next time.... Happy Sampling!!!

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

"Traffic" Sound Effects Series

Discovery’s sound-effects series, known for its affordability, comes license free!

The updated version of the third disc from a series of Sound Effects. Desired sounds from virtually every mode of transportation possible have been captured on this CD, from automobiles and ships to trains, planes, and beyond.

Plus the in depth sounds that the car gives off like the opening and shutting of the doors and power windows, locking and unlocking sounds, the sound of windshield wipers and too many more to mention. Hear them for yourself.

  1. Helicopter: Flight
  2. Train Station-1
  3. Railroad Crossing
  4. Car: Windshield Wiper-2
  5. Car: Engine Running-3

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Review of Discovery's "8 Bit Family" by Laymansreviews.com

Review of Discovery's "8 Bit Family" by Laymansreviews.com.

Add some retro crunch to your productions with Discovery's classic sample collection

Considering the amount of work synth and plugin developers put into producing powerful, dynamic new sound rendering engines capable of all manner of vibrant, pristine tones, it seems a little odd that we then put so much effort into making them sound... well... a bit rubbish.

If we're not crushing bits or downsampling, we're layering all manner of distortion and saturation effects in a bid to dirty things up a little. This is particularly prevalent in current electro and house music, with the latest crop of uber-hip producers just as likely to break out a SID emulator as anything else in a bid to give their tracks that extra chip-sound crunch.

Of course, sometimes emulation doesn't quite cut it. In which case you're left with the option of reaching for the old Gameboy and a soldering iron, or investing in a sample CD such as those in Discovery Sound's 8-bit Family range. Volume one was originally released in 2003, but the sounds contained in this (now very reasonably priced) collection are arguably more relevant today than they were six years ago.

The library consists of a broad collection of sound loops, effects and sequences culled from original video game sources for the last word in authenticity. The 8-bit chipsets may have been restricted to little more than basic triangular and rectangular waveforms and a noise generator, but the sound designers of the day saw this more as a challenge than a limitation, fashioning a distinctive and familiar palette of drums, bass, leads and warbling "chords", all of which are present and correct in Discovery's collection.

The CD contains the expected selection of ACID wav
and REX2 files, with EXS24 and HALion maps provided for good measure,
while the breakdown of sounds available is comprehensive:

Arpeggios: 31 files
Bass-loop: 11 files
Construction-kit: 38 types/186 files
Drum-loops: 31 files
Drum-hit: 32 files
Misc.loop: 43 files
Soundeffects: 37 files
EXS24/HALion: 27 programs/216 samples

Summary


It's hard to find any real fault with the 8Bit Family sample CD, as this is one of those products that does pretty much exactly as it promises on the tin. The samples are plentiful and well-captured, including chunky grooves, bleeping beats and some satisfyingly crunchy construction kits for building your own chip-tastic rhythm tracks. Loops are cleanly structured and neatly chopped.

The CD layout is logical and consistent with many other sample CD libraries, although we'd have appreciated slightly more descriptive naming of files to help in finding the right sound when scanning through. And of course, the very nature of sample CDs mean they're inherently limited in their variety and flexibility.

Minor quibbles aside, this is a well-considered
collection of chipset sounds, and at the current price, well worth
considering as an addition to the arsenal of anyone looking to add that
touch of retro authenticity to their productions.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Infinite Sound

J.Arif Verner brings us a world of atmospheric sounds.

The New York master, J. Arif Verner, brings a world of colorful ambient atmospheric sounds to “Infinite Sound.” The collection is designed around thematic variations of illusions, landscapes, action, and science. The free-form sounds are mysterious, imaginative, and explosive. This
disc is coming out with creative potential.

This is one sample cd that every producer should have within arms reach. Just listen to some of the samples and hear for yourself. This is one album Discovery Sound is proud to promote.

  1. Wind Breath
  2. Crystals
  3. 20th Century
  4. Street Jive
  5. String Heaven

Sound Files

01. Star Shooter | 02. Zoo Factory | 03. Big City Rumble | 04. Point in Time | 05. Cosmic Yawn
06. Water Drops | 07. Brain Chatter | 08. Binary Talk | 09. Oil Rig | 10. Thor
11. Illusion | 12. Radio Robot | 13. Ogre | 14. Wind Breath | 15. Brain Chatter
16. Vortex | 17. Machine Vox | 18. Animal Farm | 19. Robotics | 20. Whiz
21. Zap | 22. Jolt | 23. Dream Widgets | 24. Going Up | 25. Coming Down
26. Lumar Twilight | 27. Ice Cavern | 28. Shark Teeth | 29. Crystals | 30. Nocturne
31. Love Song-1, Love Song-2 | 32. Mind Escape | 33. Eruption | 34. Moon Walk | 35. Ritual
36. Vapor Particles | 37. World Order | 38. Splat! | 39. Space Debris | 40. 20th Century
41. Shadow | 42. Bull's Eye | 43. Flat Tire | 44. Carbonation | 45. Element Zone
46. Dust Mites | 47. Planet Space | 48. Whisper Vox | 49. Soap Opera | 50. Take-off
51. Electronic Heart | 52. Greatest Hits | 53. Symbols | 54. Navaka Soul | 55. Led Purple
56. Street Jive | 57. Capt Beat Heart | 58. Urban Encore | 59. Modulation1-7 | 60. Wanderings
61. Ex File1-2 | 62. Magnetic Terrain | 63. Computer Kiss | 64. Less Paw | 65. Rubber Guitar
66. Astral Projection | 67. Liquid Air | 68. Inverse1-2 | 69. Beyond Dark | 70. Crayons
71. Tapzity | 72. Opening1-2 | 73. Melting | 74. String Heaven | 75. Pulse Point
76. It Thing1-2 | 77. Tea Leaves1-2 | 78. Caffeine | 79. Invisible | 80. Modern Time
81. Asteroid | 82. City Strut | 83. Sensation1-4


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

I Love Tibet Sample CD

A classy collection of Tibetan samples with a specially included movie. The faithful performances of sacred instruments & voices

In the Tibet Autonomous Region under the occupation of China, extreme human rights violations have continued, and their traditional Buddhist music is also in peril to disappear. Soon after his arrival in India in 1959, Dalai Lama re-organized the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, and their tradition and culture are still maintained by many Tibetan exiles settled in the town.
For recording the genuine Tibetan samples on this library, I visited the refugee settlement under the Tibetan Government-in-Exile located in Dharamsala, Northern India.

“I LOVE TIBET” is a sample CD-ROM with 644 MB of 16-bit/44.1kHz recordings of loops, one-shots, multi samples made using varied cross-section of instruments – indispensable sacred percussion, wind instruments and sutras to the Tibetan Buddhist music - together with some more traditional percussion, string and wind instruments and Tibetan Opera which are familiar to Tibet people. Users will enjoy the instrumental performances included as a special movie as well as the live performance by monks in a temple on the disc.



Tibetan Buddhism stands for Tibetan culture. For the memorial service held in temples, many instruments are used for making God and Buddha pleased with sounds. The instruments used to play the Buddhist music are roughly divided into percussion and wind instruments. The percussion is consisted of drums such as “NGA” or “DAMARU” and metal percussion like cymbals called “BOOK CHEN” to keep rhythms. The wind instruments include Tibetan flute called “GYALING,” a huge and loud Tibetan horn called “DHUNCHECN,” a Conch horn called “DHUNG,” etc. Those sacred instruments are thoroughly represented here, and also the essential emotional voices to admire God & Buddha called “MANTRA” and “CHANT” in multi-tones recited by a lot of monks are also provided. For multi-sampling files, stringed instruments called “DRANYEN” and “YANZIN” are available in KONTAKT format and Tibetan percussion including cymbals or bells are presented in BATTERY format. More over, the additional special movie (4 min 40 sec.) presents a Tibetan folk song, folk dances, native costumes, and Tibetan people with friendly smiles.

“I LOVE TIBET” features such a classy and mystic music world of Tibet. Listen to some of the sounds.

  1. Singing-Woman_A_003
  2. Singing-Woman_B_003
  3. Singing-Men_013
  4. Chant_Loop_002_bpm_76.3
  5. Temple-Percussion_Ensemble_004
  6. Gyaling_Dual_Loop_006_bpm_94.2
  7. Dhunchen_013
  8. Dranyen-B_Loop_010_bpm_146.2_D