TR-909 Sample CD

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In an attempt to follow on the successful footsteps of the popular TR-808, the TR-909 added a more equipped synth engine (especially in the envelope department), a better sequencer, digitally sampled sounds (most notably its cymbals), and improved output electronics. This gave the TR-909 a distinct and full sound without sacrificing what made the 808 groove so well.

Discovery has captured that sound, and offers you each individual drum hit with all possible parameter settings in this collection. We also provide those hits processed through our arsenal of outboard effects and studio equipment. Discovery also gives you classic TR-909 drum loops. Over 70 minutes of material are found on its 66 tracks. Your dance tracks will thank you! Listen to what KEYBOARD has to say about Discovery's TR-808 and TR-909:

"All the classic 808 and 909 drum and percussion sounds have been faithfully recorded. As for sound quality, it's as good as the machines themselves. These are some of the quietest 808/909 recordings we've heard. Discovery obviously used 808s and 909s in great condition. Realism City! Classic old school ballad beats and skippy speed funk to 16th-note pop grooves. There are some really fun beats with pirch-bent cymbals. These are very useful!"

Tibetan Music and Sound Sampling CD

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I Love Tibet Sample CD features 387 Acid/Wav Files, 174 Rex2 Files, 2 Kontakt programs and 1 Battery program. I made the demo you are listening to in under five minutes, so you can trust me when I say it is a very user friendly sampler.

Make Tibetan music and sound apart of your own mix.

Voice Percussion - Sampling CD

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ACID | REX2 | WAV

If youre looking for a new way to inject rhythmic force into your music, and want to avoid the traditional drum and percussion instruments, perhaps its time to consider another form of beat-making. On Voice Percussion youll hear human beatboxing at its best. Drop these breathy beats into your tracks, or build your own with the range of vocal instruments offered on this unique library.

Bom Dia Brazil - Sample CD

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Brazil is a vortex of rhythm and energy, and Bom dia Brazil captures that spirit in its full musical color.

The South American continent is bursting with musical energy and inspiration. The Brazilian Samba, Sokka, Fandango, Rambada , Bossa Nova , and Folk Rele Tango are musical styles of incredible brilliance and colorful. On this CD, those rhythms are brought to life in stunning clarity, along with other South American styles that are filling dance clubs in Japan, and around the world.

Alma Flamenco Spanish Guitar Sample CD

Here is a really good example of what can be done the the Alma Flamenco Sample CD. If you are looking for that authentic Spanish guitar sound with voice then you have came to the right place.

Composer Simon Wolfe on Discovery Sound

Discovery Downloader will present a great line up of sound content produced by Emerging English Composer, Simon Wolfe. His samples, loops, sound effects, and production music are readily available for royalty free use in film, television, video games, live performances, and other multimedia projects.

We have just uploaded 114 high quality music tracks in WAV & MP3 formats supplied by Simon Wolfe. His tracks are available with a wide range of music genres including ambient, ethnic, classical, dance, rock electronica and more!

So Just who is this Simon Wolfe?
An emering composer for Television, Documentary film soundtracks and multimedia. Simon has written music sweeping across many genres from Ochestra, World, and Electronic to ambient, dance and classical. Some of his work has featured in the World Music Track CD released by Productiontrax.

His track "Next to you" was chosen for the film "HARD PILL" (writer/director John Baumgartner starring Jonathan Slavin)

Credits include:

"Wall to Wall" Television UK (dinosaur documentary), "Illuminations" UK
(music written and arranged for a documentary on Captain Cook's painter,
William Hodges on expeditions to Tahiti and India, featuring contributions
by Sir David Attenborough), CHANNEL 5 TV, UK DISCOVERY CHANNEL,
WEST COUNTRY TV (product advertising), SKY SPORT - middle east:
(FORMULA 1, GREAT SPORTING MOMENTS, PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL)


Want to hear Simon's tracks? Check them out here: www.discoverysound.com/SimonWolfe

Koto Sample CD Receives Music Tech Magazine Value Award

The Koto Sample DVD received the Music Tech Value Award in the July 2009 issue # 76 of Music Tech Magazine.

The review was kinda a downer to read in some parts of the review, but nevertheless was lucky enough to be featured in MTM issue 76 which actually sold out. I can't find an issue to save my life, but fortunately the kind crew over at MTM was kind enough to send me their "last" copy.

Even if it didn't get the best review I was looking for it still got a good response from the producers and DJs that bought the album to use in their own productions.

Since the magazine was sold out and from the word on the street no reprints coming in the near future I have posted the review here for those of you who want to hear what MTM had to say about Koto sample DVD.

REGGAE ONE WAY

Heat up your music, Jamaican style!
It’s reggae for new generation.

The legendary Bob Marley put reggae on the global map, and the popularity of this ethnic has never waned. Its hypnotic rhythms and grooves are captured on this sampling library, which includes 662 files in duplicate Acidized Wav and Rex2 format. You will get drum loops
(54-149BPM), guitars, keyboards, percussion loops, and sound effects for building complete tracks.

Very nice sampling CD and very hard to find anything similar and as authentic as Reggae One Way. No elevator music here people.

Performances using Reggae One Way:

1. REGGAE_DEMO_01
2. REGGAE_DEMO_02
3. REGGAE_DEMO_03

Other Samples:

1. Drum loop 075 01
2. Drum loop 102a 04
3. Drum loop 120b 05
4. Fake fill 072.5
5. Guitar loop arp 060
6. Harmonica loop 070
7. Trip was over 082.5

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!!!

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

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

Amazing Thailand

Now you don't just get to here music, but you can also see some great visuals I took from some of the countries I went to when gathering the music and sounds for my sample cds. This is of course the Amazing Thailand. Enjoy the short movie and when you are finished check out some of the samples.

Sample Sounds

1. Perc.ensemble
2. Ranaat Eek Lek
3. Soo Duang
4. Ensemble
5. Vocal F

History of Korg Sample Cd

Discovery brings and arsenal of original Korg Synths, Korg organs, and Korg drum machines with the History of Korg disc.

You remember, don't you? All synths used to have no program memory and were monophonic. You don't? Well, Discovery not only remembers, but we've got an arsenal of original Korg Synths, Korg organs and Korg drum machines and a programming staff that knows how to get the best out of them. Included are the CX3, PS-3100/3200, PE-2000, M-500SP, Sigma, Lambda, Trident, VC-10 vocoder, MS-20, Mono/Poly, Poly-Six, Poly-61, Poly-800, DW-8000 and DD1/5, KRP-77, KR-55B, Donca Matic and Stage Man drum machines. History of Korg is available in Audio CD, Kurzweil CD-ROM (History of Analog) and as a Akai CD-ROM. Check out what the review team at Electronic Musician has to say about Discovery's History of Korg: “You can now play those old Korg mono synths polyphonically! Exciting filter and resonance sweeps. The Trident, Lamda and Sigma all have moments of glory. These Trident string samples offer you analog strings at their zenith. Nifty Poly-800 chord samples and gooey synth tones from both a PolySix and a Poly-61.”

Need I say more. Just listen to a few samples for yourself and you decide.

1. 3100 LFO(3Tones)
2. Phrase(01-03)800DV
3. Voice(AH)
4. Chord
5. Samba(2tones)

History of Roland Sample Cd

History of Roland, by Discovery, brings us all the classic synths originally produced by the company Roland.

Like no other electronic music company in history, Roland has always been innovative and on the cutting edge of technology. Even in the days of analog only synths, Roland consistently brought to the market a large number of synths that eventually became classics. Discovery has solved the problem of where to find all of these in working order and how to do so inexpensively. This disc includes the Juno-106, Juno-6, SH-1 / 2, SH-101 / System-100, RS-09, MC-202, MKS-80, Jupiter-6 / 8, VP-300 vocoder and a special section of wonderfully conceived phrases that combine all of these. History of Roland is available in Audio CD, Kurzweil CD-ROM (History of Analog) and as a Akai CD-ROM. Listen to what the review team at Electronic Musician has to say about Discovery's History of Roland:

"The JUNO-106 has some wonderful swirling patches and squelchy percussion. Very useful 106 pulse waves and a great collection of 106 phrases. They’re skillfully played and programmed. There’s plenty of raw material here if you’re in break beat mode! The Jupiter-8 is well represented with some sparkling resonate sweeps, hard-edged decay tones almost like steel drums, and also strings and brass. The MKS-80 offers hard sync patches mallets and some neat chord stabs. Not everyone has access to vintage synths. Discovery’s History of Analog offers a peek into the analog past."


If you are a producer from back in the day this sample cd will really bring you back.
This is something you would be proud to have in your collection.

These sounds don't just pop up anymore. A true classic.

Listen to these sound samples.

1. Phrase 49-53
2. SE（LFO/11tone）
3. SE(10tone)
4. Voice
5. Phrases

Sample CDs; What are they??

Some of might be wondering what that term/keyword "Sample CDs" are. Try doing a search for it on Wikipedia and you get nothing of useful knowledge (which is rare for the Wikipedia guys).

Basically before there were "Sample CDs" there were floppy discs which store music and sound files for midi transposers and composers. This was back in the day when sound design was not so "high-tech" compared with today's software. Eventually technology evolved, software became more user friendly, and the CD became the wave of the future.

Simply put "Sample CDs" are music files and sounds (or bits and pieces of) stored on a CD/CD-ROM in various formats which can be used to create any kind of music from BGM to simple jingles that are commonly used in radio and television commericals. Not to mention toys, games and yes, even movie sound effects and music scores.

Some of the most commonly formats used today are Acid, Rex2, Kontact, Battery, RNS, Match5, and of course WAV and traditonal audio. Now just because you buy a sample CD doesn't mean you can use it. If the Sample CD is in any of the above formats you may need the proper software to open and manipulate the files. One of the most popular softwares used by sound engineers today, but not limited to is ProTools.

So if you thought Sample CDs meant getting a sample of someones music you were not completely off, but not completely on either. I would love Wikipedia to really go into dephth on the subject because is a term that is commonly used today by music producers and sound designers alike.

Discovery Sound has been in the music sampling business since it first started and over the last 10 years have been making and distributing sample CDs throughout the world. Discovery Sound is renouned for its World and Ethnic Sample CDs world wide.

Who would of thought that Japan would be such a power house in the music industry.