Noisefactory has launched Electro Toolbox Vol. 1, a sample library by Weiss Schnur.

“Weiss Schnur – Electro Toolbox Vol. 1″ comes with essential drum loops, which are divided into different parts, so you can easily use them in your productions or combine them into new grooves. Furthermore each kit contains a single kickdrum, so you can also go ahead and use different kits together, to create your very own big drum sounds.

You will find 21 construction kits with unique melodies, fat drop sounds, harmonic chords and essential drum sounds, all combined in one single Pack.

All material is 128 BPM and processed production ready, so don’t hesitate to use it in your music productions. This pack will give you sudden inspiration for your next Electro House Track, indeed.

The sample pack costs £19.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / Electro Toolbox Vol. 1

Audio Damage has announced a Summer Sale, offering 30% off its plugins and bundles for a limited time.

With apologies to our antipodean customers (or, you know, people that don’t like Nelly) it’s gettin’ hot in here, so time to pick up some more plugs. Yeah, we went there.

The Audio Damage Bring The Heat sale is now on! Use the code HOTINHERRE at checkout for 30% off your order. This includes bundles! This sale lasts until Wednesday, May 22nd at midnight, so get ‘em while they’re hot.

More information: Audio Damage

The Loop Loft has announced the availability of the Master Collection, a bundle of all Loop Loft sound libraries in all formats.

Introducing The Master Collection. Every loop. Every format. Instant access to everything The Loop Loft has ever released. Plus, save 60% FOR LIFE on all future releases!

The Master Collection includes over 100 sound libraries from the Platinum Pack, Reason ReFill Bundle, Ableton Live Pack Bundle, Maschine Kits, Artist Series, MIDI Loops, Drum Fills, Complete Takes Series, Multitrack Sessions, Logic Pro Sessions, Kontakt Grooves, and Studio One Sessions.

The collection is available to purchase for $1,395 USD (regular price individual products $3,485 USD).

More information: The Loop Loft / Master Collection

Prime Loops has launched EDM Essentials – Electro, a sample pack for electro music production.

Produced specifically for those plugging in to the club scene, this electro dance sample pack is designed to power-up the most vigorous of mixes with an essential collection of Bassline Samples and Loops, Drum Loops and One-shots, SFX Hits and Loops and Synth loops! The electronic dance scene is constantly surging forwards and EDM ESSENTIALS – ELECTRO guarantees to boost your output in this highly charged realm.

Turn the atmosphere electric with over 184MB of freshly generated samples pulsing into your DAW via direct download in a flash of high definition 24-bit brilliance! Lay your digital foundations with a vast variety of bustling beats, from the tense metallic twitch of ‘Florida’ to the fusion of resonant claps and fidgeting percussion in ‘Get High’, each Drum Loop is available in various forms including main loops, full loops and no-hi loops. From the electrostatic purr of Bass Loop ‘Ezz’ to the jagged echo of Synth Loop ‘Dwa’, any of these samples can be dragged straight from your download folder into your electro dance productions.

The sample pack costs £12.95 GBP.

More information: Prime Loops / EDM Essentials Electro

Daniel Stawczyk (Status) has announced the release of Decent-Neurotic-Arpeggiators, a collection of 200 arp presets for the Ultra Analog VA-1 software synthesizer by Applied Acoustics Systems.

“DNA” is the set of two hundred arp loops created on the basis of the Ultra Analog VA-1′s arpeggiator concept.
Despite the seemingly limited possibilities of the instrument’s arpeggiator, when skillfully conducted, the synth seems to make miracles.
With its LFO action combined with the PAN flexibility, “Decent-Neurotic-Arpeggiators” Soundset is probably the first offer of this kind on the market.

Decent-Neurotic-Arpeggiators features

• 58 presets of HARD feature.
• 60 MILD presets.
• 52 SOFT loop inspirations.
• 11 DRUMS playing.
• and 19 SPECIAL EFFECTS.

The soundset costs $18 USD.

More information: Daniel Stawczyk / Decent-Neurotic-Arpeggiators

Voxengo has announced the release of SPAN Plus, a Fast Fourier transform spectrum analyzer effect plug-in for Windows and Mac.

For the most part it was derived from Voxengo GlissEQ dynamic parametric equalizer and reproduces its spectrum analysis functionality. SPAN Plus is an extended version of the freeware SPAN plug-in: SPAN Plus provides several additional features such as PNG file export, real-time spectrum import/export and static spectrums display.

SPAN Plus supports multi-channel analysis and can be set to display spectrums from two different channels or channel groups at the same time.

SPAN Plus features

• Real-time spectrum import/export.
• PNG file export.
• Static spectrums display.
• Output signal power statistics.
• Spectrum smoothing.
• User interface window resizing.
• Clipping statistics.
• Correlation meter.
• K-metering.
• Stereo and multi-channel analysis.
• Mid/side analysis.
• Internal channel routing.
• Channel grouping.
• Preset manager.
• Undo/redo history.
• A/B comparisons.
• Contextual hint messages.
• All sample rates support.

SPAN Plus for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available for the introductory price of $39.95 USD until June 2nd, 2013 (regular $49.95 USD).

More information: Voxengo / SPAN Plus