Whitebox Synth Makers has announced the release of Key Pad, a sound library for Ableton Live.

I’ve taken some samples off the Live 8 Ambient and Evolving Racks and put them into a Live 9 Intro rack to make a bifocal instrument that sweeps from an upfront keyboard sound reminiscent of a Witchitaw Lineman Fender Rhodes to a distant trippy FX pad that sounds like it’s straight out of Unknown Pleasures. It’s lush and magnificent.

The Key Pad pack costs $1 USD. Max For Live not required.

More information: Whitebox Synth Makers

Ueberschall has released Future Garage, a new soundbank for the Elastik Player.

Future Garage combines 2-step, dubstep, deep house and dub techno in a unique style. Far away from the mainstream, these four construction kits create hypnotic, dark and relaxed ambiences ranging from 118 to 138 BPM.

Future Garage is an excellent library for modern and contemporary music production. Find authentic loop-material and similarly inspiring groove-ideas here. Besides music productions, this library is a terrific choice for trailers, jingles and dubbing.

Future Garage has been produced with great attention to detail. The sound bank is 700 MB in size and offers heavy ultra deep sub-basslines, wobbling pads, widespread choruses and loose, broken drums. Among the 139 loops, ranging from 8 to 16 bars length, you will find mix- and backing-parts, drum-mixes as well as loops of bass drum, snare/clap, hi-hat, percussions, bass, synths and FX. Additionally the 69 single sounds can easily be combined to new drum patterns. Individual tracks are available for each of the four construction kits, allowing for complete re-arrangements and new constructions. To offer further flexibility, the kits are also divided into subfolders such as intro, a-part, b-part and outro.

The content has been carefully prepared for modern productions with high standards while meeting high demands to flexibility at the same time. The construction kits‘ modular structure allows the content to be used in various productions, from film dubbing, web and apps to other music projects. In addition, the libraries offer all samples to create authentic styles – delivered in highest quality as you can expect from Ueberschall.

The sound library costs 29 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / Future Garage

Mystery Islands has announced the release of the JP-80×0 Hardware Editor Plug-in for Mac.

You ever wanted to control, automate & work with your JP-8000 / JP-8080 the way this modern world requires? Now it’s possible with our AU / VST plugin that allows you to get your Hardware into your modern DAW. We developed this plugin together with Arto Vaarala who’s long experience with coding made all this possible.

JP-80×0 editor features

• Load in as an AudioUnit or VST for MAC (32 & 64 bit INTEL only!)
• Edit both layers separately from single plugin window.
• Link layers to edit both layers at the same time.
• Scroll thru User Performances (U:11 – U:88) from Hardware.
• Sends out all parameter values when you open up your project with the plugin or load a saved patch.
• MIDI & SysEx transmission between the DAW and the Hardware (requires MIDI interface).
• Patches saved within your daw are scrollable.
• Load and Save banks to and from your HDD.
• Edit almost every function of your JP. JP-8080 and JP-8000 incompatible parameters marked with **.
• All important parameters can be automated.

The plugin is now available to purchase for Mac (VST/AU) for 49.95 EUR. Windows VSTi is scheduled for release in Q3, 2013.

More information: Mystery Islands / JP-80×0 Editor

Soundtrack Loops has announced the release of Deep Chill and Melodic EDM MIDI, two new sound libraries.

Soundtrack Loops and producer Adrian Walther paired up to bring you Deep Chill, a set of royalty free loops contains 10 construction kits for producing Chillout, Ambient, Deep House, Trip Hop, Cinematic, and Downtempo. Sounds include basses, synths, bells, percussion, strings, guitars, snares, high hats, and kicks. 75 loops.

Melodic EDM MIDI is a set of a melodic musical performances and transitions in the form of both loops and MIDI files. Sound loops include pianos, strings, guitars, brass, pads, drums, percussion, SFX, build ups, risers, and more. Tempo and key information in file names as well as meta-data. Produced by John Hobart and Jason Donnelly (DJ Puzzle). 210 loops and 65 MIDI files.

The Deep Chill library costs $15 USD, Melodic EDM MIDI is $24.95 USD.

More information: Soundtrack Loops

The Loop Loft has announced its Memorial Day Sale, offering a 40% discount on all its loops and samples (WAV, REX2, AIFF, Stylus RMX, Ableton, ReFills and more) for a limited time.

Get a head start on your summer (and your savings) with our massive Memorial Day Sale. Save 40% on EVERYTHING at The Loop Loft with coupon: MEMDAY13

Discount Code: MEMDAY13

Sale ends May 28th at 12:00 EST

More information: The Loop Loft / Memorial Day Sale

BangBox has released EDM Step Styles Producer Kits, a collection of 18 groove inducing drum and instrument kits for experimental Dubstep, Drumstep and DNB production.

The kits have been crafted to each provide a particular unique production element and can be combined in any order to create full tracks or themed sections to add to your own sequence.

EDM Step Styles Producer Kits features

• 290 Wav Files.
• 142 Midi Files.
• 138 Pattern Files (Maschine version), 8 Mini Song Projects (Ableton version).
• 4 Bass Kits/Racks.
• 4 Drum Kits/Racks.
• 4 Percussion Kits/Racks.
• 5 Instrument Kits/Racks.
• 1 SFX Kit/Racks.

Maschine and Ableton versions are available to purchase for £12.95 GBP, the Reason 5+ Kong Kits are £9.95 GBP.

More information: BangBox / EDM Step Styles Producer Kits