Plugin Boutique has announced a sale BLOQ, the vintage synth and drum machine virtual instrument by Sample Magic for Kontakt, with patches for Ableton and Logic.

Bloq is the debut virtual instrument from Sample Magic. Featuring over 2.6GB of sample data and presented in carefully collated and customised presets, Bloq has been made using some of the most iconic and revered synthesisers and drum machines of all time.

Over a year in the making, Bloq is the result of months of carefully crafted sound design and meticulous sampling by Sample Magic co-founder Sharooz and extensive personal archive of vintage instruments.

Drawing from an enviable line-up of 17 synthesisers and 13 drum machines including the Roland TR-808, TR-909, TB-303, Jupiter 8, Jupiter 6, SH-101, Arp Odyssey, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Prophet 5, Clavia Nord Lead 4 and Akai MPC 60 to name but a few, every key of every patch was painstakingly sampled through a variety of high quality preamps at 24-bit resolution via the Prism Orpheus soundcard.

The samples were further processed with the SSL G-series and DBX 160 compressors, Empirical Labs Distressor, Focusrite ISA 430 and Neve 1073 channel strip for unrivalled sound quality.

Sample Magic’s trademark design acumen means Bloq contains two beautifully crafted GUIs complete with retro-styled knobs, switches, LEDs, wooden side panels and a unique fader-style step sequencer.

BLOQ is available from Plugin Boutique at 25% off until November 15th, 2015.

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