Sample Magic has released Golden Era, a sample pack featuring the sounds of classic 80’s and 90’s hip hop.

Inspired by the groundbreaking hip hop scene of the late 80s and early 90s, Golden Era is an expansive 1.2GB collection of classic MPC beats and breaks, retro vinyl-styled loops, soul and jazz-infused melodics, afro-laced percussive grooves, analogue layers, 520+ dusty drum hits and 70+ stabs spanning Rhodes, Hammond, assorted analogue synths, live bass hits and electric guitar licks.

Inspired by the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Jurassic 5, Golden Era delivers six folders jam-packed with old school beats and breaks, mellow live bass, fat analogue subs, retro synths, soulful keys, live percussion grooves, characterful FX layers and more.

Golden Era features

  • 1,382 24-bit Wav files.
  • 491 Apple Loops.
  • 491 Rex2 files.
  • 10 custom drum kits for Maschine 2, NN-XT, Battery, Ableton Drum Rack and EXS24.
  • 10 drum sampler patches for Kontakt, NN-XT, EXS24 and Ableton Drum Rack.

The sample pack costs £34.90 GBP, with individual parts sold as separate Click & Mix packs.

Sample Magic has also released Italo Disco Patches, a collection of old school and nostalgia driven Italo-inspired synth patches for Massive and Sylenth1.

Sample Magic Italo Disco Patches

Covering the timeless glam of Italo Disco innovators such as Gary Numan, Patrick Cowley and all the way up to the modern champions of the sound like Bell Towers, The Black Madonna and Bicep. Italo Disco Patches is everything you need to get a distinctly retro-sound with modern synthesizers.

Slinky DX-7 basslines, modulating Moroder-eqsue arpeggios, soaring synthesizer leads, sexy stabby keys in the style of New Order, Cerrone and much much more tick all the boxes for creating timeless classics in a modern setting.

The soundset is available for £19.90 GBP. Massive and Sylenth1 packs are also sold separately for £14.90 GBP each.

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