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Sound Dust has announced the mk2 version of Steel Drum Percussion Room, a percussion based sample library.

A kit of lovely dusty binaural acoustic drum samples and slightly prepared steel drums….a kind of Tom Waits percussion machine featuring drums in all shapes and sizes.

Theres 4 octaves of huge flappy marching band bass drums, ripped and rattly snares and kicks, frame drums, congas, bongos, toms, hi-hats, cymbals, boxes, metal shelving…you name it.

Plus the “prepared” steel drums. These are a neglected set of bass and cello steel pans played with fingers and soft mallets to avoid sounding like proper steel drums ( more apocalypse than calypso ), the tunings are a bit iffy, but theres plenty of velocity layers per hit for a rusty hang drum like effect.

Great for film scoring. Both kits were recorded binaurally in a great sounding room with long decays with a total of 168mb of samples.

Steel Drum Percussion Room mk2 is available to purchase for £15 GBP.

More information: Sound Dust / Steel Drum Percussion Room

Samplephonics has introduced Witchcraft Guitars, the first in a series of Pack Bytes sample libraries.

This sample pack contains a collection of acoustic guitar loops taken from the Analogue Witchcraft sample library.

All loops are 100% royalty free and ready to download in 24 Bit Wav format.

The Witchcraft Guitars pack costs £6 GBP.

More information: Samplephonics / Witchcraft Guitars

Amplesound has announced Ample Guitar M, a virtual Martin D-41 guitar instrument for Windows and Mac.

Ample Guitar M aims to bring the Martin D-41 Guitar sound to your studio.

Ample Guitar M features

• 3842 dry samples, 5.6 GB pick & finger.
• Any chords & any rhythms with real strumming samples.
• Rich fingering noise, more vivid and realistic.
• Controllable real resonance.
• Multiple stereo and mono modes.
• Chord inversions to positions.
• Velocity layer adjustment.
• Open string first, playing special chords without keyswitches.
• Includes Electric Guitar Series features.

The Ample Guitar M for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $169 USD.

More information: Amplesound / Ample Guitar M

Prime Loops has introduced Acoustic Pop Guitars, a collection of 650MB+ of crisp, clean acoustic guitar loops, softly strummed chord progressions and hard n’ funky strumming patterns.

If you’re a wizard with the mixing board but the fretboard is foreign territory, put down those complicated chord diagrams and pick up Acoustic Pop Guitars! Loaded to the brim with crisp, clean acoustic samples delivered in revolutionary resonance!

The go to instrument for songwriters of all genres, the acoustic guitar has spawned many of greatest arrangements in the sonic stratosphere! Now you too can scale the frets, adding fresh acoustic elements to your mix without shredding your fingers on those hard steel strings!

The sample pack costs £19.95 GBP.

More information: Prime Loops / Acoustic Pop Guitars

Best Service has announced Cinematique Instruments 2, a collection of 16 sample libraries by Cinematique Instruments.

Cinematique Instruments 2 is consequently following the path taken with Vol.1, released in 2010 but steadily improving sound quality, adding deep sampling and enhanced editing possibilities.

Cinematique Instruments Vol.2 contains fascinating, new stringed instruments like a Banjo, Bowed Guitars, bowed acoustic guitars and basses, German Monochord, a wood box with 25 identically tuned strings. The Guitar Harmonics section offers a complete section of flageolet sounds from different acoustic guitars and basses. Also aboard are a Double Bass Harmonica, a Huge Tuning Fork, an Alto Glockenspiel and the new Experimental Box 2, a new edition of experimental sounds, recorded in a blacksmith’s workshop and a cellar crammed with old tools.

Don’t think we forgot the creative sound tools with weird names like Cement, Clap Trak, Geiger Counter, Jetlag and Chameleon in Vol. 2. These special rhythm add-ons, sequencers, multilayered sampler and pattern generators are using Best Service Engines step sequencer and arpeggiator to inspire. Last but not least there is a selection of fine synth sounds named Sägezahn, an Upright Piano and a revamped Zeitter & Winkelmann piano.

With this exclusive and unique collection of new instruments, Cinematique Instruments makes it very clear that they are closer than ever to creating the most modern and inspiring instruments for your compositions, making Vol. 2 the perfect complement for your existing Vol. 1.

Cinematique Instruments 2 is available from Best Service for MSRP 199 EUR / £159 GBP / $219 USD.

More information: Best Service / Cinematique Instruments 2

Bluenoise Plugins has announced Drummix Rock 1, an acoustic drum instrument for Windows.

Drummix Rock 1 is a acoustic drum plugin recorded at a professional recording studio with pristine equipment. The drum kit used for this particular sound is a classic 4-piece Ludwig Fab Four drum kit. It can be used in many types of music but we feel that this is mostly a rock drum kit.

Rock 1 is recorded in huge room with lots of ambience to bring out that big rock sound we like! The top-notch microphones are sent into a Neve VR60 Legend and further into pristine RME converters. Only Class A equipment are used and you can rest assure that the drum sound you’ll get is of high class. It will sound as someone is playing the drums in a world-class studio when you hit those MIDI notes.

The plugin is available to purchase for Windows (VST) for the introductory price of $30 USD.

More information: Bluenoise Plugins / Drummix Rock 1