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Arturia has announced the availability of Hip Hop Essentials, the latest Expansion Pack for its highly-creative SPARK Creative Drum Machine hybrid hardware/software beat production centre.

Hip Hop Essentials adds 30 hip hop kits to Arturia’s acclaimed SPARK Creative Drum Machine. Carefully crafted by LA- based producer and hip hop whizz Rick Stone, these deliver everything urban artists and producers need to take their tracks to the next level of genre-defining creativity — from classic rap anthems through to the most recent dance styles and beyond into rough and edgy alternative hip hop territory. Having produced, remixed, or designed sounds for artists as diverse as Ice Cube, Snoop, Dr Dre, Lil Wayne, Whitney Houston, and Lil Kim, as well as working with Deathrow Records and Motown, Stone should know a thing or two about creative stylistic shifts — and creating hits with the finest urban beats.

Hip Hop Essentials sees Stone cooking up an astonishing array of ear-watering musical flavours with raw and effected kicks, snares, claps, hats, FX, percussion, and chords — all served up on a sizzling sequenced platter of 960 construction patterns. Here Stone laces up sequences like no other, building on contemporary trends to allow users to quickly create music, yet bring their own ideas to the mix.

Of course every beat and sound can be twisted and tweaked, thanks to the intuitive and creative workflow that is at the very heart of SPARK Creative Drum Machine. Reignite rhythmic creativity with Hip Hop Essentials… and get your groove on!

The Hip Hop Essentials library for SPARK (version 1.5 or higher) is available to purchase for 29 EUR/$29 USD.

More information: Arturia / Hip Hop Essentials

Arturia has announced it is shipping version 1.5 of its SPARK Creative Drum Machine, the latest update to its highly-creative hybrid hardware/software beat production centre.

Upon its June 2011 release, SPARK Creative Drum Machine revolutionised hands-on beat-making by cleverly combining analogue synthesis, physical modelling, and samples with the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine, as well as offering in-depth control over the sounds of the 30 classic analogue and digital drum machines it so successfully captured; now, with the introduction of Version 1.5, Arturia has taken the art of creative rhythm programming and performance to a whole new level with a dazzling array of new performance-orientated features and a truly heavyweight library totalling 118 kits/1,800 instruments!

New to Version 1.5 is the Tune feature, allowing users to easily compose melodies on the MIDI controller’s hardware drum pads and sequencer step buttons; the sample engine now enables Choke groups, so users can creatively specify samples that will cut each other off when triggered — perfect for emulating a hi-hat ‘choke’, for example (whereby triggering an open-hat sample first, followed immediately by a closed-hat sample will authentically cut off the open-hat prematurely), and also offers creative modes for layering samples (circular, random, stack, threshold); finally, the flexible FX Pad now includes the famed Oberheim SEM V filter featured in Arturia’s acclaimed Oberheim SEM V soft synth namesake, bringing unique warmth and depth to those still-sought-after synth sweeps.

Last, but by no means least, Version 1.5 sees SPARK Creative Drum Machine’s library considerably expanded to include no less than 28 new kits exploring the current span of electronic and urban music stylings — from euphoric EDM synths to almighty analogue dubstep kits, as well as the latest in alternative hip-hop, Arturia has teamed up with the world’s most in-demand sound designers to bring professional perfection to any production.

Thanks to Version 1.5, there has never been a better time than now to ignite your rhythmic creativity with SPARK Creative Drum Machine… beat the future!

SPARK is available to purchase for 499 EUR/$599 USD.

More information: Arturia / SPARK

Multiples has announced the release of the Dust sample library.

For my first ever commercial pack I am giving you some of the best sounds I have ever created using the Arturia Minimoog synth.

I have created 50 seperate sounds and multi-sampled them to provide 50 full kits ranging from c1-c3.

Due to the analog character of this synth, each sample is unique in its sound yet fully tuned to the right frequency giving you a multi-sampled synth that has a mind of its own.

Dust features

• 1346 samples in 50 different sound kits.
• Samples have arranged for chromatical mapping across the keyboard in your sampler.
• Processed with Softube Tube Tech Compressor and SSL Bus Comp.
• Available in Wav and ReFill formats.

The sample pack is available from Sampleism, priced at £3 GBP.

More information: Multiples

Musicrow has announced the release of its Analog Sound Collection, a complete sound collection for Arturia’s virtual synthesizers instruments.

Unleash the full potential of your Arturia synthesizers with this exclusive collection of 1200 designer sounds!

Analog Sound Collection is the complete sound collection for Arturia soft synths. It includes all six Musicrow’s soundsets for Arturia synthesizers:

• Jupiter Trip – 200 sounds for Arturia Jupiter 8V
• The Heavenly Prophecy – 200 sounds for Arturia Prophet V
• The Arp Kingdom – 200 sounds for Arturia Arp 2600V
• Classic Minitunes – 200 sounds for Arturia Mini V
• CS Vibes – 200 sounds for Arturia CS80 V
• Modular Dreams – 200 sounds for Arturia Modular V

The sounds were designed to take full advantage of the distinctive characteristics and features of each of these classic synth emulations, creating a diverse and colorful analog sound palette that is suitable for any music genre.

The Analog Sound Collection is available to purchase for the introductory price of 69 EUR until October 10th, 2012 (regular 119 EUR). Free demo banks with 120 sounds in total are available to download at no cost.

More information: Musicrow / Analog Sound Collection

Musicrow has announced the release of its Jupiter Trip, a new soundset featuring a collection of 200 sounds for the Jupiter 8V software synthesizer by Arturia.

Jupiter Trip uses the distinctive characteristics of the Jupiter synthesizer for the creation of lush string sounds, rich atmospheres, evolving textures, classic and special arpeggio sounds, complex sequences, surprising sound effects, rhythmic bass lines, percussions and much more.

The soundset is available to purchase for the introductory price of 25 EUR until August 15th, 2012 (regular 35 EUR). A free demo bank of 20 sounds can be downloaded from the product page.

More information: Musicrow / Jupiter Trip

Kreativ Sound has announced two new soundsets and an updated one for Arturia software synthesizers, and a sample library.

New at Kreativ Sound

• Polygothic, a 74 vintage pads, digitalo-analog basses and dark textures sounds set for Arturia Prophet V.
• Uber, a 13 fat sequences and dirty basses sounds set for Arturia Oberheim SEM V.
• Sound Shots, a 36 samples library full of bleeps, noises, textures and sounds effects.
• Analord update with 16 new presets for Arturia Minimoog V.

The soundsets and sample pack are now available to download for registered Kreativ Sound members.

Membership is available at €30 EUR / $39 USD per year.

More information: Kreativ Sound