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The Control Centre has released Analog Synthesizers and Beat Generation, two downloadable sample packs.

The Control Centre Analog Synthesizers / Beat Generation

The Control Centre sample packs

• Analog Synthesizers – A collection of 20 multi-sampled pure analog synthesizer tones, designed for the Sampler instrument in Ableton Live 8.2.2 or higher. The pack contains 285 24 bit 44.1k WAV files and 3 Ableton Live projects.
• Beat Generation – A unique collection of improvised bongo loops, originally recorded to tape at the abandoned “Spanish City” funfair in Whitley Bay. Includes 37 loops at 24 bit/44k WAV, 33 MB content.

Analog Synthesizers is available to purchase for $30 USD, Beat Generation is $10 USD.

More information: The Control Centre

The Control Centre has released Tape Breaks Vol.1 – 3, Ethnic Percussion, and Diamonds And Dust, new sample packs.

New The Control Centre sample packs

• Tape Breaks Vol.1 – A collection of 135 unique, improvised drum breaks and 93 individual kick, snare, hihat, cymbal and tom samples, originally recorded on four track tape at the Spanish City Funfair in Whitley Bay in 1997.
• Tape Breaks Vol.2 – A collection of 137 funky, lofi, drum breaks and 105 individual kick, snare, hihat, cymbal and tom samples. Originally recorded to four track tape at North Parade, Whitley Bay in 1997.
• Tape Breaks Vol.3 – A collection of original, driving breakbeats, recorded to four track tape during 2000/2001. The pack includes 157 loops and 71 individual kick, snare, hihat, cymbal and tom samples from the same sessions.
• Drum Hardware – Yamaha 9000 5-Piece Drum Kit, Pearl Export Steel 6″ Snare, Ufip 13″ Hi-Hats, Zildjan 20″ Ride Cymbal, Zildjan 16″ Crash Cymbal. The drums were played by Darren Guy, and re-mastered and edited at The Control Centre.
• Ethnic Percussion – A unique collection of 74 percussion loops featuring Indian Tablas, Morroccan Bongos, Tunisian Darbuka, and Morroccan Doumbek.
• Diamonds And Dust – A collection of 24 sampled run in and run off grooves, needle drops and lifts, utilizing my record collection and a Philips 777 “Direct Control” turntable. Perfect for adding some vinyl “dirt” to those pristine digital recordings. All looped up and ready to use.

The Tape Breaks packs are available to purchase for $15 USD each, Ethnic Percussion is $5 USD. The Diamonds And Dust sample pack is available as a free download.

More information: The Control Centre

Necromare has released another batch of free sample-based VST instruments for Windows.

New Necromare plugins

• Dante’s Power Chords – A simple collection of muted and open powerchords. The keys are velocity triggered for each sound. On either end of the keys you will find guitar sounds mixed with demonic growls.
• Deep Space Explorer – Great for space or ambient music this VST comes with instruments to make a complete song, all accessed via a drop down menu.
• Bang – a collection of everyday obects in a percussive form. Drum map for easy navigation included.
• Broken Toy – Old toy gets new life as circuit bent instrument.
• Jazz Trumpet – Great solo instrument in its own right. Velocity sensitive, including muted trumpet and fx.
• Bongoes – The lower registers are a set of dry bongos, the upper keys are wet.
• Celtic Harp – A very pretty version of this beatiful irish instrument. sound great with soom room reverb.
• Koto – This graceful instrument is reproduced here.
• Mandolin – Exotic instrument with a nice string sound. Try and replicating the style of this instrument warning: Keep the sustain low.
• Turntable – Recordings of various sounds from a turntable. Keyboard map included.
• The Audience – Foley sounds, including laughter, boos, stomps and cheering.
• Bent Furbie – Various bent phrases and effects scattered along the keyboard. Great if you into glitch or Bent music. The controls are represented as small dots.
• PONG! – the simple but memorable blip sound from the PONG arcade video game.
• Speak and Teach – 8 octaves of samples from speak and spell toys, great for dance, electro, art, industrial, glitch…

These Necromare plug-ins are available to download at no cost.

More information: Necromare

Splurgo Audio has announced the release of Popular Percussion and Ultimate Percussion, two sample pack bundles.

New Splurgo Audio bundle packs

• Popular Percussion BUNDLE PACK — This percussion bundle pack contains all popular percussion loops available at Splurgo Audio. These packs are all best sellers. You can find bodhran, conga, darbuka, arabic framedrum and tabla loops. We also included a bonus pack of 20 percussion loops, which makes a total of 572 loops. All loops are beatmapped at various bpm and available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF.
• Ultimate Percussion BUNDLE PACK — This bundle exists of all percussion loops offered at Splurgo Audio. Bongo, Bodhran, Cajon, Conga, Darbuka, Djembe, Framedrum, Mason Jar, Shaker, Tabla, Udu and Wooden Frog loops. A bonus pack of 50 different percussion loops is included which makes a total of 1183 loops in this pack. All loops are beatmapped at various bpm and available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF.

The Popular Percussion Bundle Pack is available to purchase for $ 44.95 USD. The Ultimate Percussion Bundle Pack is $84.95 USD.

More information: Splurgo Audio

Mildon Studios has released Otobongo, a free ethnic percussion VST instrument that oto-matically varies the tap each time you press the key.

Here’s the next installment to my let-me-find-a-good-use-for-ethnic-instruments-in-my-studio project: an authentic cowhide bongo made in the mountain province of Benguet, Philippines. I bought it on the day of my college graduation so it’s really special to me. Tap with care. Screenshot

If you’ve ever had a cowhide bongo you would know that they don’t have much resonance like the conga, instead they’re very natural-sounding, more earthy. It’s great for world and ethnic music styles. So if you’re making the soundtrack for the next Pocahontas sequel, maybe this can come handy.

Otobongo is available to download as a freeware VST instrument for Windows PC.

More information: Mildon Studios / Otobongo

Loopmasters has released Tribe Percussor, a sound library by Cluster Sound.

Tribe Percussor is an ultra flexible loop-based tool based on real percussions and designed for Minimal, Tech and House music productions.

The library consists 715 megabytes of punchy and fat construction loops, congas, djembe, hand percussions, metals, bongos, shakers, exotic low percussions and much more.

Tribe Percussor features

• Based on 660 hi-definition percussive WAV & REX loops.
• Includes 1650 Live Drum Racks, 1650 Live Instruments, 330 Kontakt Instruments and 280 MIDI Loops.
• Kontakt Instruments are based on Kontakt 4 KSP engine with direct control the Multi-Filter, the ADSR and the Multi-Effect sections.
• The Live Drum Racks come with 5 special built-in racks (Grain Verb, Oil Tank, Verb Room, Rezo Synth, Moduloid) with dedicated FX and parameters.
• Kontakt and Live instruments are based on “slicing” technique that allows to deconstruct and restructure the loops as much as you like or to play the single percussive shots simply by using one of the 280 included MIDI loops.
• All the included material is 24bit native WAV format, recorded and processed with the best analog and DSP machines and meticulously edited in order to obtain high flexibility and extreme longevity.

Cluster Sound Tribe Percussor is available to purchase for £29.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / Tribe Percussor