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Mick Gorden has announced Share the Wubs, a new 2 gigabyte, name-your-donation Dubstep sample library with 100% of profits going to help disadvantaged kids learn music.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been asked to do Dubstep a lot lately. Whether it’s for film, TV, trailers or video games people do love the sound of wubs! Well, I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it and I want to share the wubs with you and with others!

That’s right! Share the wubs! 100% of the profits from Share the Wubs will go to the ACMF a not-for-profit organization that provides music instruments and programs for disadvantaged and Indigenous children and youth in schools, remote communities and juvenile justice centers.

The library is now available on a name-your-donation basis with a suggested donation of $20.00 USD.

Donate Here!

Share the Wubs is a comprehensive Dubstep library that gives you all the tools you need to create those speaker wobbling noises that the kids (and a lot of clients) love these days! There’s growling basses and glitch pitch vocals inspired by Skrillex, anthemic builds inspired by Nero, groovy sequences inspired by Madeon and a whole stack of wubby, screamy, 200hz bursting madness!

The library contains 2 gigabytes of loops, stems, construction kits and one shots all containing tempo information ready to be synced to your host – simply drag and drop and you’re ready to Brostep! Each phrase is written in D minor making mixing and matching different phrases and loops simple. Of course, these files can always be pitched to whatever key you’re working in.

Share the Wubs features

• 353 files, 2.13GB unpacked (1.5GB download), 48/24 wave files.
• Loops, Stems, One Shots, all with tempo metadata ready to sync to your host.
• Phrases include growling basses, groovy basses, pads & leads, screamers and vocals.
• Super punchy drumloops and percussion.
• An awesome “build ups” category for all those awesome fills, breaks and builds into your drops!
• All profits go to the ACMF charity (or any other charity of your choice).
• We encourage a donate-what-you-like with a suggested donation of $20USD.
• Library produced by Mick Gordon, Joshua Crispin (Generdyn), James Kim (Auvic) and Michael Tornabene (Sqwurm).

More information: Share the Wubs

Luftrum has announced the Call to Arms: Charity 2012, a chance to bid on music production software and help out children in need.

Last year we had a charity event on KVR. It was titled Call to Arms: Charity and we raised 8712$ for Save the Children. This was done by almost 40 goodhearted developers donating software and proceeds for the charity. Software was auctioned directly in this thread and all the good guys were represented from small individuals to large companies such as Camel Audio, U-He, Spectrasonics, Audio Damage, Voxengo and Rob Papen just to mention a few. The charity was “unofficial” as it was started by me and the official KVR had nothing to do with the charity – other than kindly providing the forum thread for the fund raising.

I have decided to repeat the success from last year and wouldn’t it be amazing if we could break the 10k barrier? The charity can only succeed if developers who were so bighearted to contribute last year decides to support the charity again this year and if new developers join in!

Last year we had a poll regarding what charity to receive the funds. This year there will be no poll as I have chosen Save the Children to receive the funds once again.

All charity auctions end on 12:59 pm KVR Time, October 31st, 2012.

More information: Luftrum / Call to Arms: Charity 2012 (KVR Audio)

Soniccouture has announced the release of Crowdchoir, a sample library created in collaboration with over 1,000 people.

The Crowdchoir project was an experiment in crowd-sourcing : We wondered if we could get hundreds of people all around the world to each sing one note from a 3 octave range – then layer these recordings in a sampler to create a unique vocal sound – a wash of different voices in different rooms in different countries.

The project was a great success – over 1000 people contributed to a final total that exceeded 4000 different notes.

The instrument is now finished, and available now in Kontakt, EXS & Ableton Live formats.

Soniccouture’s Crowdchoir interface of the Native Instruments Kontakt version.

Crowdchoir features

• 4000 individual crowd-sourced recorded notes from 1000 vocalists.
• 500 MB Library, in Kontakt 4 + 5, EXS24, Live formats.
• Polyphonic Legato function (KSP).
• 5 alternate round-robin layers for natural attack.

The library is available to purchase for 20 EUR / £20 GBP / $25 USD. All profits will be donated to The Red Cross. It is free to all contributors.

More information: Soniccouture / Chowdchoir

Music Bundle Box has announced a discounted plug-in bundle featuring products from various audio software developers, including Crysonic, SugarBytes, Blue Cat Audio, Audiffex, SFX Machine, eaReckon, Timeworks, Melda Production, and Intelligent Devices.

Inspired and motived by the successfull ‘Mac Bundle Box’, Music Bundle Box is about to release a bundle with 80% price reduction. The bundle price will be around 150$. Plus, 5% of the benefits will be gave to the charity UNICEF.

This might seem a huge difference; but this effort is balanced by the amount of developpers present in the pack and one must admit it is a successful formula for all parties.

Musicians and producers also want to discover new softwares to inspire their creativity. These kind of bundles promotions are a great way to do this. So, in order to respond to this large demand, we decided to provide a great deal between developers and musicians.

This will be possible with a large number of email subscriptions. Musicians, composers, music producers, take the opportunity! Suscribe now to the Newsletter, you will be uptated as soon as we achieve this limited offer this fall.

More information: Music Bundle Box

Patchpool has announced a Charity Group Buy for its sounds and loops until September 30, 2011.

patchpool is contributing 50% (post paypal) of the funds raised through this Group Buy to this charity campaign on KVR, launched by sounddesigner Luftrum. All funds rasied will either be donated to the organisation Save the Chldren or UNICEF, you can cast your vote in this KVR thread here until Monday.

Join the Group Buy for € 21, get 3 SoundPacks straight away and receive more items as the number of participants increases. You can freely choose from the 15 Sound Packs and 2 Loop Packs listed on the Group Buy page.

Once you join the group buy you will receive a confirmation email to the address you provided to paypal. Just respond to that mail and tell me which 3 Packs you would like to have, you will then receive your download links. Once the camoaign is over, choose your additional items.

More information: Patchpool / Charity Group Buy

Luftrum has announced a Charity Fundraiser, an initiative to raise funds for a charity.

During September all sales from the Luftrum soundbanks including royalties, will be given to charity. The charity will be an organisation covering either children’s life and health or an organisation for environmental protection.

The soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01 will be changed to pay-what-you-want during September. Your chance to get the GAIA soundbank and donate to charity at the same time!

Companies and sound developer individuals participating in the charity event are mentioned in a Sound Dev Charity list (including Camel Audio, Big Tick, Patchpool, and more), available at KVR. A purchase from a listed participant will contribute to the cause as well.

More information: Luftrum