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sun.io has introduced “Dark Drones”, a free sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Dark Drones, great for a very dark cinematic effect. Heavy, gritty, dark. Well, just download and listen for yourself!

The instrument has 42 handcrafted drones. They are all around 1 minute in length and in Stereo. Hope you enjoy it, I love creating these patches.

The library is a free download (~190MB compressed). All samples were saved in the ‘NCW’ Lossless Sample Compression format to reduce file size.

More information: Dark Drones (download)

Ueberschall has launched Action Cuts, a new Elastik-Inspire series soundbank with a focus on music for action scenes.

Action Cuts has been specially designed to create music for action-heavy scenes. Experience impulsive Soul- and Funk-beats resembling the popular sound of seventies‘ crime series and action movies and brought back to new life in modern big beat style. Combined with rocking guitar riffs, rolling basslines and funky talkbox-licks, these loops will speed up every dynamic scene dramatically. This makes Action Cuts the ideally solution for movies, TV-series, advertisements and games.
Of course, Action Cuts is also suited for song productions that rely on the power and dynamic of these cinematic tracks. Producers of Big Beat, Breakbeat, Crossover and Dance will find as much inspiration in this library as scoring musicians.

This 1.2 GB-Library does not contain conventional construction kits. Rather, Action Cuts is a pool of ideas consisting of no less than 820 loops to be freely combined. So to speak, this library is a single huge construction kit. And there is no danger that two musicians will produce almost the same track.

The drum loops of this library contain complete beats, breaks, drum-SFX-loops as well as single loops of kicks, hi-hats, snares and cymbals to be freely combined and exchanged. Instrumental phrases include electric- and synthesized basses, electric guitars, synthesizers, effect sounds, vocals and talkbox licks. All loops are sorted in categories while tempo and pitch can be freely adapted using our Elastik player. Track creation is fully in your hands with guaranteed individuality that is even promoted by our Inspire-concept.

The soundbank costs 99 EUR (Elastik player included).

More information: Ueberschall / Action Cuts

I am always excited to see what Simon Stockhausen of Patchpool can do when he gets his fingers on a new synthesizer plug-in. After hearing some of the teaser sound clips, I knew the Diversion soundset for the Diversion synthesizer plug-in by Dmitry Sches was going to be good.

Diversity includes a total of 101 patches and 6 variations. Simon aimed to create a wide range of diverse sounds…

… reaching from mellow and beautiful bells, pads, textural instruments and expressive lead sounds to edgy and soaring sequences and synths to dark and mysterious drones and soundscapes to otherworldly and abstract textures.

The patches use many custom waveforms made with Diversion and other sources. The sounds of this set were designed to be expressive, featuring complex modulations and x/y morph parameter assignments & aftertouch for more dynamic and expressive playing.

A breakdown of the patch categories:

• 9 Bell & Plucks + 1 variation
• 21 Keys & Synths
• 19 Pads + 2 variations
• 29 Scapes & Drones + 2 variations
• 23 Sequencers + 1 variation

For each of the patches there is a description and/or insights into how the x/y, aftertouch, velocity etc. can be used to control the sounds.

Some of the patches use quite a lot of CPU. Simon recommends reducing polyphony or switching off the unison mode while tracking (and turn it back on for the render). Diversion does some high quality sounds, and I’m more than happy to work around some of the CPU issues until I get a better CPU.

While checking out the sounds I got inspired to do a little piece of music. The sound clip below is made with 5 instances of Diversion, only using patches from the Diversity soundset.

I only spent about 15 minutes from start to render so I didn’t spend much time on the mix and just slapped on a gentle compression on the master. No other processing was done.

For more elaborate examples of the sounds of Diversity, make sure to check Simon’s demos.

So what do I think?

For a synthesizer as good as Diversion, it’s a bit of a shame there are only so few soundsets available for it. I guess there is a smaller market than for Massive, Sylenth1 and the likes, but luckily Patchpool supports the lesser known plug-in developers.

Diversity offers a most wonderful collection of sounds, beautifully designed by seasoned composer and sound designer Simon Stockhausen. With his signature cinematic style, Simon’s sounds are great for soundtracks and ambient music. They are ready to use out of the box, all you need to do is be inspired by them.

If you had a listen to the demos you undoubtedly heard that these sounds are designed in a way that when played alongside one or two other patches, or even individually, they are completely musical, expressive and generally totally mesmerizing. You just get completely immersed in the sounds, what inspiration!

More information: Patchpool / Diversity

Loopmasters has released the Hollywood Loops Sampler 1, a collection of samples from previously released Hollywood Loops sample libraries.

Hollywood Loops presents Sampler 1. This library contains an incredible collection of Sample Loops, Sounds, Drums and Fx from some of our most successful products: Dark City, Dark City 2, Methane, Drums for the Big Screen, Big Rock Drums and Eerie Cinema.

Includes cinematic drum loops, eerie echo pattern loops, alien soundbeds, dark pads, deep dark bass phrases, cinematic guitar phrases, melodic instrument phrases, cinematic string phrases, cinematic percussion loops and much more!

And don’t forget use the included coupon codes for a 20% discount off the price of each product.

The sampler pack costs £9.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / Hollywood Loops Sampler 1

Heavyocity Media has announced the release of AEON, a new collection of deeply-sampled melodic instruments, cutting-edge tonal loops, and epic one-shots for the modern composer.

Created by New York City’s premier sound design team, this virtual instrument collection combines orchestral, traditional, and ethnic instruments with analog and digital synths to add a truly unique sound and texture to any musical composition. The AEON Collection is available exclusively at the Heavyocity Media website.

As the successor to Heavyocity’s critically acclaimed “Evolve” series and “DAMAGE” percussion library, AEON was developed over the course of 18 months, by employing inventive recording, sound design, and synthesis techniques. The AEON Collection is comprised of two products, AEON Melodic and AEON Rhythmic. The instrument is based on 10,000+ samples meticulously recorded using state-of-the-art equipment, resulting in 27+ GB of source material (compressed to 13GB on disk).

AEON Melodic contains 315 multi-sampled playable instruments comprised of 130+ organic presets, 160+ synths and hybrid presets, and 39 signature AEON Hits. AEON Rhythmic provides 330+ beatsliced melodic loops that can be mixed and matched seamlessly to create complex layered melodic phrases. The included Single Loop presets offer detailed playback control for intuitive sound tweaking and re-composing.

AEON’s robust sound is complemented by an intuitive and easy to use interface, including advanced Trigger FXTM, the infamous Punish knob, and the new Twist knob. AEON Rhythmic’s Loop Mutator™ enables the user to sequence and re-compose loops in previously unimaginable ways. AEON Melodic’s Advanced Arpeggiator enables the user to quickly create motifs and build intricate rhythmic patterns.

As a Kontakt-powered instrument, AEON offers all relevant playback and sound shaping functionality through the free Kontakt 5 Player or full version.

The AEON Collection (AEON Melodic and AEON Rhythmic Bundle) is available to purchase for $399 USD. A two-week introductory offer is available to existing users of Heavyocity and Heavyocity/Native Instruments products (Evolve, Evolve Mutations, Evolve Mutations 2, Evolve Mutations Bundle, Damage, and Komplete Ultimate 8 or 9) for $349 USD.

AEON Melodic and AEON Rhytmic are available separately for $299 USD and $199 USD respectively.

More information: Heavyocity / AEON Collection

Universal Sampling has announced the release of Euphoria, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Universal Sampling’s high quality, flexible, great sounding and easy to use virtual instrument: Euphoria.

Euphoria contains a massive amount of content – from percussive loops, to tonal arpeggiated loops, to heavy, bone-crushing impacts, reverses, deeply sampled organic and manipulated drum kits, and on.

The library is ideal for anyone writing for film, TV, games, trailers, etc. There is a huge amount of control right at one’s fingertips, with many of Kontakt’s fx available with just a mouse click or two. Dot your compositions – orchestral, hybrid, rock, ambient, whatever… or create entire original awesome works from scratch.

The sample library is available to purchase for $249 USD. Requires Kontakt 4.2.4 or higher, full version.

More information: Universal Sampling / Euphoria