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Wave Alchemy has announced a free Cymbal FX sample pack.

In celebration of the New Year we have put together a FREE collection of unique sounding cymbal sounds. A Roland Jupiter 8 synthesizer was used to sculpt 37 metallic cymbal sounds which were then post processed with a variety of outboard studio processors including our Eventide DSP-7000.

The included sounds range from simple metallic hits to huge stereo sound beds – all great sources for further audio manipulation…

The free Cymbal FX pack is available to download here.

More information: Wave Alchemy

Loops de la Crème has released Cymbal Essentials, the first product from the SILVER&GOLD series, a new line of premium cymbal samples and virtual instruments.

The included samples showcase various playing technics, and were recorded with great depth and detail, in stereo, and with as little ambience as possible to ensure maximum flexibility and usefulness.

Cymbal Essentials features

• 62 cymbal samples (stereo wav, 24bit, 48Khz) in 6 categories:
  • 10 Rides
  • 16 Crashes (using both sticks, plastic rods and mallets)
  • 9 HiHats (3 sets of closed, foot, and open variations)
  • 7 Piatti (orchestral hand held cymbals)
  • 12 Long Rolls (using mallets)
  • 8 splashes, bells and stacks (cymbals stacked on top of each other)
• 2 Kontakt patches (main set, sound design set).
• 15 IR samples (reverb impulse responses).
• User guide (pdf file).

Cymbal Essentials is available to purchase for the introductory price of 4 EUR.

More information: Loops de la Crème / Cymbal Essentials

Voxengo has announced an update of its AcuDrums drum sample library.

Voxengo AcuDrums is a professional sound sample library that captures acoustical sound of various drum and cymbal instruments. The main idea behind AcuDrums library is to capture a maximally pristine and unprocessed contemporary drum kit sound. Library as a whole contains more than 14000 WAV files and takes more than 10 GB of disk space. Instruments of this library have multiple velocity layers with each velocity layer having 5 sample variations reducing the “machine gun” effect greatly.

New Voxengo AcuDrums sample packs

New in AcuDrums

• 14-inch high hat with a dry vintage sound, naturally panned to the right side. 1850 WAV sample files total.
• 22-inch 6-ply maple bass drum with a warm clicky sound. 240 WAV sample files total.
• 18-inch crash cymbal with a dark vintage sound, naturally panned to the right side a bit. 925 WAV sample files total.

The samples of individual instruments can be purchased separately or in custom bundles (a discount may apply), with the prices currently ranging from $8.95 to $18.95 USD per instrument.

More information: Voxengo / AcuDrums

Silicon Beats has released Metalcore Drum Loops V1, of collection of 119 drum loops.

Put the ‘Heavy’ in your Metalcore and Death Metal tracks with ‘Metalcore Drum Loops V1′. These massive stomp grooves include some tricky double kick drum licks and some nasty china crashes that you MUST use in Metalcore – it’s the law.

We focused mainly on stomp grooves with a wide selection of fills and variations with closed hats, open hats, rides and crashes. We used a Yamaha Stage Custom kit that was made from mahogany which gave the drums a really bright tone that was ideal for all kinds of metal. With a tasty selection of cymbals from Istanbul, Sabian and Zildjian we managed to capture a big, trashy noise that will give your metal tracks a really live feel.

Metalcore Drum Loops V1 is available to purchase for $69.95 USD.

More information: Silicon Beats / Metalcore Drum Loops

Soundiron has released Cymbology 1: Bowed, a scoring percussion, melodic tuned percussion and ambient FX library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

This massive library is built around classic bowed cymbal sounds, but it doesn’t stop there. We captured 20 unique instruments, in all shapes, sizes, alloys and varieties, from crashes and splashes to gongs, bells, trashes and even a stack of spent WWII Howitzer artillery shells. We explored everything from short stabs to long tortured wails and everything in between. These oft sought-after dramatic scoring and sound design building-blocks are perfect for setting dark moods, striking bold transitions, building stingers, weaving soundscapes and manipulating in any number of ways to evoke sonic images both dark and light.

Not content to leave it there, we also delved into strange experiments with dry ice on the cymbal surfaces. The results are just as wildly varied as the bowed articulations, but these squeals, hisses, hums, swells, screeches, drones, screams, rumbles and wails are from an entirely different world.

We recorded both the “Bowed” and “Frozen” sets of sustaining and short cymbal effects in two wide microphone positions, up close for full detail, presence and clarity without room coloration and out in a large hall, for a rich, lush and naturally spacious reverb ideal for epic and orchestral scoring.

Next, we created a collection of extraordinary melodic tuned percussion instruments from the most musically inspiring elements within the library. Each tuned preset has a unique and complex sound, with flowing overtones, broad warmth, clear highs and massive low end. You’ll find flavors ranging from darkly harmonic to pure and crystalline. Lastly, we designed over 1 GB of ambient instruments. You’ll find a spectacular array of pads, drones, synths, swirling dreamscapes, nightmarish hellscapes and complex evolving textures.

We’ve programmed the library with obsessive attention to detail and unmatched playability, with a unique custom Kontakt 4 user-interface and a broad array of easy-to-use sound shaping, layering, filter, LFO, convolution and multi-fx controls to provide an endless range of creative possibility.

Cymbology 1: Bowed features

• 289 Kontakt 4.2.4 patches (unlocked).
• 285 Kontakt 3.5 patches (unlocked).
• 2220 Samples.
• 5.77 GB Installed.
• 40 Custom Convolution IR Files.
• 24bit / 48kHz stereo PCM wav samples.
• Available now via high-speed cloud-based download and on DVD.
• Full retail version of Kontakt 3, 4 or 5 required to use this library.
• The free Kontakt Player does not support this library.

Cymbology 1: Bowed is available to purchase for the introductory price of $79 USD through December 16th, 2011 (regular $99 USD). It is also included in the Drum Collection bundle (download or DVD), which is 40% off until 11:59pm on 16 December, 2011 (PST).

More information: Soundiron / Cymbology 1 Bowed

Bluenoise Plugins has released Drummix Metal 1, a virtual drum instrument for Windows.

The drum kit used for Drummix Metal 1 is a Tama Artstar 2; one of the 25 copies of Lars Ulrich famous Black Album tour drums! This is the holy grail of metal drum kit with 6 toms, to kick drums and loads of cymbals.

Metal 1 is recorded in medium amienced room, but with additional microphones in a huge space next door to bring out that big metal sound we like. It comes with several different kick and snare samples because we know how important those instrument are in this genre.

Drummix Metal 1 is available to purchase as a VST instrument plug-in for Windows, priced at $50 USD.

More information: Bluenoise Plugins