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Music-Courses has introduced DJ Fracture presents Drum and Bass in Ableton Live, an online drum and bass music production course by DJ Fracture.

Ever wanted to know the entire process of building a drum and bass track by one of the UK’s most talented producers? In this set of tutorials, Astrophonica label owner DJ Fracture takes you through each stage of working on a track, beginning with setting up the session, creating the beats, bassline and main lead parts, to building the arrangement, breakdowns, intro and outro, right through to tweaking the final mix.

All of the techniques are shown using Live’s built-in instruments and effects, with the main parts created using Drum Racks, Sampler and Analog. As well as improving your knowledge of Live’s instruments and effects, the course will teach you new ways to compose and produce music, helping you gain a fresh perspective and taking your abilities to new heights.

The course is presented in a series of online videos, with accompanying Live sessions to work to, as well as more than £15 worth of additional drum and bass samples, supplied by our sponsor Loopmasters. Don’t miss out on this essential guide to drum and bass production for one of the most popular DAWs on the market today!

The course is available to purchase for £40 GBP.

More information: Music-Courses / DJ Fracture presents Drum and Bass in Live

I’ve been following Bart van Dijk and Mark McCann on SoundCloud for a while now. Collaborating under the alias “June Miller”, the two have been steadily gaining momentum in the drum and bass and dubstep scene ever since moving from their hardcore/punk roots to the electronic music scene.

In 2007, inspired by Black Sun Empire’s Blackout gigs in Utrecht and Breakage’s This Too Shall Pass album – an all-time favorite of myself – they decided to focus on producing drum and bass. And not without success.

With the Dark Complex Drum & Bass sample pack, the sounds of June Miller are now available to use in your own productions.

Dark and Complex Drum & Bass includes 803Mb of Crisp Cutting Beats, Deep Atmospheric Soundscapes, Dark Menacing Basses, Emotive Melodies, Huge Impacts and Dramatic SFX.

If you like Drum and Bass Hard and Dirty with dramatic emotional backdrops then June Miller is guaranteed to take your productions to the next level. Taking inspiration from Artists such as Breakage, Spirit, Photek, Ed Rush & Optical, Sabre, Burial and Shackleton the guys have produced one killer pack so check out the demo and sample June Miller TODAY!

Here’s a short breakdown of what’s included in the pack:

• 30 athmos loops.
• 30 bass loops.
• 35 drum construction kit loops.
• 9 top loops.
• 15 atmos one-shots.
• 22 bass one-shots.
• 49 drum one-shots.
• 27 risers and fx one-shots.
• 25 sound design one-shots.
• 34 sampler patches for Kontakt, EXS24, HALion, NN-XT, sfz + 4 Kong kits.

Starting off with the atmos loops, what I hear immediately gets me excited about this pack. Lots of reverb drained soundscape type atmospheric beauties. The material is highly musical, with quite a few loops including a variety of sounds and instruments, and well worked out movements/progressions (up to 1 minute long even). Listening to these individually, many of them sound not as dark as I had expected, but rather uplifting really.

In the bass section we find some great gnarly, filtered bass lines. More futuristic, aggressive, and quite nasty sounding actually. In a good way of course. The sounds and melodies are well programmed.

The drum loops include 10 construction kits with the full loops and individual elements, the majority being 16 or 32 bars long. Normally I’d say just give me the full loop and drum hits so I can construct my own variations and elements, but in this case these hard hitting loops actually sound so good I don’t mind the construction kit approach. It’s also a great way to learn how full sounding drums are done. I just wish there were more of them.

The last loops folder has a bunch of top loops, including some shakers, hihat loops and a drum kick roll. Nothing earthshaking, but useful nonetheless.

Everything is tagged with bpm (all are 172bpm) and key info where applicable, and REX versions are included as well.

In the single shot sample folders it’s more of the same high quality sounds. Interestingly enough, the atmos and drones do sound quite a bit darker and creepier than their looped counterpart. There’s a good variety of themes in these original sounds. The two soundscapes (1.11 and 1.51 minutes long) are just stunning.

The bass samples seem to be taken from the sequences that created the loops. So basically shorter versions of the loops, equally nasty, filtered, modulated bass hits.

To complement the drum loops, June Miller has also included the kicks and snares from said loops, alongside some additional one-shots. Hihats (incl. cymbals and rides) and percussion samples sound great.

Another highlight is the sound fx folder, full of well-designed samples. I don’t know all the technical terms for the types of effects included, but it’s all high quality material. Very useful to beef up your tunes with for sure.

A collection of 25 sound design samples round up this pack. These are somewhere between the atmos and the sound fx. Lovely cinematic sounds, including cavern type water drips, wailing synth, lots of glitchy hits and more, all drowned in reverb.

The included sampler patches map the samples of each category across the keys for ease of use, and the drum single-shots have 5 kits patches included as well.

Have a listen to the official demo track of Dark Complex Drum & Bass below to hear what all these loops and samples sound like.

So what do I think?

With Dark Complex Drum & Bass, June Miller delivers a fantastic collection of loops and samples. It has the genuine feel of their style and sound, and it shows great technical skill and musicality throughout the whole library. The loops and samples have a consistent quality.

While there’s certainly a dark and complex feel to the pack as a whole, I was pleasantly surprised by the positive vibe of many samples when used individually.

The only bad thing about June Miller’s debut sample library is that it tastes like more, so I’m already looking forward to volume 2!

More information: Loopmasters / June Miller Dark Complex Drum & Bass

Loopmasters has announced the release of Blockhe4d – Drum & Bass Vol. 8, a collection of loops and samples by Vegas and Uman of Blockhe4d.

Blokhe4d is the collaborative project between Michael “Vegas” (formerly of Bad Company UK) alongside US-born Jonas “Uman”. The project merges Drum and Bass, Dubstep and Electro with their own brand of Techno, Disco and House in an explosive manner.

Vegas has more than 10 years experience at the forefront of the Drum and Bass scene as part of Bad Company UK. This collective had several top selling albums, and their first single was also recently voted the Number 1 D&B track of all time by Knowledge Magazine.

Uman has been behind a slew of releases across the full spectrum of electronic music, notably on Viper Recordings and Timeless. Before this he was also one half of live electrronic act, The Passive Resistance, who won the most prestigious Swiss award for new artists in electronic music, M4Music in 2007.

Expect to find, Terrifying Bass, Tricked out Leads, Concussion Inducing Breaks, and one heavy weight collection of single shot sounds.

In Detail: 812Mb of 24bit quality sounds and loops including 220Loops, 458 Single sounds, 36 Bass Loops, 27 Cymbal Loops, 62 Drum Loops, 41 Percussion Loops, 19 SFX Loops, 32 Music Loops, 260 Drum Hits, 43 SFX Shots, 25 Instrument Stabs, 226 Rex2 Files and a whopping 214 Soft Sampler Patches for Kontakt, Halion, Exs24, Nnxt and Sfz Formats. Also available as Apple Loops, Ableton Live Ready pack and Reason Refill to purchase separately.

The sample pack is available to purchase for £29.95 GBP, with individual parts starting at £8.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / Blockhe4d – Drum & Bass Vol. 8

Loopmasters has released Drum & Bass Elements Reason Combinator, a new library in the Patchworx series of soundsets.

Patchworx 36 – Drum and Bass Elements for Propellerhead’s Reason, is an absolute treat for all Drum and Bass Producers worldwide, featuring some of the sickest, filthiest bass and synth sounds ever to feature in the creative digital workstation that is Reason.

The 100 Reason Combinators Patches included in this pack are comprised of 5 Atmoshperic Pads, 17 Filthy Basses, 9 Terrifying SFX, 11 Tearing Leads, 2 Warm Pads, 18 Rumbling Reese Basses, and 2 Screaming Synth Patches- plus 64 MIDI Files and 64 Reason Song Files.

The sound library is available to purchase for £14.95 GBP.

More information: Patchworx / Drum & Bass Elements

Prime Loops has announced Greatest Drum Hits Drum & Bass, a collection of drum one-shots for drum and bass music production.

Hand-picked from across the entire history of the Prime Loops catalogue, this series delivers to you only the best and biggest drum sounds available. The series will be spread across the most popular genres in music today, so you can choose the pack that best suits your production needs.

This pack brings you over 330 of the hardest, meatiest and most destructive drum hits D&B has to offer, plucked from the most expertly crafted Prime Loops D&B releases. Choose to unwrap this monster and you’ll find kicks, snares, claps, hats, cymbals and percussion, narrowed down from our vast array of one-shots to leave the absolute best hit ammunition for your tracks.

In addition to the explosive one-shots, we’ve also included 20 brand new drum kit sampler instruments so you can start making beats straight out of the box. We’ve mixed and matched different D&B vibes and flavours to bring you these 20 inspirational drum kits, available for all the major soft samplers including NI’s monstrous Maschine.

The sample pack is available to purchase for £9.95 GBP.

More information: Prime Loops / Greatest Drum Hits Drum & Bass

Producer Loops has announced the release of its Commercial Drum & Bass Vol 1 sample pack.

‘Commercial Drum & Bass Vol 1′ is the first volume in this awesome new series from Producer Loops and it includes FIVE stunning, high energy, commercial DnB Construction Kits guaranteed to breathe life and a commercial feel into your DnB mixes. This phenomenal pack delivers an incredibly up-front and commercial DnB sound. Check out the demo and hear for yourself. Includes vocals, MIDI files, one-shot drums and much more…

Welcome to the latest sounds of Commercial Drum & Bass! Each Construction Kit here has been expertly mixed, and artfully crafted, as you will hear from the MP3 demo.

The ACID, WAV and Apple Loops versions will conform to the key of your project, so you can combine any of the Kits together, or use them in conjunction with other Producer Loops titles.

The sample library is available to purchase for £29.95 GBP.

More information: Producer Loops / Commercial Drum & Bass Vol 1