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Freaky Loops has introduced Drumstep Invasion, a collection of 285 loops and samples for drumstep music production.

What is Drumstep? A sub genre of drum and bass where the beat structure is “half time” but the remaining elements still adhere to the usual tempo and melody pattern style – the techniques and feel of dubstep with the faster pace of drum ‘n’ bass.

‘Drumstep Invasion’ comes with energetic basslines, super punchy drums, rhythmic chords, filthy synthlines, wild arpeggios, sublime pads & textures, nasty leads and FX which is most universal for many a genre be it Dubstep, Electro-breaks to DnB. Also some great bass, subbass and FX shots which any Bass junkie will find a delight!!

In detail this pack includes, 150 powerful loops locked at 175BPM + 135 ear-bending oneshots and 2 Construction Kits. Loops folder contains, 50 Bass Loops, 40 Synth Loops, 25 Drum Loops, 15 Vox Loops, 10 Texture & Pad Loops and 10 Fx Loops. Oneshots folder comes with, 75 Bass Hits, 30 Subbass Hits and 30 Fx Hits to create your own sequenced beat. If that wasn’t already enough, we also give you 2 Construction Kits.

The sample pack costs £25.95 GBP.

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Rankin Audio has released Counterstrike present Hard Drum & Bass, a collection of 420+ MB drum and bass samples.

Collectively producing since 1998, Counterstrike have had over 50 releases on various high profile Drum & Bass, Crossbreed, Electro and Dubstep labels such as Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak, Rob Playford’s legendary Moving Shadow, Dieselboy’s Human, Black Sun Empire Recordings and Excision’s Rottun. Apart from their busy production schedule, they’re playing out constantly. 2011 saw them DJ in 18 countries.

Containing a full spectrum of sounds to make the hardest, darkest and most evil drum and bass known to man. Huge bass sounds, tearing reece basses, shredding hoovers and penetrating stabs. The pack contains an amazing collection of drums both in loops and single hits. Hits that have been layered and EQ’d perfectly for the sound and are ready to sound amazing without any further processing.

The sample pack costs £22.95 GBP.

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Producer Loops has released Supalife Drum & Bass: Dark Edition, a sample pack by Eddy Beneteau.

‘Supalife Drum & Bass: Dark Edition’ from Producer Loops and Eddy Beneteau features five Construction Kits packed full of aggressive Reese basslines, relentless drums, intricate synths and mind expanding FX. At over 1.5GB per format, this is simply a must-have collection for Drum & Bass producers.

Producer Eddy Beneteau steps up the game once again with five astoundingly well-crafted Construction Kits covering all the essentials of dark Drum & Bass. But this isn’t just standard, conventional DnB. You’ll find fresh new sounds, cranked up to all new levels of insanity and complexity.

Synthetic voices spit glitched, stuttered vowels. Deep distorted basslines seem to rip apart the very air molecules before them. And frantic drums drive each mix forward relentlessly. This pack never lets up or drops a beat – all you need to worry about is whether or not the crowd can keep up with you.

With professional features such as dry and wet samples, effect tails, MIDI loops and one-shots for creating your own drum beats, ‘Supalife Drum & Bass: Dark Edition’ is a truly comprehensive product that will suit even the most demanding producer right down to the ground.

The sample library costs £29.95 GBP.

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Loopmasters has announced Enei – Critical Drum & Bass Vol 1, a sample library by Russia’s Alexey Egorchenkov akai Enei.

This pack simply goes off, it captures the good, the rough and the ugly, with Sinister Pads, Moving Piano Riffs, Old School Rolling Melodies, and serious Heavyweight Bass from Big Subs to Deep Dirty Room Shakers and then topped off with an incredible selection of Breaks, this pack covers styles from past to present and will live long into the future.

Hailing from St. Petersburg in Russia it was way back in 2003 that a young Alexey Egorchenkov first got the taste for his musical drug, Drum & Bass. Like many others before him he became hooked, dabbling with his own production and DJing soon after. Taking the artist name Enei his career began to blossom giving him star status in his beloved Russia.

2007 saw Enei earn his first official release on the Dutch label Fokuz and quickly followed more imprints on such labels as Blu Saphir and Cyanide. Whilst his productions and profile began to grow, a certain eagle-eyed label boss renowned for his supreme A&R skills, kept close tabs on him; it wasn’t long before the phone call was made and Kasra secured the first Enei release for Critical Music at the end of 2010. The rest as they say is history.

Inside Critical Drum & Bass Vol 1 you will find 586 MB of 24Bit samples, with 116 loops at 170-172 Bpm and 92 One Shots samples. Also included are 36 ready to play patches for Kontakt, Halion, SFZ, and Reason NNXT compatible soft samplers.

The sample pack costs £24.95 GBP, individual sections are £9.95 GBP each.

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Prime Loops has announced Drum & Bass Warriors, a collection of 365MB of next level D&B bass, drum, synth and pad loops.

Are you ready to do battle with Drum & Bass Warriors? This phat new drum n bass sample pack fresh from Prime Loops’ subterranean studio guarantees to put the punch in your productions with a Spartan selection of steroid enhanced sounds, ready to unleash at your peril!

On the bass music battlefield, D&B is an enduring genre at the top it’s game! But as this unrelenting form begins to mature, it’s time to enter a new dawn of D&B with the freshest, strongest and most fearsome arrival in the bass music bloodline! This valiant loop library packs brains, brawn and a mighty helping of bass, not forgetting those all important battle drums!

The sample pack costs £19.95 GBP.

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Producertech has announced Dubstep Beat Production in Logic, a brand new online course for Logic Pro, which teaches the secrets of producing Dubstep or similar heavy styles of music.

The course has been created by FracTroniX, the producer behind the eclectic, bass-driven vibes of Metaphra and the upfront, experimental drum and bass of Defazed. Having produced for a multitude of record labels and taught production for a number of institutes, FracTroniX is now sharing his experience and knowledge with the online Music Courses community.

The course takes students through each of the main stages of making a heavy dubstep track and is broken up into parts, which allows students the option of choosing any specific area that they wish to learn about, rather than having to buy the complete course.
This not only makes it more affordable but means people can try out one of the parts before deciding whether to invest in the rest of the course.

The first part on creating beats is now available at Music-Courses.com, and shows each of the processes involved with making a fat dubstep break. The lessons guide you through the various considerations when selecting samples, showing how the samples look on an analyzer to help visualize each choice. The samples are then sequenced into a chunky break, percussion is added to create extra syncopation and rhythmic interest, samples are reversed, then the levels are tweaked to get a good balance. Finally, the drums are processed with insert effects, predominantly compression and EQ, to eliminate problems and improve the sound, before creating a submix track, which allows all the drums to be glued together and fattened up.

After signing up to the course, students can access the streamed module movies, and also download the Logic demo project, which can then be freely edited and examined, to allow each technique to be inspected more closely. At any point, FracTroniX and the other Producertech tutors can be contacted via the forum, which allows Music Courses students and any dubstep enthusiasts to discuss issues and interact with one another.

The FracTroniX course is currently available at an introductory sale price of 25% off.

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