Results for Ensoniq

Rhythmic Robot has announced the release of Grit Kit, an analogue drum synthesiser sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

At its most basic, Grit Kit allows the user to create entirely original drum sounds using sampled analogue waveforms, transients and noise, multimode resonant filters, attack and decay envelopes, and other typical drum synth controls.

The difference that Grit Kit brings to this process is that every wave within the instrument has been recorded through the circuitry of three different vintage hardware samplers: the 8-bit Ensoniq Mirage, the 12-bit Akai S950, and the 13-bit Ensoniq EPS. These waves have been recorded over and over again using different settings of the source samplers, and pushing the input circuitry of those samplers harder and harder, allowing the user to dial in exactly as much hardware character as they want for their sound.

Grit Kit features

• A uniquely inspiring source for analogue drum sounds with a hardware-sampler edge.
• Choose from Ensoniq Mirage, Akai S950, or Ensoniq EPS samples.
• Mix and match between samplers for absolute precision in creating your custom kit pieces.
• Adjust the amount of grit and character from your hardware sampler by simply turning a dial.
• Massive, pumping beats with an entirely individual sound: craft your very own signature drum tone.
• Grit Kit ships with a pack of 16 preset kits covering everything from tight studio kits to total sonic mayhem.

The Grit Kit library is available to purchase for £34.95 GBP.

More information: Rhythmic Robot / Grit Kit

Goldbaby Production has released Synth Purveyor Vol 1, a new sample library for EXS24 and Kontakt 4.

Synths, Synths and more Synths! Yes you guessed it this product is all about synths…. some really nice ones actually…

MKS-80 (Super Jupiter), SQ-80, TX-802, CS-10, Matrix 6R, OP-1, SlimPhatty, Mopho, MircoKorg XL, Blofeld, PC3x… all great synths! They have been given the Goldaby treatment… sweetening them up with tasty outboard. Then mapped to EXS24 and Kontakt 4.

Analog bass, digital bells, lush strings and pads, powerful leads and interesting FX. Plenty of ammo for Hip Hop, Dub Step, Grime, Drum & Bass, Techno, Electro…

Synth Purveyor Vol 1 features

• 1838 x 24 bit wav samples.
• Over 160 patches for EXS24 and Kontakt 4.
• Performance GUI for Kontakt 4 patches.

Synth Purveyor Vol 1 is available to purchase for $49 USD.

Golbaby has also released Blofeld Drums, a free sample pack made with the Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer.

Blofeld Drums: This little synth is a marvel of German engineering. Having a lot fun with it… so I thought I’d share some synth drum sounds I have created with it. 66 x 24 bit wavs

Blofeld Drums is a available as a free sample pack; Maschine and Geist versions are available as well.

More information: Goldbaby / Synth Purveyor Vol 1

AfroDJMac celebrates 6 months of free Ableton Live Racks with SQ-80 Hush, the 26th download in the series.

A big reason I do this is to meet new people and share ideas and music with people I would otherwise have no way of reaching; I thought that this 26th Ableton Rack should reflect that.

One great soldier of information in the electronic music community is Tom who writes the blog Waveformless. The motto of the site is a “Freeform discussion of electronic music and the techniques and gear used in making it.” I highly recommend checking it out and exploring the vast information from synthesizer news to free sample Fridays. This weeks Free Ableton Live Rack was created using some of Tom’s free samples. Thanks to Tom for sharing these samples and letting me rack them up for everybody’s enjoyment!

The SQ-80 Hush Live Rack is available as a free download from AfroDJMac.

More information: AfroDJMac

Plughugger has released TR-SONIQ, a new sample library for Geist, Guru, Maschine, Akai MPC and WAV formats.

While the mad scientists at Ensoniq are long gone, their legacy remains in the hands of producers who still can’t part from the sound of their aging samplers.

TR-SONIQ is a sound library of TR909 and 808 drum machines colliding sonically with a refurbished Ensoniq DP/4 effects unit. It’s big, dirty and noisy, and as with all Ensoniq products, it got a character rarely found among the polished sound processors of today.

The classic drum machines from Roland are constantly being processed by SSL consoles, Distressors or software compressors and distortion units such as Sonalksis TBK3 and Ohm Force Ohmicide – the sound of Ensoniq brings a new flavor to the classic sounds.

With TR-SONIQ we have given the old drum sounds full treatment, drenching them in Ensoniq goodness, building new processing chains from scratch, sampling the results and finally converting and dithering them into 16 bit samples that can be used with practically any hard- or software sampler.

The library consists of 318 separate samples all organized into categories. There are also ten pre-made drum kits for Fxpansion Geist and Guru, Native Instruments Maschine and Akai MPC.

TR-SONIQ is available to purchase for 5.90 EUR.

More information: Plughugger / TR-SONIQ

audioMIDI.com has announced a new No-Brainer-Deal, offering the Puremagnetik Retro Synths sound library for Ableton at a reduced price of $15 USD.

Retro Synths represents the “cream of the crop” from Puremagnetik’s extensive catalog of classic analog and digital sound libraries. Consolidated into this pack of more than 4000 samples of some of the greatest classic synths.

Retro Synths features

• Analog Bass Volume 1, an impressive selection of over 50 multi-sampled programs direct from classics such as the Minimoog, Roland TB-303, ARP 2600 and the Doepfer Modular.
• Analog Bass Volume 2, a complete bass soundset focusing entirely on the classic Korg MS20 synthesizer.
• P-50 Linear, an elaborate collection of racks inspired by the legendary Roland D50.
• Phazeform Volume 1, a captivating library based on Casio’s Phase Distortion technology of the CZ-1.
• String Machines, with more than 250 MB of lush sounds recorded directly from the string synths of the 1970s.
• TeeBee, based on the Roland TB-303, includes heavy acid bass lines, squelchy resonant leads and thick analog sounds.
• Vector, which instantly turns Ableton Live into a full-blown production workstation that includes a huge library of wave sequences, attack transients and vector morphing.
• Vintage 80s Classics, a stunning collection of lush 1980s synth sounds captured directly from an Oberheim Matrix 6.
• Newly added: Waveframe, based on the Ensoniq Fizmo, provides complex, evolving sounds from this classic wavetable synthesizer.
• 2.8 GB total content: 378 Instrument Racks, 82 Live Clips.

Retro Synths for Ableton Live Intro or Live 8.1.3 or higher is available to purchase from audioMIDI.com for $15 USD.

More information: audioMIDI.com

Cinematique Instruments has released Sägezahn, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

It´s simple! Sägezahn is the German term for saw (sawtooth) – a certain type of signal generator wave, especially used in older times when synthesizers used subtractive synthesis, which is a simple acoustic model that works with a simple signal generator followed by filter, envelopes and LFOs. Saegezahn contains an assortment of sounds which were made by using the nasty sawtooth generator/ oscillators and filters of the Korg MS20, Roland JX-3P, Ensoniq ESQ-1 and Electro Harmonix Microsynth. Be assured Sägezahn is suitable for almost every music genre, even film-scores.

We sampled all mentioned machines and processed and edited the sounds enriched by filter works. You also get scriptings for each instrument providing loads of variations such as length of decay (perfect for arpeggiator), filter (LP+HP), cabinet simulation, reverb amount and arpeggiator. An absolute highlight is the multi patch of 7 different sounds delivering a monster Sägezahn sound!Kontakt 3 or higher is required.

Sägezahn features

• 11 Kontakt patches: FatSaw 720e (fat and warm), Funk Saw (phasing saw), Fuzzer Arp (old and noisy), Juno Brass (typical sound), Juno Clav (typical Juno clavinet simulation sound), Mean Bass Saw (real bass through a saw filter), MS Dbl Saw (2 Osc pure saw of MS20), MS Fart (1 Osc pure saw of MS20), Phat Ape (big and aggressive), Saw Church (organ alike), X-esq (80ies saw), Fat Monster (multi of 7 sounds, really fat).
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 3 or higher full version is required.

Sägezahn is available to purchase for 16 EUR excl. VAT.

More information: Cinematique Instruments / Sägezahn