Puremagnetik has released Big Bertha, a full featured, high quality multisampled electric bass instrument and a collection of over 60 deep and funky looped clips.

Big Bertha features

• 24-bit samples and looped clips of a custom built 6-string Maillet electric bass with a classic, deep and funky tone, recorded through both a Jensen transformer and an original tube buffered AMB DI.
• Includes detailed multilayered velocity sampling of every note across 3 octaves and a library of over 60 looped clips played in various styles and tempos. The loop library includes funk, rock, RnB, fusion and many other stylings.
• Customized for Ableton Live, any Live user can take advantage of these high quality multisamples. Both FingerBass and SlapnPop programs come loaded with amplifier effects and 16 Macros for easy editing right out of the box!
• Customized for Kontakt, loaded with effects and custom KSP GUI for instant tweaking. The included audio loop library contains over 60 raw looped waveforms that load instantly into Kontakt or a DAW of your choice.

Visit Puremagnetik for more information and audio demos.

CineSamples has announced Drums Of War, a European style war drums library for Kontakt and EXS24.

Drums Of War features

• Nils Liberg’s new “Truly Random Round Robin” (Kontakt Only).
• For ensemble style patches multiple percussionists were recorded simultaneously instead of combined later (excluding “War Ensemble” which was designed to be a quick fix kitchen sink type patch).
• Open Sample Format Programming.
• “Sub Boomz” designed especially for theatrical sub woofer hits (Use Caution Monitoring!).
• Patches: War Ensemble, Titan Ensemble, Sacrificial Offering, Hells Deep, Earth Mover, Barbarian Siege, Ceremonial Skull Hammer, Combat Drum, Battle Drum, Ancient Torture Drum, Army of Doom, This is Spartaaa, Sub Boomz, Mammoth Calls and DRUMS OF WAR - Multi (Kontakt Only)

Drums Of War will be available is two versions for the following introductory prices:

1. 48k/24Bit = 1.1 GB = $99
2. 96k/24Bit = 2.2 GB = $129

Visit CineSamples for some audio demos.

Soniccouture has released Bowed Piano, a sample library for Kontakt 2/3 and Logic EXS24.

The ultimate pad-sound? Organic, shape-shifting, massive, foreboding yet delicate.. The sound of the Bowed Piano is incredibly versatile, very musical and completely unique. It seems to strike a middle-ground somewhere between a synthesiser pad and a stringed instrument and manages to sound like neither. A sound that adds space and movement to a composition, also bringing a magical, shimmering high end and baleful character that evokes so much.

Bowed Piano features

• 1.6 GB Sampled Instrument.
• 24 bit Stereo 44.1 Recording.
• 9′ Baldwin Grand Piano.
• Multiple Articulations.
• Alternate Round Robin Layers.
• Convolution Reverb From Piano Cabinet.
• Kontakt 2 / 3 or Logic EXS24 Required.

Bowed Piano is available for download for £ 49 GBP (£ 52 GPB on disc).

Visit Soniccouture for more information and audio demos.

Bardstown Audio has released Fender Basses, a sample library featuring the sounds of Fender Precision and Fender Jazz basses.

These beautiful Fender Basses were setup with both Round Wound and Flat Wound strings for the sample recordings process and extensively sample recorded with both of these string setups with different pickup setting combinations in order to provide ALL of the essential sounds that can be obtained from these instruments.

Fender Basses features

• 9 sampled Fender Bass instruments (4 Fender Precision basses, 5 Fender Jazz basses).
• 3.77 GB samples, recorded at 24 bit 96k through the DI inputs of Avalon M5’s and Benchmark 2496 A/D converters in order to provide the very highest sound quality.
• Giga 3&4, EXS24, Kontakt and HALion, all included on DVD.

Fender Basses is available for $199 USD.

Visit Bardstown Audio for more information and audio demos.