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The Loop Loft has announced its February Funk Sale, offering a 40% discount on its funk sound libraries.

At The Loop Loft, we pride ourselves on producing some of the funkiest loops on the planet.

Each pack of loops goes through a rigorous 112 step inspection, ensuring maximum funktitude while at the same time, mitigating any of the dreaded “fromage effect” often caused by lesser quality loops.

Use discount code FUNK at checkout to receive 40% off Loop Loft’s funk collection of loops. The sale ends February 28th, 2013, at 12:00 EST.

More information: The Loop Loft

Hot Music Factory has released Super Funk Machine, a collection of funky loops.

‘Super Funk Machine’ brings the elements of a new school yet soulful funk band jam session to you. This product will get you grooving with those funky bass lines, pocket drums, crazy wah guitar licks, jazzy rhodes and solid brass licks. The elements of this pack are in the styles of James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Sly and the Family Stone, Issac Hayes and more.

This loops and samples pack contains drum grooves, drum fills, bass grooves, bass licks, bass effects, rhodes chords, rhodes licks, wah guitar licks, horn hits and horn licks. This pack also comes with individual drum hits and bass hits so you have even more flexibility to create your own beats and bass lines.

The sample pack costs $19.99 USD.

More information: Hot Music Factory / Super Funk Machine

Equinox Sounds has released the Complete Funk MIDI Bundle, a collection of three MIDI packs.

‘Complete Funk MIDI Bundle’ combines the 3 most popular Equinox Sounds MIDI collections for creating mellow Funk and another variety of music styles such as Funky, Jazz, Soul, RnB and Lounge music into one bundle. You’ll get a total of ten Construction Kits in MIDI format plus seven different string arrangements MIDI Construction Kits.

Complete Funk MIDI Bundle features

• Mellow Funk MIDI Kits & Mellow Funk MIDI Kits 2, two sets of five Construction Kits each in MIDI format for creating mellow Funk, Jazz, Soul, RnB and Lounge music. Each Kit is provided with a full mix and it’s component parts and comes labelled with the original tempo when recorded. You’ll get MIDI loops and phrases containing drum loops, basslines, piano loops, keyboard loops, synthesizer lines, guitars, string lines and more.
• Funky String MIDI Arrangements features seven different string arrangements MIDI Construction Kits for creating the melodic foundations for a variety of modern music styles such as Funky, Disco, Jazz, Soul, RnB and Lounge. Each Kit comes labelled with the original tempo when recorded.

The bundle is available to purchase for $29.95 USD.

More information: Equinox Sounds / Complete Funk MIDI Bundle

BHK Samples has announced Adventure into the future – About Robots and Alien Machines, a new sample pack featuring neuro funk samples.

Time to destroy the dancefloors again. BHK Samples presents A.R.A.M, an adventure into the future, a pack loaded with pure Neuro Funk samples in abundance. With over 500 various samples, you can dive deep into this genre and use these sounds for any new production.

A.R.A.M contains Bass FX sounds to fill the missing pieces in your basslines, from raving twists to bass movements loaded with pure energy, it’s all in. This pack also contains brand new ripping sustained Reese bass one shots so you can tweak and resample your own basslines without limitations.

Also included are badass talking robots like transformers, growling Monster basses and a huge devastating SFX folder with 244 various samples in, hollywood science fiction movie style FX to make your neighbours think “The War of the Worlds” is taking place in your studio .

But that’s not all, to make this pack ultra useful we have set up, total 1638, ready to go Sampler patches for KONTAKT, HALion, ESX 24, NN-XT & SFZ.

Although this pack is geared towards neurofunk, these samples are also great for dub step, drum step any any other genre’s needing sounds of the likes of NOISIA, AUDIO, SPOR, MAZTEK, PHACE, ED RUSH & OPTICAL, OPTIV & BTK, THE UPBEATS and many others.

The sample pack costs £29.95 GBP.

More information: BHK Samples / A.R.A.M.

Samplephonics has announced Funk and Soul Guitar, a collection of timeless guitar loops and samples influenced by some of the true greats including Jimmy Nolan Ray Parker Jr, Wah Wah Watson, Nile Rodgers, Roland Bautista, Leo Nocentelli, Al Mckay, Tony Maiden, Ernie Isley and David T Walker.

Expect to find a range of styles in this sample pack including mellow jazzy chords, crunchy riffs, dirty wah wah grooves and funky rhythm guitar loops.

Played by guitarist Pete Hall who used 2 guitars, a Fender Strat Lone Star and a Gibson 335, chosen specifically for their solid, familiar tone heard on so many classic records.

These loops and samples will suit a wide variety of music genres, including funk, soul, rnb, jazz, house, hiphop, chillout and pop.

Funk and Soul Guitar features

• 252 loops and samples, 254 MB content.
• 85-130bpm bpm.
• All sounds are available as a royalty free download.
• Includes a range of sampler instruments and one shot samples.
• 24 Bit Wav or Apple Loops formats.

The sample library costs £27.40 GBP.

More information: Samplephonics / Funk and Soul Guitar

Ueberschall has announced the release of its 70s Funk Rock Elastik Soundbank.

This 3.3GB Library contains 20 construction kits with 1.965 loops. Each kit consists of up to six parts. Easily create conclusive arrangements using A-, B- and C-parts, breaks, intros and outros. The tempo ranges between 100 and 120 BPM and can freely be changed using Elastik-Player.

All kits have been performed in the classic Funk-Rock lineup: Rhythm-guitar, lead -guitar, electric bass, B3 organ, moog synthesizer, Hohner Clavinet D6 and a drumkit that is available as ready-to-use submix on the one hand, as well as elaborated mic‘ed version with single tracks for all drums on the other. Find separate tracks for inner and outer miking of the bass drum, snare top and bottom tracks as well as overheads.

All instruments have been captured dry using highest quality converters at 24 bit and 44.1 kHz sample rate. No additional effects or dynamic processing has been applied, apart for the mixed loops. This way, all options to shape the sound lie at the users‘ hands. Use your personal tools to get your individual Funk-Rock-sound out of these timeless and iconic sound sources. Since this style is rarely produced these days, 70s Funk Rock is also the ideal source for authentic grooves. Almost like taking samples from your record collection. This makes the library not only suited for music production and composition of the Funk-Rock-genre but also for recent crossover styles, sample based tracks. Plus, it is equally suited for advertisement production, game-, film and TV-scores where 70‘s context is required.

The sound library (Elastik Player included) is available to purchase for 99 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / 70s Funk Rock