FXpansion has announced the release of its Bloom creative delay and diffusion effect plug-in for Windows and Mac.
FXpansion’s Bloom delay with additional diffusion network, effects, advanced modulation and much more.
Bloom’s varied delay modes and lush diffusion reverb instantly introduce new textures and spaces to your productions.
Dig a little deeper to discover new ways of using delay for sound design – use psychedelic effects like frequency shifting and chorus in the feedback path and modulate Bloom’s parameters with step-sequencers and LFOs for an amazing variety of new sounds.
Bloom features
Creative delay and diffusion effect plugin.
Digital, Analogue BBD and Tape emulations.
Syncable, reverse, ping-pong and freeze delay modes.
Diffusion reverb, additional effects, EQ, drive and saturation.
Flexible routing for processing blocks.
2x oversampling with 4x Hi Def mode for extremely high quality.
TransMod modulation with step-sequencers, LFOs and more.
Comprehensive MIDI control.
32-bit and 64-bit support.
Bloom for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS) costs $99 USD / €79 EUR / £69 GBP inc VAT where applicable. Registered owners of Geist, DCAM: Synth Squad, Tremor, Etch, Maul, DCAM Dynamics, BFD2 and BFD Eco (and customers purchasing Bloom at the same time as any of these products) get an introductory discount until March 31st, 2013.
Tonebuilder has announced the release of two new official versions of its Driven Machine Drums STRIKES BACK!! electronic drum and percussion sample library, now supporting Ableton Live and the Octatrack performance sampler by Elektron.
The Ableton Live version contains the complete 2,270 custom one-shot sound library along with 22 Drum Racks.
Elektron Octatrack receives a 24-bit/44.1kHz version with 2,270 custom drum samples optimized for Elektron Octatrack playback levels.
The sample library costs $77 USD (Standard) / $87 USD (Deluxe). Limited copies are available.
Fingerpushers has released new drum kits for its Butch Techno Percussion synthetic percussion library. The update includes five drum kits for Native Instruments Maschine and is free for all previous owners of Butch Techno Percussion.
Butch Techno Percussion is a collection of almost 400 highly processed synthetic drum samples in 16 bit WAV-format.
The original material came from a TR-909 drum machine. The drum samples were loaded into a E-mu E4XT Ultra hardware sampler for some serious time stretching sessions.
A big portion of the sounds were processed and shaped with Fxpansion Geist and re-composed into percussive sounds. Another portion of the sounds were mangled in the Ohmforce Symptohm granular sampler.
FXpansion has announced the release of Zildjian Digital Vault, a comprehensive collection of Zildjian cymbal recordings ready to slot into your BFD2 or BFD Eco installation.
Zildjian Digital Vault features 34 classic crashes, splashes, rides, chinas and hihats hand-selected by Zildjian’s master cymbal tester Paul Francis. Recorded in intricate detail by sampling guru John Emrich, the sounds are captured with crisp direct mics and lush stereo overhead and room mic sets. Each cymbal is recorded at multiple velocities while being struck by sticks, brushes and mallets. The included cymbals feature articulations for bow, edge and bell positions while hihats feature tip and edge hits at 5 positions between open and closed.
Included are 14 A-series, 9 K-series and 11 FX cymbals from the Zildjian range as well as a series of authentic drumkit grooves.
Note: This product combines 3 previous Gen16-branded products (Z-Pack1, S-Pack1 and S-Pack2).
Zildjian Digital Vault costs $149 USD / €109 EUR / £95 GBP inc VAT. Until Jan 31st 2013, this product is currently available at a 50% discount in FXpansion’s expansion sale.
FXpansion has announced the release of JM Essentials Vol.2, a new groove pack expansion for the BFD drum workstation.
JM Essentials Vol.2 is a BFD Groove pack that provides a realistic set of reggae, funk, disco, swing, rockabilly, nu-metal and punk patterns for FXpansion’s BFD2 and BFD Eco acoustic drum software instruments.
Produced by experienced composer Jacques Mathias, JM Essentials Vol.2 contains expressive patterns that offer a realistic foundation on which to build your productions. The included Grooves are ready to be used as-is or edited to your requirements and feature the convincing feel of a real drummer.
Each supplied palette features up to 50 Groove and Fill variations, with the pack containing over 1300 patterns in total. Palettes are supplied in BFD2 and BFD Eco versions.
The JM Essentials Vol.2 pack costs $39 USD / 29 EUR / £25 GBP inc VAT. It is currently 50% off as part of the January sale on expansions.
There’s never been a better time to expand your library of sounds! To celebrate the new year, selected FXpansion downloadable expansion packs are available at half-price for registered owners of BFD2, BFD Eco, DCAM: Synth Squad and Geist.
The sale includes over 40 products and is valid until 31st January 2013 at our web shop
Fingerpushers has released Butch Techno Percussion, a collection of synthetic percussion sounds for Fxpansion Geist.
Butch Techno Percussion is a collection of five kits for Fxpansion Geist, containing 80 highly processed percussion sounds. Butch Techno Percussion also contains almost 400 percussive samples in WAV-format.
The original material for this collection came from TR-909 drum machine. The drum samples were loaded into a E-mu E4XT Ultra hardware sampler for some serious time stretching processing. The samples were stretched back and forward until they sounded like a nasty hard drive crash from the future.
A big portion of the sounds were processed and shaped with Fxpansion Geist and re-composed into percussive sounds. Another portion of the sounds were mangled in the Ohmforce Symptohm granular sampler.
Lastly, the most interesting sounds were selected to be compiled and processed one last time in Fxpansion Geist.
Butch Techno Percussion features
394 percussion samples.
All samples are in 44.1 kHz, 16 bit WAV format (with short file names so they work with Akai MPC).
There are five kits for Fxpansion Geist with 80 additional sounds.
The sound library is available to purchase for 9.90 EUR.
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