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Soundtrack Loops has announced the release of Jazzy Chill Out, a collection of loops, samples, and Midi files.

Soundtrack Loops and Scorpio Music Productions are pleased to present Jazzy Chill Out.

This loop set is subdivided into 7 construction kits. There are 104 loops in total. Construction kit folders contain strings, basses, pads, rhodes, electric piano, acoustic piano, bells, hi hats, kicks, snares, percussion, and more.

Each file name is labeled with tempo and key info. Each midi file corresponds with it’s loop counter part. The drum oneshots are mapped out in kit format for NI Battery, Logic EXS24, and Reason NN-XT. Mixed versions of each kit also provided as a quick solution for use in multi-media applications.

Jazzy Chill Out is available to purchase for $26 USD.

More information: Soundtrack Loops / Jazzy Chill Out

The Loop Loft has announced a limited time discount on its The Art of Brushes Vol 1 sample library.

Our customers have spoken! With nothing but 5 star reviews, The Art of Brushes Vol 1 has been named the most popular Loop Loft release.

To celebrate its rise to the top of the list, we’re slashing the price in half! Download it today to discover what the warm and earthy sound of live brushes can do to your tracks!

The Art of Brushes Vol 1 features

• Number of Loops: 103 High Quality 24 Bit 48 KHZ Audio.
• Includes 68_JazzBallad, 75_PopBallad, 79_Chill, 103_Funky, 140_Granola, 144_BackBeat, 179_FiveFour, 212_Train.
• Tempo Range: 68-212 BPM.
• 100% Royalty Free.
• Formats: WAV, REX2 and AIFF (Apple Loops).

The Art of Brushes Volume 1 is available to purchase for $12 USD until December 18th, 2011 (regular $24 USD).

More information: The Loop Loft

Loopmasters has announced it has extended its Origin Series sale.

All Origin Series Sample Packs Are Now On A MASSIVE 50% Sale. Sale has been extended until the end Jan 2012!

Loopmasters Origin Series

• Soulful House Sessions brings you an incredible selection of brand new soulful house samples direct from Andy Lee at Slipstreem Studios. Inspiration comes from the DJ`s and Clubs round the world.
• Jazz/World – Superbly recorded, engineered and played, Jazz/World is a consumate production from Harvey Summers at Swine Studios. Sublime playing by some of the best session musicians and African master drummers.
• Funky House Producer brings you the best House Samples from the clubs of Ibiza, London, Paris and New York directly to your mix. Featuring the latest filtered funk loops, inspirational disco and more.
• Producer Essentials – A ‘must have’ collection of sounds, loops, riffs, and multisamples that every serious producer should have in their sample collection. Featuring drum machines, guitar riffs and multis and more.
• Lounge and Chillout – The perfect lounge and chillout sample CD of single sounds, lounge loops, ambiences, soft pads, live and synth bass, special fx, percussion loops, soft key grooves and live samples.
• Drum and Bass Producer – A Killa collection of the freshest drum and bass samples, drumloops, jungle basslines, aggressive synths, special fx, quality pads and sound bytes from one of the hottest production teams.
• Downbeat & Leftfield is the type of Sample CD that you open at Dusk and don’t put down until Dawn! This superb and completely original CD is packed with sampling inspiration.
• Percussionism is a dream for musicians looking to inject some reality into their productions with an awesome collection of looped and single hit percussion samples from all over the world.
• Broken Breaks – From swinging Jazz Breaks, Crunchy Snares and Filtered Kicks through Heavy Soul Samples and Chemical Beats, Broken Breaks moves effortlessly through the most important current Breakbeat genres and more.
• Combinations – Reason Refill contains over 800Mb of content from the Origin Series range of award winning pro sample libraries, including hundreds of brand new combinator instruments and more.
• Disco House Sessions takes you back to how we used to do it, recreating the sounds and flavours from seminal party places such as the Paradise Garage and Studio 54.
• Raw Power delivers a six barrelled assault of blistering power and vitriol, from hard edged beats to the squelchiest analogue synths, the nastiest guitars and fuzziest basses and more.
• Electro Breaks is the freshest collection of samples for Breakbeat, Electro and Breaks producers worldwide, with an eclectic selection of royalty free loops and samples.
• Afro Latin Producer – From the beaches, bars and clubs of Brazil, Argentina and Cuba, Loopmasters bring you an exclusive selection of inspirational afro latin samples and loops to blend into your productions.
• Cult Club Synths brings an exhaustive collection of 300 pads, leads, basses and hit patches to your sampler in an easy to load format.
• Session Drums – If you need real drums with feel and energy for your music, session drums brings you all the live drum loops you will ever need for Rock, Pop, Funk, Jazz, Soul, Indie, Dance and Breakbeat, and more.
• Davide Carbone’s Drum and Bass Masterclass is an unparalleled collection of pure drum and bass samples produced by one of the scenes most respected producers, Davide Carbone.
• Urban Soul from Loopmasters is the latest resource for urban producers looking to make the freshest Soul, RnB, and Hip Hop tracks. A collection of more than 1,000 brand new samples.
• Polyester Loops – Glitches, pops, stutters, and all manner of chemical electro samples and loops are the mainstay of this truly inspired and original sample collection.
• Hip Hop Progressions is the latest Sample CD from Loopmasters created exclusively for Hip Hop Producers Worldwide.
• Deep Trance and Techno is dedicated to the producers of underground Trance and Techno music worldwide, featuring a mind blowing collection of over 1,500 brand new samples.
• Airwave – Triloops Dance Breaks – Airwave has exclusively produced a superb collection of breaks and beats designed firmly for producers working in electronic music and sub genres.
• Elektro House Producer – Electro House has become the most sought after genre of house music this century and Loopmasters have teamed up with Andy Lee of Barcoda.

More information: Loopmasters / Origin Series

UVI has announced the released of Gypsy Jazzy, the first and exclusive library dedicated to Gypsy Jazz, from its very roots to most modern genres like electro-swing and swing-house.

Started by Parisian guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s, this so-called “Manouche Jazz” style beautifully plugs the gypsy spirit into the swing articulation of the period. In order to bring you most authentic and real typical manouche sounds, UVI has worked with several skilled musicians to carefully record every sound of any real gypsy instrument.
With great construction kits from the oldest manouche to the most modern electro, composed by 1 000 + of loops and instruments, you’ll be able to pick your favourite sounds up, play them at your rhythm, and add them to your productions at a glance. Deeply authentic multi-sampled instruments with round-robin are also at your disposal: gypsy guitars, double bass, roots drums, manouche violin, clarinet, typical accordion, vocals and even DJ scratches!

The unique ChordOmatic pre-sets will simplify your work: just play chords on your keyboard and the instruments selected will perform the real sounds. And if you want a whole Gypsy Jazz band playing, following your tempo and chords in real-time, just by using your keyboard, the exclusive UVIrtualBand pre-sets will make it like nobody else before.
Last but not least, the free UVI Workstation 2 software included will allow you to use all sound files and instruments immediately, under your favourite DAW or music software, whether you’re Mac or PC. “Gypsy Jazzy is the very first product to take full advantage of our new UVI Workstation 2. We believe that it’s the beginning of a new generation of sounds and instruments to come” (Alain Etchart – UVI Creative Manager). For more advanced editing, Gypsy Jazzy is fully compliant with MOTU MachFive 3.

With 4 500 + samples, thoroughly hand-crafted with the finest recording gear to deliver high-quality sounds, Gypsy Jazzy will offer you multiple of possibilities of creation. Play, create, feel free, feel vintage, feel real and feel jazzy!

Gypsy Jazzy is available to purchase for $199 USD / 179 EUR.

More information: UVI / Gypsy Jazzy

Orange Tree Samples has announced the release of the Passion Flute, a jazz-rock sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

This extensive library puts you in control of an ultra-realistic Jazz-Rock flute. Whether you need an energetic flute solo or an emotive, rich lead for a melodic ballad, Passion Flute is capable of a wide range of expression.

Flutes are complex instruments with many dynamic facets of expression, and therefore are challenging to recreate with samples. That’s why rather than sampling dozens of different articulations to imitate performance techniques, we’ve used advanced scripting to give you full control over the flute performance. For example, the vibrato is completely scripted–and not just a simple LFO, but modeled from real flute vibrato–allowing you to control the vibrato depth and speed in real-time. Also, although we sampled the flute in five dynamics, we added scripting that smoothly morphs between these dynamics using mathematically-accurate equal-power crossfades. Passion Flute’s interface allows you to assign these performance elements to any MIDI continuous controller you want–or you can let the script automatically control them for you.

Passion Flute features the great Jazz flutist/composer, Mattan Klein. Mattan performs all over the world, and has played at places such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC, and many other prestigious venues. He also was featured at the Tel Aviv International Jazz Festival in 2009 and the Ottawa International Writers Festival. In addition to touring North America, Mattan has toured Brazil, Europe, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.

We sampled the flute in 48,000 kHz, 24-bit, which is a great balance between size on your hard drive (affecting the library’s load time and memory usage) and audio fidelity. That’s over 4,600 samples, totaling 1.15 GB of flute samples. Furthermore, we sampled the flute with five different microphones, everything from modern condenser mics to a vintage ribbon mic, giving you flexibility to mix the flute however you want–or pick from the included factory presets. The mic signals were completely unaffected, so Passion Flute’s real-time mixing control starts all the way back with the raw audio signals. Speaking of mixing, we also included the ability to import and export your flute mix presets. That way, you can easily share them with other Passion Flute users.

Passion Flute features

• 4x round robin, 5 morphing dynamic layers.
• Modeled vibrato, with real-time control over speed and depth.
• Overblown notes, playable harmonics.
• Effects and phrases including growls, fluttertonguing, screams, and much more.
• Physically modeled flute fingerings (including 150+ alternate fingerings) for accurate key noises and realistic legato.
• Wind/breath controller compatible.
• 5 mic positions with extensive mixing engine included.
• Sampled in 24-bit / 48 KHz.

Passion Flute is available to purchase for the introductory price of $99 USD until December 31st, 2011 (regular $129 USD). Passion Flute requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontkat 4/5.

More information: Orange Tree Samples / Passion Flute

Toontrack has announced the release of Roots SDX and Roots MIDI,

Meet one of the most ambitious recordings in the history of Toontrack and with its 64 GB in total and 23 mixer channels, likely the world’s most comprehensive drum sample library to date. We are beyond proud to introduce a set of sounds that transcends the confines of a genre and rather define an era – an age of music spanning from Jazz, Blues to Hip Hop and Rock. Finally, welcome to the Toontrack family of sounds: Roots SDX.

Available separately as Roots – Sticks and Roots – Brushes, Rods & Mallets as well as a convenient bundle combining both.

Roots SDX features

• Recorded by Roy “Futureman” Wooten in Blackbird Studio Nashville, TN.
• Approximately 36 GB of raw, unprocessed sounds.
• A total of 23 separately recorded, tweakable channels available in the mixer.
• Custom MIDI included.
• Large selection of different drums and cymbals (Pearl, Gretsch, Ludwig, Zildjian, Paiste).

Toontrack has also released the Roots MIDI, the MIDI from the Roots SDX in an separate library.

Jazz/Fusion and all-around drummer genius Morgan Ågren is back with another library jam- packed with stunning performances!

The Roots SDX Bundle is available to purchase for 299 EUR. The individual Sticks and Brushes, Rods & Mallets packs are 159 EUR each. Roots MIDI is priced 25 EUR.

More information: Toontrack / Roots SDX / Roots MIDI