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Loopmasters has released The Producers Collection, a collection of 6 Multi-Sampled Instruments in Kontakt 3 and Ableton Live formats.

Producer Bundle is a one-stop resource for Puremagnetik’s sophisticated collection of acoustic and electric instruments.

The Producers Collection features

• Purple Kit – Purple Kit was hand-built to specifications designed by Puremagnetik emphasizing funk and hip hop drum sounds. Using the finest quality Keller® Maple drum shells, Purple Kit was constructed to be a unique drumset unlike any other currently available.
• PM Mark One – Fender Rhodes™ electronic piano. This Micropak includes a 73 key multisampled Rhodes and over 60 audio loops played by professional jazz, funk and R&B keyboardists.
• Technosphere – A sound design toolbox of over 100 soundscapes, transition effects and ambiances. Searching for the sound of lizards thinking or Martian zenox explosions? Look no further!
• Guitar Rack Volume 1 – Guitar Rack is a unique soundset of guitar based instruments, riffs and amplifier effects as recorded from a Stratocaster. Included in this release are also plenty of ready-to-go Ableton Live Clips complete with effects and Macro programming. With over 20 new amp and effects modules to choose from, users can customize their guitar tone extensively. Guitar Rack for Kontakt includes a huge assortment of looped .nki files and chord menus. The Kontakt version also includes a custom KSP user interface panel for tweaking the most common parameters like tube drive and tone.
• Guitar Rack Volume 2 – Acoustic guitar instruments and loops. Puremagnetik has taken the Guitar Rack series to the next level! Guitar Rack Volume 2 – Acoustic Edition contains an assortment of immaculately captured acoustic guitar chord menus, articulations and looped phrases. Customized for Ableton Live 7/8 and Kontakt 3 Guitar Rack Volume 2 is immediately playable out of the box. Both Ableton Live and Kontakt versions contain extensively programmed integrated effects and dynamic controls for easy editing and tone sculpting.
• PM-200 – Wurlitzer electronic piano multisample instrument. The Ableton Live Pack version includes the complete PM-200 multisampled instrument, fully Macro mapped with modulations and multiple effect options. The included loop library is automatically imported into Ableton’s library as Live Clips for easy access and file management. The Kontakt version of PM-200 includes a customized skin and KSP scripting for easy tweaking. Both full and “light” versions of the PM-200 are included. Special .nki format audio loops can seamlessly be loaded up in Kontakt for instant session tempo sync – no need to timestretch or compress.

The Producer Bundle is 2GB in size and is available in Ableton Live 7/8 and Kontakt 3 formats, priced at £39.95 GBP.

More information: Loopmasters / The Producers Collection

Puremagnetik has released Upright, a double bass sample library for Kontakt, Logic & Live.

A beautifully recorded double bass instrument, Upright comes packed with a multi-sample palette of articulations including plucked and traditional bow. In addition, Upright includes a number of unique synthetically enhanced instruments for electronic music or sound design applications.

Recorded with meticulous precision, Upright has been programmed for advanced multi-mic flexibility. Users can blend room modes and microphone gain to custom tailor the sound of the instrument. The Ableton Live version includes masterfully programmed Macros for easy editing, while the Kontakt version loads with a custom KSP script for quick parameter access.

Each version of Upright comes packed with a collection of Live Clips and Apple Loops.

Upright features

• A Huge Collection of Double Bass Samples.
• Expertly Recorded “Bow” and “Plucked” Articulations.
• Multi-Sampled Keymaps and Velocity Expressions
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• Tightly Integrated Ableton Live Racks and Kontakt KSP Interfaces.
• A Collection of Live Clips and Apple Loops.
• Recording Information
  • Direct: Built-in Bridge Piezo Direct to Tube DI
  • Close Mics: Brauner VM1 & Neumann KM 184
  • Room Mics: XY Stereo Pair of Neumann KM 84s

Upright is available now as a download for Puremagnetik subscribers. Subscriptions start at $5.75 USD.

More information: Puremagnetik / Upright

Humanworkshop has released 3 free sampled instruments for Kontakt.

Kontakt was envisioned as a ‘new-breed’ software sampler, the original version pushing for a stable interface to work with pitched musical sound. Some say that Kontakt’s main focus was interface design, enabling musicians to quickly and painlessly create their own instruments based on sampling sound sources.

In version 3 options are almost limitless. We have tweaked single shot samples into complete chromatic pad instruments and bad ass sounding synth leads.

I thought it would be nice to share some instruments I made during testing of ksp scripting. (check the fancy backgrounds!)

Humanworkshop Kontakt instruments

• AnaSynth, a beast that might be reminiscent of (chris) Clark type-o stuff. With step sequenced parameters for extra control.
• ArabFlutist, basically a flute that is tuned in Harmonic Minor. It does not matter what key you hit, it will always play in the key of the scale.
• PadMeister, a true pad meister. Moody, maybe even creepy!

The Kontakt instruments are available as a free download from the Humanworkshop website.

More information: Humanworkshop

Puremagnetik has released Phazeform, a captivating library of instruments and phrases based on Casio’s Phase Distortion technology of the CZ-1.

Additionally, Phazeform includes a collection of looped phrases from the SK-1 and VL-Tone classics.

The mothership of Casio synthesis, the CZ-1 was a remarkable piece of technology in its day, emulated by other leading synthesizer manufacturers. Casio’s CZ line of Phase Distortion synthesizers are incredibly unique devices that used digital synthesis without a filter as opposed to traditional analog subtractive synthesis with a filter. The CZ line used phase distortion to somewhat simulate an analog filter, it had in total eight different waveforms: as well as the standard sawtooth, square, and pulse waveforms, it had a special double sine waveform, a half-sine waveform, and three waveforms with simulated filter resonance: resonant sawtooth, triangle, and trapezoidal waveforms.

The VL-Tone hybrid calculator/synthesizer, has a warm place in the hearts of many with its simple electronic sounds, factory rhythms and built-in speaker. Despite having few synthesis options the VL-Tone has a single note sequencer (fun!), an LFO and ADSR generator. Nevertheless the VL-Tone is a unique little creature that has found its way onto many famous recordings.

Phazeform features

• Complete palette of famous Phase Distortion sounds.
• Multi-sampled CZ library with advanced DAW integration.
• A collection of expertly programmed clips.
• Sound set of percussion menus.
• Custom Kontakt KSP GUI and native Kontakt effects.

Phazeform is available for subscribers (subscriptions starting at $5.75 USD/month).

More information: Puremagnetik

Native Instruments has released version 3.5 of Kontakt, the sampler instrument for Windows and Mac.

Native Instruments today released KONTAKT 3.5, a major free update for its leading software sampler.

The new version fully utilizes the capabilities of today’s computer systems to overcome existing performance barriers, and includes many improvements that make KONTAKT even more powerful and convenient.

New in Kontakt v3.5

• Extended Memory Addressing — full support for 64-bit memory addressing in both Windows and Mac OS X. This means you can load more than 4 GB samples into RAM in both stand-alone and plug-in mode. In Windows, 64-bit operating systems and sequencers with special stand-alone and VST versions are now supported. On Mac, the newly-created Memory Server feature bypasses the OS X’s 4 GB limit and can address as much RAM as you have installed – even in 32-bit hosts such as Logic or ProTools.
• Enhanced Sampling Engine — a completely re-designed sample playback engine. The Direct From Disk mode has been reworked to act dynamically, allowing the operating system to allocate memory in real time as you play and release voices. The result is a significantly smaller memory footprint which leaves more RAM for loading samples. This is especially useful with 32-bit systems where you can now load sinificantly more samples than was previously possible.
• Multi-Processor Support — provides true multi-processor / multi-core support. You can now switch multi-processor support on and off and set the number of processors / cores you want to use for KONTAKT. Up to 16 cores are now supported.
• Direct MIDI Learn — MIDI Learn function for all sliders and knobs including Performance Views. Assigning MIDI controllers to KONTAKT sliders and knobs is quick and convenient with multiple assignments also possible.
• Enhanced Library Management — integrates a visually enhanced library tab that now makes browsing and loading samples and libraries quicker and easier.
• Further improvements — include a bypass button for effect slots, localized info pane in six languages, improved automapping, Pro Tools compatibility under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, aftertouch interpretation added to KSP, a Play cursor for Beat Machine mode in Wave Editor and enhanced REX file support.

The manual (.pdf) has detailed information on the changes in Kontakt 3.5. This update is available as a free download for registered Kontakt 3 users.

More information: Native Instruments

Puremagnetik has released Guitar Rack Volume 3, an expressive collection of chord menus, note articulations and looped clips as recorded from a classic 1963 Guild Starfire III.

In this 3rd installment of the Guitar Rack series, Puremagnetik has cranked it up a notch! This Micropak includes a collection of highly expressive guitar instruments as recorded from a classic 1963 Guild Starfire hollow body. Slides, hammer-ons, staccato and jazz articulations are all available at your fingertips with Guitar Rack 3. This one goes to 11!

Guitar Rack Volume 3 features

• Over 700 24-bit multisamples.
• 5 sophisticated hollow body instruments.
• Over 70 Live Clips and Apple Loops.
• Add-on Amp Effect Pack for Live 8.
• Custom Kontakt KSP GUI and native Kontakt effects.

Guitar Rack Volume 3 is available for current Puremagnetik subscribers (subscriptions starting at $5.75 USD).

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