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Gotchanoddin has released Urban Arps, a collection of arpeggios samples.

High Definition Urban Arpeggios Samples bring an inspiring start to music production. Choose a chop, start the beat and get creative in minutes. Great for Dirty South bangas, bouncy hip hop flava, street to club hoppin hits yet still smooth for RnB. For use on Rnb, Hip Hop, Reggaeton or Dance Music Production styles.

Urban Arps features

• 143 mastered chops and riffs available in 32, 24, 16bit and 44.1kHz HD format.
• Pre-programmed with 3 program files to load with the Akai MPC 500, Akai MPC 1000, Akai MPC 2000/XL (8 Floppy Disks), Akai MPC 2500, Akai MPC 3000 (8 Floppy Disks), Akai MPC 4000, Akai MPC 5000, Roland MV 8000, Roland MV 8800, Reason Refills, Korg Triton (5 Floppy Disks) and can be imported into the Roland Fantom Series Keyboards and the Roland MC-909 (with additional RAM installed).
• When choosing the Wav Samples format, the patch files to Native Instruments Battery, Kontakt, Apple Logic EXS 24 .exs, Steinberg Halion are included.

Urban Arps is currently available to purchase for $29.99 USD (regular price $49.99 USD).

More information: Gotchanoddin / Urban Arps

Akai Professional has announced the MPD26, a USB/MIDI pad controller with genuine MPC pads.

The heart of the MPD26 is its bank of 16 velocity and pressure-sensitive MPC pads, an Akai Professional exclusive. Producers can access four different sounds from each MPC pad for a total of 64 at a time. The MPD26 also features the MPC series’ assignable Q-Link controllers, enabling musicians to control a wide range of parameters in their software in real time. The MPD26’s six assignable Q-Link faders and six assignable Q-Link 360° knobs enable producers to spend less time with the mouse and more time making music. The MPD26 also has a dedicated set of transport controls for instant access to the most commonly used DAW or sequencing-software controls.

MPD26 features

• Access 64 samples on 16 pressure and velocity-sensitive MPC pads with four banks each.
• MPC technologies include Note Repeat, Swing, 16 Level, Full Level, and Tap Tempo.
• Control virtually any 12 software parameters on assignable Q-Link knobs and faders.
• Dedicated transport controls transmit MMC and MIDI to DAW and sequencing applications.
• MIDI output over USB and traditional DIN MIDI I/O for controlling software and hardware.
• Backlit, easy-to-read screen.
• USB bus powered, class compliant: plug and play with one USB cable.
• Comes with Ableton Live Lite and Editor Librarian software.

The MPD26 will be available from pro audio and musical instrument retailers in January 2010. It has a U.S. Retail Price of $299 USD and an estimated street price of $199 USD.

More information: Akai Professional / MPD26

Hollow Sun has released the Bass Station Freepack, a free sample pack featuring the sounds of the Novation Bass Station.

Hollow Sun Bass Station Freepack (Kontakt)

From the Hollow Sun website:

What’s on offer here are 30 excellent synth bass sounds that cover a wide range of genres, uses and applications and which Dan has looped and programmed to perfection. Nothing fancy – just 30 solid synth bass sounds that sit nicely in a track.

But they cover the full keyboard range from C1-C7 and are therefore equally as useful as fruity analogue polysynth sounds and lead lines and the raw samples are open to much abuse by the more adventurous amongst you.

And in keeping with the Hollow Sun ethos, all the sounds have been carefully optimised by Dan to have minimum impact on RAM and disk storage and CPU strain making them fast and efficient.

For Kontakt users, there’s a bonus in that there are 90 programs and the programs have themed skins and some custom controls for quick tweaking.

The Bass Station Freepack is available as a free download in Alesis Fusion, Akai S5/6000, Z4/8, MPC4000, MPC5000V2 and Kontakt 3 formats.

More information: Hollow Sun / Freepacks

ToneBuilder has announced the release of Driven Machine Drums in two new formats: NN-XT for Reason, and EXS24 for Digidesign Structure.

Driven Machine Drums is an electronic drums sample library, created from an unique blend of 14 drum machines/synthesizers and 9 analog coloration devices.

Featuring a total of 1,684 sounds in 24bit resolution, captured directly from the source using professional-quality cables and A/D converters.

Each individual sound has been carefully edited by hand for tight attacks and natural decays.

DRIVEN MACHINE DRUMS highlights the natural sounding punch, depth, and warmth added by a collection of tubes, transformers, and hardware tape emulation.

The NN-XT and Structure (works with free Structure player) formats are available in the Driven Machine Drums Deluxe package, priced at $87 USD.

More information: Driven Machine Drums

Goldbaby Productions just released the third and final volume of its MPC60 series of sample libraries.

MPC60 Vol 3 features over 1,000 sounds sampled on a vintage Akai MPC-60 sampler.

This is the last in the MPC60 series of sample packs. It includes: Layered Drums, Vinyl Drums, Various Drum Machines, FX and even some synth sounds…. all sampled on the MPC60. Then captured as 24 bit wav files. These are some seriously solid samples dripping with the 60’s legendary sonic character.

Taking a look at the sound sources for volume 3 of the MPC60 series you may notice some familiar names like the Oberheim DMX, Emu Drumulator, Roland CR-78, MFB522, Vermona DRM and Linn LM-1 drum machines. It looks like Goldbaby went crate digging in his own sample collection!

The 1,053 wav samples are categorized in various folders for easy browsing. Besides the drum machine samples there is also a folder with layered drums. This is one of those tricks most hip hop producers will know about. Layering a drum hit will give you a fatter, bigger drum sound.

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Goldbaby Productions has released MPC60 Free, a free pack of samples following the release of MPC60 Vol 3 (Finale).

The MPC60 Vol 3 (Finale) has been released! This is the last in the MPC60 series of sample packs. It includes: Layered Drums, Vinyl Drums, Various Drum Machines, FX and even some synth sounds. All sampled on the MPC60. Then captured as 24 bit wavs. These super solid samples are dripping with the MPC60’s legendary sonic character.

MPC60 Free contains samples not in the MPC60 vol 3, so it’s worth downloading even if you buy the MPC60 vol 3.

More information: Goldbaby Productions / MPC60 Free