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Precisionsound has announced the release of Gospel Drawbars, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt and Logic EXS24.

Our goal with Gospel Drawbars has not been to make a generic virtual recreation of an organ but to capture the character of a unique instrument, in this case one of the first ever Hammond organ models made, a Hammond AB from the late 1930s.

We have created a user-friendly control panel for blending a number of pre-made settings. The drawbar settings have been carefully chosen to include both mellow standards and trebles with attitude.

We recorded all the settings through the organ’s own Leslie speaker, in stereo, which gives a warm and pleasing colour to the sound. Gospel Drawbars has 22 recorded settings and 955 stereo wav samples in total, recorded at 24bits and 44.1 Sample rate.

You get 22 programs for NI Kontakt 2 and Logic EXS24. The NI Kontakt 3-5 scripted version has 22 bonus presets to start with for your own tweakings. The total size of the library uncompressed is 1.10 GB.

Gospel Drawbars costs $69 USD (download). All formats are included when you buy Gospel Drawbars. Full version of Kontakt is required.

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Precisionsound has announced the release of Ukrainian Bandura, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt and Logic EXS24.

The Bandura is the national instrument of Ukraine. We have sampled a 55-string Bandura made by the Chernihiv factory in the -1980ties. Playing styles included in the library are:

• Solo (4 velocity layers, 6 round robin layers)
• Trio ( 4 velocity layers 2 round robin layers, based upon the same samples as “Solo” with 3 samples per note)
• FX1-3 (178 sound effects created with the instrument)

The tonal range of the instrument is A0-D#5, mapped from A1-D#6 in the keyboard.

All samples were recorded at 24 bits, and 44.1 Sample rate.

The SampleSet contains 1315 mono WAV samples mapped as 9 programs for Kontakt 2 and above, 1 scripted program for Kontakt v.3-5, and 10 programs for EXS24. The total size of the library uncompressed is 2GB.

The sample library is available to purchase for $69 USD as a download (includes all formats). It is also available on DVD for $80 USD.

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Precisionsound has announced Analog Performer 2: Downtempo, a sample library featuring 140 multitrack performance loops, showcasing the unique analog sounds of the Korg MS-20 and Moog Source synthesisers.

Analog Performer is the creation of synth expert and best-selling ambient musician Phil Thornton (credits include Sinéad O’Connor, Arthur Brown, Hossam Ramzy, Expandis).

Precisionsound founder Lars Westin, says: “High-quality downtempo loops can be hard to find, so Analog Performer 2: Downtempo is an invaluable collection of laidback and ambient grooves for electronic music production.”

“Using Phil’s personal collection of vintage gear, Analog Performer 2: Downtempo is a sonic exploration of the MS-20’s dual filter, through intricate rhythms and live performances. Driven by a Korg SQ-10 analog sequencer and MS-50 modular expander, the sound of the MS-20 is complemented by powerful Moog tones, Korg Electribe drum machines, and a Korg Wavestation synthesiser.”

“As an added bonus, 40 fully-produced demonstration mixes can be used as royalty-free music beds.”

Analog Performer 2: Downtempo features

• 10 suites of eight-bar loops, at tempos from 65-90bpm.
• 140 ACID wav format loops (543MB total).
• Sliced versions of 111 loops in Apple Loops, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, and REX formats.
• 40 demonstration mixes in ACID wav format (257MB total).
• 44.1kHz/24-bit audio throughout.
• All loop formats are included when you buy Analog Performer 2: Downtempo. You do not need a software sampler to use this sound library.

Analog Performer 2 Downtempo is available to purchase for $39 USD.

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Precisionsound has announced Analog Performer 1: Uptempo, a sample library featuring over 120 multitrack performance loops, showcasing the unique analog sounds of the Korg MS-20 and Moog Source synthesizers.

Analog Performer is the creation of synth expert and best-selling ambient musician Phil Thornton (credits include Sinéad O’Connor, Arthur Brown, Hossam Ramzy, Expandis).

Precisionsound founder Lars Westin, says: “Producers of electronic music in any genre, and anyone who loves classic synths, will be inspired by Analog Performer 1: Uptempo.”

“Using Phil’s personal collection of vintage gear, Analog Performer 1: Uptempo is a sonic exploration of the MS-20’s dual filter, through intricate rhythms and live performances. Driven by a Korg SQ-10 analog sequencer and MS-50 modular expander, the sound of the MS-20 is complemented by powerful Moog tones, Korg Electribe drum machines, and a Korg Wavestation synthesiser.”

“As an added bonus, 40 fully-produced demonstration mixes can be used as royalty-free music beds.”

Analog Performer 1: Uptempo features

• 10 suites of loops, between 8-16 bars, at tempos from 90-135bpm.
• 123 ACID wav format loops (402MB total).
• Sliced versions of 102 loops in Apple Loops, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, and REX formats.
• 40 demonstration mixes/music beds in ACID wav format (225MB total).
• 44.1kHz/24-bit audio throughout.

Analog Performer 1: Uptempo is available to purchase for $39 USD (includes multiple formats).

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Precisionsound has announced Angelic Vocal Pads 5, a collection of beautiful and silky pad instruments for music production and sound design.

Unlike most choir libraries, the Angelic Vocal Pads series of sample libraries layers multiple voices from a single singer in each vowel.

The sound of the Angelic Vocal Pads has a personality within each installment that makes it unique, due to the singer who performs in that particular library.

Angelic Vocal Pads 5 features the voice of Swedish folk/pop singer Malin Hansson Dahl.

Angelic Vocal Pads 5 features

• 324 24bit stereo wavfiles in 6 vowels “A, E, I, U, O, M”.
• The natural range of the singer is F2 – G4, stretched to C2 – C5.
• 18 programs for Steinberg HALion, Logic EXS24, NI Kontakt v.1 and 2.
• 3 programs for NI Kontakt v.3, 4 and 5 (enhanced with KSP scripts, fx and GUI).
• 12 programs for SoundFont (16bit).
• Kontakt version requires full version of Kontakt, Kontakt Player is not supported.

Angelic Vocal Pads 5 is available to purchase for $59 USD (includes all formats).

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Precisionsound has announced the release of EP-30, a “Vintage keyboard collection” series sample library featuring the sounds of the Roland EP-30 electric piano.

Roland released the first velocity sensitive electric piano in 1974, the EP-30. It was built in a sturdy road case with 4 preset sounds and a bass sound that could be blended with the others in the lowest octave. It had a vibrato with speed control that affected the volume, and a tone control. You could create some variation to the sound by pressing more than one preset button at a time. Today it’s quite rare to find.

If we where to describe the sound, “Pac Man piano” could be appropriate. EP-30 does not sound like a real piano, it sounds very Lo-Fi and cheesy, in a cool, retro way.

EP-30 features

• The EP-30 sampled in full, every key and preset. The natural range of the Roland EP-30 is F0 to F5, and F0 to B1 for the Bass. The sample library has an extended range from C0 to C6 except the Bass which has been extended down only, to C0.
• 263 WAV files (24bit quality).
• 5 programs for Steinberg HALion, Logic EXS24, NI Kontakt v1-2.
• 12 programs for NI Kontakt v3-5 (full version required).
• 5 programs in the SoundFont format (16bit), 100% compatible with all virtual samplers supporting the SoundFont format like Dimension Pro (Cakewalk), Free SFZ player, NN-XT (Reason) and more.

The sample library is available to purchase for $25 USD (download) / $36 USD (DVD). All formats are included.

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