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Goldbaby Productions has released The Fat H3500, a free sample library for Kontakt and EXS24.

I just purchased an Eventide H3500. This effects unit is simply amazing! I can see why it has gained legendary status. What I didn’t know… until I got one, was that it could actually generate its own sound. Plug in a midi cable and you can play it! The sound is produced by using short delays with feedback to create resonators which give a sound similar to a resonating string.

I have sampled two patches from the H3500 through the UBK Fatso. It was necessary to do 4 round robin layers for each note sampled as the sound changes each time you hit a note. So the result is kind of organic, albeit in a electronic way…

Goldbaby has also released a free sample pack featuring the Juno-6 and UBK Fatso: The FatJuno-6 Drums and FX.

Both samples packs are available to download at no cost: The Fat H3500 / The FatJuno-6 Drums and FX

More information: Goldbaby Productions

Goldbaby Productions has released The FatJuno-6, a multi-sampled library featuring the sounds of the Roland Juno-6 synthesizer.

The Juno-6 is a 6-voice polyphonic synth. It has digital oscillators with analog filters and a lovely lush analog chorus. Its sound has been described as warm and full. Originally I was going to incorporate this synth as part of FatsoSynths Vol 2. However it became obvious early on that this synth, through the UBK Fatso deserved its own product… thus the FatJuno-6 was born.

The majority of the sounds were captured with the chorus on… this proved to be problematic when creating sustain loops, but well worth the effort! Some of the sustain loops aren’t as perfect as I would like because of this… but the payoff is that I was able to capture the wide, warm, wonderful chorus sound!

The FatJuno-6 features

• 140 x patches.
• Patch folders: Juno6_Arp (Kontakt only), Juno6_GoldPresets_Mono, Juno6_GoldPresets_Poly, Juno6_Layered, Juno6_Raw, Juno6_SingleCycle_Osc.
• 1630 x 24 bit wav samples.
• Most of the instruments are multisampled. Only the single cycle ocsillator patches are not.
• Every sound has passed through the UBK Fatso to give you that super sweet analog tone!

The FatJuno-6 is available to purchase for Kontakt and EXS24, priced at $49 USD.

More information: Goldbaby Productions / The FatJuno-6

Wave Alchemy has recently released another drum sample library, Drum Tools 01.

Drum Tools 01 by Wave Alchemy offers over 1950 exquisitely produced electronic drum samples. All sounds in the collection have been built from the ground up using a jawdropping array of analogue circuitry and exclusive highend outboard gear.

Great care has been taken to capture the tone / vibe and warmth of the equipment used and all sample editing and file naming has been done by hand for maximum precision.

The drum samples in Drum Tools 01 have been created by the creative layering and processing of drum machines, exotic synthesizers / modulars, field recordings and the recording of live drum and percussive instruments.

Ah… just what I need: More creatively layered and processed drum machine, exotic sound sources and field recordings.

Of course I don’t really need another drum sample library… ToneBuilder’s Driven Machine Drums, various Goldbaby Productions titles, and Wave Alchemy’s own Drum Machines 01 already provide me with thousands of high quality samples.

So why Drum Tools 01? The beauty of sample libraries like the ones I just mentioned is that they feature sampled material from a unique combination of analog sound sources processed with high end outboard gear, so Drum Tools still sounds “different” from everything else I already have.

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Kid Nepro has released Korg M3 Volume #5 – Vintage Synths, a new collection of 32 sounds for the Korg M3 Workstations.

An amazing assortment of fully KARMA-fied Programs & Combis perfect for Producers and Keyboard Players looking for some great classic synth sounds to add to their M3.

Kid Nepro’s Vintage Synth collection for the Korg M3 is the closest thing that you can get to a real analog synthesizer. Programmer Steve Proto has now tapped into his collection of classic synthesizers and has sampled three of the best analog synthesizers ever made – The Moog Mini Moog, Roland Super Jupiter AKA: MKS80 and the Sequential Circuits Prophet VS. Also included in the collection are six new multi samples from Korg’s MOSS virtual analog expansion board that is so popular with owners of the Korg Triton and Karma workstations.

Korg M3 Volume #5 – Vintage Synths features

• Sampled vintage synthesizers: Moog Mini Moog, Roland MKS80, Sequential Circuits Prophet VS.
• 32 new programs, 16 new combis, 32 new classic synth multi samples (no memory expansion needed).
• Additional M3’s effects, real time controls and KARMA functions to create a mix of super analog synths on steroids.
• Many of the wave sequencing GE’s found in Korgs Wavestation when triggering KARMA are included.
• KARMA’s Arpeggio GE’s used to give you those cool arpeggio rhythms found in many vintage synths from the 70’s and 80’s.

Korg M3 Volume #5 – Vintage Synths is available to purchase for $30 USD.

More information: Kid Nepro / Korg M3 Volume #5 – Vintage Synths

Ian Boddy has released Beatalogue, the 4^th sample library in the waveforms series.

This follow up to ‘Drumalogue’ takes a selection of electronic drum patterns and loops which were then fed through Boddy´s massive modular synth system. These were then filtered, mangled and generally messed up using a huge number of modules all in the analogue domain.

All the loops have between 3 and 5 variations and sonically range from sweet filtering all the way through to completely crunched and twisted mayhem. The quality of the distortion and overdrive achieved using these techniques gives the loops a gorgeous organic feel which is further heightened by the sound of the modular itself with it´s fuzzy warmness and tripping envelopes.

The sounds are also provided in Rex2 and Apple Loops format enabling them to be used at various tempos and dissected by the end user for their own purposes.

Beatalogue features

• 300 mono samples at 44.1Khz, 24 bit in WAV format.
• All samples also provided in Rex2 & Apple Loops format.
• Drum Loops filtered, mangled & messed up via the following analogue synthesisers:
  • Roland System 100-M
  • Analogue Systems
  • Doepfer A-100 modular system
  • Analogue Solutions
  • Livewire AFG, Vulcan & Dalek Modulators
  • Metasonix TM-2 Tube BP filter & R-53 Tube Waveshaper/Ring Mod
  • Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer
  • The Harvestman Malgorithm
  • WMD Geiger Counter
  • Make Noise QMMG
  • Minimoog
  • VCS3

Beatalogue is available to purchase as a digital download for £24.99 GBP / 29.99 EUR / $39.99 USD.

More information: Beatalogue

D16 Group has just released an update of Phoscyon, a virtual bass line synthesizer plug-in for Windows and Mac.

Phoscyon is an emulation of Roland’s classic TB-303, the squelchy bass synth from the early 80’s. Originally designed as a bass companion for practicing guitarists, this little monophonic synthesizer would play a big role in the development of various genres of house music a few years later. Almost three decades after it was introduced, the TB-303 is now one of the most sought after vintage synths.

Phoscyon isn’t exactly new. Its first official release was in February 2006 and it received a few updates since then. The long awaited (almost 2 years) version 1.8 update brings some new features like new shuffle/swing parameters, oscillator tuning settings, updated preset management and MIDI learn (similar to other D16 plug-ins), accent velocity level settings and lots more. It also marks the first official release of an AudioUnit version.

The interface screenshot shows that Phoscyon offers quite a number of additional features to the original TB-303.

Phoscyon in detail

In the top of the screen you can set the sequencer mode to either internal or external (when internal LED is off). When using the internal sequencer it can be synced to the internal clock —30-300 bpm, or to your host tempo. Phoscyon has 96 patterns which can be triggered by MIDI notes in Host mode; great for performing live. With the new MIDI learn system it’s dead simple to link Phoscyon’s parameters to your external controller. Click the MIDI learn button, adjust a control on Phoscyon and on your controller and voila, all done. You can save your custom MIDI CC maps as well.

Moving on to the next section we find the presets section. Presets store information about the sound, arpeggiator, distortion, and volume parameters. Phoscyon can store up to 128 presets per bank, which you can of course save and load. The built-in preset manager can store presets in groups, a handy little feature to assist you in finding the sound you’re after with ease.

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