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Corin Neff has announced the release of the Zebra Orchestra, a soundset for the Zebra 2 virtual synthesizer by u-he.

Hello Zebra users and fanatics! After nearly a year of experimentation and lots of fun emulating acoustic instruments, Esgalachoir is offering his hard work to the Zebra public!

The Zebra Orchestra easily stands on it’s own when it comes to making cinematic/orchestral music. However, it’s also an excellent supplement for those who already have an advanced arsenal of sounds at their disposal.

Zebra Orchestra features

• 131 patches, including 12 Brass, 12 Woodwinds, 9 Strings, 6 Mallets, 33 Percussive instruments, 38 Soundscapes, 13 Synths, 8 Sequences.
• Plus extra “scrap” presets, handmade LFOs, as well as some wavetables.
• 68 patches have complete XY Mappings. Nearly all patches have modwheel functions.

The soundset is available for the introductory price of $20 USD until January 6th, 2013.

More information: Zebra Orchestra

Patchpool has announced the release of Framedrum, a sound library for Camel Audio Alchemy, containing multisampled framedrum instruments with up to 4 velocity layers and 8 variations per sample (Round Robin).

Played with hands and fingers in the centre and on the rim of the drum, rubbing the skin, playing the drum with mallets and sticks and treating it with various objects and materials like rubber balls, tibetian soundbowl, chopsticks, rice and peanuts (in their shell).

This library also contains many patches made from processed Framedrum sounds, treated with granulators, stretching devices, saturators, distortion units, spectral tools, pitch shifters, convolution reverbs and more exotic FX Plug-Ins resulting in a large variety of beautiful and dramatic soundscapes and textures, dark and massive drones, percussive synths, mysterious noises, rich pads, edgy synth sounds and massive impacts.

As nothing beats a real drumming performance there is also a collection of loops in various time signatures, all synced to host tempo by using Alchemy’s granular mode and temposynced MSEGs and LFOs.

Framedrum features

• 63 patches / 1 variation with 8 Snapshots each in the Remix Pad.
• 1.61 GB of original samples, 35 MB of resynthed files are included.
• 35 sfz-files are included so that you can use the samples and sfzs in other samplers as well.
• All Framedrum samples were recorded with 3 Neumann microphones in L-C-R in 48 Khz/24 Bit – U87 center mic – a stereo set of KM 184 for L-R.
• Extensive use of Alchemy’s complex modulation possibilities and Filters, often intermodulating LFOs/MSEGs/Sequencers with each other and assigning numerous parameters to a single Controller.

Framedrum for Alchemy is available to purchase for 33 EUR. Requires the full version of Alchemy, it does not work with the Alchemy player version.

More information: Patchpool / Framedrum

I am pleased to announced that Søren Hybel aka Luftrum is offering rekkerd.org readers a chance to win some of his most excellent soundsets.

I recently reviewed the Luftrum 9 soundset for Diva, which impressed me greatly.

For those who are unfamiliar with Luftrum:

I am Luftrum. Sound designer, field recordist and electronic experimentalist. I have created presets for synthesizers by Steinberg, Roland, Moog, Camel Audio, Propellerheads, Xils Lab and U-He to mention a few.

I work freelance for audio companies besides releasing my own soundbanks.
I worked with Camel Audio on the Luftrum:Ambient soundbank for Alchemy containing 150 ambient presets. I also worked for Steinberg on their Zero Gravity expansion for Padshop Pro. Ambient pads and sounds are my trademark.

You now have a chance to win a copy of the Diva soundbank, or a Reason Ambient Bundle.

Luftrum Giveaway

• 1 x Luftrum 9 for DIVA
  64 presets ranging from smooth ambient pads to gentle arpeggios, berlin school sequences and synth emulations inspired by Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Royksopp and Jean Michel Jarre.
• 1 x Reason Ambient Bundle, which includes:
  • Luftrum 1 – 66 Ambient patches for Thor with 10 Signature patches by Deepspace.
  • Luftrum 2 – 69 Ambient pads, soundscapes & drones for Thor.
  • Luftrum 3 – 95 Dr.Rex loops (318 MB) + 45 Ambient pads for Thor. Old movie conversation, soundscapes and drones, field recordings etc.
  • Luftrum 5 – ISHQ Signature Soundbank + 64 Ambient pads for Combinator and Thor, including standalone wav and rx2 files of the ISHQ soundbank.

For a chance to win, simply leave a reply on this post and tell us whether you would want the Diva soundset or Reason bundle. For each, a lucky winner will be chosen at random from all replies.

Dec 26th – Luftrum has just doubled up the prizes. There are 2 Diva soundsets and 2 Reason bundles to be won so we’ll pick 4 lucky winners in a few days!

The giveaway ends December 31st, 2012, 11.59pm CET. The winners will be announced shortly after. Good luck!

More information: Luftrum

The Unfinished has announced Massive Ammunition, a soundset for the Massive software synthesizer by Native Instruments.

Massive Ammunition is a new collection of 128 sounds for NI Massive aimed at deep and atmospheric dubstep, industrial electronica and hybrid electronic film scoring. In fact it’s perfect for any music that requires some ballsy bass sounds.

At the heart of the soundset are a number of gritty, growly and wobbly bass tones, designed to test the most robust speakers. Depth and punch is this collection’s primary purpose.

However, there’s more to the set than just meaty low frequencies. There’s also a number of beautiful, wide pads and noisy but delicate soundscapes. Add to this some distorted and kinetic plucks, keys, bells and leads, and you have enough sounds under your belt to make polished music straight away.

Dark, driving tech lines to underpin your next movie trailer, throbbing basslines to propel your next dancefloor smash, or just a collection of pristine noises to inspire your next project… You’ll find it in Massive Ammunition.

The soundset is available to purchase for £14.99 GPB. A free demo pack of 20 sounds can be downloaded. Ammunition requires Massive 1.3 and uses the .nmsv format.

More information: The Unfinished / Massive Ammunition

Zero-G has announced the release of Maximum Force Imaging Elements, a collection of over 1.5 GB of monumental cinematic audio of stupendous power.

Maximum Force has been created by the prodigious talent of a world-class soundtrack and FX producer this library was especially created for projects that require high-impact sound effects (radio station ID, TV promos, bumpers, trailers). All sounds are designed using manipulated field recordings and synthesized sources.

Full of awe-inspiring sounds of scope and breadth Maximum Force is the perfect tool for busy post-production facilities, video editors, sound designers, broadcast radio/TV stations and experimental composers. This library is not only for film and games soundtrack creators but is also a goldmine for cutting-edge dance producers who want to add something special to their tracks.

The library includes multi-layered imaging elements, impacts, long and short fx, noise, whooshes, lasers, bleeps, tonal sounds and creative soundscapes as well as various loops so you’ll find the sound you need without slowing down your workflow.

Maximum Force features

• 550 Acidized WAV files & 550 AIFF Apple Loops.
• 40 instruments for Kontakt, EXS24 & NN-XT.
• All stereo 24-bit 48Khz sounds are Ebu128 loudness normalized and cut in single files to make them easier to use in your audio/video productions.
• All of the samples have been pre-cleared and are 100% original & royalty-free for your musical use without any additional licensing fees.

The sample library is available to purchase for £60.95 GBP / $99.95 USD / 75 EUR.

Zero-G has also announced a Christmas Sale, offering a discount on its sample libraries through December 31st, 2012.

BIG festive savings in the Zero-G Download Shop! 30% off everything, and great bundle deals in our Christmas Sale.

More information: Zero-G / Maximum Force

Samplephonics has released Granular Structures, a sample library featuring over 280 drum and rhythm loops, grainy soundscapes, glitchy textures and rhythmic patterns.

Welcome to the parallel universe of Granular Structures, a rich tapestry of sounds, textures and rhythms interwoven together to produce one of our most exciting sample libraries to date. Granular atmospheres, rich evolving pads, mind bending glitchy beats, rhythmic sound patterns and deep melodic ideas come together to create a beautiful and thought provoking collection of loops and samples.

Created by sound designer and composer Carlos Butler, who has gone to great lenths to design an extremely well produced and complex selection of loops that are surprisingly flexible and easy to use. The samples work well layered with each other, as they do individually when dropped into an existing project.

The sample library costs £34.70 GBP.

More information: Samplephonics / Granular Structures