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Ueberschall has announced the release of Supreme Styles, a sample library for urban music with a focus on guitars.

The library deals with a wide range of styles such as HipHop, R&B, Club and Dancehall, as well as other surrounding genres. Each of the 30 Construction Kits delivers a well composed track, (including a main part, variation, intro/outro), which consist besides its instrument and drum and percussion loops, of several guitar loops. With a range of 58 bpm to 127 bpm, you‘ll find unique tracks, which have their own tension, feeling and style. Everything is composed to conform to the musical genre and the samples comprise a state of the art Library, made to achieve true urban sound.

Supreme Styles features

• 4 GB content, 30 construction kits, 1,452 loops, 182 drum shots.
• Huge range of acoustic and amped guitars, such as rock guitars with and without distortion, flamenco guitars, classical nylon guitars, also guitars with wah-wah effect and much more.
• A flood of guitar phrase choices are available from short licks, up to catchy melodies, riffs and chords.
• All guitar loops were created with top brands such as Fender, Gibson, Music Man, PRS, Sandberg, Martin, Washburn and Takamine, to name only a few. Amps used include Marshall, Vox, Mesa Boogie, Hiwatt, Engl, Orange, Line 6 and others. Additional DSP processing, stomp pedals, along with outboard processing were also applied.
• Beside the guitars, all the essential sounds needed for urban music are available, including: bass drums, snares, claps, hihats, shaker, a great amount of percussion, as well as heavy bass-lines, remarkable synthesizer sounds, pads, strings, organs, acoustic pianos, e-pianos and much more.
• Elastik Soundbank for PC and Mac (Elastik Player included – no sampler required)

Supreme Styles is available to purchase for 99 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / Supreme Styles

MOTU has released version 1.0.5 of urban rhythm instrument BPM, and version 1.0.2 of Electric Keys, a virtual electric piano instrument.

These maintenance updates introduce many enhancements, including 64-bit native operation under Windows 7 and Vista. BPM 1.0.5 also introduces several exciting new features, such as a new arpeggiator, beat slice editing and performance optimizations.

New in BPM v1.0.5

• Native 64-bit Windows support.
• Arpeggiator: Each rack part now has an independent arpeggiator.
• Enhanced loop slicing: You can now add and edit slices in the Clip window.
• Mono option in BPMSampler application: Previously, the BPMSampler standalone application always supplied a stereo signal. A Configuration menu now provides the option to use mono or stereo.
• Improvements, optimizations, and refinements can be found in the following areas:
  • Performance: various CPU optimizations.
  • Loading: locating missing samples.
  • Racks: scrolling to newly created parts.

More information: MOTU

FatLoud has announced the release of Black & Gold, the first pack in new “XL” series.

Over 2GB (405 one shots & loops) of custom programmed, professional mixed & mastered material, designed for hip hop, r&b, pop and urban music producers.

“Black & Gold” contains over 400 one shots & loops, divided into the categories like: Chords Hits, Drum Hits, Drum Loops, Brass Loops, Misc Hits, Orchestra Loops, Misc Instrument Loops, Perc FX Loops, Piano Keys Loops and Synth Loops. All loops & one shots are tempo (80-100BPM) & key labeled, ready to load into your favorite hardware or software sampler.

“Black & Gold” contain multi-format material (24 bit WAV, REX, 24 bit Acid, 24 bit AIFF, 24 bit Apple Loops, 24 bit Reason 4.0 ReFill and 16 bit WAV) ready to use in your favourite sampler or sequencer, hardware or sofware.

All loops & samples in this library are licensed to you All loops & samples in this library are licensed to you ‘Royalty-Free’ so you can use them into your commercial compositions with no extra costs.

Black & Gold is available to purchase for 32.90 EUR (approximately $47 USD).

More information: FatLoud

Big Fish Audio has released Urban Flow, a collection of 10 urban pop construction kits.

Feel the flow of these radio ready Urban construction kits. These 10 kits capture the current sound and vibe of modern urban pop. It’s all about creating the right blend of punchy drums, and the right melodic parts to break into the top of the hot 100! Also included are the individual drum parts for quick and easy remixing as well as the broken out drum hits to create your own parts in a flash. Urban Flow is where it’s at for the latest sound and vibe of top 40 radio

Urban Flow features

• 873 MB of content (380 MB of 24-bit WAV files).
• 236 acidized WAV files.
• 236 Apple Loop files.
• 152 REX2 files.
• 10 high quality urban construction kits with tempos ranging from 95BPM – 142BPM.

Urban Flow is available to purchase for $29.95 USD.

More information: Big Fish Audio / Urban Flow

FatLoud has announced the release of Modern Sessions, a new sample library featuring construction kits.

Welcome to ‘Modern Sessions’ a collection of 10 modern urban construction kits. Inside ‘MS’ you will find 176 top quality loops and 50 drum-hits. Includes 1.37GB of multiformat material (Acidized™ WAV, WAV, Apple Loops, AIFF, REX and Reason 4.0 ReFill).

‘Modern Sessions’ was produced entirely by Teka of Rafpak – producer with years of experience in producing modern hip hop, r&b and pop tracks for major artists around the world.

Modern Sessions features

• 10 construction kits.
• 176 loops.
• 50 drum-hits.
• 24-bit / 44.1kHz material.
• Total 226 files (402 files for Reason ReFill version).

Modern Sessions is available as a multi-format library (WAV, REX, Acid, AIFF, Apple Loops, Reason 4.0 ReFill) from Producerloops.com, priced at £19.95 GBP.

More information: FatLoud / Modern Sessions

Motion Samples has released Candy Drums, a sample library featuring urban drum loops.

Stock up with Candy Drums filled with over 150 drum loops arranged into 25 various style beats for creating urban dance radio hits!

Every beat comes with a mix for quick jams and also provides you with all the separate drum tracks so you can mix them down to your preference. Drum sounds include big bass kicks, mixed snares/claps, hats and plenty of percussion work all played in up-tempo rhythms.

A superb collection for songwriters and producers needing drum bed instrumentals ready to go!

Candy Drums is available for purchase for $20 USD.

More information: Motion Samples