The team behind sound design company Sample Magic has announced the launch of Sounds/To/Sample, a new one stop sample download resource.

Featuring sounds from some of the world’s foremost sample producers, including Best Service and Zero-G, digital only exclusives from Sample Magic’s new Sounds to Sample label, and a host of products from exciting new digital sound designers such as Motion Samples, Equinox and Zenheiser, Sounds to Sample also offers a range of producer tips, tricks and tutorials, including insights into the dance music industry.

Sounds to Sample sells the very latest and catalogue Sample Magic products in a variety of purchase options, from Wav only, Rex, Apple Loop or Full Download - exactly as on the physical CD - as well as unique digital-only content, including Dance Drum Hits, Afro-Latin Percussion, Dance FX, Breakbusting Drums and Pads & Textures.

The site, which has been built by the team behind Ministry of Sound Download and DJ Download, launches this week after exhaustive beta-testing using feedback compiled by hundreds of Sample Magic customers.

Visit Sounds/To/Sample for more information.

Zero-G has released 5 new titles in the SoundSense Series sample libraries.

New SoundSense products

Street Beatz contains 1 Gb of brand new professional NYC hiphop at a bargain price. Full of Earth Shaking Beats, Dope Grooves, Cool Vibes and Full Phat Construction Kits from the streets of NYC.

LA Drums for Songwriters - Top LA session player, engineer and programmer Jeremy Janeczko who has toured with many top stars including Sheryl Crow, Cypress Hill, The Eagles, Alanis Morissette and Michael Jackson brings you this great collection of acoustic drumloops for use in all genres of music.

Grime Scene contains 500Mb of essential loops, growling basses, raw beats, and big clash sounds and a generous portion of grimey strings, percussion and atmospheres incorporating Ragga, Grime, Reggae, Dubstep and many other influences into this library that will burn up any urban production.

Old Skool House - Classic house for use in tomorrow’s dance tunes! Our Top House producers bring you this fantastic collection of old skool house samples from the era that spawned classic house and was the catalyst that sparked the massive movement that is electronic dance music. Folders packed full of construction kits, beats, basses, pianos, organs, percussion loops, drum kits, stabs, riffs and more.

Elektroytic is the second sample library by Ian Boddy in the Zero-G SoundSense series. Best known for his love of all things analogue and his weird and wonderful atmospheres he has taken this sense of exploration and discovery into the realms of beats & loops. But these aren’t “normal” rhythms rather they are beats that have been twisted and mangled using a huge arsenal of cutting edge digital techniques. The resultant loops and one-shots provide a unique library of sonic inspiration for beat driven music especially dance music.

Each of these SoundSense Series products is available for a recommended retail price of $59.95 / 49 EUR / £29.95 GBP.

Visit Zero-G for more information and audio demos.

Zero-G and Xfonic have released Urban Ammunition, a 4.3GB sample library featuring Hip hop and R&B sounds.

Urban Ammunition is a huge, totally new collection of Hip Hop and R&B loops and samples all engineered & mixed to perfection. The library was designed with urban producers in mind, jaw-dropping beats, keys, basses, guitars, synths, strings, licks, fills, percussion, scratches and much, much more!

Urban Ammunition features

• 4.3Gb of sounds on both DVDs.
• 2900 Acidized WAV & 2900 AIFF files.
• 128 full construction kits.
• 400 individual drumloops, 100 live drumloops, 300 percussion loops, 40 scratch loops and 100 special MPC tool loops.
• Formats supported include: Akai MPC compatible, Acid WAV, AIFF Apple Loops.

Urban Ammunition is available now for a recommended retail price of $139.95 USD / 89 EUR / £69.95 GBP.

Visit Zero-G for more information.

Zero-G is now shipping Vocaloid PRIMA, a virtual vocalist plug-in modelled on the voice of a professional soprano opera singer, and powered by Yamaha’s VOCALOID2 Singing Synthesis Technology.

Whether it’s soaring leads, harmonies or backing vocals, Prima can sing any word from the English language (and other languages too with a little work). Prima is also very well suited if you want to be adventurous and experimental, since her voice can be easily modified and shaped in many ways.

In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables or phonemes you can imagine, PRIMA will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag and drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.

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