Loopmasters has launched BK presents Hard Beats, a collection of royalty free loops and samples produced by Hard House icon BK.

The pack includes 1.18 GB of sounds, featuring punchy drums, bouncy basses, uplifting synths, percussion workouts, enchanting vocals and much more.

BK a.k.a Ben Keen is the most awarded UK Hard house producer of all time, winning best producer 6 times in a row at the Hard Dance awards. For this sample pack not only does he delve back into his back catalogue from the past 20 years to bring you classic sounds from his Nukleuz days but he has also produced a tonne of brand new material exclusively for this pack.

Highlights of the kit list used to produce Hard Beats includes Roland Alpha Juno, Novation Supernova, Access Virus C, Akai MPD226 plus each sample has been given the BK mastered touch through a range of gear and software including UAD Plugins, SPL Vitalizer, AMS RMX16 EXPANDED, Eventide H910 Harmonizer, Neve 8BRS, Pultek EQP, Shadow Hills mastering compressor, UA 610-B, Little labs VOG, Emperial Labs Distressor , Real Verb Pro, Helios 69, Ampex ATR-102.

BK’s Hard Beats features

  • 1.18 GB of content, 444 individual Wav files (24-bit/44.1kHz).
  • 219 Loops: 60 Top Drum Loops, 30 Full Drum Loops, 30 Synth Loops, 24 Bass Loops, 20 Percussion Loops, 19 Sub Bass Loops, 17 Drum Fx Loops, 15 Drum Construction Kit Loops, 3 Build Fx Loops and 1 Vocal Loop.
  • 225 One Shots: 106 Drum Hits, 21 Fx, 20 Synth Hits, 14 Tonal Riser Fx and 7 Bass Multis.
  • 260 REX2 files.
  • 41 soft sampler patches for Halion, NNXT, Kontakt, Sfz and EXS24.
  • 8 Kong kits.

The sample pack costs £29.95 GBP, with parts also sold separately.

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