On January 24th in 1848, James Marshall triggered the California Gold Rush when he uncovered a handful of shiny pebbles while building a lumber mill in Coloma, California. Subsequently, hundreds of thousands of people, from all over the globe, suffered great hardship to make their way by land and sea to seek their own fortunes. We guitarists… Read More »
Embraced by listeners and players alike, Robben’s innovative and soulful musicality triggered a revolution in electric blues guitar styling. In this 6-hour, interactive video Blues Revolution course, Robben steps you through his Chicago blues influences, chord and scale vocabulary, rhythm guitar techniques, improvisational approaches and harmonic insight for crafting the fresh, contemporary lines that comprise his signature… Read More »
GarageBand is the most accessible, affordable, and easy-to-learn multitrack recording application available. Learn how to start creating your own music with GarageBand here in this course. Garrick Chow shows how to create a new project, add loops (prerecorded sounds and drum beats) to quickly build a song, create your own custom loops, and use Drummer to create… Read More »
Tropical House Essentials by Big EDM is a beautiful chilled pack loaded with the freshest and deepest sounds, samples and melodies. Inspired by the most famous tropical tunes out there. In this pack you have literally everything you need for creating your own smooth mix. All samples, loops, MIDI and presets were created with maximum precision. Be… Read More »
Everyone knows that Robert Johnson really didn’t sell his soul to the Prince of Darkness at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale. Silly urban myth. Everyone knows that the devil always hangs close to a river and there’s no river anywhere near those crossroads. It was the crossroads of Highway 8 and Highway 1 in… Read More »
From dramatic pitch enveloped hits to squelchy filtered noises, Analog Drums contains a huge grab bag of multisamples all expertly programmed for Ableton Live, Kontakt and Logic. Produced entirely on Doepfer, LiveWire and MFB modular systems, Analog Drums was designed to pump the modern DAW full of real diodes, resistors and transformers! This Micropak includes 5 ‘base’… Read More »
Best Service’s second title in their best-selling K-Size range, Tech-House Edition delivers a whopping 2,800+ high quality loops and sounds. Conveniently categorised with folders for Full beats, Addons, HiHats, Percussion, Synth and ‘Sidechained’ loops at an industry standard 127bpm plus 1,300+ one-shot drums, this is the definition of Tech-House. Taking inspiration from the classic genre starters such… Read More »
The Wasp is a quirky little synthesizer that, despite its toyish look, is quite capable of funky analog sounds. It really is black and yellow too, just like the insect it is named for. Probably its most distinguishing feature is the keyboard and its non-moving touch-sensitive keys. That’s right, the flat little keys are only sensitive to… Read More »
Kick-Free Revolution Volume 1 is power-packed with almost 700 unique kick-free drum loops lovingly crafted from scratch and created exclusively for this sample treasure chest. You won’t find any lacklustre or loveless material here. Sound design wizard Oliver Schmitt returns with the next download from his famous “Revolution“ soundset series. After his highly acclaimed ‘FX Revolution’,… Read More »
Inspired by one of the most popular synths of its time, Pro II combines classic sounds with modern sound shaping tools to achieve a versatile and fully programmable virtual synthesizer. Pro II ships with a 3.9GB core sound library and includes 195 expertly programmed presets, all of which are editable via an extensively scripted instrument panel and GUI… Read More »
Everybody keeps on sampling the best and cleanest piano ever! here is a completely different approach. We sampled an old Pleyel Grand Piano (F-71240 model from 1928) with vintage gear like a Studer console and tube microphones, it has the rich and warm sound of the old jazz/blues or even classical music recordings. Technical description: 12.89GB, 2956… Read More »
The Kawai-EX Pro is a fabulous, powerful and bright 9-foot (276cm) KAWAI EX concert grand piano that used to be in the Kennedy center in Washington DC. We worked closely with Lance Herring on this library (this is our second attempt after the AcademicGrand) and decided to give our project a new dimension, we carefully recorded this… Read More »
Imperfect Samples is proud to release the final piano library, the Brasted London Broken Upright Piano. The Brasted Broken Upright Piano was sitting in an old house gathering dust, and hasn’t been tuned for over 90 years. The instrument has been imperfectly sampled with unmuted strings, and is suitable for situations where an extemely intimate, detuned, honky-tonk or… Read More »
Imperfect Samples has announced the release of the Hohner White Baby Grand Piano, a 24-bit multi-sampled imperfect grand piano instrument for Kontakt and EXS24. With an emphasis on realistic and imperfect performance sounds, the Hohner White Baby Grand has a sound character that sits between a full size grand and an upright. This grand is desirable for… Read More »
About Jeff McErlain’s Blues Survival Guide: Rhythm Edition Essential techniques & insight for blues rhythm guitar If you’re a wilderness hiker, knowing how to make fire without matches is an essential survival skill. The 9 most popular methods include flints, rocks, magnifying glasses and rubbing sticks together. Our favorite method? Rub a chocolate bar on the bottom of… Read More »
