Captured during the recording of Jason Richardson’s “II”, Luke’s inaugural drum library serves as a masterclass in what’s possible in modern drum engineering. Tight, punchy, and precisely tuned, the library has been built to cut through even the densest mixes and the most complex compositions.
A beautiful concept of sonic exploration: Bloom. With hundreds of sound sources encapsulated in four powerful engines, Bloom discovers a new dimension of morphing the traditional into something else. Bloom is the perfect tool for the creative mind delivering obscure soundscapes, lush pads, to tantalizing pulses and beyond. Bloom features a wide range of internal sounds at your disposal. From delicate strings to high octane guitars, intimate woodwinds to otherworldly synths, Bloom has the right material and tools to deliver a unique sonic experience. An ocean of sound sources matched with powerful effects and modules gives you a new sonic playground with boundless possibilities. We sought out a team of highly talented sound designers to help create our factory presets. Inside you will find ethereal pads, dark and dangerous drones, energetic pulses, soundscapes to transport you elsewhere, and much more.
What would an exquisite brushed train beat be without the cadenced thump of the bass? A smooth jazz groove without its mandatory walking bassline? A basic backbeat without the accented rumble of the bass to back up its twos and fours? To be honest, a rhythm section without all its cog wheels spinning in perfect symmetry is simply a stumped machine running at half capacity. The Acoustic Songwriter EZbass MIDI pack was created in tandem with its counterparts for drums and EZkeys. It offers a broad collection of fundamental basslines for use in any intimate, organic-sounding and acoustic song scenario where the bass isn’t supposed to eat away at what matters the most in the end: the song. Expect a wide variety of basic basslines for your train beats, basic backbeats and subtle shuffles – ideal for use with the Upright EBX, the Fretless EBX or, frankly, any source of sound in the EZbass universe. Welcome to the thumping pulse of many of your next acoustic pop, Americana, indie and folk songs.
In most singer-songwriter material, the vocals, the lyrics and the melody are often what remains in the focal point throughout. This collection of EZbass MIDI was designed to give the demanding songwriter a fundamental battery of basslines with just that in mind. Expect laid-back and smooth grooves designed to not eat up space but rather help embellish chord sequences with stylish, mellow and sophisticated transitions and variations. Welcome to a collection of basic basslines inspired by an amazing span of vocal-driven rock and pop of the past few decades.
Mallet Flux is a new Kontakt instrument that enables users to instantly produce intricate sequences based on tonal mallet percussion, including glockenspiel, celesta, xylophone, vibraphone, and marimba. Mallet Flux features an innovative sequencer and playing engine that helps generate ideas fast, turning the simplest drafts into evocative arrangements for soundtracks, scores, and more. Mallet Flux helps composers, producers, and other musicians start creating right away. Users can begin with 270 pre-designed arpeggios, sequences, and single hits in multi-instrument arrangements. These presets can be fully modified to produce completely new patterns. Users can also take advantage of innovative Flux Engine pattern automation to create complex rhythmic phrases and arrangements by playing simple chords. With intuitive mixing controls, Mallet Flux lets users adjust the balance of instruments and add effects, including enhanced effects introduced with Kontakt 6. Mallet Flux also offers new high-quality room, hall, and plate reverbs that allow users to place instruments in a variety of sonic spaces. Through complex multi-effect chains, users can transform acoustic tuned percussion sounds into cinematic pads, drones, and other unique tones.
The first of a ten lesson course Music Theory for a Digital Age. Suitable for beginnnerrs, to be able to do the whole course two free software programs will be needed. For details of these see lecture 2: Resources. This particular lesson Approach to the Study of Sound begins where every music theory course should: with a study of the media through which music works, which is sound. Encouraging you to undertake your own investigation into the nature of sound and its properties, each lecture explores a particular facet of the use of sound in music.. .
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