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The templates showcase his typical uplifting trance sound in FL Studio. These 5 Templates will prove to be an excellent tool for building professional trance productions from the ground up. You get an insight on how the drums and basslines (which always consist of several layers – Hi Bass, Mid Bass, Sub Bass and so on) were put together to get a full sound. They also show you how additional synth lines will help increase the energy throughout the buildup of your track. The 5 FL Studio project files all include the short arrangement (as heard in the audio demo), mixing, FX chains, MIDI data and automation. It all comes loaded with all the samples and synth presets (from Massive and Sylenth1) so you will get what you hear in the demo. It is 100% royalty free and can be used as a base for your upcoming tracks or as an educational and inspirational tool. All sections (basslines, FX, drums, synths) are color-coded and named correctly so you know exactly what you are looking at.
Electro Bass is a very simple software synthesizer built upon the Kontakt 4 sampler from NI. It is best described as an innocent flirt with the Electro genre – designed to be an inspiration when working on those big sounding, portamento-ish bass sounds. Is Electro Bass a one-trick pony? You bet! No sweet pads or trance plucks will ever emanate from this instrument. Nothing but the pumping goodness of bass. The structure is simple. There are two oscillator sections, each with three unique waveforms. Each oscillator has its own lowpass/hipass filter, there is one envelope for the volume and one envelope for a master filter.There are two effects: delay and a simple saturation effect to give the sound a rougher edge.
“Drumstep Invasion” – It is the incestuous lovechild of Drum ‘n’ Bass and Dubstep !! This great collection which features 928 MB of raw and all loops & samples are key and tempo-labelled for flexibility. Includes 285 loops and samples at 175BPM, recorded at 24 bits. What is Drumstep? A sub genre of drum and bass where the beat structure is “half time” but the remaining elements still adhere to the usual tempo and melody pattern style – the techniques and feel of dubstep with the faster pace of drum ‘n’ bass. ‘Drumstep Invasion’ comes with energetic basslines, super punchy drums, rhythmic chords, filthy synthlines, wild arpeggios, sublime pads & textures, nasty leads and FX which is most universal for many a genre be it Dubstep, Electro-breaks to DnB. Also some great bass, subbass and FX shots which any Bass junkie will find a delight!!
The possibly “nastiest” sampling library worldwide! Sex Trax is chock full of female vocals of the special kind! 95 samples of meaningful fairer-sex whimpers (“ho-hoh-ohho”), shrieks (“mooahh”), and coos (“aahhh”) voice by professionals for that special project, provided on a mixed media disc.
Metropolis Sci Fi Toolkit 2 is the next installment in the Metropolis series. Building on the success of the first release, Metropolis 2 is packed full of more of the unique and versatile sound design elements you have come to expect. Containing 200 sound effects, this release is a valuable resource for any busy designer working in a broad range of production environments. Some of the many categories include: mechanical, ethereal, whooshes, metallic, static, ambience, squeaks, scans, scrapes and just plain interesting noise. Together with Metropolis I, this series represents a powerful set of science fiction sound effects for those who require a flexible palette for their demanding production needs – Metropolis Sci Fi Toolkit 2.
V8 engines are a class of its own. Those gurgling, deeply growling power plants are already fascinating when still in idle mode. But when the pedal hits the metal, they unleash a raw symphony of pure and brute power – a true pleasure for sound lovers and for those who are willing to feed those big block engines with gallons and gallons of fuel. Having captured those incomparably sounding monsters we now bring you the finest selection of their sounds in our Micro SFX Library HOT ROD – REV UPS. We recorded various close and distant idle and rev up sounds of 14 different Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Rat Rods and Trucks in an MS and ORTF setup. The library weighs in at 880MB in 64 files and it ships in 96kHz/24bit High Definition Audio. All sounds are royalty free, guaranteeing you best quality as always. Let this pack be a small but powerful addition to your personal sound FX library and you will never have to search again for vigorous and shamelessly boasting engine rev up sounds.
