The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understand

English | 2014 | 428 pages | EPUB | 40 MB

Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument

Suitable for existing synthesists and newcomers to the industry; teachers, professors, and students in universities, colleges, high schools, and middle schools who are interested in electronic music; and manufacturers, dealers, consultants, journalists, authors, owners, performers, composers, improvisers, engineers, producers, and recordists in the electronic-music and electro-acoustic industries. Electronic music instruments weren’t called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen’s development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone a remarkable evolution from prohibitively large mid-century models confined to university laboratories to the development of musical synthesis software that runs on tablet computers and portable media devices.

The Loudest Drums WAV AiFF LiVE

DISCOVER | 11 MAY 2014 | 169 MB

Immense collection of 400 heavyweight Drum Samples!

Including hard-knocking Kicks, cutting Snares and Claps, heavy Toms, crisp Hihats, unique Cymbals and Crashes and intricate Percussion Samples Sweating over a heavy beat? We’ve got the sonic supplement to help you lift high above the competition, pushing your productions to the edge and adding tense, muscular dimensions to your sound. Once your tunes have been put to work with the beats you build from this sound pack, they’ll be towering high above your own expectations. A thrilling selection of programmed drum samples, this sound library includes a few heavily processed live shots too! Are you ready to taste this fresh batch of tasty percussive protein? The Loudest: Drums provides a next-level range of sonic fibres ready to bulk up your beats across a range of genres from Dubstep to Trap, Electro, Dance, House and more!

Boxer KONTAKT

DISCOVER | 10 MAY 2014 | 1.96 GB

Boxer is a punchy alt rocker with a boxy edge. It has an unpretentious direct sound with alt rock and pop written all over it. A solid kick, toneful toms, and three snares cover plenty of ground, each snare giving the kit a completely different feel. The kit works equally well for laid back grooves or fast and frantic flurries.  The kit was sampled at Sing Sing South studio in Melbourne, Australia, in a mid-sized tracking room, though a Neve desk, with the usual assortment of high end hand-picked mics, and processed with select outboard pieces. The kit has been mixed with an indy production in mind, if you want to take the mix further there is plenty of scope to put your stamp on it.

Beauty From A Synthesizer Massive Presets

TEAM MAGNETRiXX | 09 May 2014 | 3.3 MB

Warm, evolving, analog, lush, synthetic, dreamy, ambient and cinematic. Beauty From A Synthesizer is a library with focus the beautiful. Evolving and lush pads, analog warmth, gentle, tender leads and breaths of fresh air. A library full of pads and leads and also soundscapes and bass sounds with instant gratification in mind. Load any lead sound and play your favorite melody, load any pad and be swept away completely. Every sound is tagged by type and comes with a detailed description in the comments field. All sounds are designed with careful assignment of each macro knob with maximum focus on the specific character of the sound and it’s intended use where subtle or more dramatic changes are perfectly in tune with the preset.

Ruthless Presets for NI MASSiVE

SYNTHiC4TE| May 08 2014 | 12.2 MB

“Ruthless” Massive presets. You will find 55 ready to use sounds, which will give your tracks that ear piercing, metallic, Deathstep sound. Each patch has all 8 of Massive macros assigned to various parameters, which allows the user to morph and transform each individual sounds into a completely new sound. These sounds were inspired by the underground artist Mantis.

Vienna Ensemble Pro Explained TUTORiAL

MP4 | May 08 2014 | 419 MB

Presented by orchestral and studio wiz Eli Krantzberg, this series is the one Vienna Ensemble Pro users have been waiting for. Eli covers all the features and functions of the industry standard, world-class Vienna Instruments and Vienna Ensemble Pro , and shows you creative ways to maximize their power and sound. If you use Vienna Ensemble Pro, this series is a must see. Eli starts with an introduction welcoming you to the series and lays out the road ahead. Next he jumps right into installation and authorization of VEP, followed by an in-depth video covering the important basics. of Vienna Instruments. Switching between Articulations is then demonstrated followed by the powerful Slot Rack, where you’ll learn how to stack patches for a layered sound, transpose the slots individually, set independent velocity curves, adjust volume and pan settings and much more. Eli then reveals the Global Controls and how to work with Matricies, giving you complete control over the entire instrument as well as personalize the factory Epic Orchestra.

Impulse Factory Virus TI Atmosfear

P2P | WAV KONTAKT | 1.88 GB

‘Atmosfear’ is created especially for Kontakt sampler by  Sound designer, Impulse Factory. All the samples were taken from his Virus Infection Patch collection. You can use the sampled sounds in this pack in any other software sampler you wish to and you don’t need a Virus TI to use this sample pack. It’s suitable for many styles of electronic music, making this pack a “go to” Virus TI sound source. Industrial Strength is proud to present ‘Atmosfear’ created especially for Kontakt sampler. This deep 24-Bit collection of samples was created by Italian Sound designer, Impulse Factory, and all the samples were taken from his Virus Infection Patch collection. If you’re looking for a fresh new set of deep sounds, dark pads and twisted strings for your music productions, then look no further. Each Virus TI patch was re-sampled note by note, and key mapped to give you a top-notch sound while having complete control of each sample when using Native Instrument’s Kontakt sampler. This sample pack features 42 sampled Virus sounds all ready for Kontakt 3 and higher.

A Million Ways To Break Vol.1 WAV

P2P | May 2014 | 124.69 MB

The A Million Ways To Break series is the most useful and organized drum break compilation. If you are sick of downloading massive amounts of drums in bulk, having to sift through weak breaks to find the gems, then A Million Ways To Break is here for you!

Cyber Factory For Massive

TEAM MAGNETRiXX | 07 May 2014 | 11.6 MB

“Cyber Factory” Massive presets. You will find 55 ready to use sounds, which will give your tracks that aggressive, robotic, metallic, distorted machine sounds. Each patch has all 8 of Massive macros assigned to various parameters, which allows the user to morph and transform each individual sounds into a completely new robotic sound. These sounds were inspired by underground artists such as, Cyberoptics, Mantis, Cycero, TrollPhace, BC Badman, Datsik, p0gman, Sadhu, JuJu, D-JAHSTA, JPhelpz, Adroa and more.