This is the “Magic Box” of the Okinawa Island. Many shamisen shots, ambients, sanba phrases, taikos sounds are included. Moreover, this has good native okinawa voices.
The New World Order series scans the globe to bring you unique loops and grooves from around the world. New World Order 1 features drum and percussion loops from India, Africa, Cuba, the Carribean, Japan, Ireland, Texas and Brazil.
Forged in the angry alcoves of dark clubs, rubble-strewn roadways and the furthest reaches of poor, demented souls comes The Hybridizer. The Hybridizer, shatters through your soul with a slicing blast of pure, electronica vitriol. Fuzz-laden basses, piercing sub-sonic beats, frenzied melodic distortions, out-of-the-asylum FX with bruising synthetic fragments. The Hybridizer will strike you senseless with incessant hooks; the methodic menace of these tracks will grab a hold of your cranium, blow apart your soundtracks and launch your media projects to new levels.
This sample CD starts off badly, with over sixty “classic” patches that sound suitable only for producing cliched rave tunes. Each of these patches contains only a single sample which spans several octaves, and to make matters worse, the sample is usually of a whole chord, making it impossible to use the sound to produce your own major and minor chords. After that embarrassing false start, the CD improves so much that you quickly lose any doubts you might have first had about its quality. The vast majority of the patches are in this much better main section of the disc. While only a few synthesisers are covered, they include several highly sought after classics such as the Moog Memorymoog, Oberheim Matrix 12, Yamaha CS-80, Roland MKS-80, and Sequential Circuits Prophet 10. These synthesisers, and several others, are well represented on the disc, with each synth contributing between about seven and twenty different patches. Unlike the opening “classics” section, each patch in the main section of the disc consists of ten or eleven samples, each sample spanning six notes, giving you a total of five octaves covered. The sounds are all of single notes rather than whole chords, so you can play melodies and your own chords. The looping is well done, just as the label claims, and many of the samples are solid, usable sounds.
Megaton Bomb Sampling Collection (2X audio CD) – 140 minutes of loops, grooves, fills and FX. This is the original Megaton Bomb collection featuring complete loop sets (loop + synth and drum tracks and FX); drum loops, TR808, 909 and 606 loops, Ambiences, TB303 loops, Vocoder loops, arpeggiations, sci-fi FX and 672 individual drum hits. This is an incredible collection of classic samples and needs to belong in your library!
The long-awaited sampling collection of traditional Japanese instruments, folk songs, and chants has arrived. Discovery Japan delivers the true sound and feel of the traditional Japanese musical culture. The instrumentalists and vocalists have been recorded in isolation, not as ensembles, and the sound quality is excellent. Real Japanese folk vocal section includes male and female swoops, glides, and a variety of tonal color and format shifts. The instrumental tracks include two types of shamisen, plus shakuhachi, koto, and more. Many synths have patches with these instrument names, but no synth has captured the soul of these ethnic instruments the way Discovery Japan has. Discovery Japan is the real deal.
Travel to new tonal terretories and collect sound souvenirs from around this planet with our new World Zone series. Volume one takes you to the Far East and is your ticket into the fascinating world of Asian music and athmospheres. More than 70 minutes of multisampled instruments and authentic loops and licks in top studio quality and real life atmos recorded on location in the streets and temples of Bali, Tibet and India, give your music the exotic charm of that particular cultural region. Sitars, Santoors, Ghatam and Ghungur, Swamandel and Shrutibox, Bhanshi and Bamboophone, Vocalphrases and exotic sounds of nature make this collection an essential tool for the ambitious world musician.
