The reemergence of disco as a post-punk electronica crossover has sprouted a sound built on super-compressed synths, abrasive drums, punk guitars, and svelte orchestration. This hybrid twist of hardnosed breakbeat and flashy house is masterfully showcased on Dirty Disco: Nouveau Breakbeat, a new royalty-free sample collection from veteran producer and DJ Jason Donnelly.
Available Light: Natural Music for Cinema joins the Sony® Sound Series™ Loops and Samples catalog to provide even more primary source materials for creating world class film music. Take advantage of Available Light and visualize instantly accessible, royalty-free music and sound: complete long form music beds, layerable elements, diverse rhythms, sound effects from the terrestrial to the celestial, and more. With Available Light and ACID® software, your soundtracks will take form quickly and easily. Maintain precise control over timeline cues while working with anticipation, tension, and emotional information at the micro level.
Greg Malcolm is one half of the internationally acclaimed electronica recording and performance duo Twine. Since 1998, Twine has maintained a steady course of action on the quest for a singular vision of IDM electronica and experimental music. The Either/Or Electronica collection is Twine’s third sample library product, comprising a construction kit produced by Greg Malcolm entirely within the sophisticated Twine sound space. Beats and beat components, melodic materials, pads, and non-pitched elements are presented here in an offering rich with musical integrity and evolved loop library design principals the cornerstones of effective construction kit design. The Either/Or Electronica library will keep on giving as you keep on exploring the variations and combinations of this delightful collection with ACID software in the expanding world of multi-platform hardware and software tools that support the .wav file format.
Set the wayback machine to the golden age of gaming with 8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey, a massive collection powered up with vintage low-bit sounds coaxed from the most venerated micro-computers and game consoles of the ’70s and ’80s. Accept no imitations! Chiptune is the real thing—all the gritty lo-fi basslines, whirling computer arpeggios, bleepy synth solos, cosmic FX, and squishy drum patterns you’ve come to know and love.
YAGA! The New Roots Reggae collection is ready to take you to the irie ites in the ACID® software engine! This brilliant collection of sounds gives praise to roots, dub, and dancehall reggae and brings these forms intact and grooving into the new worlds of modern dub, trance, and electronic music. Folders packed with the acoustic and electric instruments of reggae are here in abundance, in high fidelity and with deep production, serving up sounds that echo and shimmer as they invite you to explore the mysteries of dub revolution. Create skanky reggae and brooding dub plates – the New Roots Reggae library has a joyful and distinctive flavor that will appeal to roots rockers and dub scientists alike. With the New Roots Reggae library and some ACID software, you’ll be on your way to making original reggae to the fullness!.
Essential Percussion follows the alt.rockdrums collection as George Pendergast’s second contribution to the massive Sony Creative Software catalog. This set stays true to the Pendergast form — great performances on fine instruments, captured using ultra high-end gear, and edited to perfection for instant usability and enjoyment. Essential Percussion library is packed with inspiring patterns played on custom kits and a wide variety of hand percussion including congas, bongos, djembe, doumbek, slit drums, timbales, bells, cymbals, shakers, tambourines, blocks, and more.
Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) is a style of electronic music that combines rhythms, textures, and atmospheres in ways that envelop, entrance, and inspire. Experimental electronica pioneers Twine present the Intelligent Dance Music collection, a construction kit packed with the super-detailed sounds of IDM – rhythms, melodies, bass lines, electro-acoustic treatments, digital breakdowns, evocative sonic environments, and more. A unique collection in every way, this Twine portfolio offers hundreds of royalty-free components that you can customize to your own tastes. Create harsh, twisted beats and lush ambience; the organic and methodical Twine weave a multitude of these sounds with extreme attention to fidelity and sonic imaging. Sony Creative Software and Twine are proud to present the Intelligent Dance Music collection, an exclusive view of electronica from the stratosphere of sound design.
