Rankin Audio Ultimate Dubstep Review
High Rankin is likely for many fans of the dubstep genre not be unknown. In the past he has already created a sample package (High Rankin Dubstep Tearout) and a soundset (Patchworx 03 High Rankin Dubstep) for Loopmasters, which enjoyed great popularity. He recently launched his own sound label, called Rankin Audio, distributed through Loopmasters, where he has already published a couple of own sample packages. Many users prefer products which were created by artists, because they usually have a closer relation to the genre, so let’s have a look on it and check whether the expectations are met.
Sounds to Sample Deep House Synths Review
In recent times, especially bass and synth loops in sample packs are on the rise, and are now impossible to imagine, which also leads to a small revival of multisample-based sample packs. Therefore, we take a close look at today sounds to sample deep house synth sample-pack, produced by Dual Shaman.
Loopmasters Tech House Styles Review
Construction-kit based sample packs became more and more appreciated by producers, since they may offer well selected drum-, melody- and fx-kits saving the trouble of looking for matching sounds. Today we’re gonna take a look at Loopmasters Tech House Styles, obviously taking care of the Tech House genre inclding popular styles like Detroit and Progressive.
Mini-Review: Sounds of Revolution Micro Series – Abstract & Weird and Clicks & Glitches
Oliver and his baby “Sounds of Revolution” (SOR) don’t need any introduction – the sample packs are used worldwide in enumerous productions. While waiting for more soundfood, maybe successors of “Club Revolution 1″ and others, we came across a new mini series: smaller packages, but just as useful and precious as always: “Abstract&Weird” and “Clicks&Glitches”. Interesting. Let’s do this!
0Mini-Review: CFA-Sound DSP Drums 01 – ACE
Probably one of the most interesting synthesizer plugins of the last year is u-he ACE. Following a somewhat modular concept, it’s capable of some pretty fancy things – a fact CFA-Sound exploited to its best with the “DSP-Drums 01 – ACE” sample pack.
As a modern electronic dance music producer, you might wonder what a synth can offer a huge sample collection can’t – well, let’s dig a bit deeper here.
0Mini-Review: Loopmasters Dom Kane presents Tech House Tools
Dom Kane doesn’t really need an introduction: well known for his House, Electro and Techhouse productions, he furthermore created quality sample placks for loopmasters and Deadmau5′s Xfer Nerve plugin. You might imagine we were really curious about his latest release – Techhouse Tools. Here we go…
750 MB of samples, both one-shots and loops, include patches for all common samplers and the REX2 format, which makes the collection usable for many producers and their software platform of choice.
0Mini Review: Kamui Virus Soundbank I & II
With a well established fanbase and being known for unique, hard electro sound, the guys of Kamui need no further introduction. Now, music producers might be happy to get their hands on actual Kamui style: Dominik Felsmann, one half of Kamui, designed 2 soundsets for his beloved synthesizer baby – the infamous Virus C. Still, the soundset is suitable for the complete Virus series, with slight differences in sound using models A, B and Powercore.
0Mini Review: Loopmasters Moog Taurus MK1 Bass Xpander
To start our new mini review series, we proudly preset a sample library by Loopmasters, taking serving you some fresh bass sounds, directly out of the infamous Moog Taurus. This synth is for sure an analog beast with no need for introduction – according to Moog fans, this is almost more famous than the Minimoog itself…
0Review: Wave Alchemy Deep Tech & Progressive
Right during the pro|tone startup phase we got our hands on a sample pack by Wave Alchemy, impressing us a lot with respect to what you pay and what you get. This left us waiting for new stuff to come, which is why we got excited about the review inquiry of “Deep Tech & Progressive”, a fresh and all-new product from the Wave Alchemy. Join us again and gain some interesting insights…
1Review: Sample Magic Ultimate FX
Sound to Sample (STS) and Sample Magic (SM) established their names quite some time ago. Talking to producers, many of them get excited about their latest releases – definitely time for us at pro|tone to have a closer look at the all-new Sample Magic “Ultimate FX”. To be honest, we were not only curious about the quality often highly acclaimed, but much more about what this release delivers in terms of new, cool, hopefully never-heard effects – just because there’s so many effect samples out there, and attributes like ultimate or ultra fx already sound pretty standard. Anyway – forget about that for a while, join us on our exploration of effects…
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Review: Sounds Of Revolution Kickfree Revolution 2
Taking a look at the music production market, loop samples can be found everywhere, making it hard to find the good ones. Or, of course, the best ones. Very recently, we got hold of Kickfree Revolution 2, reminding us just by reading that name of all the great products SOR (Sounds of Revolution) already threw on the market. Surely we couldn’t wait taking a closer look at this – have fun!
0Review: K-Size Techhouse Edition
Since quite some time techhouse belongs to the hottest styles in edm scene – enough reason for us to have a closer look at a sample pack focussing on this genre: K-Size Techhouse Edition.
0Review: D16 Plasticlicks
Until now the D16 team was known for brilliant emulations of Roland vintage synths and drum machines, alongside with an effect plugin series. Surely it was quite a surprise to come across Plasticlicks, being the company’s first sample pack – enough reason for pro|tone to take a closer look…
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nice review, thx
Sounds like it will rock.
sylenth1 is also very good.