276 Results for "samples"

Top 5 Eurorack modules of 2017

So many modules, so much voltage to be controlled and audio to modulate. What sort of splicing, morphing, sequencing, gristleizing and filtering delights have caught my attention in 2017?

Free sampled DX7 synth for your iPad and the ability to make your own

AudioKit have started the ball rolling with their DX7 instrument but they've made it open source and are inviting you to build your own sample-based instrument for iPad and sell it in the App Store.

Psychedelic FX6000 V1 VSTi rompler unleashed on unsuspecting EDM crowd

G-Sonique present Psychedelic FX6000 V1 - it's everything you need for your Psytrance, Darkpsy, Fullon, Hitech, Psychill and Progressive EDM. Just load it up and slap away for instant psy-atisfaction.

MusineKit 2: A musical adventure playground

Developed by Sensomusic and La Muse En Circuit, MusineKit 2 brings a playful and creative musical box of modules to touch, control, manipulate and mess about with on Windows or MacOS. Pure joyfulness.

Halloween freebie: Horror Box is full of intensely spooky sounds

Horror Box is a free rompler, of sorts, featuring nine presets and four layers of audio with the ability to combine them in ways you musically enjoy while they horrify others...

G-Sonique spotlights trap & hip-hop producers with Trap Illuminator

Trap Illuminator is geared towards trending trap music styles and their distinctly alarming sounds like booming bass drums, tense synth lines, gutter FX, vocal chops, and anything else that drops hard...

DoubleDrummer: 12-voice drum synth and sample player

Audiothingies have revealed their forthcoming DoubleDrummer drum synthesizer and sample player. 6 synthesized drum sounds alongside sampled kits in a neat desktop box.

Kurzweil SP6 adds one more stage piano to their massive range

Kurzweil release yet another stage piano in the "powerfully simple" SP6. It's a stage piano with 2GB of sounds, great weighted action, and good bit of dated looking chunkiness.

Roland Cloud 4.4 Anthology Orchestra is the JV-80 orchestral expansion

Roland Cloud's latest update brings us an orchestral library from the days when it all had to fit on an 8MB expansion card. Anthology Orchestra brings back a classic JV-80 sound set.

Modal CRAFTrhythm DIY drum and percussion sampler

Modal Electronics announce the CRAFTrhythm, an 8-track drum and percussion sampler in the same DIY form as the CRAFTsynth. Good, cheap, fun.

Roland Boutique D-05: a reimagined D-50 Linear Synthesizer

Roland take us back to the era of menu diving, painful programming and the pop music of the late 1980's with the Roland Boutique D-05 Linear Synthesizer.

Console Y brings an expanded Ensoniq ASR-X to life

Puremagnetik release Console Y, an expanded library of the Ensoniq ARS-X across Ableton, Logic and Kontakt formats, but only in their Spark subscription service. Does $8 a month work for you?

Superior Drummer 3: More drums, 10 times the Gigabytes

Thought you had enough drums with the 20GB in Superior Drummer 2? Oh no, Superior Drummer 3 has 230GB of drums, just drums, over just 6 kits. It's the biggest drum source ever!

The Morphologist and DR.110 REDUX drum machine from Sound Machinery

New kids on the block Sound Machinery launch their first two products for Kontakt, The Morphologist synthesizer and DR.110 REDUX. And to celebrate you can have the drum machine for free.

Roland SP-404A announced: a cool little sampler for DJs

Roland announced a new sampler today, the SP-404A. With a maximum 12-voice polyphony, the SP-404A is able to store up to 120 samples and up to 120 patterns. It looks like a great tool for DJs wanting to ...

Get instant atmospheric generation with Dronar Free Edition

Need some drama in your life? How about 3.7GB of free evolving and modulating sonic soundscapes taken from the Dronar series of atmospheric generators?

The Best iOS Beatmaking apps: Top 6 iPhone and iPad grooveboxes 2017

We've rounded up six of the best groovebox apps available on Apple's platform - all are worthy of your attention and great at what they do, though they feel completely different from each other...

NI releases Thrill, a scarily priced spooky sound generator

A new VSTi producing suspenseful soundscapes and FX, Thrill uses the Kontakt 5 sampler and sports a huge 30GB library as well as a neat GUI - but unfortunately also a frighteningly high price tag.

EastWest MIDI Guitar Series – Hardware and software in harmony?

Looks like there is a new MIDI guitar system on the block and this one is designed from the ground up. These two companies both know a thing or two about each end of the system, so will this be the one?

Roland Cloud 4.2 brings the D-70 as Anthology 1990

Roland have "Ultra-Deep sampled" their classic D-70 evolved linear arithmetic synthesizer and made it available via the Roland Cloud subscription as the Anthology 1990.

Akai iMPC takes its beats to Samsung Galaxy

With a suitable Samsung Galaxy device you can now make beats with the iMPC virtual MPC machine

Nuendo 8 to be introduced at Game Developers Conference

Steinberg reveals the new game focused feature set for Nuendo 8 ahead of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

NAMM 2017: Steinberg bring two new HALions and an Absolute 3

Finally you can actually sample into HALion and build your own instruments - hooray! Thanks Steinberg it only took 6 versions.

NAMM 2017: 4MS release sampler and delay Eurorack modules

Two new modules from 4MS, the Stereo Triggered Sampler and the Tapographic Delay