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48 Unique Takes On The Classic 808 Kick – Kicks & Boom Samples

48 unique takes on the classic 808 kick drum

DO YOU LOVE A BIG BOTTOM?

THEN YOU WILL GO CRAZY FOR MIKE CHAV’S ‘808 KICK DRUM & BOOM SAMPLES’

This guy KNOWS great drum sounds. He eats sleeps and dreams kicks and snares.

He is a master of the sub bass. He has access to almost any piece of studio kit you have ever dreamed of owning – and he is using it to create some of the meatiest 808 kick drum samples you will ever got your ears around.

He has worked as an engineer, producer and instrumentalist for Erykah Badu, Jay Electronica, Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Eminem, D12, Amp Fiddler, Guilty Simpson, Slum Village, J Dilla, Busta Rhymes and more – he is BIG TIME.

Now imagine if you could sneak into his studio one night, fire up his PC, and grab some of his most hard hitting, precision sounds to use in your beats…

That would be cheatin’ – right? I mean, no other producers would stand a chance against you – armed with these KILLER drum sounds. And let’s say you decided to SELL some of these new beats you made online. You would literally WIPE THE FLOOR with producers using all the same old garbage stock sounds.

Well, before you even THINK about jackin’ anyone else’s sounds – we better let you grab these insane 808 kick drum and boom samples – right from Mike’s personal collection.

WHAT YOU GET:

  • 48 unique takes on the classic 808 kick drum
  • The sampling/mixing talent of a true professional engineer to the stars (this would cost $1,000s per hour to hire Mike to mix your drums)
  • No fluff, just 48 incredibly usable, pounding kick drums & booms to take your low end to the next level.
  • WAV format for stellar quality – with no expense spared during the recording of these samples
  • Instant secure delivery delivery – so you can add to your beats in 30 seconds.
  • These 808 kick drum samples will change your tracks forever – your new beats will be pulling in sales like crazy.
  • *All purchases of 808’s & BOOMS now come with a FREE copy of The Producers Choice Industry Standard Drum Library – Worth $29!

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Avid Announces Free Version of Pro Tools

NAMM (Hall A, Booth #6400), Anaheim, CA, January 22, 2015 – Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today unveiled Pro Tools® | First, a free version of the industry-standard Pro Tools that offers many of the same music creation capabilities used by top artists and recording studios worldwide. Delivering on Avid EverywhereTM and built upon the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Pro Tools | First is simple enough for beginners to learn, yet sophisticated enough for the experienced musician. Pro Tools | First enables anyone to experience the industry’s most trusted digital audio workstation at no cost, so they can turn their musical ideas into fully realized, professional productions that stand out from the crowd.

NAMM (Hall A, Booth #6400), Anaheim, CA, January 22, 2015 – Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today unveiled Pro Tools® | First, a free version of the industry-standard Pro Tools that offers many of the same music creation capabilities used by top artists and recording studios worldwide. Delivering on Avid EverywhereTM and built upon the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Pro Tools | First is simple enough for beginners to learn, yet sophisticated enough for the experienced musician. Pro Tools | First enables anyone to experience the industry’s most trusted digital audio workstation at no cost, so they can turn their musical ideas into fully realized, professional productions that stand out from the crowd.

“Pro Tools is the audio workstation that redefined the music and post-production industries, providing everything needed to create high-caliber audio mixes,” said Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of Products and Technology at Avid. “With Pro Tools | First, we’ve taken the most powerful, proven, and trusted DAW and streamlined it into a version that’s available to everyone for free, whether they dream of a career in music and are just starting out, or are more experienced and want to give Pro Tools a try. Now users of all levels can start off their musical journey on the right path.”

With Pro Tools | First, artists can quickly turn ideas into professional-sounding songs by recording, using software instruments, and applying audio effects. To expand their creative toolset further, the integrated Avid App Store provides a world of affordable AAX plug-ins and “First” bundles on the Avid Marketplace that make creating, shaping, and enhancing sounds quick and easy.

To accommodate the mobile lifestyle of artists and aspiring pros, Pro Tools | First saves and manages sessions securely in the cloud, enabled by the Avid MediaCentral Platform. This allows users to log into an Avid account and access and work on music from any Mac or PC with Pro Tools | First installed. Anytime changes are made, the project syncs with the cloud as soon as it’s saved. As a special introductory offer, artists can work on and store up to three Pro Tools | First projects in the cloud for free.

In addition, Pro Tools | First will be compatible with Avid Cloud Collaboration when it becomes available, helping artists collaborate together from wherever they are in the world.

Availability

Avid Pro Tools | First will be available in Q1 2015 as a free download through Avid.com. For more information, please visit avid.com/protoolsfirst.

Logic Pro X 10.1 Packs Big Free Update with Useful Features

Logic Pro 10.1 introduces advanced new features for EDM and Hip Hop track creation and tons of enhancements to streamline all types of music production. Get more new sounds and more powerful tools that keep the creative process flowing.

Logic Pro 10.1 introduces advanced new features for EDM and Hip Hop track creation and tons of enhancements to streamline all types of music production. Get more new sounds and more powerful tools that keep the creative process flowing.

EDM and Hip Hop take the spotlight.
EDM and Hip Hop round out the bill in Logic Pro 10.1 with ingenious, time-saving beat-making tools and powerful control over every last detail of your tracks.

New drummers.
It’s beat programming taken to a new level. Choose from 10 new beat creators with pro skills in cutting-edge styles including Tech House, Trap, Dubstep, and more. They follow your lead to dial in the groove you’re going for.

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Drum Machine Designer.
Choose from awesome-sounding kits covering a range of electronic styles. Bend and shape the sound with the right controls always at your disposal. Mix, match, and swap out the kit pieces with hundreds of thumps, kicks, strikes, claps, and more. Then let your custom drum machine spark the creation of some fresh new beats.

Drum machine–style sequencing.
Press any note to generate a sequence with Note Repeat. Remove them just as simply with Spot Erase. Easily change rate, note length, and velocity on the fly to create intricate rhythmic patterns, build drama, and create big drops.

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Enhanced Piano Roll Editor.
The Piano Roll Editor gives you new ways to create and manipulate MIDI data. Add or subtract a series of notes in a single swipe with the new Brush Tool. Compress and expand a selection of notes with new graphic tools. See more in less space with the Collapse view and use the Drum Name view to spot those drum-hit notes with ease.

Region-based automation.
Your automated changes are now embedded within any region, so you can repeat or loop them with all those swirling, sweeping, twisting effect parameters going along for the ride.

Redesigned Compressor plug-in.
The Compressor plug-in now features a fully scalable, redesigned interface inspired by the look and feel of legendary studio favorites. With the new Classic VCA, there are a total of seven models. And the Histogram Meter view lets you see the results of your parameters, controls, and knob movements like never before.

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Customizable plug-in menus.
Sort and prioritize all Logic Pro and third-party plug-ins with ease. Put your favorites at the top of the menu. And create custom categories to keep hundreds of plug-ins ready, right when you need them.

New Patches and Instruments

With 10 new Mellotron instruments and over 200 patches focused on EDM and Hip Hop styles, there’s a lot to be excited about in this free update.

More Info Here

200 DopeKeyz Urban Themed Sample Pack Wav & MIDI Piano

Make Dope Piano Based Beats – Even If You Can’t Play A Note…

Make Dope Piano Based Beats – Even If You Can’t Play A Note…

You can use DopeKeyz to make gorgeous sounding piano based tracks. It’s easy and fast – and you don’t need to know how to play…

The Producers Choice brought in a classically trained pianist to record some professional, “urban themed”, super high quality piano loops. These are perfect for using as the base to a great hip hop anthem or a smooth RnB beat… And they are royalty free. You can use them to make a dope track – and you don’t need to worry if it becomes a breakout hit.

  • 100% Royalty Free, Urban Piano Loops SUPER High Quality recording chain used to capture the BEST sound possible.
  • Ready to go piano – perfect to build a track around, just add drums, bassline etc
  • 330MB download size, over 200 loops in total.
  • WAV format – with MIDI Files Included – so you can use the melodies with other synths / instruments

FREE Modern Compressor With A Bit Of “Vintage” Style Bite & Uniquely Warm Sound

Audio Damage’s Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage” style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you’d like. The Compressor Police aren’t gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

Audio Damage’s Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage” style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you’d like. The Compressor Police aren’t gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

The front panel layout is done the same as many hardware compressors, so it will be immediately obvious how to use it. A brief overview of the controls:

Ratio: The ratio knob is logarithmic in operation. Completely anti-clockwise is 1:1, and completely clockwise is 1:1000. The 12 o’clock position is 1:10, so everything to the left of center is single digits, and everything to the right is “atom bomb squish,” essentially.

Attack and Release: They left off the actual time values, so you’re gonna have to use your ears, like the he-men did it in times of myth.

Meter: That honking big dial in the middle of the UI is the gain reduction meter. It basically shows how much compression is occurring.

Sensitivity: usually called “threshold” now, but we think “sensitivity” always made more sense. Turn to the right, you get more compression, essentially. Turn it all the way to the right, and you’ve got a distortion box, the sound of which is tuned by Ratio, Attack, and Release.

Makeup: 30 dB of gain to compensate for the attenuation caused by the compressor.

Active: From the front panel, this is simply an off/on switch, but if you automate it, strange things happen…

MIDI Learn: Like all of our products, the VST version has MIDI Learn. Download any manual from the current product line for an explanation of how this works, as it is common among all our VST products.

Rough Rider is available as a VST effect for Windows, and an AU or VST for OSX. The OSX versions are Universal Binaries, and require OSX
10.4.0 or later.

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Andrew Lloyd 170 SAMPLES & Kits 808s, FX, Hats, Kicks, Loops, Percs, Snares, Claps, & Toms

The long awaited follow up to Andrew Lloyds first kit is finally here. Introducing the “Finesser” kit – your new favourite drum samples.

The long awaited follow up to Andrew Lloyds first kit is finally here. Introducing The Finesser Kit – your new favourite drum samples.

For those of you who don’t know Andrew Lloyd…

He is kind of a big deal…

He has cooked up beats for Lil Wayne, ScHoolboy Q, Young Jeezy and more…

Now he is BLOWING UP the sound design industry with drum samples that are literally rewriting the rulebook when it comes to how a kick or a snare should sound.

Andrew has a set of “Golden Ears” – he can pick out and dissect frequencies with the precision of a surgeons scalpel. He makes some of the best drum samples on this planet.

“While most people who put together drum kits are scared of producers using their loops or afraid to reveal the REAL sounds they use, I think it’s best to give people quality when they pay for it.”
– Andrew Lloyd – (Multi Platinum, Grammy Nominated Producer For Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Young Jeezy)

7 Construction Kits, Electronic & Live Drums, Modern & Vintage Synths,808s, Pads,Sub Bass,FX, Piano & More

Foundations is a brand new, exclusive loop collection brought to you by talented producer and sound designer Sean Divine.

Foundations is a brand new, exclusive loop collection brought to you by talented producer and sound designer Sean Divine.

Sean Says:

“Foundations offers inspiring new content for producers, songwriters and artists alike. This kit contains over 500MB of royalty free loops organized into 7 Construction Kits. Essentially, you’re receiving all the building blocks from never before released instrumentals so that you can arrange, sample or produce your own tracks.

Also included is the “Starter Loops” folder which contains original chord progressions and melodic ideas to get your writing or producing started quickly.

All loops are perfectly aligned, tempo matched and mixed. Just drop them in to your DAW, sampler or drum machine and start making music!”

Loops and Sounds Included:

Electronic and Live Drums
Modern Synths
Vintage Synths
808s
Pads
Sub Bass
FX
Piano
…And Much More!

40% Off All Sample Libraries From The Producers Choice

The team at The Producers Choice is offering you ANY product on their site at a whopping 40% off…”

The team at The Producers Choice is offering you ANY product on their site at a whopping 40% off…”

End 2014 with a BANG… And take your pick from their award winning sample packs at a steep 40% discount!

  • 40% off blowout sale, but you have got to hurry – the sale ends new years day!
  • You can get anything on their site – 40% off – no order limit.

USE DISCOUNT CODE: NY40

  • But hurry – 40% OFF SALE ENDS Jan 1st, 2015 at 11:59pm ET

P.S. The Everything Bundle includes absolutely EVERYTHING from their range of samples, loops, sounds, maschine kits, kontakt libraries – Over 20GB all packed into one bundle! This is already 80% Off !!

Over 20 GB’s of Samples, Loops, Sounds, Vocals, Drums & More

The Producers Choice ‘Everything’ bundle. It includes absolutely EVERYTHING from their huge range of samples, loops, sounds, maschine kits, kontakt libraries – Over 20GB all packed into one bundle!

The Producers Choice ‘Everything’ bundle. It includes absolutely EVERYTHING from their huge range of samples, loops, sounds, maschine kits, kontakt libraries – Over 20GB all packed into one bundle!

If you want the quickest, best value way to secure ALL our kits then you’ve got it. Explode your sample library today with over 20GB of the best samples on earth.

Here’s what you get:

  1. Piano Sessions Bundle
  2. Vocal Warfare
  3. Foundations Loopkit
  4. Reverse Engineer
  5. 336 Drumkit Volume 2 By Sean Divine
  6. 808 Warfare
  7. Organic Drum Kit
  8. Music Business Mastery Program
  9. The Finesser Kit
  10. Ultimate Production Toolbox V3
  11. Stix Jam Pack
  12. Give The Drummer Some – Djay Cas
  13. Platinum R&B Vocals Vol 1
  14. Ski Beatz – Iron Fingers Drum Kit
  15. The 336 Drum Kit by Sean Divine
  16. Massive Arsenal
  17. Andrew Lloyd Drum Kit
  18. The Cratez Drum Kit Bundle
  19. Anno Domini Drum Kit Vol. 3
  20. Urban Strings Sample Library
  21. Massive Trap Presets Soundbank
  22. Boom Bap Nostalgic Kontakt Library
  23. Urban 808 Kontakt Library
  24. Hip Hop Domination
  25. Ultimate Production Toolbox 2
  26. Urban Heat Drum Library
  27. Ultimate Production Toolbox
  28. Kprim Sylenth Presets Soundbank
  29. High Impact 2 Drum Library
  30. Pablo Beats Sound Kit Volume 2
  31. Boom Bap Drum Kit
  32. Electro Drum Samples, FX & Loops
  33. Futuristic Drumz Kit
  34. Twisted Vocals & Drum Sample Library
  35. Experimental Trap Drum Kit
  36. Lex Luger Drum Kit
  37. Anno Domini Drum Collection Volume 2
  38. All 7 Superstar O Kits
  39. The Complete Drum Kit Bundle (5 Kits)
  40. Survival Drum Kit
  41. Sounds In HD Bundle (5 Kits)
  42. J Dilla Style Drum Kit (Boom Bap Phonetics)
  43. Sounds In HD – Ultimate 808 Kit
  44. High Impact – Sounds In HD Kit
  45. Mike Chav’s 808’s & Booms
  46. Drum Arsenal by Mike Chav (5 Kits)
  47. Industry Standard Drum Kit
  48. Dubstep Drum Samples Vault
  49. HD SSL Vinyl Drum Kit
  50. Distorted Blends Drum Kit
  51. 150 Hip Hop Breaks
  52. Tribal Fusions Drum Kit
  53. Acoustic Blends Vol 1&2
  54. Anno Domini Drum Kit
  55. Extreme Risers, Transitions & FX
  56. Infectious Harp Loops

Get It Here