Apple Loops for Logic Pro & Garageband
Inspiring You To Make Better Music.
Arturia have launched a contest which is threatening to bring down the internet… well, maybe not that popular…
They’re offering one lucky person the chance to win their next generation audio interface, the AudioFuse
Arturia have launched a contest which is threatening to bring down the internet… well, maybe not that popular…
They’re offering one lucky person the chance to win their next generation audio interface, the AudioFuse
Dark VX Kick is a new sample-based kick drum instrument from Chokehold.
This offers four channels that can be mixed together: Dry, Comprsd, Sub Kick, Room and Reverb. Each channel features its own samples, and you don’t have to use them all simultaneously if you don’t wish to.
There are four velocity layers, which even the developer admits isn’t a lot. But then Dark VX Kick is free.
It can be downloaded now from the Chokehold website for PC and Mac in VST/AU formats.
Dark VX Kick is a new sample-based kick drum instrument from Chokehold.
This offers four channels that can be mixed together: Dry, Comprsd, Sub Kick, Room and Reverb. Each channel features its own samples, and you don’t have to use them all simultaneously if you don’t wish to.
There are four velocity layers, which even the developer admits isn’t a lot. But then Dark VX Kick is free.
A sampled kick drum with 4 velocity layers, some round-robins and a lot of flexibility.
The samples on the “DRY” channel aren’t quite “dry”, they were processed by analog hardware EQs, a Harrison 32EQ and an SSL 611.
The “COMPRSD” channel was expanded and squashed with u-he’s Presswerk compressor.
The “SUB KICK” channel spills nothing but ultra-low sub-bass, just in case you need any subwoofers blown.
The “ROOM” Aux was necessary because the original samples didn’t really bring that sense of space into the mix, so I ran them through a Lexicon LXP Room processor to give them back some ambience.
The “REVERB” Aux does what it says, it recreates the sound of a modified Lexicon LXP Chamber.
All the mixer channels are independent samples, you could use this plugin for only the Sub Kick or the samples on the Reverb track if you wanted to. The individual mixer channels can be un-/muted completely by clicking on their respective mute buttons.
Like the Black Noh Snare, this kick drum is also very easy to handle – load the plugin, play MIDI note C1/36 and that’s it, no articulations, nothing.
There are four velocity layers:
That’s not really a lot, but it’s a lot better than having machine-gun drums.
Have fun! đ
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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.
Itâs 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 youâre going for.
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 machineâstyle 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.
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.
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.
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:Â 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.
A1StereoControl is a free audio plugin that enables you to expand or decrease the stereo width of your tracks using a single knob. The plugin can be used on single tracks, groups of tracks, or on a master bus.
A1StereoControl is a free audio plugin  that enables you to expand or decrease the stereo width of your tracks using a single knob. The plugin can be used on single tracks, groups of tracks, or on a master bus.
A1StereoControl Features
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Revival is the product of years of research into what makes things sound âbetterâ. The Slate Digital Team analyzed what it was about classic analog gear that could turn tracks into audio masterpieces, and broke the process down into two knobs. That may sound a bit crazy, but wait till you hear Revival.
Steven Slate of Slate Digital released The Virtual Mix Rack plugin with a free Sonic enhancer plugin called Revival.
Revival is the product of years of research into what makes things sound âbetterâ. The Slate Digital Team analyzed what it was about classic analog gear that could turn tracks into audio masterpieces, and broke the process down into two knobs. That may sound a bit crazy, but wait till you hear Revival.
Revival borrows aspects of tubes, tape, transformers, and world class analog filters to create two processes. Shimmer adds depth, clarity, space, width, and air like youâve never heard. Thickness adds warmth, punch, body, and fatness.
Revival can be used on individual tracks, such as to create air on a pop vocal or add fatness to drums, but is also amazing in mastering to bring out details in full mixes. And best of all, you can download the Virtual Mix Rack which includes Revival and the Mix Bundle (two analog modeled eqs and compressors), and Revivalâs license will never expire. Thatâs right, Revival is FREE!Here’s Graham Cochrane Review
Fender Stratocaster Guitar Virtual Instrument with the neck pickup. This is the default sound without amp plugins. Download the dry audio file below to test with your own plugins.
Fender Stratocaster Guitar Virtual Instrument with the neck pickup. This is the default sound without amp plugins. Download the dry audio file below to test with your own plugins.
Gibson Les Paul Guitar Virtual Instrument. This is the default sound ( Both Pickups) without amp plugins. Download the dry audio file to test with your own plugins.
Gibson Les Paul Guitar Virtual Instrument. This is the default sound ( Both Pickups) without amp plugins. Download the dry audio file to test with your own plugins.
HYSTERESIS is a FREE glitch delay plugin geared toward creating robotic artifacts and abstract musical malfunctions.
HYSTERESIS is a FREE glitch delay plugin geared toward creating robotic artifacts and abstract musical malfunctions.
Hysteresis features a delay effect with stutter, lowpass filter and modulation effects thrown into the feedback signal path.
Easily infuse your projects with glitchy articulations and abstract textures. Process anything from drums and percussion to synth lines and sound effects. On top of being able to create incredibly wild signal mutations, it can also be used to generate classic delay effects.
FEATURES:
Feedback-based delay effect with tempo sync
Reversible stutter effect in the feedback path
Lowpass filter in the feedback path
Modulation with rate division/multiplication
Presets by Ivo Ivanov, Thomas Hennebert, DAED & Apparition
Cross-platform compatibility (PC/Mac â VST/AU 32bit & 64bit)
Hysteresis is available now as a free download from the Glitchmachines website.
Free glitch samples from 99 Sounds â The Weird Side Samples is a free collection of glitch samples. Consisting of weird sound effects and abstract sonic textures produced by Johan Ekelove aka Introspectral.
Free glitch samples from 99 Sounds â The Weird Side Samples is a free collection of glitch samples. Consisting of weird sound effects and abstract sonic textures produced by Johan Ekelove aka Introspectral.
 This is the first release in 99 Sounds new Artist Series product line, which will feature sample libraries created by talented sound designers from around the world.
The author describes this sound collection as âa sonic exploration through hidden worlds afloat on a metaphysical planeâ. I was blown away when Johan sent me a preview of these samples and Iâm proud of the fact that this fantastic library is the first Artist Series release on 99Sounds. The included samples are sorted into six different folders, as described below.
