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Sonoma Wire Works recently launched the HigginsPack DrummerPack for DrumCore.

Terence Higgins, drummer for The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, brings DrumCore users unique New Orleans marching style drum loops, variations, fills and drumkit sounds with a dash of hip hop, funk, R&B, and soul. Higgins says this DrummerPack is “guaranteed to add a little grease to your tracks.”

HigginsPack was recorded by the original Submersible Music team, and was pre-configured by them with metadata for use with the DrumCore search engine, which will help you find content based on feel (straight, shuffle, etc.), time signature, tempo and other criteria. Songwriter-friendly “GrooveSets” group related beats, variations and fills to serve as a construction kit for song creation. All audio is 48kHz/24-bit and created in a pro studio using digital (ProTools HD3) and analog (Neumann, Neve, etc.) recording equipment.

HigginsPack includes 3.5GB of content including 7 DrumKits (24 pads each) that match 7 GrooveSets (360 audio loops, 427 audio fills, 97 MIDI loops and 41 MIDI fills).

HigginsPack GrooveSets:

• Bourbon Street Strut – A traditional slice of New Orleans march. Intricate rolled snares with some bouncing toms thrown in for good measure. 70 – 130 BPM.
• Dirty Dumpster – A trashy, choppy breakbeat groove with funky snare work and sloppy hats. Great for Hip Hop. 70 – 120 BPM.
• Fix The Levee – Funky rhythms played on a poppy kit. Sounds great at the faster tempos. 70 – 130 BPM.
• Go Go Grease – Upbeat and swingy, this groove is perfect for multiple genres including Pop, Hip Hop, and R&B. 70 – 120 BPM.
• Nolafied – A laid back, funky breakbeat that only “The Big Easy” could provide. 70 – 130 BPM.
• Swampburn – Thick and murky Nawlins’ march beats. Snare heavy with some great tom sections. 70 – 130 BPM.
• Zigawho – Another funky beat with some great snare variations. Start and Stop breakdowns and splashy cymbals. 60 – 110 BPM.

HigginsPack is priced at USD 79.99, is available at drumcore.com, sonomawireworks.com, and will be available via most music software retailers.

Price: Free / USD 199.00

Visit: Submersible Music

NTS Audio has updated Minimaler to v1.3.

New Features:

• Kick Side-chained output for the best groove ever.
• BPM or Host Synchronization (guaranteed synchronization with Ableton Live, Cubase and FL Studio).
• Point to user folders to pick Kick-drums, Claps & Snares, Hats. A lot of factory sounds included.
• Swing.
• 10 Filters (coded in Asm).

Minimaler allows you to instantly generate groovy minimal loops, minimal bottom loops, minimal bass lines, synth lines and hi-hat lines. Features a Standalone version for live performances and a VST version for studio work.

Price: EUR 40,00

Visit: NTS Audio

It loads in any host as a vsti, and acts as a loader for other vstis. So with Zen, you can search for “Rhodes piano” and get a list of all matching presets – regardless of the final vsti (Rhino, Zebra, Absynth… whatever). When you select one of the presets in Zen, the corresponding vsti is automatically loaded to play the requested preset.

Most popular vstis are supported, and new ones are added daily. Eventually Zen aims to categorize all available presets, for all vstis.

Zen constantly synchronizes his own local database of presets with a master online database hosted at www.bigtickaudio.com – users get new presets daily, delivered right into their sequencer, already categorized.

Commercial presets designers can use Zen to send demo version of their presets to all potential customers.
Users can preview the presets in Zen, directly in the context of their track, and buy the presets they like with just one click. Presets can be bought individually, as opposed to purchasing a full bank of presets.

Zen is available as a free download for Windows PC.

Visit: Big Tick

Waves has released Maserati GRP, a new addition to the Maserati Collection series of effect plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

Tony Maserati on the GRP Group Processor: “The Maserati GRP plugin is meant to help that final blend jump out a bit. It’s got a nice bit of equalization involved but no effects, no shredders, none of that kind of thing. In fact, the compression that I’m using in the network there is very, very subtle, because generally I don’t do major compression over my groups. It’s meant to add a nice sheen on a great blend of background vocals or compress a drum kit together, make it really feel like it’s got some nice air to it.”

Maserati GRP features

• Complete all-in-one processing chains.
• Mono and stereo components.
• Optimized control ranges.
• 24bit/96kHz resolution.
• Double precision bit resolution processing.
• Supports RTAS, Audio Suite, VST, AU.
• PC and Mac compatible.

Price: The Tony Maserati Collection is available to purchase for USD 830 (Native). Maserati Collection V7 & Mercury V7 owners covered by Waves Update Plan receive the new edition of Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection at no additional charge.

Visit: Waves

Download this DJ sound effects kit which comes with over 400 MB in DJ Sounds, Drops, and sound effects for your mixtape projects. If you are into hosting your own mixtapes then you know that it always pays to have as many DJ sound effects as possible. After downloading this pack please check out our mixtape cover tutorial.

Download kit here!

Visit: producertoolz.com

Loop & Sound has released Eternity, a powerful virtual analogue synthesizer featuring 2 VCOs with about 140 waveforms each (Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth, Square plus 135 special wave forms). Each oscillator can work in Single, Dual, Fat and Ultrafat modes.

The core of the synthesizer is the custom randomization that can be assigned or not to any of the knobs. It is easy to set up custom presets for instant production of any type of sound. For example, just create a Bass sound and fix (exclude randomization) the knobs to give the sound shape (VCA Envelope & VCF Envelope) to generate unlimited bass sounds with only a mouse click.

Specifics:

• 2 VCO (140 available waves).
• 4 modes of oscillator: Single/Dual/Fat/Ultrafat.
• Preset Genesi Technology (customized randomization).
• Modulation Matrix can modulate OSC PWM, OSC Phase, LFO Speed, LFO Depth, VCF Cutoff, VCF Resonance by Velocity, Mod Env, Aftertouch, Mod Wheel, Foot Pedal, Breath.
• VCA with Envelope.
• Time synched LFO.
• 5 VCF (12db/24db) with Envelope (LP, HP, BP, BR, Peak).
• 196 Presets.
• Save/Load presets.
• Pitch Wheel.
• 5 Octaves MIDI Keyboard.
• EFX Panel with Chorus/Delay/Reverb).
• Meter.

Eternity is free and is available for Windows as a VST instrument plug-in.

Visit: Loop And Sound