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Audio Geek Zine releases Pink Piano

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The Pink Piano is made from a First Act brand “Grand Piano” I found at a thrift store. It’s made of cheap wood and the sound is created by the clacky plastic keys hitting some metal tines inside. It sounds broken. My kid loves it and like all musical toys I buy, I planned to meticulously sample it.

The recording was done at 24-bit; 96kHz using a pair of small diaphragm cardioid condensers and an omni condenser in the center. Each note was recorded at 3 velocities. Noise reduction was applied, the three mics were mixed, then each note was cut with the perfect start time, length and each set of velocities was set to specific peak levels. Finally the files were mapped across the keys in KONTAKT. This was all incredibly time consuming.

Includes

  • 1 KONTAKT instrument consisting of 103 stereo wav files.
  • Format: 24-bit, 44.1kHz (converted from 96kHz source)
  • Each key of the toy piano sampled at 3 velocities.
  • Extra samples of smacking the soundboard, dropping it and other noises.

The sample pack is a free download.

Visit: Pink Piano

Audio Genetics Lab releases Epic Epic

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Audio Genetics Lab has released Epic Epic, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

What could be more epic than the actual word “Epic”? This collection of percussion,ambiences, and effects has been crafted from emotional, real performances of the word “Epic”, redefining the sampling world and industry in two thunderous syllables.

Feel the opening bellow of the “E”, the warm percussives of “p”, the crisp highs of the “i”, and the sharp snaps of the “c” in this one-of-a-kind performance instrument. Included for a limited time is the Extra-Special Extended Library patch which includes additional articulations,such as “Huge”, “Boom”, and more.

Epic Epic for Kontakt 4.2 or higher (full version) is available as a free download.

Visit: audiogeneticslab.com

Orange Tree Samples releases Cherry Electric Bass

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Cherry Electric Bass - We’ve combined the most common bass playing techniques-fingered, muted fingered, picked, muted picked, and slapped articulations–into a detailed, easy-to-use solution for virtual bass. We sampled the five-string bass all the way down to its low B string, giving you plenty of room in the low notes. The bass was sampled directly from its output jack (DI), giving you the freedom of applying your own EQ, compressor, and other effects. Even completely dry, the bass has a full, deep tone, and easily fits right into any mix.

Cherry Electric Bass has over 2.5 GB of samples (compressed via Kontakt’s lossless NCW compression to 1.4 GB), powered by extensive scripting to maximize these samples, not only making the sample library ultra-realistic, but very playable and easy to sequence with. Whether you’re sequencing the bass track note by note or performing it live from a MIDI keyboard, the combination of high quality samples and extensive scripting makes your bass track sound like a live bassist.

Cherry Electric Bass features

  • Over 2.5 GB of 24-bit samples (compressed to 1.4 GB using Kontakt’s lossless NCW compression).
  • Sampled down to a low B.
  • Up to 8x round-robin.
  • Automatic hammer-on, pull-off, slide up, slide down legato articulations.
  • Customizable mapping system that allows you to map the articulations by velocity, controller, keyswitch, or whichever method you prefer.
  • Lots of effects, such as slides, muted notes, fret noises, string slaps, and much more.

Price: USD 99.00

Visit: Orange Tree Samples

Glass Marimba – Free Kontakt sample library

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Glass Marimba is 8Dio’s final and freebie release of 2011. This gorgeous deep-sampled instrument contains over 2000 samples and is our way of thanking you all for a crazy year. The glass marimba has been a frequently requested instrument, so we thought it would be a great way to end the season. The library consists of soft mallet, hard mallet, muted and finger samples. In addition we created a variety of FX and ambient patches – all made with the Glass Marimba.

Glass Marimba is available to download at no cost until January 1, 2012.

Visit: 8DIO

Samplerbanks release Neo Soul Keys for Reason 6, iOS Garagaband and more

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A meticulously produced super-smooth, silky epiano instrument (with 12 velocity layers, pedal noises and resonances, barks, thwacks, release samples) in the Neo Soul style – now in the long-awaited Reason format as well.

Samplerbanks proudly present Neo Soul Keys – the EP recorded in the North Avenue Studio (Orange City, Florida) has a very specific “phat” and warm personality. Coupled with the personality of the mastermind and top gospel musician Jamal Hartwell (Gospelmusicians) behind the concept of Neo Soul Keys proved to be a winning combination!

Realism was absolute number one goal and with vintage modeled effects, complex impulse response algorithms, and tweak-able knobs for ultimate control Neo Soul keys offers the best E-Piano experience ever produced in a plug-in.

Additional goal was to make sure that if musicians were not able to take a full electric piano to the studio or to gig this plugin would be the very next thing – just load the iOS Garageband version into you iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and take it whereever you go!!

Additional goal was to make sure that if musicians were not able to take a full electric piano to the studio or to gig this plugin would be the very next thing – just load the iOS Garageband version into you iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and take it whereever you go!

Features:
• 2.6 – 1.1 GB sample data depending on format
• 12 velocity layers for Sustain and Release samples
• Additional multilayered sample sets for Key Down, Key Up, Staccato noises
• Tine / Bark samples sets for more hollow / bite to get the Neo Soul feelin’
• Vintage modeled vibrato
• Reason 6 version – use of new effects like Pulveriser, The Echo, Line 6 Guitar Amp

Formats and prices:
• ReFill for Propellerheads Reason 6 – 79.99 GBP
• FREE NI Kontakt Player 4/5 – 99.99 GBP
• Apple Garagaband iOS 5 version for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch – 79.99 GBP
• Yamaha MOTIF ES / XS / XF – 24.95 GBP

Price: GBP 24.95

Visit: samplerbanks.com

Soniccouture sets Abstrakt Vol. 1 free

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We have re-released our first product as freeware – the scripting and graphics may look a little old fashioned, but the sounds still sound pretty fresh to us! We include the original scripts – more developed versions of these are to be found in our script product Scriptorium.

Abstrakt Vol. 1 features

  • 250MB Sample library.
  • 16 Bit 44.1khz samples.
  • 64 Kontakt instruments.
  • 5 KSP Scripts.
  • Kontakt format (v3, 4, 5).

Abstrakt Vol. 1 is available to download at no cost. A Soniccouture website account is required (registration is free).

Visit: Soniccouture