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TRUE SCHOOL includes 40 charismatic kits based both on acoustic and electronic drum sounds, all enhanced with sonic artefacts and other charismatic embellishments but with their respective natural room sound intact.

The resulting sound material is both bold and sharp as well as warm and gritty at the same time. The kits are complemented by a selection of 70 carefully designed instrument sounds created in the same sonic vein, ranging from re-sampled and specifically processed strings, brass and piano sounds to distinctive leads and basses sampled from selected sought-after analog synthesizers.

What happens when a '90s analog synth meets an '80s tape recorder? We sampled a famous Analogue Bass Synth to tape using a new old stock cassette, and boxed it into a Kontakt Instrument.

Speficifactions:
- 2 Oscillators (Saw, Square, Pulse 5%)
- 12-24dB/oct filter
- 1 LFO (Random, Saw, Triangle) for Pitch and Cutoff
- 2 Envelopes
- 24 Factory Presets
- 24 User Presets (save function within the Kontakt GUI)
- Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit
- Size: 200 MB installed
- Custom performance view

Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.2 full retail version is required

Introduction Price: $9 (goes $12 on 24/10

ProjectSAM is excited to announce Orchestral Essentials - the essence of film scoring. Orchestral Essentials will launch your film composer career at an unbeatable price.

ProjectSAM has carefully selected the essentials from each of their products, including the highly praised Symphobia series, True Strike series and Orchestral Brass Classic, and bundled them into one effective, incredibly versatile package. Moreover, new instruments not found in any other ProjectSAM products have been included.

F you are an owner of GigaStudio, Kontakt, Structure, HALion, SampleTank or other eligible virtual sampler product, you can upgrade to MachFive 3 for only $295 (a savings of $200 off list price).

To qualify for this MachFive competitive upgrade offer, you must confirm ownership of a competing product listed below by enclosing the original page 1 from the user manual with your MachFive registration.

- Ableton Sampler
- EastWest Play
- Emulator X2
- EXS24 (any version)
- GigaStudio (any version)
- HALion
- Independence
- Kontakt (any version)
- Quantum Leap Goliath
- Reason NN-XT
- SampleTank
- Structure

Soundorder is well known for professional sounddesign (soudsets & samples) and does concentrate on „up-to-date" sounds which are used in these days top productions. Their soundsets and samples are fresh and very inspiring. The new "Production Tools" series they created is an innovative highlight that focuses a totally new concept of the working process.

35 brand new construction kits for Progressive / Trance / Tech Trance. Covering bangin drums, cutting edge leads, fat basses, wide pads, synths and sound effects.
Every tool kit is split up into loops and single samples. For full creative access the producers have also included synth- & sampler presets as well as midi files for every single track! Feel free to change the tool kit to something completely different according to your taste!
To adjust the tempo quickly to your needs, all Wav loops are available in Apple Loops and REX format. Full access to every sound and the possibility to freely modify kits, makes this collection something really special and outstanding on the market - Get your own hands on the sound of tomorrow!

Over 4,7 GB.

Last week Toontrack released a free update for Superior Drummer which saw the leading drum sampler reach new heights of realism with features such as Multiple Hits Emulation which ensures that the attack of the stick is appropriately blended in when repeatedly hitting a cymbal, and Cymbal Choke/Aftertouch giving users the means to produce cymbal mutes on-the-fly, in MIDI (aftertouch or note off).

These new capabilities are showcased with the release of two new SDX expansion packs which, between them, contain a massive 64GB of raw, unprocessed sounds – making them likely to be among the world's most comprehensive drum sample libraries ever recorded.

Roots: Sticks and Roots: Brushes, Rods and Mallets are the result of Toontrack's recording sessions at Nashville's Blackbird Studio which saw the Swedish drum sampling kings' intention to create the ultimate jazz library turn into something an awful lot bigger!