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Himalaya: Vintage taps into funk, fusion, old school
electronica and synth pop, offering instruments with an
authentic vintage vibe and playability. Enjoy squelchy
basses, rich multi-layered pads, cutting synths, dancing
arps, shimmering strings and breathy choirs.

This library features nearly 600MB of new samples, including
classics like the Mellotron, Arp Solina, Hohner Clavinet,
Minimoog, Oberheim OB-Xa, Korg mini700 and Roland VP-330
Vocoder. Himalaya is highly respected for his sound design
work with a variety of synths including Himalaya: Pads for
Alchemy.59USD /49€ / 39GBP.

StepPolyArp for iPad updated to 1.4.1

What's new in this update? The Step Controller editor is now customizable, the Modulation, Pan, Volume, Aftertouch and Pitch Bend controller can be replaced with your own. And more, the main arpeggiator parameters can be controlled by external Midi devices, and patterns changed by Program Change command.

Price : $11.99

TRANSFORM is an extensive collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Bundled with sample mappings for many popular formats, TRANSFORM's painstakingly recorded and processed sounds will find their home in the arsenals of sound designers, editors and music producers alike.

TRANSFORM features over 1.6 Gigabytes of 24-bit/96khz audio, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer enriched metadata and processed using a plethora of sound design tools, such as Symbolic Sound's Kyma.

Desert Winds is a 2.5 GB library with more than 2000 individual samples. In Desert Winds you will find up to 6 different real legato types per instrument, deep sampling, amazing playability.
For each of the wind instruments you will find a microtuning folder with 16 patches featuring the most important arabic/turkish microtuning tables.

Additionally the library offers 21 beautiful and inspiring bonus soundscapes to create cinematic and evolving desert ambiences. Every soundscape offers 2 to 6 different individual layers which can create indefinite new ambiences by mixing them at will.

Sample Magic announces the release of The Secrets of House Music Production: iPad Edition
After selling 10,000+ copies of the The Secrets of House Music Production book, Sample Magic is delighted to announce the release of the all-new iPad Edition.

The expanded iPad edition features all of the original content PLUS 340+ audio examples, 60+ interactive walkthroughs, 38 realtime beat-
building grids, 3 full pro-track arrangements, a complete effects directory and much more.

With Binaural 01 I The Balloon you get 152 unique and weird balloon sound effects. 179 MB full of inflating, deflating, squealing effects and many more...

Equipment used:
- Zoom H1
- DIY binaural microphones with WM-61a capsules
- A bag of balloons

24 Bit 96 kHz / 152 files / 179 MB unpacked.