This month we wanted to highlight a couple of unique libraries that have been exceptionally recorded and have loads of musical inspiration. Both of these libraries heavily feature acoustic guitars of various types and perfectly fill a niche of music that is a little off beat but is heard all over the place. You’ll hear this type of music from top charting records all the way to commercials. With both libraries being part of the textured series, these sounds are certainly ready to fit in your music with minimal effort or tweaking.
Island Guitars is a brand new library that features a blend of Pop, Reggae, Hawaiian, Calypso, and Soca. This 4 GB collection (1.6 gb of original 24-bit WAV files) features Ukulele, Slide and Lap Steel, Acoustic, Nylon, Hi String and 12 String, Baritone and Electric Guitars, Resonator and Dobro and a very healthy dose of Percussion (Shakers, Congas, Cajon, Bongos, Djembe, Cowbell, Timbales, Tambourine, Maracas and Brushed Snare). These sounds are certainly not contained to the island but have broken away to the mainland with sounds that fit the vibe of many current artists such as, Ingrid Michaelson, Bruno Mars, Train, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Buffet, Kenny Chesney, Ziggy Marley, Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole and the Black Eyed Peas.
Quirky Guitars is another library featuring various types of guitars with a unique vibe and sound that will fit with many popular genres of music. You’ll find acoustic guitar (recordings include hi-strung, de-tuned, natural, etc.) banjo, mandolin, vintage electric guitars, glockenspiel, bells, music boxes, old synths, and organs that are perfect for weaving in unique rhythms, melodies, and textures into your music.
Both of these libraries contain such a unique and fresh approach for a loop library they are bound to just make you happy listening through them. If you’re looking for a clean and polished sound but with character that’s a little bit “different”, then definitely check out Quirky Guitars and Island Guitars.
Big things coming your way in the form of high quality loops!
Dieguis Productions and Big Fish Audio hit you with Island Guitars. It’s pop, reggae, hawaiian, calypso and soca construction kits so be sure to check this one out.
Loopmasters brings Trevor Loveys – Deep In House and Reel People: Broken Beat, Nu Jazz & Soul Vol. 4.
Future Loops follows suit with 2 new products, Andrea Bertolini – Progressive House and Vox India Vol. 2.
Wolsfraektroes Music hits us with a club stormer called Progressive House Vol. 3: Incognet. Contemporary Progressive House sounds straight to your computer!
Audiotent releases Melodic House: Sylenth 1 Presets.
Prime Loops cranks up the speakers with Ravestep. A mix between dubstep and rave-like vibes all in one library.
Producer Loops released too many libraries to count this week so check out their list of new products here.
That’s it for this week. Also note that we are currently working extremely hard on a Kontakt version of Epic Drums 2! It’s amazing. Working with it myself, I can genuinely say that with this is the best way to work with a library. The functions and customization for a LOOP LIBRARY is unrivaled. Get excited!
Have a great weekend. =)
Here we go weekend! Time for some much needed R&R, as well as maybe a peek or two at some hot new libraries from Big Fish Audio. =)
Loopmasters brings DJ Krust, Kelevra – Tech House, Pablo Decoder House Sylenth Presets and Tech Therapy.
Producer Loops brings Bizarre House Vol. 1 and Chillout Progressions Vol. 2
Diginoiz with R&South.
Mutekki with Audio Boutique: Electric Elements 2, Namzilla Loops, Swen Weber Electro District Vol. 1 and Big Room Tools Vol. 1.
That’s it for this week, and as always, have a nice weekend!
The weekend soon approaches! Let me tell you, this week has been a long one, but a very productive one. This week in loops:
Newcomers Dig Audio have added a bunch more products to their lineup. You can see all of them here.
ThaLoops is BRAND new this week and you can listen to them here, because they have a ton of libraries to check out.
SoundVibez also sent us all their best, which isn’t very hard for them, this week. You can check out all of them here. Also, Party House 2 by them is well done!
That’s it for this week! Like always, have a fun (yet productive) weekend.
Vir2 recently released the Q 1.1 Patch update, which includes minor enhancements to existing patches such as refined FX settings and pitch corrected samples. The FX settings in almost every patch of the factory library had minor changes made to make them sound more “production ready” upon loading without further adjustments being necessary. Some of the layer samples in the Multilayer Dreamscapes and Multilayer Drones patches were not playing back at the correct pitch; those have now been corrected. The update not only includes minor enhancements to the factory library patches, but also more than 50 new patches by Violence creator, Brendan Hogan.
Click HERE to download the update.
To install this update, locate the existing “Instruments” folder inside your Q folder. Move that folder outside of the Q folder to any location of your choosing. Next, move the new instruments folder into your Q folder. Once you have a patch loaded, you may choose to keep or delete the old instruments folder.
Note: This update requires version 4.2.2 or later of the Free Kontakt Player or full retail version of Kontakt.
Mad respeck to all the BFA blog readas! =) This week we added tons of new loops by our quality partners not to mention we partnered up with even more companies so lets’ get started.
Sound Vibez released 7 new products through us this week. We have Fresh RnB Hitz Vol.2, New Wave Vibez, Party House, Fresh Dirty South Beats, RnB Radio Hitz, Hip Hop Bangerz and Party House 2.
Producer Loops releases We Love House Vol.1 and House Session Vol.3.
Prime Loops Platinum Dubstep for those filthy D-Step junkies out there!
P5 Audio brings the beats with Dubstep Aggression, Meteoric Rock Hybrid, World Grime: Chinese Pipa Edition and Electro House Freak.
Loopmasters brings more loops in the form of Deep Electronic House, Top Loops and Percussion, Tech Funk – NI Massive Presets and New York Rap Acapellas Vol.1.
And the newly added brand is, Dig Audio. Billboard Melodies, Boss Of Miami Vol.1, Hotlanta, Polo Reigns, Pop Divas, Pop Nation and Radio Kill RnB.
I know it’s a lot to chew on for this weekend but it’s a great thing knowing we can provide you quality loops for your weekend. Be sure to check them all out and have a productive weekend!