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New Loops for Monday

Hey readers! Welcome back, let’s get into these loops!

With over twenty new products, Sample Magic has put up some great fresh beats. I’ll highlight a few for you:

– Ultimate FX 2 with 1.4GB of prime dancefloor FX for all electronic genres

– Underground Dubstep –  intricate 2-step rhythms, brooding bass, murky melodics, heavy atmospheres, mournful vocals and more

– Progressive House 2 – a 600+MB opus to the new school of stadium filling progressive house, uniting elements of tech-house and electro

The rest of their releases can be found HERE.

MVP Loops has two brand new downloads for you to check out. First Class Classics has all the elements you need for a smash hit. Incredible melodies, bangin’ drums and big synths are all included. Ultimate R&B Collection – Urban Hybrid Edition Vol.2  has 10 new hot construction kits of modern, hybrid R&B, Hip Hop and Pop. The loops are all key and tempo labeled to get you started making hits in a flash.

Lastly, there’s two brand new downloads from Big Fish Audio! Indie: Acoustic Collection brings you the sounds of today’s chart topping acoustic indie rock in 15 jam packed construction kits. Guitar Sessions: Contemporary Pop Guitars has a whopping 25 Kits with every kit containing four to five different and unique guitars. With that much content and variation, you’re bound to instantly love this product!

That’s it for today! Peace!

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Top Loops & Instruments – February 2013

 

Check out our best sellers for February 2013!

 

TOP 10 LOOPS TOP 10 INSTRUMENTS
     
1. Dubstep Killer 1. Electri6ity
2. Crush 2. World Impact: Global Percussion
3. Oxygen 3. Q
4. Acoustic Indie Pop 4. First Call Horns
5. Maybach Ambition XXL Edition 5. London Solo Strings
6. Drive 6. Voxos: Epic Virtual Choir
7. Country Roots 7. MOJO: Horn Section
8. Plush 2 8. Acoustic Legends HD
9. Acoustic Soundscapes 9. SWAGG
10. Dark City 2: Cinematic Loops and… 10. Cinematic Sound Design
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Top Loops & Instruments – January 2013

 

Check out our best sellers for January 2013!

 

TOP 10 LOOPS TOP 10 INSTRUMENTS
      
1. Oxygen 1. Electri6ity
2. Acoustic Indie Pop 2. MOJO: Horn Section
3. Maybach Ambition XXL Edition 3. Acoustic Legends HD
4. Dubstep Killer 4. Vintage Legends Bundle
5. TITAN Filmscapes 5. Voxos: Epic Virtual Choir
6. Altered Reality: Dark Cinematic… 6. London Solo Strings
7. Plush 2 7. IRCAM Prepared Piano
8. Zen 8. Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar
9. Hard Rock: Decade of Distortion 9. Studio Kit Builder
10. Purple Drizzle XXL 10. Q
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Production Department Picks of the Month Feb 2013

Hello Everybody! hope you all have had a great month and for those of you who went to NAMM a great show!

 

This month I want to highlight two of my favorite libraries that are breaking ground in the Electronic Cinematic genre.  These are not your standard cut and dry cinematic loops, they break the boundaries of film scoring and give a pro-ready setup for some amazing possibilities.

 

First up, we have Altered Reality: Dark Cinematic Elements.  This library is the definition of out of the box, from glitchy lightning infused impacts and transform sounds to ambient atmospheres of different worlds, Altered Reality has it all.  The depth of quality in these samples is unmatched.  Without needing any outside reverb or compression of any kind, the sounds are huge in quality and depth of design.  Altered Reality contains over 500 loops, 404 one-shots and is organized between those two categories.  The product has been formatted in WAV, REX, Apple Loops, and Kontakt as part of our KLI Series.  With so much diverse content and infinite layering possibilities, Altered Reality will be an invaluable resource for a long time.

 

 

 

Next is Titan Filmscapes – Electronic, Industrial and Dramatic Filmscapes. Titan Filmscapes is a hot new filmscapes product by Dieguis Productions and it sets the bar for contemporary film scoring.  Titan Filmscapes showcases composers and films such as Hans Zimmer, Cliff Martinez, Chemical Brothers, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Social Network and many more.  Titan is incredibly diverse, with instruments ranging from electric guitar to ambient pads to marimbas and even flute. The product has been formatted in WAV, REX, Apple Loops, and Kontakt as part of our KLI Series. Boasting over 800 Acidized WAV loops and taking home 4 out of 5 subs from SoundsandGear.com, this product is a hands down winner and a must have for any working on a film score.

 

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2013 NAMM Show Wrap-up

 

What a great show! Year after year NAMM provides a great opportunity to make friends, do business and introduce new products. This year was no different. Big Fish Audio had an amazing show meeting with industry professionals, industry leading producers and composers and music enthusiasts of all types. It was great to see an overwhelming interest in Big Fish Audio’s latest loops and virtual instruments from end users, dealers and distributors from literally around the world! Our booth stayed packed with music professionals eager to get the scoop on upcoming releases and Big Fish Audio did not disappoint!

Among the crowd favorites was the new virtual instrument collaboration between Big Fish Audio and VIP Loops, SWAGG. The response to this new Hip Hop, R&B and Pop synth VI was incredible… and for good reason! With its massive library of sounds, custom gate and arpeggiator effects and new “Quick-Strike FX” capabilities, it’s easy to see why SWAGG created an instant buzz around NAMM for the entire show. Click here to see a video presentation of SWAGG from the show.

Another product that raised a lot off attention throughout the show was Acou6tics. The minute Big Fish Audio announced this new Vir2 instrument as the acoustic follow-up to the award-winning guitar VI Electri6ity, there was constant excitement. Scheduled for release in summer of 2013, this acoustic guitar VI takes advantage of some of the same technology that went into creating Electri6ity and provides amazing flexibility and control. With five recorded acoustics (twelve-string, steel-string, nylon string, ukulele and mandolin) and thousands of samples across more than a dozen articulations, Acou6tics raises the bar by which all other acoustic guitar libraries are measured by.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also mentioned in it’s early stages of production was “Thunder: Epic Toms for Cinema”. This massive instrument will include thundering toms, expertly samples at the highest industry standards accompanied by numerous FX and customizable settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big fish Audio has a full slate of products in the works for 2013. Stay tuned and sign up for our mailing list to get the lastest news on new products and release dates. A big thank you to everyone that helped make this year our best NAMM show ever!

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Big Fish Audio announces Acou6tics at NAMM 2013

Re-imagine the acoustic guitar with the follow up to Vir2’s Electri6ity.

Following in the footsteps of Vir2 Instruments’ award-winning Electri6ity electric guitar virtual instrument, Acou6tics applies the same advanced technologies to re-imagining the acoustic guitar. Vir2 has meticulously recorded five different acoustic instruments: a steel-string guitar, twelve-string, nylon string, ukulele, and mandolin, and presents them in astonishing detail, featuring both plectrum and finger picking, Blumlein stereo recordings alongside the piezo pickup perspective. Thousands of samples across more than a dozen articulations were recorded for each instrument, including sustains, mutes, releases, legatos, hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, harmonics, and effects. Acou6tics also features virtual room control with adjustable mic distance, and sympathetic resonance.

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