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Michael “Nomad” Ripoll released his first project with us in November of 2009. Studio Guitars: The Michael Ripoll Project has been a top seller ever since. His ability to play multiple guitar styles with a mastery few guitar players ever achieve in just one style is one of his primary trademarks. Studio Guitars received rave reviews as well as being nominated for the “Best Sound Library” category in the annual Sound on Sound Magazine Awards. Soon after we also released Crunch: Rock Guitar Loops, a smaller collection focused specifically on rock guitars.
Now for full disclosure: We knew that Michael had long been touring with platinum R&B recording artist Babyface as his guitar player. In addition Michael’s plays at a prodigy level when it comes to flamenco style guitar playing. When we first started working with Michael we asked him to hold off recording R&B, Hip Hop, and his Flamenco styles for Studio Guitars since we wanted to create products with him that specifically focused on those styles.
In the last few months we have released both Guitarra: Spanish Guitars and the Urban Guitar Collection by Michael “Nomad” Ripoll which are our two featured products for this month.
Guitarra: Spanish Guitars features 30 loop sets of spanish style guitar loops. Each kit will showcase a number of loops that all work together to create complete performances. The loops contain various flamenco styles and techniques all played with precision and accuracy that only a master could achieve. The loops are formatted in acidized WAV, REX, Apple Loop formats as well as kontakt format as part of our KLI Series. For those with the full version of Kontakt 4.2 or higher, the KLI version of the product is a great way to take advantage of editing and tweaking the loops beyond what is traditionally possible as well as a number of multisample patches of sustains, tremolo, chord strums, (major and minor), and more. For more information check out the product page and make sure to take a listen to the demo as well.
The Urban Guitar Collection is the fourth release from Michael. This collection features nearly 500 hip hop and R&B guitar loops. This product includes acoustic and electric guitar loops that would be perfect for both hip hop and R&B styles. This product is also formatted in acidezed WAV, REX, and Apple Loop formats. Yet again, Michael shows off his uncanny ability to play multiple styles of music and simply nail it.
You can currently find out more about Michael Ripoll at his two websites:
Big Fish Audio is proud to present Krunk Kingz, a massive Construction Kit library, created in association with YNK Audio, featuring 50 tracks in the styles of Young Money, ‘LilJohn, Drake, Jay-Z , T.I. and more! Each Construction kit not only includes the breakouts of all the individual loops but also includes a full set of drum trax and individual drum hits for endless custom beat options. These high-quality 24-bit samples are radio ready and come in Acidized WAV, Apple Loops, REX, Kontakt (KLI Series), MIDI, and FL Studio formats. These kits are jam-packed with the punchy drums, big synths and deep subs you need to top the charts.
This product is part of Big Fish Audio’s KLI series, which includes a custom Kontakt interface. The Kontakt format features patches of each loop. Customize each loop with the “sliced loops” patches. The Sliced Loop patches lay out each individual slice of a loop across the keyboard, making it easy to create new and original custom parts. The “Kit Combos” allow you to arrange full construction kits quickly and easily with a custom mixer and a host of included fx. Create, arrange, tweak, and mix all within the Kontakt format.
Krunk Kingz also includes Drum Kit and Drum Menu patches. The Drum Kit patches include all drum loops and single hits from a particular construction kit. The Drum Menu patches include all the one shot samples of a particular piece of the kit, e.g. claps, kicks, snares, hi-hats etc.
The KLI version of this product comes in both Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 5 versions. For those with the full version of Kontakt 5, take advantage of the new high quality and extremely flexible new time stretching algorithm as well as a bunch of new included FX.
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Vir2 Instruments is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Studio Kit Builder. A massive acoustic drum encyclopedia, Studio Kit Builder includes 130 kit pieces and over 50 pre-built drum kits. Studio Kit Builder takes full advantage of the powerful scripting capabilities of the Kontakt 5 engine, making it quick and easy to design a drum kit that is tailor-made to your music production needs.
The main interface allows you to easily click-and-choose any kit piece, and thanks to the fast optimized load time, it’s possible to audition any drum or cymbal on the fly and build new custom kits within seconds. Shape the acoustics using the versatile mixer, which includes several high quality effects on every channel and bus for precise tonal shaping. For added flexibility, route individual mixer channels to separate outputs for traditional mixing in your sequencer.Studio Kit Builder quickly adapts to any workflow or style.
Over one thousand MIDI files across dozens of styles are provided to help build a drum track quickly. MIDI files can be dropped into your sequencer directly from the Studio Kit Builder interface.
Studio Kit Builder is powered by Kontakt Player 5 and integrates seamlessly into any modern VST, AudioUnit, or RTAS host sequencer.
This months picks of the month include two outstanding libraries featuring guitars played with various unique effects allowing the user to use them in many different musical contexts. Many of the sounds are specifically geared towards a more modern cinematic use while others would be great in rock, electronica, ambient, or other experimental styles. Each of the two libraries comes in both WAV, REX, and Apple Loop formats as well as in Kontakt format as part of our KLI Series.
First, let’s take a look at Guitar Soundscapes. Guitar Soundscapes has a specific lushness to the sound design and will immediately draw you in with its full spectrum of guitar parts from high soaring leads to deep more pad-like Guitarscapes. All guitars were recorded using real amps and all effects were created using outboard effects and top of the line guitar pedals. We think you will agree the result is stunningly beautiful. In total, there is more than 3 GB (24-bit WAV) of original content here.
Second up is the just released Eclipse: Ambient Guitars. This product explores a very wide range of guitars from acoustics to various different electrics. In addition there is a vast amount of different effects used and a lot of experimental uses of the guitars. From percussion effects created by a recorded guitar, to intensely unique and complicated delay effects. Some of the kits sound as if they could fit directly into a cutting edge rock song while others would be perfect content to find its way into a modern techie film score. Just like Guitar Soundscapes, Eclipse contains a large amount of content with nearly 3.5 GB (24-bit WAV) of content.