This months production department picks of the month highlights two extremely well done Indie pop products by a couple of my favorite brands we carry, Majorn9ne and Dieguis Productions. These products cover the entire genre from soft acoustics and vocal melodies to gritty basses and punchy drums. All samples and loops are expertly recorded in the highest possible quality, cut to bar lines for quick and easy arrangement and formatted in Apple Loops, Acidized WAV and REX Formats. In addition to these formats, both products have been formatted for Big Fish Audio’s new KLI series that takes advantage of the power and flexibility of Native Instruments’ “Kontakt” engine.
This massive 6.5 GB collection of Alternative, Indie and Pop-Rock is a showcase of groups like Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Keys, Imagine Dragons, Young the Giant, Snow Patrol, The Fray, Neon Trees and many more. Crush contains Drum Elements that contain individual drum kit pieces (kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, cymbals; etc) that you can use individually or mix n match to create an unlimited variety of drum grooves and rhythmic textures.
The library contains an enormous collection of Instrument Kits that give you the freedom to simply use one layer of the instrument by itself or increase the depth, complexity and beauty by adding additional complimentary instrument parts.
Crush includes Vocals (Female and Male) Acoustic Drums (Stereo, Hits and 24-bit WAV Multi-Drums) Electric Bass, Electric Guitars, Pianos, Keys, Synths and many additional instruments that provide you with today’s rock sound.
By giving you the ability to add the amount of depth and texture needed, along with multiple variations and rhythmic figures, Crush gives you total creative freedom and allows you to tweak to your hearts content!
Crush also includes over 3 GB of Multi-Drums from the “Drum Loops” sections of the instrument kits for you to mix n match, remix and adjust anyway you like it. Pick up Crush and Inject your projects with the raw emotion of today’s hottest Alternative, Indie and Pop-Rock music.
Acoustic Collection nails a sound that has become very popular in the last few years. From Grammy Award winning bands, to major commercials and even contemporary film scores, these sounds are a must have for any producer. This collection features not only acoustic guitars but also, drums, vocals, hand claps, snaps, glockenspiels, and a whole lot more.
In addition, a folder of hand claps and snaps one shot hits and multi-track drum stems have been included to create your own custom mixes.
Indie Acoustic Collection is a truly amazing and usable product that feels familiar and current but still brings something new to the table.
Epic: Cinematic Drums & Sound Design is a virtual instrument created for use with Native Instruments Kontakt 5 engine. Truly epic in scope (over 10.3GB uncompressed) but also simple to use, Epic is ideal for composers and sound designers working in film, movie trailers, games, television, production music, web design, or advertising. Epic not only includes a huge variety of cinematic drum loops and sampled drums – it’s also a powerful and flexible tool for cinematic-style sound design.
Use Epic’s deep collection of drum and percussion loops to quickly compose cinematic rhythmic beds in a wide variety of styles…
Create your own rhythmic fills and patterns with Epic’s multi- sampled instruments.
Add a professional edge to your cues with Epic’s powerful array of cinematic sound design elements…
Customize your sonic creations using the sound design tools on Epic’s graphic interface…
Includes 58 multi-sampled drums and percussion instruments, 24 Performance Kits (total of 1711 loops and one-shots), and 388 high-quality cinematic sound effects.
This month’s production department picks of the month come from the rising popularity of Dubstep and Electronica influences in modern Pop, RnB, and Indie tracks. From punchy dance kick drums and dirty wobble basses, to out of this word synth pads and lead lines, these two products cover TONS of ground. Both products come in 24-Bit Apple Loops, Acidized WAV and REX formats. In addition to these formats both products include some midi files and have been formatted for Big Fish Audio’s new KLI series that takes advantage of the power and flexibility of Native Instruments’ “Kontakt” engine.
Future Complextro is the Dubstep/Complextro producers dream, and stays ahead of the curve in a very usable and current way. All kits are recorded in 128 BPM so every element can be mixed and matched with ease. There are separate drum hits and drums tracks folders as well for easy custom drum part creation. To put it simply, Future Complextro is SIMPLE in its layout but offers TONS in content. Future Complextro contains over 700 MB of original content split into 15 full construction kits.
In the KLI version of Future Complextro, we have included separate patches to give you complete control over the iconic and much sought after “Wobble Bass” sound that make Dubstep so unique. Various wobble bass sounds have been sliced up and laid out on the keyboard for quick and custom wobble performances. Here is a video performance of these wobble menus in action from another outstanding product. “Dubstep Killer“. Although this video is from another product the concept and quality of these patches are the same.
Progressive House Hits boasts 15 full kits of House beats and melodies. Fat synths, dirty leads and HUGE drums are just a few of the things that make this product great. This product brings House music in the best way possible, inspiring, innovative, flashy and strong. Drum track loops and single hits are also included so that full control over the beat section is at your finger tips. Coming in at about 800 MB and boasting KLI formatting to make mixing, arranging and customizing even easier and more accessible, this product was a must have for us and we are sure it will be for you as well.
Check out our best sellers for August 2013!
| TOP 10 LOOPS | TOP 10 INSTRUMENTS |
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| 1. Synthetic | 1. Hatsune Miku V3 English |
| 2. Indie Pop | 2. Vintage Horns |
| 3. Rock Cinema | 3. Acoustic Legends HD |
| 4. Acoustic Pop | 4. SWAGG |
| 5. Guitar Sessions: Contemporary… | 5. MOJO: Horn Section |
| 6. Ambient Skyline 3 | 6. First CAll Horns |
| 7. Spark | 7. Electri6ity |
| 8. Piano Soundscapes | 8. Vintage VI |
| 9. Nashveille Sessions | 9. True Keys |
| 10. Guitar Soundscapes | 10. Studio Kit Builder |
Hatsune Miku is “The First Sound of the Future” – a futuristic voice synthesizer software that allows you to easily create vocal parts from scratch by just entering a melody and lyrics. Add vibrato, dynamics and other effects to change the expression of Miku’s singing voice. Compose songs using Miku as your main singer, demo vocalist, chorus singer or experiment with new vocal styles for remixing and other electronic music projects. This all-in-one package includes vocal editor Piapro Studio VSTi, PreSonus Studio One Artist Piapro Edition, and over 200 virtual instruments for your immediate music production.
This database is based on a human voice, carefully recorded in a high-standard studio environment. Every sound was edited and optimized for the VOCALOID engine in order to create this database. With parameters such as gender factor or brightness, you are able to modify the voice and customize it to exactly fit your sound.
Database: English
Voice Characteristics: An Exotic, Transparent Female Voice
Suggested Music Styles: House, Techno, Crossover
Suggested Tempo: 100-130BPM
Recommended Vocal Range: B2-B3
NOTE: This vocal range is a recommended guideline only. Miku can sing in a much wider range in practice.
Recorded Voice for Database: Saki Fujita
Vocal Editor PIAPRO STUDIO
A vocal editor that allows you to easily operate and modify Miku’s voice, Piapro Studio works as a VSTi plugin, and therfore performs at a high compatibility with main music production applications (PreSonus Studio One, Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase etc.).
About AU (Mac) Plugin
Support for the AU (Mac) plugin is scheduled for an update. With this feature the usage with Apple Logic and Apple Garage Band will be possible.
Features
– Supported VSTi plugin by all main music software applications
– Piano Roll Editor: Easy to use note & lyric editing. Enter the notes you want Miku to sing via the easy-to-use sequencer window, then type in the lyrics corresponding to each note
– Control Effects via Automation: Dynamics, breath, velocity, gender and other vocal characteristics can be manipulated simply with a pencil tool
– Vocal parts editable while playback
– Chorus: You can add up to 15 voice tracks simultaneously
– Reads VSQ, VSQX, MIDI
– Import MIDI Files as Input: You can import a standard MIDI file and use the notes as the basis for Vocaloid tracks
– Save/Export Vocal Parts as .wav files
– Interface Language: Japanese, English, Chinese
– Display of multiple Automation Tracks
– Automatic Update (requires Internet Connection)
Bundled Software
HATSUNE MIKU V3 ENGLISH comes in an all-in-one package for your own music production of Miku songs! The product contains Miku’s English singing voice database, vocal editor Piapro Studio and the music production application Studio One Artist Piapro Edition coming with over 200 virtual instruments (guitar, piano, drums, and various other synthesizers). All applications can be synched with each other which enables you to easily produce whole musical compositions.
Studio One
With Studio One Artist, you can not only create rhythms and melodies, but also add all kinds of effects on Miku’s voice! The software’s intuitive operation interface allows easy editing, mixing and mastering of your musical creations.
PreSonus Virtual Instruments & Sounds
Studio One Artist Piapro Edition comes with over 200 instruments, enabling your creativity to explore and compose for a wide range of music genres. Instruments: Guitar / Bass / Keyboard / Drum / Strings / Woodwind / Percussion and more!
Hi, Steve Sechi here, producer of EPIC: Cinematic Drums & Sound Design, which was just released this week. As those of you who’ve been to the BFA site before might have guessed, EPIC is related to the best-selling Epic Drums sample CD series. I think it’s safe to say that if you liked the Epic Drums series, you’re *really* going to like EPIC.
The difference is that EPIC: Cinematic Drums & Sound Design is not a sample CD – it’s a Kontakt virtual instrument. Like the Epic Drums series, EPIC features hundreds of killer performance loops, organized into 24 different Kontakt construction kits. But EPIC also includes multi-sampled versions of all of the drums we used in the performance loops, so you can easily create your own customized fills, rhythms, and sounds, or mix and match pre-generated loops with your own custom material.
EPIC features a huge variety of ethnic drums and percussion, including Chinese drums, taikos, African drums, frame drums, small and large gongs, cymbals, quints, a complete set of five Roto-Toms, and a massive, studio-shaking 39″ nagada drum from India. We also included hundreds of high-quality cinematic sound design elements, like thundering Hits, Impacts, Metals, Risers and Whooshes.
Every construction kit features a selection of loops, one-shots, and cinematic elements, making it fast and easy to compose Action, Suspense, or Horror cues when you’re on a tight deadline. Another time-saving feature: we mapped all loops according to their pitch, from low to high on the keyboard.
EPIC’s Graphic User Interface is also a time-saver. It’s pretty much plug-and-play – easy to use right out of the box, with the most important controls located on the front panel of the GUI. And of course, those who like to tweak their sounds and loops can find the full compliment of Kontakt effects under the hood just by clicking on the “tool” icon.
We had a great time playing and recording EPIC. Hope you check out the demos on the BFA website and let us know what you think of it.