Instruments

Vintage Horns now available for Kontakt Player 5

Vintage Horns is a horn section virtual instrument ReFill for Reason 6 that gives you every instrument you need to emulate the classic horn section sounds of R&B, Soul, and Funk bands from the 60’s and 70s.

As with its sister product, Vintage VI, the goal for Vintage Horns was not to create a shiny, perfect-sounding virtual instrument. Instead, we tried to capture the way horn sections sounded back in the 60s and 70s, including the minor imperfections that added character to those sections and made them sound so good.

Vintage Horns features nine multi-sampled brass and wood wind instruments:

• Baritone Sax
• Tenor Sax
• Alto Sax3
• Alto Flute
• Soprano Flute
• Trombone
• Flugel Horn
• Muted Trumpet
• Open Trumpet

With Vintage Horns you can re-create the most popular horn section sounds of the 60’s and 70s, including:

• The Memphis Soul horn section, which typically used a single trumpet  with one  tenor sax and occasionally a bari sax

• The famous horn section sound of the JBs, which featured trombone, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, and bari sax

• The classic big production sound of Detroit Soul

• The Philly Soul sound, with flutes and flugel horn

• And the powerful Oakland Soul sound, with bari sax, 2 tenor saxes, trombone, and two trumpet switching to flugel horns on ballads.

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General

Top Loops & Instruments – June 2013

Check out our best sellers for June 2013!

 

TOP 10 LOOPS TOP 10 INSTRUMENTS
       
1. Vintage Guitars 1. Electri6ity
2. Indie Pop 2. MOJO: Horn Section
3. Ambient Skyline 3 3. Vintage Horns
4. Acoustic Pop 4. SWAGG
5. Guitar Sessions: Contemporary… 5. Vintage VI
6. Country Roots 6. Acoustic Legends HD
7. Oxygen 7. RiG: Urban Workstation
8. Dubstep Killer 8. London Solo Strings
9. Altered Reality: Dark Cinematic Elem 9. First Call Horns
10. Legendary: R&B Classics 10. True Keys
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Sales & Promotions

4th of July Savings Now Through July 7th!

Save up to 35% through July 7th!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35% off all orders of $299 or more. Use code: 4JLY35
25% off all order of $99 to $298. Use code: 4JLY25
15% off all orders of $19 to $98. Use code: 4JLY15

*Excluding Sonokinetic and Ueberschall. Offer can not be combine with any other coupon, sale or special offer.

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Loops

This week in loops

Hi Big Fish bloggers! Let’s dig into this week’s new loop libraries.

Diginoiz has a single new title out, and it’s a top notch product! Trap Chiefs Producers Kit has 4 construction kits and will be perfect for your next Trap production.

Producer Loops released over 20 packs and we have them all here. To highlight a few:

– Mix It Up Bundle House Construction Kits gives you 18 hot Construction Kits

– Uplifting Trance MIDI Kits features five fantastic deep and uplifting Trance Construction Kits in MIDI format

– Thug Motivation – Loaded with bone-crushing 808’s, Trap arps, grimy organs and more

The rest of the releases can be found HERE.

YNK Audio brings you a new Trap title, Self Paid – a premium collection of five Trap/Hip Hop Construction Kits. Also, R&B Celebrity and Future Bandz.

Prime Loops with Dance Invasion and Reggaeton Heatwave.

Loopmasters has over a dozen new products, all found HERE.

Lastly, Rock Konstructor has over a gig of hard hitting Rock loops. Definitely worth checking out!

That’s it for today. Peace!

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Loops

“Ambient Skyline 3” New from Big Fish Audio’s KLI Series!

The followup to our best selling ambient libraries, Ambient Skyline and Ambient Skyline 2, is finally here!

Ambient Skyline 3 is the third in a series of ambient & cinematic chill-out loops, atmospheres, and rhythm beds produced by Steve Sechi of Funk/Soul Productions. Ambient Skyline 3 contains over 7.25 GB of 24-bit original content, including 1,312 loops and 1,154 one-shots, all formatted for Acidized WAV, REX2, Apple Loops and RMX. The Loop section includes Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion and City/Nature ambience. The One shots section includes woodwind and brass phrases, bass soundscapes and percussion solo hits for custom rhythms and grooves. Each folder is massive, ranging from 40-212 files bringing you more raw content then ever before. Quickly create the perfect atmospheric musical bed, rhythm track, or ambient masterpiece with these beautifully crafted loops and sounds.

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This product is part of Big Fish Audio’s KLI series which includes a custom Kontakt interface. The Kontakt format includes patches of each sample and loop. Ambient Skyline 3 is split into two sections: “Loops” and One-Shots”. In the Loops section, 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. or create your own unique arrangements using the “loop menu” patches which lay out every loop of a particular section across the keyboard, giving you instant access to a plethora of sounds. The one shots section includes massive one-shot menu patches built from sections featuring 40-212 files. one shot atmospheres are pitched-mapped over 3 octaves for completely original atmospheric soundscapes.

The KLI version of this product has been updated to KLI 2.0 and 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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Instruments

Now available! True Keys: American, German & Italian

 

True Keys is a Piano Virtual Instrument. It was created by recording nearly 50,000 audio files using some of the best microphones and recording equipment available today. Then, the audio files are matched to their corresponding piano, note, microphone position and velocity to build an electronic version of the piano. Next, the audio files are loaded into a software playback device called an engine that runs on a sophisticated scripting language to mimic the natural sound and playability of a real piano.

Traditional keyboards that have piano sounds built-in are typically built from modeling or by using samples. Models are mathematical representations of sound much like a synthesizer. A modeled piano is essentially a very large math equation used to mimic the sound of a piano. Samples are based on real recordings of an instrument. True Keys is built using real audio samples in every aspect of the software. From the individual microphone positions to the samples sympathetic resonance. Everything you hear is real.

 

True Keys: American Grand  –  True Keys: German GrandTrue Keys: Italian Grand

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