June’s top loop library featured the inspiring and unique collection of moody loops from Ambient Skyline. Recorded and performed by seasoned professionals, these cinematic chill out loops and rhythm beds wasted no time in claiming the top spot. The second spot was also claimed by a newcomer to the top ten… Detroit Soul. This tribute to the great Soul and R&B artists of the ’60s and ’70s represents the Motor City sound that changed the face of music. Check out the live drums and funky horn section in this demo! Also breaking into the top ten was Nova Loop’s Baby Making R&B and Dance Rock Anthems.
Not a lot of movement on the Instruments side of things as Electri6ity held on tight to the No. 1 spot. These new tutorial videos show why it continues to grow in popularity and dominate the instrument’s best sellers. Electri6ity was followed closely by the the crisp sounds of MOJO while Cinesample’s Drums of War made the list as well.
In the mid ’80s New England Digital added Polyphonic Sampling option to the Synclavier. This was a huge step forward in the development of samplers. Others like the Mellotron and EMS had been developing samplers, but the Synclavier was the first to provide the technology to create virtual instruments that could convincingly recreate real instruments. In 1986 we recorded the world’s first commercially available orchestral library, the Prosonus Orchestral Collection. At the same time a handful of composers contributed material to NED which was packed as a library from NED but this library was more of a mismatch of material which was primarily used to help sell the Synclavier. The Prosonus library was sold in two parts, strings in one volume and brass, woodwinds, percussion and misc in another volume. Each was packages on a 12″ Winchester platter and sold for a bundled price of $10,000.
In the ’90s we repackaged the library for the Akai platform and the product skyrocketed in popularity. The String portion of the library was bundled with the Roland S700 series samples and the library was featured on the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audio Card.
Later we recorded a critically acclaimed orchestral percussion library called London Orchestral Percussion followed up by London Solo Strings and First Call Horns. In 2006 we teamed up with producer Vir2 Instruments and began development on a new line of next generation instruments.
We videoed David Das doing his Electri6ity Demo at NAMM. There was quite a buzz at the show over this cool VI. Look for Stanley Clarke in the crowd at the end.