At NAMM, AKAI stole the (beatmaker) show with its new, compact and standalone MPC One. This younger sibling of the MPC X and MPC Live inherits the software and hardware architecture of the most recent AKAI MPC units, with a much smaller footprint. It took 14 years (in 2006 AKAI…
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IK Multimedia London Grooves – Top Quality Drum Kit Grooves For Producers
At IK Multimedia they have something new up their sleeves – London Grooves, an instrument collection of acoustic drum kit grooves for IK’s ultimate sound and groove workstation, SampleTank 3. Recorded by top drummers in London, this massive collection covers indie, rock and pop styles. With more than 1,500 high-quality WAV…
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Meet uBEAT – The New Beat Creation Tool From Umlaut Audio
We featured Umlaut Audio a few months ago with their first products, PADS and ARPS. The California-based company has now announced uBEAT, a dynamic new drum loop library for Native Instrument’s Kontakt software. Combining a traditional MIDI file library with an eight-pad drum machine-style instrument, uBEAT offers an intuitive workflow…
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The 80’s All Over Again: Zenhiser Presents Linndrum
This week Zenhiser have released one of the most detailed sampled instruments they have ever released – Linndrum. Roger Linn’s iconic drum machines, the LM-1 & LM-2 (synonymous throughout the 80’s with A class producers like Prince, Human League & Tears For Fears, etc.) have been expertly recorded, processed and…