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Autumn 2020 / COMPUTER MUSIC / 81
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Soundware round-up
Sample Market Originals
Chris Stussy £40
Sample Market’s growing Originals
series is the company’s artist-produced
collection, this one being from ‘Dutch
wunderkind’ and house producer Chris
Stussy. He wears his early house
inluences with pride as he ably
mangles distinctive and wide-ranging
beats from early drum machines, and
presents enough variations (sans kick,
just percussion/hats/kick and so on) for
you to create some great custom loops
and variations. There are plenty of
interesting, modulating synth loops
and some of the bass loops are
superbly understated, completing a
ine entry in a market worth perusing.
samplemarket.co.uk
n 8 /100
Sample Tools by Cr2
Heavy Techno 2 £16
Cr2’s latest techno collection delivers 40 drum loops,
30 each of kicks, snares, hats and clap, plus varying
numbers of efects, top loops, basses and melodies –
all the, ahem, sampled tools you need to create your
desired weight of techno. Recordings are deep and
lush with vintage analogue processing very evident,
and there is enough depth and dynamics, particularly
in the 303-basslines and wandering leads, for them to
stand alone for more minimal impact. The odd loop
might need an edit fade but this is deep, driving and
mesmerising stuf overall.
sampletoolsbycr2.com
n 8 /10n
Audiotent
Morph £37
This “full size modular techno library” has 2GB of
samples from Buchla-inspired modulars. With 37
basses, chords, pads, percussion and many other
loops – plus 222 drum loops – that’s a lot of hard work
wrestling with hardware, and it pays of. Melodic
loops are dynamic, with enough to play with and edit,
and there’s plenty of variation. We love the basses,
and the chords and pads would be great for many
non techno electronica genres. Don’t expect too
many fully-formed drum loops – that’s up to you – but
all the ingredients are here. Disturbingly brilliant.
audiotent.com
n 9 / 1 0 n
Loopmasters
Solar Reggaeton £25
Blazing with summer vibes, this 530MB library of
beats, basslines, music loops and female vocals at
86100bpm might not yield a huge amount for the
money, but what’s here is wicked. 25 drum loops (and
stemmed tops) and 20 sub-heavy basslines set irm
foundations, while a tasty Latin lavour is evident in
many of the 27 music loops. The vocals include both
heavily processed lines and regular lyrical deliveries,
almost all nine of the latter being over 20 seconds
long and thus ripe for chopping; and a healthy
serving of one-shots just about satisies the price-tag.
loopmasters.com
n 8 /10n
Noiiz
Sunday Kit $10 or subscription
One of the irst seven packs in Noiiz’s new Drum Kits
series, Sunday Kit – like its stablemates – centres on
16 one-shot drum, cymbal and percussion samples,
which have been mapped into kits for Ableton Drum
Rack, Battery, EXS24, Kontakt, Maschine and NNXT,
and worked into a SoundFont. You also get ten audio
loops made using said kit, and their ten triggering
MIDI iles. Even at this low price, in today’s
competitive soundware market, it is represents much
greater value if you’re a Noiiz subscriber, but the
sounds – crusty, lo-i hip-hop lavours – are ace.
noiiz.com
n 7 / 1 0 n
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