Another one from sonicspecialists….these guys know how to do drums. After I reviewed their new Urban Electro kit, they sent over the Urban Fire 5, the latest of a long series of genre dominating drum libraries. I’ve been wanting to review this for you for a while, but I’ve just been busy with so many [...]

It’s friday…time for some fish… This week I’m checking out a library Big Fish sent over entitled “Smoker’s Relight Deux” It’s a follow up to “Smoker’s Delight” a library I’ve personally been using and continue to use since it released in 2003 If you like laid back, smoked out, jazzy hip hop…then check this out [...]

I’m not a composer, I’m not a string major…I don’t know all the parts of an orchestra, or a symphony, or a chamber ensemble… But I know I like strings, and I know I like strings that sound good, but most importantly that are playable. Today I want to share with you a collection that [...]

Time for another sound hound, checking out some more samples from Motion Samples, one of my favorite companies. SoulTown Samples volume 2, we already checked out SoulTown Samples vol 1, and I had a few suggestions. Let’s see what’s up with this one. What is SoulTown Samples? Just in case you don’t remember, SoulTown is [...]

Time for another big fish friday baby! This week we looking at some percussion world percussion! I’m checking out World Impact Global Percussion from Vir2 What is World Impact? It’s a super deep toolbox of percussion sounds from all over the world. Asia, Africa, South and North America, Europe, Middle East, and a folder dedicate [...]

Let’s be honest here… Most musicians, no matter what style of music you play or create, have a little bit of rock in them. Maybe it’s the idea of letting it all go on stage, or maybe it’s that lead guitar solo we all wish we could play, whatever it is, rock’s influence is pretty [...]

Today I’m back with another sound hound for ya! Gotta checkout the sounds! I got something different than the normal you may be used to. My taste in music and musical styles is very diverse, as is the taste and styles of the folks on the site. So today I want to checkout something more [...]

I know it’s been a minute since we reviewed anything from Motion Samples but it’s that time again. Today I’m checking out something that is sure to spark some interest among the underground, organic, hip hop lovers. I’m talking about Hip Hop Genetics…let’s see whasup Back to the foundations with Hip Hop Genetics No matter [...]

Today I’m checking out another instrument Big Fish sent over, from Vir2. Ever since I got it I’ve been playing with it, it’s a dedicated horn instrument called Mojo. Every time I used to buy a new keyboard workstation, I would always checkout the brass/horns.  Some of them had great sounding brass sections, and others [...]

Okay, I will admit I had dismissed this little groove making application from IK Multimedia. For one, it was only available for an iphone/ipod and though I had plans to purchase an iPod touch specifically to test and use the various music applications, I don’t have one yet.  I could “borrow” my son’s but you [...]

Today I want to checkout Urban Arsenal 2 from Native Instruments, one of their Kore soundpacks they sent over for review. You may wonder why I chose to go with part 2 first instead of part 1…well I figured part 2 was the newest and probably improved on a lot of things they received feedback [...]