Just wanted to show you this video, producer Rockwilder making a beat on the beat kangz beat thang virtual

He comes up with some pretty sick stuff…just goes to show it’s not what you use but how you use it, he makes me look like a rookie on this thang lol

Yeah, lemme know what you think…

I thought it was dope

leave me a comment below.

Don’t forget to pick up your copy of the beat thang if you haven’t yet, they doing a crazy promo for it.

Yo, I JUST found out about this yesterday, but novaloops.com has inked a deal to be distributed by none other than Big Fish Audio!

This is both download and IN STORE products!

This is a brand new series from Novaloops and from what they are telling me it’s gonna be CRAZY.

peep the logo yo!

Well, this is a prototype but I had to have something…tell me you would rock that on a t-shirt! (trying to get them to make me a shirt lol)

Here’s a lil more info on the new series and the partnership between them.

I think this is major, I haven’t seen any other urban based sample company go from doing their own thing to being distributed by big fish both online and in stores…that’s crazy.

• The series will include both downloadable and in-store product distribution.
• Nova Loops has also slated numerous celebrity products to be released under this series. (that means celebrity producers, I know who a few are and WOW!)
• Nova Loops will focus the series on the modern hip hop and rnb sound with pop, reggae, and rock included also.
• Prices will range from $29.99-$119.99 and will focus on Construction Loop Set and Individual Loop products.

As I told many of you before, I chat with Donald and Neigel on a regular, cool cats, so I’ve been knowing something was in the works, but they could tell me till it was official.

“The Nova Loops team is extremely excited about the new Nova Loops Big Fish Audio deal!  Customers are going to benefit greatly from our cutting edge products while having more places to purchase Nova Loop products around the world.”

CEO/President – Donald Johnson

I just love to see stuff like this, and I love Big Fish Audio anyway…. so to see them pick up and distribute a product and brand like Nova Loops is pretty dope yo.

I can’t tell you everything they will be doing…not just yet, but I will tell you that the producers lined up to release products under this series have many…many, of those nice shiny plaques

“The new Nova Loops Beat Warrior Series will put to use Nova Loop’s quick strike production teams to stay on top of the current sounds that move the music industry.  If its hot, best believe Nova Loops will have that sound!”

This will be a quality series, I can’t wait to get my hands on some of it to show you what it’s all about…

Now I told Nova they was gonna have to give SoundsAndGear folks a  hook-up if they wanted me to break the news out!

Yeah…this is breakin news, remember who you heard it from and remember ya boy saintjoe goes hard for ya!

I got you a discount on anything from the novaloops.com website until the 15 of November

Just put in the code: soundsandgear when you place your order and get 20% off whatever you buy.

holla at ya boy man! And take advantage of that discount… nova loops discount

more news and sounds to come from nova…hey, I may have to rush up in their studio when I go to namm this winter…

stay tuned

tell me what you think about this new series and their distribution with big fish audio.

leave me a comment of course.

Yep, Big Fish Audio released another product, and while I don’t post every single thing they release ( and I hope you don’t expect me to, they release hundreds of products throughout the year), I thought some of you would like to hear about this one.

I do not have a review for you as I just heard about it, but it looks to be a pretty dope orchestral wind library for kontakt users, especially if you like to get some film score type sounds going on in your music, or maybe your already doing some soundtrack work.

Anyway, just wanted to post up some general news for ya.

You can checkout the demo here: Hollywoodwinds

This is the new release information I just received about it.

Cinesamples proudly presents HOLLYWOODWINDS, a comprehensive sampling of the orchestral woodwind ensemble. This library’s collection of scales, runs, phrases, chords, textures, trills, FX and full ensemble patches, will get you thinking again about using woodwinds in your next cue.

Hollywoodwinds is cinesamples’ new flagship orchestral woodwind library developed exclusively for Kontakt. Featuring wonderfully organic recordings, and groundbreaking programming HWW is quickly becoming the leading woodwindÊsolution for composers across the world.

PRESENTING THE CINESAMPLES INTELLIGENT TIME ENGINE (CITE): The groundbreaking new method of sync on the fly. Kontakt will automatically recognize your sequencers tempo and playback your scales and textures in time (live). In addition all patches using this engine have samples which have been recorded at multiple tempos. Kontakt will automatically and intelligently choose the correct sample and micro adjust it into place, providing incredibly realistic results and leaving the composer to worry about more important things.

MIC PLACEMENTS: Choose from exclusively Stage Mic patches or Close Mics patches, or using the hybrid patches create your own custom mix – live with no artifacts. Automate your levels using Kontakt 3.5+ or use our presets. Flavor your mix with the 3 Band EQ pre-sets.

INTRODUCING NOTATION VIEW: Using Kontakt 3.5+ you can actually visually see the music you are creating, live! The notation window displays incredibly detailed conductor – piano reductions of your current sample being triggered. Very useful for composers, educators and anyone curious.

AUTHENTIC HOLLYWOOD SOUND: Straight down the chain we have focused our sound to emulate the voice of the Hollywood scoring stages. From the choice of ensemble, the players themselves, the gear, the mix, the orchestrations, the scale tunings… the entire concept is planned to sound with that one goal in mind. Plenty of trial/error, score studying, lunch meeting, phone calling and general research was gathered in pre-production so we blatantly tried to squeeze all the detail and life we possibly could at the sessions and in post. This is the extra step the great hollywood composers and orchestrator’s provide on a daily basis.

KEYBOARD PATCHES: Our method of using tempo synced pre-records with typical keyboard patches is extremely efficient and realistic. The stacked patches, such as the octaves patch, allow the user to voice the ensemble over several different octaves in an authentic hollywood stack (see user manual for details). And of course there is the tutti patch, featuring everybody playing (including the piccolo). There is a whole other half to the library after you check out the GB’s of pre records.

20TH CENTURY TEXTURES AND RUNS: All that creepy stuff the winds do when the spider is attacking, when the beautiful face is morphing, when the eyes turn yellow??? We decided we needed to have that too. From unison ensemble quarter tone bends, to 12 tone cluster stacks to massive collection of Atonal Rips to clarinet “meowing” to multi-piccolo flutters you are sure to find something you need for your track here.

Yo check it….Loopgalaxy announced the launch of their new Version 4 web site at www.loopgalaxy.com

Since 2001 or so, Loopgalaxy has been offering hundreds of free loops and samples in various genres.

We LOVE free right? Heck yeah!

Now they are offering even more free loops and samples as well as professional sample packs with secure online ordering and instant downloads.

To mark the launch of the new site, and since all the SoundsAndGear heads are so dang AWESOME….

Loopgalaxy is offering an exclusive discount coupon to all SoundsAndGear readers.

Just enter this code during checkout to save 20% off all orders:  saintjoe <<– clever right? I know man, that’s dope lol

Loopgalaxy would also like to open their doors to all the boutique loop and sample labels, or producer turned sample pak makers out there.
If you produce original high quality loops and samples and would like to see your products featured on
www.loopgalaxy.com you can get in touch here for more details.

Holla, go get the freebies, and if you find something you like support em.

Tell them I sent ya! You may get a free ice cream or something, who knows!

Lemme know what you think of the site, the design, and the free samples…

Also, lemme know if you like it when these folks treat you to special discounts just for being AWESOME SoundsAndGear members

Leave a comment below.

I absolutely HATE scammers.  I had been checking out this site for a while, as I’m always looking for new companies to feature.

I finally decided to make a purchase so I could tell you what was good with them. I mean, they were offering quite a bit of content, and I was especially interested in the Kontakt instruments.

The site looks official, the demos sounded decent, and they even give away a free grand piano….they had to be the real deal right?

WRONG!!!!

Well, it was too good to be true and immediately after I purchased, I got nothing. No download link, no instructions on how to access my downloads, nothing.

They said I would be able to immediately download my sounds….not so lucky.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt, since I deal with many companies that operate overseas, I know things happen sometimes.

So I spent the rest of the afternoon/evening trying to contact them.

No go.

I started to become suspicious, I had never been scammed before by a sound design company, but this didn’t smell right.

I came across this post on KVRaudio.com

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226914&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Basically it’s a warning about this company and the scam they are running.

Not only are they scamming people, but they are providing sample libraries full of stolen content  as well as putting the same loops and sounds in various different “products” so you think you’re getting a bunch of stuff but you aren’t.

1.2gb of content is really more like 35-40mb of crap content duplicated over and over again in various folders and formats. That makes up the “sample collection”.

I usually do this type of research first, but I didn’t have any funny feelings about the company.

Like I said, it’s my job to find new and upcoming sound providers, so I’m always taking chances on new companies.

This definitely won’t stop me from checking out the new companies in the future, but I will be more careful and always do double research.

Spread this around to any and everyone you can, we don’t want anyone else losing money with these thieves.

I didn’t get any “login info” until after I contacted their payment processor 2checkout asking for a refund.  I still wanted a refund, I wanted nothing to do with them and the fact that they would promise 300 “new” patches when really it was like 30 patches in 10 different formats!

Good thing is I worked with 2checkout.com and was able to get my refund, bad news is not everyone knows you can do that. Many probably continue to try and contact the company or worse, just accept it as a loss.

Not me, I had to get the refund and also had to let you all know about it.

The get NO SUBS from me lol.

What do you think? Have you ever dealt with something like this before?

It’s no denying it, we’re in a recession. This is true…but we still gotta make beats and we constantly want to get new stuff.

Many of you may remember Kicksandsnares.com they were one of the ILLEST drum providers online. Do to sound pirating and sharing, they shut that site down.

But the drum fiends wouldn’t let them leave lol. So many kept buggin  them, that they started DrumClub500.com a 500 members only drum and sound sample site.

for only 29.99/month you can get new sounds and drums, exclusives…. multiple times a week.

Great idea, definitely a dope service.

But then…..

They wen’t on and made the equivalent of legally selling crack online…. 10 packs.

They broke some of their dope kits into small bite sized packs of 10…. and they are selling them for 2 bucks.

No lie…and they are the same high quality, insane bangin sounds as before… but only 2 bucks.

Need some new snares? Grab 10 for 1.99 real quick…maybe you need a new kick?

Go through the demos and see what you want, it’s only 2 bucks.

I told PJ, the owner…he is going to create addicts and fiends, told him he was crazy for putting stuff out at that price that pretty much is CRUSHING the competition when it comes to drum sounds.

His reply?

“We in a recession dog!” hahaha

He’s cool peeps, you def need to go check them out, bookmark them, and build up your drum library on a budget.

There’s NOTHING budget about these sounds…I still think he crazy, but as a sound hound myself, I absolutely LOVE IT.

10packsonline.com

Okay, today brought some major news from our friends over at Native Instruments.

After a short “outage” on the website…they busted out with some new goodies!

Komplete 6….

Yep, they are updating their massive synth and fx collection, come October 1 you can get your mitts on the new Komplete collection.

What I noticed immediately, the price! It’s retailing for $559!! What the! Yessssssssssssssssssss….Native Instruments is taking over, period.

They are making it pretty much a no brainer to get with them.

You get three new instruments in addition to all the mainstay classics from NI.

Kontakt 4…

Kontakt is pretty much THE standard when it comes to sampling nowadays. And even though I’m currently in my own review of Kontakt 3.5…it looks like we’ll just have to switch focus to the new Kontakt 4 which ALSO releases on October 1

One of the new features is the addition of Choir section in the sound library. Also something sexy called “Authentic Expression Technology”. Sounds fun!

They also added some solo strings from the Vienna Symphonic Library, all the instruments from their Elektrik Piano plugin are now there, a concert hall organ, and a mellotron.

They also updated the performance views for each collection in the library, and looks can be just as inspirational as the sounds themselves.  They also gave it an “attribute-based” browser…similar to Kore 2. I will definitely get you more updates as I find out more about it!

Absynth 5…

Absynth is pretty much the monster “other wordly” synth that is so flexible it allows you to come up with some absolutely stunning sounds.  I personally haven’t had a chance to play with Absynth yet, but the sound demos and videos look amazing.

I have ALWAYS heard great things about this synth, and if it gives off smooth, etheral sounding pads as well as ambient and atmospheric sounds…I’m all for it. I love that stuff.

It includes all the sounds from the previous versions plus 200 brand new synth sounds! Also includes 30 new fx…yes, absynth can also be used as a kick butt fx unit.

Something called an Aeitherizer is in there…, it basically “decomposes” your sound into tiny grains, and puts it back together if various ways…I don’t understand all the technology behind it, but it sounds like I can make some major sounds!

Speaking of that…what about the “Mutator” ? This is a sound design tool that allows you to create complex and crazy sonic masterpieces without ever having to go into the editor pages…just point and click…I REALLY have to try this out. Anything that makes sound design easier and fun is okay with me.

Bottom Line is that Native Instruments is not taking it easy on anyone!

As I was discussing with a few buddies earlier today, with their outrageously competitive pricing and new product line up, native instruments is making it hard for anyone to say no to what they have to offer.  I can tell you I’ve never been disappointed with anyting I’ve tried from NI, and I’m sure these new products will continue to carry on the legacy.

When I get something in my hands…you know I’ll give you the full scoop!