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Fatloud Club Synth Samples Review


It’s that time for another review, soundhounds unite!

Today I’m checking out a company that is new to me, gotta love social media.

I found out about them on twitter, their name is Fatloud.com

When I first went to the site I was impressed with the look, then I heard the demos, had to get my hands on them!

We are checking out their “Club Synth” collection that they sent me to review today…so let’s get into it.

What’s up with ANOTHER Club Synth sample kit?

ClubSynthWell, I feel you can never have too many synths!

And like I said, the design on their site was sexy so I had to check it out, the demos seemed to be pretty good as well.

In this one you get over 100 royalty-free sounds, and they come in wav and rex format.

Upon first listen, I notice the quality of the sounds, always a good thing, especially for my first experience with a company.

How does it sound?

Sexy!

Real talk man, I’m a sucker for a well produced sound library and this one is up there.

There is no hint of distortion anywhere to be found, unless of course, it’s a distorted synth!

The production isn’t stale or robotic and it actually sounds like something a producer would be making for their own tracks.

Meaning they have feeling and not just a bunch of arpeggiated notes stuck together.

What about the variety?

The variety is just as good as the sound quality.

There are tons of different styles that will work for pretty much everyone.

They are long enough to chop up, but dope enough to loop as is.

Of course you know I love to chop so that’s what I did.

There are skinny piercing leads, fluffy lush pads, and dirty club drones all mixed in this lil package.

This is definitely a keeper.

So what’s the final verdict? Should You get it?

I say, if you’re a soundhound like me, and I think you are, you’ll want to checkout the noise going on over at fatloud.com

The sounds are quality, the variety is top-notch and I’m expecting big things from them.

4andhalfsubsI gave them a 4.5/5 subs on this collection, I really think it’s a great one to have in your arsenal.

I love to have a choice, and I love options.

For a while, it seemed like there were only two or three companies to get sounds from, but as I continue to explore, I continue to find folks like fatloud out there.

There are some gems to be had out here folks, audio fanatics rejoice with me!

And while you’re in a good mood go on over and checkout fatloud.com

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Waldorf Blofeld Desktop Synth is a Monster


Waldorf Blofeld Synth

waldorf blofeldYou should already know about this bad boy! But, in the event that you don’t, you need to check this out. This is a sexy little synth, made by Waldorf….you know, the same guys that made the Waldorf Q, and micro Q yeah…those dudes.

These synths are monsters, back when things were hardware and hardcore! Oh, you know you want one don’t you!

Peep the specs man!

Straight from the website.

Waldorf Blofeld Synth Specs

Most important features

* Unbeatable price tag
* sturdy Metal Enclosure
* 7 endless stainless steel Dials
* Graphic Display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
* more than 1000 Sounds
* 3 Oscillators per voice
* Frequency Modulation between the Oscillators
* All Q Oscillator Models
* All Microwave II/XT/XTk Wavetables
* 2 independent Multi Mode Filters per voice
* Filter FM
* 2 Drive stages per voice with selectable Drive Curves
* 3 fast LFOs per voice
* 4 fast Envelopes per voice
* powerful Arpeggiator
* freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound

General Features

* up to 25 Voices
* 16 part multi timbral
* more than 1000 Sounds
* sturdy Metal Enclosure
* 7 endless stainless steel Dials
* 5 Buttons
* Graphic Display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
* MIDI LED
* Volume Control
* Power Switch
* Stereo Output
* Headphone Output
* MIDI In
* USB Connector for MIDI In / Out
o uses standard USB MIDI Driver provided by host computer OS
o Windows ME minimum, Windows XP or newer recommended
o Mac OS X 10.2 minimum, Mac OS X 10.3 or newer recommended
* External Power Supply

Per Voice

* 3 Oscillators
Virtual Analog Models:
o Pulse with Pulse Width Modulation and adjustable Brilliance
o Sawtooth with adjustable Brilliance
o Triangle
o Sine
Wavetables:
o Q Alt 1 and Alt 2 Wavetable with adjustable Brilliance
o All Wavetables from Microwave II/XT/XTk Series with adjustable Brilliance
o Separate Wavetable selectable for Oscillator 1 and 2
* Frequency Modulation between the Oscillators
* Oscillator Synchronization
* Ring Modulator for Osc 1 / 2
* Noise Generator with Noise Colour
* 2 independent Multi Mode Filters
o Filter FM
o Resonance up to Self-Oscillation
o Low Pass 24 dB / 12 dB
o Band Pass 24 dB / 12 dB
o High Pass 24 dB / 12 dB
o Notch 24 dB / 12 dB
o Comb Filter with positive / negative Feedback
o PPG Low Pass Filter
* 2 Drive stages per voice with adjustable Drive Gain and selectable Curves
o Clip
o Hard
o Medium
o Soft
o Sine Shaper
o etc.
* Modulation Matrix with 16 Slots, freely programmable
o Modulation Speed far into Audio Range
o Modulation Sources include all internal Modulation Sources plus various MIDI messages
o Modulation Destinations for almost all continuous sound parameters
* various pre-routed Modulation Destinations with selectable Sources
o Pitch Modulation
o Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Frequency Modulation
o Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Pulse Width Modulation
o Filter 1 / 2 Cutoff Modulation
o Filter 1 / 2 Frequency Modulation
o Pan 1 / 2 Modulation
o Amp Modulation
* 4 Modifiers for transforming Modulation Sources with various Algorithms
* 3 fast LFOs
o syncable to MIDI Clock
o Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase
o monophonic LFO
o Keytrack
* 4 fast Envelopes with selectable types
o Single Trigger / Retrigger per Envelope
o ADSR
o ADS1DS2R (2 Decay/Sustain stages plus adjustable Attack Level)
o One Shot
o Loop S1S2 (Loop between Sustain 1 and 2)
o Loop All (Loop over all stages)
* Poly, Mono, Dual or Unisono Mode with selectable Voice Count

Per Part

* powerful Arpeggiator
o Hold and One Shot modes
o syncable to MIDI Clock
o Direction Up, Down, Alternate
o Range up to 10 Octaves
o various methods to modify Note Sort Order
* freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound.
programmable per Step:
o Accent
o Timing
o Length
o Glide on/off
o Pause
o Chord
o Previous note
o Random not from Note List
o first and/or last note from Note List
* 1 Effect slot per part
* 1 Effect slot globally for all parts
Effect types:
o Chorus
o Flanger
o Phaser
o Overdrive
o Triple FX (S&H, Ring Modulation, Chorus)
o Delay (only available on global Effect slot)
o Clocked Delay (only available on global Effect slot)
o Reverb (only available on global Effect slot)

Waldorf Blofeld Synth Video

Peep this video of the Blofeld in action…ohhhh, how I want one!

Real talk, the Waldorf Blofeld Desktop Synth is definitely something to check if you’ve been wanting to get that real synth sound in your music.

What yout hink about it? Have you played with it? Do you think hardware synths are coming to their end of life?

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