Best Sample Packs This Week: Magical guitar, ambient atmos, synth drums, EDM hits
This week’s best sample packs include a magical acoustic guitar emulation based on one of the greatest Martin models of all time, a set of ambient/sci-fi sounds for creating ethereal, atmospheric productions, synthetic drums that with powerful sound-shaping capabilities that is totally free, and a fully-featured pack of loops that contains everything you need to create professional EDM productions. Let’s dive in.
Sound Magic Acoustic Guitar
Powered by the Neo Orchestra hybrid modeling engine, the sounds here are based upon one of the most magnificent acoustic guitars of all time – the Martin D-28. It features pick and finger styles in 2900 samples across 10 different guitar techniques. Modeling goes way beyond sampling, and provides an unparalleled realism that can only be had by playing the actual instrument itself. There are controls over harmonics, dynamics, and legato and the plug-in can be used seamlessly live using Sound Magic’s keyswitch system.
It also features some processing, including a 5-band parametric EQ and multi-faceted reverb. Acoustic Guitar comes in VST and AU 64/32-bit for Windows and Mac.
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Sample Science Synthetic Vortices
Ambient and atmospheric are the vibes that Synthetic Vortices brings. This collection of 90 loops are presented in Sample Science’s easy-to-navigate interface and allow you to create productions that are very much otherworldly. There are a number of ways to shape the three voicing modes (monophonic, polyphonic, and legato) including depth, rate, and low and high-pass filtering. You can also control the ADSR of the envelope. The 188MB of samples come in VST, VST3, and AU formats in 16-bit, 44.1kHz WAVs.
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Freemusicproduction.net Syn Tech Drums
Another set of drum samples for the HAlion ecosystem, Syn Tech Drums is a pack of over 30 electronic, synth, and lo-fi sounds. You can create everything within the player and on-board mixer and drop them into your DAW for easy arrangement. There are controls over the envelope and frequency range for each kit piece individually as well as reverb, delay, compression, and maximization.
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IK Multimedia Hitmaker EDM
IK Multimedia is one of the best in the game, and Hitmaker EDM is a high energy pack of 100 instruments across 1.6GB of samples for creating polished, professional EDM tracks. It includes everything you need for creating productions within the genre – synths and pads, leads, drum and bass loops as well as over 400 vocal samples. All this runs within Sample Tank 4’s intuitive and robust interface.