Funky bass for Kontakt

Attention funky and disco users: Scarbee offers a sample package for you. Black Bass contains 2.8 gigabytes of real, live, fingered bass sounds for 100 USD, sampled all four strings fully. There are numerous articulations implemented which are all well-known for the bassist but not me. What I can explain is the automatic selection of the proper strings while playing - a smart algorythm finds them from the previous notes. There are a nice slide feature also, has a feature for setting release times randomly - check the product's web page if you are interested more...

Sample package from Hungary in the Reason-package

Leading Hungarian sample creator company, PinkNoise Studio has provided his most successful package, PRO.TON - an analog synthesizer construction set in refill - for Propellerhead to share it for all Reason users freely. If you are registered Reason user you can download it right now from Propellerhead's web page - the sample set has been slightly enhanced, and a brand new Combinator bank has added. Check it at Propellerhead's front page.

Brazilian carneval from Zero-G

Zero-G will not enter the event organizing market definitely - instead of that they published Carnival Drums, a comprehensive sample library of latin drums, played by ten professional Brazilian musicians who play at Rio regularly. More than 2000 individual samples lay in the package (formats: Kontakt, EXS24, Halion and NN-XT), and around 1400 grooves in Rex2, Acid Wav and Apple AIFF. It costs 120 euro, here.

Beat Bandit: Hans Scheffler Edition (New!)

There's a good chance you've been using sounds designed by Hans Scheffler for years and never knew it. His audio and musical expertise have been put to use in products by Access, Apple, Emagic, G-Media, Roland, ReFX and Spectrasonics. Now, Hans brings his skills to the Nine Volt
Audio release Beat Bandit: a modular REX-based loop library of electronic drums and rhythms.

Scheffler's unique style and global rhythms makes the Beat Bandit grooves appropriate for a wide range of musical genres. And with every element of each full-mix loop broken into individual loops, users can mix and match parts to create their own customized beats.
Stylus RMX users will be pleased to find Beat Bandit organized in a familiar and easy-to-navigate selection of 60 "Beat Suites" and 10 "Element" style folders for quick access to a large selection of individual kick, snare, hi-hat and percussion loops. The addition of 100 Kit and Multi presets makes this collection a must have for any Stylus RMX user. And as with all of Nine Volt Audio's current releases, Beat Bandit is part of the BPM Flex Series, which means tempos are unrestrained and can be used at virtually any BPM without artificial stretching or unwanted audio artifacts! No matter if you use Stylus RMX, Reason or any other REX2 player, Beat Bandit's cool grooves and immense flexibility make it an irresistible go-to source for any kind of track. Hans Scheffler has contributed to the following list of selected hardware & software works:

Access: Virus B, Virus C, Virus TI
Emagic: Sculpture, ES2, UltraBeat
G-Media: MiniMonstah
Roland: JP-8000, XV-Series, Fantom Series, MC-Series, SRX Series, V-Synth XT/GT
ReFX: Nexus Expansion
Spectrasonics: Stylus RMX

Click here to watch the product video.

Sonivox has cheap instruments also

We already had news about Sonivox's high-end sample packages like Broadway Big Band but now the company targets another market segment with the brand new DVI (Downloadable Virtual Instruments) series. These are low priced (10-50 USD) sample sets with Tascam's sample player engine and they have a lot of them: the list is very long, check it here (Fender bass, Stratocaster, FM piano, Wurlitzer piano, bagpipes, Mellotron - just to name a few). The platform is PC and VST/RTAS, Maci is coming soon.