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 Funky
House Grooves
1,450+ of the freshest, sexiest house
loops, licks and samples - all meticulously recorded in industry-standard
24-bit.
 Loop
demo (selected loops)
Song
demo (full audio demo)
 "Enormously
chunky drum grooves... Basses that could single-handedly tear
your subwoofer from its surround"... Beautifully programmed
Music Loops... The Rhodes and Wurlitzer folders schmooze you...
The vocoded loops swish and sparkle magnificently." Mike
Senior, Sound on Sound. Read the
full review...
 "The
drums include hard-disco grooves that thunder through your soul...
The Music loops folder holds gorgeous effected and filtered
program material that sounds lifted from vinyl... Shimmering
vocoded vocals provide inspirational human elements... Clearly
sung vocal phrases provide scorching shout-outs, as well as
soulful scats and diva licks that will leave the crowd sweating...
This is one incredibly powerful, sexy and real-sounding house
library with no filler or repetition." Jason Scott
Alexander, Remix magazine. Read the
full review...
Drums > The phattest
and funkiest beats at 125, 127 and 130bpms, from deep to soulful,
tribal to afro, disco to latin with contributions from the leading
producers in the genre
Keys > Genuine vintage Rhodes
MKII and Wurlitzer licks, loops and chords recorded through
the finest analogue outboard processors.
Bass > A variety of basses including oodles
of jazzy live riffs from Rob Lee, (Faze Action, Reel People)
key and tempo labelled for your convenience.
Brass > Full 3-piece brass section riffs
plus 100s of trumpet, trombone and sax solos.
Percussion > Congas, bongos, djembes, shakers,
tambourines, bells and more percussion loops than you can shake
a stick at.
Vocals > A vast selection of spoken phrases,
licks, laughs, scats, FX, vocoded loops and more from Milk &
Sugar's resident diva Nicole Tyler.
Music loops > Want instant inspiration?
Unique song building blocks, 100% copyright-cleared and ready-rolled
to slot into your productions.
And much, much more > Funkin' electric
guitars, masses of single drum hits, individual FX swirls, whooses,
crowd noises and much more besides...
3 CD multipack includes Audio, 24-Bit Wavs, Rex, EXS24,
Reason and Halion patches
What's
in the collection?
700MB of content
Over 2,000 files in total! That's 1,450+ WAV files,
500+ REX loops, and 60+ patches for NNXT, Halion, Kontakt and
EXS24
Instruments include:
- Drum loops (125, 128 and 130bpm)
- Percussion loops (inc conga, bongo, djembe, maraca, shaker,
tambourine, darabuka, cowbell, woodstick and more)
- Top loops (full percussion, shuffles, grooves and more without
kick drums
- Rhodes MKII (live) and Wurlitzer
- Electric and synth bass
- FX, builds and crowd noises
- Live trumpets, trombones and sax plus brass sections
- Guitar
- Vocals (including vocoder, spoken word, saucy word, hooks,
sighs and scats)
- Drum hits (crashes, kicks, snares, hihats and percussion)
Funky House Grooves reviewed:
5 STAR, Sound On Sound, Mike Senior
"While
there are a few great house sample libraries, there are also
numerous collections with fewer infectious grooves than a copy
of Wisden. It was therefore with mixed feelings that I opened
up this library from new developers Sample Magic. My misgivings
were soon crushed under some enormously chunky drum grooves,
which surged forward with a predatory determination I've seldom
heard elsewhere. The all-important kick drums are fine specimens,
ranging from rich and resonant to taut and funky and they meld
with the other percussive loop elements to give the sound that
usually elusive 'smack'.
"The drum loops are in three tempo groups
(125, 127 and 130bpm) and are accompanied by various folders
of upper percussive layers, some of which are performances by
individual instruments, such as congas, maracas and tambourine.
Most have nice, expressive performance touches. However, the
mixed percussion 'tops' tracks are even better - nothing too
busy, but with great momentum and a fullness that really shines
when you drop the main beat into your arrangement.
"Bass tones are a strong point. A good selection of frisk-thumbed
bass guitar workouts is balanced with a handful of restrained
but gargantuan synth loops. Some of the sounds have obviously
been designed to stay out of the way of the more subby kick
drums, but there is plenty here that could single-handedly tear
your subwoofer from its surround!
"The most inspirational material, though, resides elsewhere:
the beautifully programmed Music Loops folder shows an undeniable
flair for creative effects processing, while the Rhodes and
Wurlitzer folders schmooze you with rounded, often pleasantly
grainy, timbres. A folder of lyric-less vocoded loops swish
and sparkle magnificently."
"Powerful, sexy and real-sounding with no filler
or repetition" - Jason Scott Alexander,
Remix magazine.
"Rather
than force-feeding you thematic or contrived-sounding construction
kits, newcomers Sample Magic opted to provide the more than
1,450 24-bit loops, licks and one-shots for wide open cross-matching.
Tempos are calibrated to only three groups (125, 127 and 130
bpm), and all melodic material is key-referenced in the file
name.
The 124 drum loops combine acoustic and electronic elements
with evocative results, ranging from deeply resonant house and
hard-disco grooves that thunder through your soul to enchanting
tribal, African and Latin rhythms. These funky pile drivers
feature truly interesting kick tones sculptured such that they
captivate the leading charge of a great house track and not
once wane over the course of an arrangement, yet they fold effortlessly
into any one of the nearly 300 percussion and top-end loops
with exhilarating, trancelike results.
Bass, brass (trumpet, trombone, sax and section), guitar and
electric-piano loop folders provide ample licks, phrases and
hits.
The Music loops folder holds gorgeous effected and filtered
program material that sounds lifted from vinyl and suits dramatic
intros, transitions, turnarounds or just a battle with writers
block.
Some purposely unintelligible, shimmering vocoded vocals provide
the most inspirational human elements of this library.
Two additional folders of clearly spoken and sung vocal phrases
provide scorching shout-outs that border on erotica, as well
as soulful scats and diva licks that will leave the crowd sweating.
This is one incredibly powerful, sexy and real-sounding house
library with no filler or repetition."
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