Friday Five: How Streaming Is Changing The Sound Of Pop

In this week’s Friday Five, we’re leading with a piece from Pitchfork that unpacks how music streaming listening habits are shaping the way commercial music is written and produced. We’ve also got articles from The Guardian, DJ Worx, Spin, and Mixmag. Have a good weekend ahead! The post Friday Five: How Streaming Is Changing The…

Loopmasters releases Raw Cratez – Hip Hop Kits Volume 1

Loopmasters has released Raw Cratez – Hip Hop Kits Volume 1, the first Raw Cutz installment of a truly massive collection of Kits, Loops and Samples. Made by the original Raw Cutz producer Turf Smoke, the Raw Cratez series opens door after door on how to flawlessly build your next Jazzy Hip Hop or Trippy…

Empty Vessel releases soundsets for PolyKB II & III synths

Empty Vessel has released Flux and Flow, two soundsets that explore XILS-lab’s PolyKobol emulations, the PolyKB II and PolyKB III synthesizer plugins. Flux and Flow offers 35 presets each, exploring the capabilities of PolyKB to produce warm, dirty, rich and dusty, evolving textures full of life and movement. The packs consist mainly of pad sounds,…

Sonic Mechanics releases Trap Stars sample pack

Sonic Mechanics has released Trap Stars, a new sample pack with 2.34 GB of loops, samples and sampler patches for Trap music production. Packed to the brim with over 2 GB of Loops, One Shots and Presets, this collection will give you the sound of Today’s Trap Superstars at your fingertips! Influenced by the sound…

Sonic Zest releases Ambient Cinematic Guitar 4 for Kontakt

Sonic Zest has announced Ambient Cinematic Guitar 4, a new guitar library for Native Instruments Kontakt. Ambient Cinematic Guitar 4 is the latest installment in Sonic Zest’s collection of guitar libraries specially recorded and processed to sound perfect in epic film music. To capture the beauty and epic-ness of the guitar 5 round robins were…

Win Luftrum Lunaris Pads instrument for Kontakt Player + 15% OFF sale

Luftrum has announced a Lunaris giveaway, offering a chance to win the Lunaris Pads instrument for Kontakt Player. Luftrum is giving away three licenses of the sample based pad instrument, containing pads only from classic analog pads to lush ambient pads, cinematic pads and any pads in between, including 30 original Luftrum pads from the…