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Vocal Loops are always available from somewhere. They can be found with most sample packs or simple online for free download. However, a decent set of vocal loops, especially anything remotely usable in your own work is often hard to come by, if not impossible!

That’s where Loopmasters step in.

Lets start with the ‘Tai Jason Slammin’ Hip Hop and Urban pop’. This collection does exactly what it says on the tin, bringing you a wide variety if incredibly well produced sounds at a brilliantly affordable price. The pack itself comes complete with over 250 loops, 400 single sounds, not to mention a respectable 65 patches all ready to go from the second you insert the disk. All in all, resulting in a spectacular collection over 600 strong. Read the rest of this entry »

The Loopmasters tenth release, Electro Beats, takes the producer through some warpy soundscapes enabling Reason users to significantly enhance their electro tunes. This is a solid CD and as we have come to expect from Loopmasters, delivers in quality, and would keep many a producer happy for quite a while.

The CD comes in the usual formats – Rex Loops, NN-XT patches, WAV loops and one-shot samples, includes a second CD of WAV samples for easy auditioning. Sounds are mostly stereo, high quality and meticulously organized and labeled. In fact, their organization of folders has become quite a strength, and makes finding sounds fairly easy (Not like my own personal refill library). Read the rest of this entry »

The Loopmasters series should need little introduction to most Reason users. With releases in eleven, sub Genres of Electronica these guys have become one of the major players in this increasing market.

Their recent release, AFRO-LATIN Producer, adds another 1350 samples to their extensive library. Do not assume that this is a CD of cheesy Latin percussion/ bongo loops; this is a real feather in the cap for these London-based lads, and is a powerful addition to a refill library.

The CD comes in the usual formats – Rex Loops, NN-XT patches, WAV loops and one-shot samples, includes a second CD of WAV samples for easy auditioning. Sounds are mostly stereo, high quality and meticulously organized and labeled.

Of course, within, you will find an array of percussive loops, anything from authentic Bossa nova or Samba to Brazilian techno or Drum and Bass to keep your feet moving. In fact, the percussive loops are so extensive that there are separate files for Drums and Percussion, both containing sub-folders by BPM.

However, the real jewel was the amount of “live musicianship” on the disc. It seems that Loopmasters have put together some fine session musicians to record these loops and samples – including: Guitar, funked and jazzed up. Keys, some classic Rhodes loops, Bass lines, FX to name a few.

There is an incredible brass section, which includes sub-folders of trumpet and sax, both demonstrating riffs, trills, solos and more, which sound like they captured the essence of a Cuban waterfront or an Argentinean ballroom. Furthermore, there is such a large amount of such samples, that it allows the user to layer loops with more choice.

Overall, this is a new direction for the Loopmasters, and as a result, a disc that is more outstanding. These sounds can easily be incorporated into Electro/Lounge tunes such as can be heard on the Costes compilations for example. Fine for D&B, funky house, Acid Jazz, Funk and so on. Anyone who is looking to add a bit of “spice” to their recordings ought to consider this disc and is a must have for anyone into anything Latino. Let’s smoke a cigar.

Homepage: http://www.loopmasters.com/

Percussion is a section of instruments which on many sample collections get’s thrown in the mix. But Loopmasters have made a complete sample collection solely dedicated to ear candy. Greatly recorded percussion loops and hits which will enrich your compositions for sure. The loops form construction kits where you get all of the individual parts plus the total mix as Rx2/Wav loops. You’ll even find some of the total mix loops processed thru cool effects which make these loops very interesting. All sorts of percussion instruments were used to make these loops. You’ll find Tambourines, Conga’s, Cowbell’s, Shaker’s, Agogobells and many more. But you’ll also find plain drumsounds to complement the percussion. The cool thing is that you get all layers of the full mix loops seperately so you can mix and match them with the other construction kits on the CD. The sound quality is very good. Everything has been recorded with high quality equipment.

There’s an additional folder which contains tambourine and shaker loops which will find their entry into most of your compositions i’m sure. They sound very good and can be mixed into your exsisting arrangement with great ease. They have been made with various instruments including a basket shaker, cabasa, egg shaker, jingle stick and others. Great sounds to lay on your beats to give it just that little twist of realism.

One Shot Sounds

As if this wasn’t enough you’ll also find a folder full of various one shot samples made with a host of percussion instruments. Really too much to mention here but count on it that you’ll find all instruments used for the loops here. Great one shot samples which enable you to get upclose and personal with these instruments.

Conclusion

This CD is packed to the rim with great sounding percussion samples which are of a very high quality and are extremely usable. I recommend everyone who is into using percussion in their songs to grab a hold of this disc as it brings all these percussion instruments right under your fingertips. For £39.95 this disc shows enormous bang for buck values. Great stuff!

Homepage: http://www.loopmasters.com/

Downbeat and Leftfield is an extensive sound collection. You will find a host of sounds covering styles like HipHop, DownTempo, Ambient and more. The sound quality is nothing but staggering thruout the collection. You will find all types of sounds like loops (rx2, wav), drum hits, multi-samples (NN-XT) and one shot samples. Some of the drumgrooves are played live which gives a great feel to them. Others are programmed with great care. One thing i do find is that the drumloop collection could have been bigger. There are basically 22 main loops with some variations per loop. I would have liked to see less variations and more original loops, but what’s there really is of a good quality and after all more isn’t always better. The loops come in wav and rx2 format plus you”ll find the individual drumhits used in the loops in their own folder for making even more variations to the loop or to simple mix the different drumhit kits with each other to come to totally new loops. Endless posibility’s!

Also present on the CD are instrument and bass loops. The instrument loops include the well known vintage keyboards as well as pads, strings, woodwind (Sax and Flute) and vocoder loops. All very musical and of a high quality. The bass loops are groovy and mainly made with bass guitars with a few of them made with sythesizers. There’s some really funky bass riffs in there which will definately inspire many of us.

The structure of the CD is somewhat chaotic at first glance. Directly on the CD you will find folders for the different types of sounds which could have been presented in a more compact way for faster browsing. But this ofcourse doesn’t take away anything of the quality of the sounds on offer. You’ll definately love this disc if you are into hiphop, dnb, downtempo, triphop, etc, etc.

Homepage: http://www.loopmasters.com