'Night Time Sessions Vol 1' from EqualSounds is the compilation fusing neo soul synths with live funk instruments, laid-back beats and arrangements.

Created for EqualSounds by NbH – the producer providing beats and hooks for the underground hiphop and urban artists around Europe. These 5 Construction Kits will give you beats, fills, chords, basses and melodies for your newest Neo Soul, Funk, R&B and HipHop productions.

Product Includes:

- 5 Uncompressed, mixed & mastered Construction Kits
- 23 Mixed & mastered track mixes (long & short versions)
- 5 Multi-track MIDI files of most important melodies
- Up To 22 tracks per Kit & variation mixes
- Over 730 MB of Loops and Samples

Price: £22.95.

The course takes you through every part of the Maschine software and hardware, slowly explaining how each one works and the ways they can be used to create a variety of different styles of music.

After every aspect has been covered, the course ends with a 2-part tutorial, showing how to construct a classic house track from scratch, which is also available as a separate course for anyone who already knows Maschine quite well but simply wants some new tips for producing with it. The course comes with written notes, the Maschine projects created in the movies, and 240MB or royalty-free samples from Loopmasters.

The GD-6 Acoustic Guitar is based on a Guild D-40 custom edition electro-acoustic guitar.
Acousticsamples sampled it very deeply, all frets of all strings with upstrokes, downstrokes, round robins, releases, staccatos, mutes, palm mutes, hand blocks, slides, hammer ons, pull offs, retriggers, fretnoises, percussions other articulations.
Each fret of each string has been sampled and it uses a chord recognition engine to convert your chords into standard guitar chords.
As a keyboard is not suited to play the guitar, thetriggersare separated from the note selection, and they canlaunch strum up, strum down, strum for mutes, and then the six separate strings. This makes it very easy to trigger the previously recognized chord in different ways.

The GD-6 Acoustic Guitar features a set ...

AudioThing has released Soundscapes Vol.1

Soundscapes, textures and ambiences ready to use as AU/VST plug-in. These sounds are divided in two main categories: concrete and gear. The raw concrete samples were recorded in different places across Europe (Paris, Dublin, London and Naples) using studio or handy equipment. The raw gear samples were recorded from hardware synthesizers like a Custom Eurorack Modular Synth, guitar pedals and noisy toys like the Thingamagoop 2.

Details:
- 30 Instruments
- 48kHz / 24Bit
- Formats: AU and VST (32/64bit)
- Platforms: OSX, Windows
- Size: 163 MB (MAC) / 113 MB (PC)

Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.6 Intel or later
- Windows XP or later

Price: €10.

Steinberg Releases Signature Drum Kits.

Covering acoustic and electronic drum sounds while spanning a large variety of styles, the Allen Morgan Signature Drums Vol. 1 expansion pack consists of more than 900 drum sounds and effects that were recorded and processed by engineer and producer Allen Morgan, known for his work with Taylor Swift and Nine Inch Nails. The additional 150 MIDI loops provide five rhythmical patterns for each of the 30 drum kits.