New from IK Multimedia are AXE' and Trance Grid, two new highly focussed loop sound libraries for the company's SampleTank software sound module. These new sound libraries range from ethnic music to the hardest modern trance. They both offer flexible groove creation via a construction kit format, including single sounds and also recycled loops with associated MIDI files.

In both libraries users have the possibility of combining instruments and loops from sound banks in a instant, with thousands of creative combination possibilities and different grooves, because all banks share the same BPM. Furthermore, SampleTank's easy-re-sampling feature allows for BPM adaption as easy as turning a knob.

Both libraries contain the SampleTank LE plug-in, a 'lite' version of SampleTank, providing 4 multitimbral midi part channels (instead of 16), one stereo output (instead of four), 4 effects per voice selectable among 20 DSP effects and the ability to read other Sampletank native sounds.

SampleTank LE is already available all the major recording platforms including VST, MAS and Digidesign RTAS formats, both in Macintosh and Windows platforms.

AXE'

Including more than 550 MB of sounds and loops, AXE' captures the allure and mystique of typical Brazilian rhythms and sound, containing all the instruments of the Batucada set such as Surdo, Tamborim, Pandeiru, Berimbau, Repinique, Guiro, Agogo and many others. Pure Brazilian loops are played live by master carioca percussionists and were recorded by IK Multimedia at its studio facilities.

AXE' is available in construction kits, a powerful tool to combine all sounds and loops, share the same tempo among them, and create in real time thousands of different grooves.

Recycled files are included for maximum control and ease of editing, giving user the ability to change tempo without pitch variation, to quantize the resulting grooves, achieving a huge amount of different possibilities for every requirement.

Trance Grid

An energetic Trance loops library in construction kits with separate rhythmic elements which can be played as single instruments, including Basses, BDs, Snares, Hi-Hats, Effects, Synth lines and many more, or combined together. Featuring 8 different sound and loop banks in more than 250 MB of samples, it generates zillion of trance grooves with the most intricate rhythmic combinations

Both libraries, including SampleTank LE, are available online (www.sampletank.com) and in music stores around the world at $99 / euro109 / £79 list price, with all versions (MacOS/Window) and formats (RTAS,VST, MAS) included in the same box.

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