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A CLASSIC HOUSE Size 504MB Formats 24-bit/44.1kHz WAV Price £22.49 Featuring 300 loops and 335 one-shots, this new pack from Waveform includes everything you need to start creating some straight-up classic US-style house music, including drums, bass lines, funk brass and guitars, handclaps and 41 vocal loops. Webwww.soundstosample.com

VOICES OF ISRAEL Size 1.75GB Formats 24-bit/96kHz WAV Price £49.95 Claimed by its makers to be unique in the world of samples libraries, this features over 1,300 samples of Israeli classical singer Hadass Pal Yarden, who sings, chants, speaks and whispers her way through a range of material in the traditional ‘Sephardic’ style. Note that you’ll need Kontakt 4 to use this one. Webwww.timespace.com

LIQUID DRUM&BASSVOLUME3 Size Not quoted Formats 24-bit/44.1kHz WAV, ACID WAV,

Apple Loops, REX2, Reason ReFill, MIDI Price £24.95 Stadium D&B with its rock, electro and trance stylings may be all the rage, but if your tastes tend in more musical directions,

then check this latest in Producer Loops’ series, with five construction kits all at 177MB but still with a chilled-out funk/

jazz/soul vibe. You can also purchase the kits individually for

£7.95 each, if you prefer. Webwww.producerloops.com

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From house to R&B to classical Hebrew chanting… Never let it be said that our samples round-up doesn’t cover all bases!

MIDNIGHT R&BGOLD Size 767–1,083MB Formats WAV, Apple Loops, REX2, Reason

ReFill, Stylus RMXPrice £24.95

Whether you’re producing R&B, neo soul or hip hop, you should find plenty to work with here, with ten full tracks presented in construction-kit form. Ranging from 50 to 95BPM, the pack includes drums, bass lines, lead lines, guitar parts, brass,

vocals and more. Webwww.primeloops.com

A NU-ELECTRIKSize640MBFormats 24-bit ACID WAV Price €28 Twenty-three construction kits at 125BPM, inspired by the likes of Justice, Digitalism, Fake Blood, Boys Noize, MSTRKRFT et al. If you’re wearing seven different day-glo colours at once and an over-sized trucker’s cap (or want to appeal to kids that are), this is the pack for you! Webwww.samplestar.com

STEVE LAWLER: DEEP PERCUSSIVE HOUSE & TECHNO Size 1.3GB Formats WAV, ACID WAV, Apple Loops, Ableton Live, Reason ReFill, REX2, HALion, Kontakt, EXS, SFZ, Stylus RMX, NN-XT Price £34.95 The Brummie master of dark and dirty house music supplies a whopping 1.3GB of sounds. The emphasis, unsurprisingly, is on drums, but there are plenty of bass and synth lines as well. Webwww.loopmasters.com

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