Dark Parallax

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Akai Professional & MSXII Sound Design are proud to bring you the follow up to the acclaimed MPC Expansion Soul Provider (Vol 2). Soul Provider 2 blends the golden era hip hop vibe with a modern twist. The sound pallet and live instrumentation was processed with various vintage samplers & outboard gear, resampled, and then flipped and formatted to create the classically authentic sound you’ve come to love from MSXII Sound Design. The textures once again feel as if they were lifted from vinyl with just the right amount of “dust” & character you’ll be looking for! The drums are punchy and dirty! Mello chords, vocals, and various chops are all fused together with the most soulful processing you’ll find in the MPC line up! All customer tailored to sit perfectly within the mix and much more. This sound pack will get your ideas going immediately! Soul Provider Vol. 2 comes directly ready to load into Standalone or Software Modes of your MPC. MSXII has taken advantage of the new plugin suite shipping with MPC 2.4+, so you’ll enjoy literally tons of brand new presets that showcase the sound design aspect of the expansion. Properly filtered bass lines, snappy EQ’s on snares, and punchy & vintage sounding kick drums come all courtesy of the brand new AIR plugins now shipping with the stock MPC line up! Use these presets as a learning guide & create your own, new textures if you’d like! MSXII Sound Design and Akai Pro once again deliver on the grooves & sounds that have stood the test of time and defined an entire genre of music. Soul Provider Vol. 2 delivers once again for the MPC user that needs inspiration now! Each kit provides you with an excellent selection of samples and patterns that have been expertly programmed to inspire you no matter what music making mood you’re in.

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An outstanding collection of the most powerful and heavy sounds, carefully crafted by the masters of Neurofunk. Since appearing on the scene in 1999, they have had many releases that are regarded as groundbreaking in the field of Drum’n’bass but also in the advent of Dubstep. Over the years, they have collaborated with Noisia, Foreign Beggars, State of Mind, The Upbeats, Pythius and Gridlok with releases on DSCI4, Renegade Hardware, Vision, Ram Records, Never Say Die, UKF and many more. This led to them forming their own imprint called Blackout. The diversity of this label is what’s in store for you here. Inside the Black Sun Empire Expansion, you’ll have instant access to 48 professionally crafted MPC-ready kits built from heavy Punchy Kicks, Dirty Snares, Driving Percussion, Funky Rides and HiHats and complex bass sounds and loops created from over 700 slick samples. Their trademark sound is very well represented, so anyone interested in aggressive bass music as well as science fiction-type atmospheres can find plenty to work with. All sounds and samples have been professionally mixed and mastered, ready to inject some power and energy into your productions.

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Snipe Young Presents Vol.1 AKAI Pro & Multi-Platinum Producer, Grammy Winning Engineer “Snipe Young” returns with a sensational instalment to his Akai MPC and iMPC catalogue. As a follow up to the highly acclaimed two-part DARK PARALLAX Expansion series this piece “Snipe Young Presents Vol.1 “doesn’t shy from its excellence. Snipe Young whose produced or designed sounds for many of the top artists delivers a brand-new collection of Hard-Hitting Kits and Hypnotic Melodic Loops and much more processed to the highest quality. Snipe Young Vol.1 includes a beastly collection of Drum Hits, Bass, Keys, Melodics, and vocal loops transforming your ideas into the sound off chart-topping production. Inspiration starts here yet again!!! Snipe Young Presents Vol.1 “Sound Development Process List” Gear Used: • HydraSynth • Moog One • Prophet X • 500 series • SSL EQ611 (E series) • SSL DYN611 (E series) • Neve 1073 LBEQ • API 527 • SPL TDX Transient Designer • Focusrite Red 1 500 • SMPRO Tube Box • SMPRO MBC 502 • SMPRO PEQ 505 • DBX 160 • SSL Six • UA 6176 • Focusrite ISA One • API 2500 Stereo Bus Compressor “Like all of my pieces, I wanted to use the same analogue approach with digital thoughts. The inbox processing was done with the McDsp’s amazing plugins to keep the vibe in the same realm. McDsp plugins allowed me to keep the textures that I created outside the box and lastly, I had to give the sounds a second pass of analogue through the SSL. As an MPC user, you will once again gain a ton of well ready to go samples that will give you that authentic MPC feel, chunky snares, big kicks, glassy live hats, thick live toms, and plenty of loops to get your next track going!” Fully Compatible with All MPC Standalone models, MPC BEATS , AKAI FORCE and MPC 2 Software.

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Hook City - Trap & B Edition AkaiPro & MVP Loops present our newest Expansion Pack for MPC and iMPC, Hook City – Trap & B Edition. This new pack evokes the late night atmospherics, minor key melodics and booming 808s found on many of today’s top R&B, hip-hop and Trap productions. Hook City contains 15 incredible drum kits that include one shots, riffs, loops, and professionally recorded vocal melodic samples paired with fresh melodic ideas covering keys, guitar, bass, brass, strings, synths, stabs, along with impacts, sfx. Whether you're writing for the club or the bedroom, look no further than Hook City – Trap & B Edition to capture that trapmospheric vibe. Pack Contents 15 Drum Kits | 1 Demo Project | 15 Sequences | 155 Melodic Loops 78 Drum Loops | 153 Vocal Melodic Riffs | 182 Drum Hits | 593 Samples