Hook City - Trap & Soul Edition

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Akai Professional & Marco Polo are proud to release "Bap Essentials" Vol 2. Back again for a 2nd volume and might I say this one is even harder!!!???? Marco in collaboration with his production mentor Shy The BeatYoda bring the final volume of BAP ESSENTIALS. More classic & raw sounding drum one shots and sample chops to set off your next Hip Hop project. The long-time duo cover all styles of Hip Hop production from slow tempo spooky vibes to that 95 bpm golden era energy. Years of crate digging expertise still applied to the sound design of this expansion. A MUST have for any producer looking to load up ready to go drum, percussion, bass and musical elements that have a digging in the crates feel. "I handled all the musical elements, bass, efx, percussion and Shy did the drums, we basically made a 2nd hard ass beat tape for y'all" - Marco Polo. ENJOY! Dive into 24 hard hitting kits with over 380 samples optimized for MPC Standalone and desktop software.

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RAW CRATEZ Akai Professional & Rawcutz are proud to bring you the latest in our MPC Expansion Series sound packs. Building upon their highly acclaimed RAWCUTZ Expansion Raw Cratez brings the real essence of this genre inside your MPC. RAWCUTZ are responsible for some of the most prolific sample content available. This Expansion features loosely quantized rhythms, Melodic Keys, Real authentic basslines, soulful chops & stabs, and some of the best sampled drum hits delivering inspiration on all levels, all royalty free and ready to drop into your MPC. This collection was built to inspire and provide building blocks to manipulate, twist and chop to create your own, fresh sound whilst providing access to the sounds of equipment that’s either hard to find, prohibitively expensive or hard to keep working! Raw Cratez gives you instant access to Crunchy Snares, Jazzy Chords and Musical Melodies grouped over 20 inspirational kits of 16 fresh and original samples. Influences in the pack range from the heavy beats of Cypress Hill, with the jazzy instruments of Blue Note, Orbesque atmospherics and husky haunting melodies – all with the trademark RawCutz “pre-worn” sonic treatments. If you are making Deep Golden era Hip Hop, House, Warped beats, Progressive Drum and Bass or Ambient music – you will find inspirational sounds within seconds in this collection of samples created by the original Raw Cutz producer. Includes 1.6 GB of the highest quality one shot sounds and Stabs including Rhodes, Bass, Strings, Vinyl, Keys and more. As usual, Akai, alongside Rawcutz provides you with the best and most uniquely authentic sound set available. Each kit provides you with an excellent selection of samples and patterns that have been expertly programmed to instantly inspire you, no matter what music making mood you’re in.

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Akai Professional & 12 Bit Soul have teamed up to deliver the MPC Expansion DEFinitive 90s R&B . 90s R&B represents the rapid rise from genre music to mainstream cultural and commercial dominance over this transformative decade. Forever intertwined with the sounds of Rap/Hip-Hop, there isn’t one pervasive sound that defined the era, but more so an emphasis on eclectic style blending. A rapid parallel evolution in artistry and music technology ensued in a short period of time, propelling us on a journey from the organic dusty breaks of Golden Era Hip-Hop to New Jack Swing to iconoclasts like Sade coupled with the meteoric rise of the Dirty South, retrofitted Neo Soul stylings, and the arrival of the Shiny Suit Era, where Hip-Hop moguls and superstar divas were born. This expansion captures that moment in time as R&B continued its progression alongside Hip-Hop. - 1.59 GB of high quality sounds. -40 kits featuring 100+ 90s inspired composition loops and well over 500 one-shots sampling sounds and gear of that era: horns, piano, organ, keys, strings, synths, live bass, guitar, and dusty vinyl & crisp digital drums to represent the fast-evolving sound of the decade. All sounds created and processed with our extensive collection of analog and digital gear, including popular instruments and samplers from the 90s era. -25 Keygroups sampling from analog and digital keyboards, rack gear and synths: fat basses, electric pianos, pads, leads and more.

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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.