Urban Instruments

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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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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

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Warm coasts, blue water, port cities glowing into life as the sun sets: the stage is set for a destination party with the “Afro House” MPC Expansion Pack. Known for crystalline synths, crisp percussion, and drums that bounce like giant beach balls, Afro House is the soundtrack for the ultimate night out when it’s time to let loose. Topline vocals shine over midtempo beats that fill the poolside club, daring the crowd not to sway with the rhythm and get lost in a perfectly scored soirée.  This pack from Sample Tools by Cr2, the lauded source for studio-grade sample packs, synth presets, and production toolkits, brings together everything you need to put together your signature edit for the next show. Explore over 100 MPC sequences, drum kits, and audio previews, plus over 600 high-quality samples that run the dancefloor.   MPC3 OS/MPC3 Desktop required.  Pack Contents:      0.31 GB MPC Expansion      34 MPC2-Ready Drum Kits      1 Full MPC Project      34 MPC Sequences      34 Audio Previews      625 Samples 

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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.