The focus of this collection was initiated by longtime R ‘n B programmers, to obtain a stylish virtual sample library that provides 585 Megabytes of professional-sounding samples. The sound-design team put together a great selection of loops, kits and multisampled instruments. Despite being created by hip hop and R ‘n B artists, this library offers sounds which will be useful to composers working in many modern musical genres: it will be a great asset to music producers and post-pro houses.

The first section features “construction kits” of the latest trends: Timba-style, Funk Mood, Talk-boxed, M&M, Pure R ‘n B, Hip hop... The next section offers drum loops sorted by tempo, Instrument phrases combo, Single phrases mapped to the entire keyboard for easy transposition (bass, fx, guitar, hits, keys, synth), vinyl sounds, basses (phat, R ‘n B), Keyboards, Guitars, Synths, bass/synth Splits, vinyl fx, Drum kits, and sorted Drum presets. This last section features the most powerful drum selection on the planet in the R ’n B flavor. A most inspired toolkit: this is the real heavy stuff!

The sound library:

Each volume comes with a “data file” full of multisampled presets that are easily accessed through the interface of the plug-in. There is enough space to offer the most in-depth exploration of a given instrument that a tone module has ever done. It evens beats most professional CDROM, limited by archaic formatting conventions which leave only 200-300 megabytes per disc… No mess on your hard drive, just those two files.

Plugsound formats:

Each Plugsound is available for Mac OS X (Audio Units, MAS, VST, RTAS), for Mac OS9 (VST, MAS, RTAS) and for Windows (XP recommended) based PC (VSTi, DXi, RTAS):

MachFive integration:

You can use Plugsound in a multitimbral plug-in, and enjoy dozens of exciting editing features: Three fully featured envelopes, a distortion module, new filter algorithms, syncable LFOs and dozens of great effects…

Integrating one of these instruments is easy: open MachFive and create a new empty soundbank. Now go to the corresponding folder on your hard disk and place an alias of your Plugsound’s “.dat file” in the soundbank folder you've created. That’s it! Rescan your MachFive Sounds Folder and you’re now ready to use your instrument directly in MachFive.

Each volume is supplied on a CDROM with printed manual and sound listings, plus multi-language PDF manuals & tutorials.

Purchase Information

Plugsound Vol.4 Hip Hop & R'n'B Toolkit is available now at a suggested retail price of $99 for Mac OS X and Windows systems. Education Version is also available at a retail price of $59

Requirements

- Windows 98/ME/2000/NT/XP - Pentium III 400MHz - 256 MB RAM - VST 2.0, Dxi, RTAS PC compliant host
- Mac OS 8-9/ OS X  - 400 Mhz PowerPC G3 - MAS, RTAS, Audio Units or VST 2.0 compliant host