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Tracks 30 & 31, offer 50 odd TB303 sounds, need I say more, two categories short and long release.

Tracks 32, 33, 41 & 42 give us 39 Ambient pads, effects & textures, from distant "thunder" rumblings, to synthetic strings, via a few Sci-fi drone sounding effects. Most are fairly gentle sounding, and have some evolution going on within them. There are some quite excellent sounding samples here, though finding use for some of them could be a challenge, as they would dominate any mix they are used in.

Track 34, Sweep success, starts off with a couple of excellent rapid arpeggio type effects then delves off in to some pretty awful ear piercing radio static type effects, before toning down again to some more usable sweep sounds.

Tracks 35 & 49, Mix it up, has some interesting, and powerful sounding layered sounds, very impressive. Some are quite short, ideal for a powerful sequence, or arpeggio type pattern. Wished there were more of these.

Tracks 36-39, give us multisample each of a Arp Omni & Crumar string patch, and two analogue bells sounds, fairly anonymous, but not so bad for that compared to some of the many other more complex samples.

Tracks 40 & 43, give us 27 A to D arpeggio's and Digital Loopy Tunes, and there are some excellent ones here, want to impress your mates when they come around and say, "can I have a go", sample say track 40 sample 3 to the lower half of the keyboard, a powerful string sound to the top half, let them play for five minutes then try and flog them your old Akai S01 that's been sitting under your desk for 5 years. Again these might find difficult to place, simply because they would dominate a track they are in, but some of them do sound extremely impressive, the pick of the CD for me.

Track 44, DX Piano/Oberheim string has some decent sounding multisamples of these two classic sounds.

Track 45 has some seriously effected E-Bow pitch sounds, sort of thing you might here on a circa 1973 "concept" album. We'll leave this one in the "sounds interesting, but wouldn't ever use it category".

Track 46 coaxes 16 patches out of the old favourite Wasp synth.

Track 47 has 4 rather disappointing Jupiter sweeps, now I know for a fact that you can get better sounding sweeps than these.

Tracks 48 & 67 has us back on form with a bakers dozen A to D layers, and Classics complex layered sounds, quite excellent sounding. A little different from the norm if your looking to get away from the "classic" analogue sound.

Track 54, Movie backdrops, are seven long, evolving background atmosphere textures, from a synthetic jungle type effect to the haunted, mystery dark effect. Very good.

Track 56 has 3 classic analogue polysynth sounds, multisampled, very simple sounding, very usable.

Track 57, Jupiter Suite, has 16 samples of classic analogue Jupiter sounds, listen to this and you realise why the JP8000 exists. Good examples, very usable.

Track 58, Digilog, is 8 samples of digital synths trying to sounds analogue, not bad at all.

Track 59, Sing along max, has 22 samples of "vocal" pad sounds, many of which are quite excellent, these are very much synthesised vocal sounds, not much resemblance to an actual human voice here. But if your looking for that kind of pad sound then there are some crackers here.

Tracks 60 & 62, (why didn't the producers just stick them together...) offer us 18 Trance textures, gentle ethereal, evolving textures and atmospheres, very good indeed.

Tracks 61 Trance Dream, 64 Vangelis & 66 Werking Kraft, give us examples of their respective styles, analogue arpeggios, CS80 sounding patches and blippy rhythms. Not terribly convincing, some of the Kraftwerk "rhythms" are awful.

Track 63, Tom & Jerry, have 25 assorted "orchestral" hooks and effects, if you've seen the cartoon, you'll know what I mean. Seem almost out of place amongst all the highly synth sounding samples elsewhere on the CD.

Track 65, Waves World, has some typical D-50 and Wavestation, "wave" sounds, dark, modulating umm wave like sounds. Mixed bag, not too keen on the sharply random modulating examples, but some of the others are very good.

The CD rounds off with maximum level test tone.


 

 

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