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The CD kicks off with 7 tracks of Digital Drones, we have 41 drone/pad/fx sounds, most of which are quite excellent, huge evolving, swirling, powerful sounds. Many have lots going on within them, a drone with a tinkling sounds over the top. Exactly the sort of thing to impress your friends with the power of your new sampler, rather track dominating in places. Anyone familiar with the work of Mark Shreeve ?, well these are the sorts of sounds he might use. Certainly if your looking for the "the spaceship rounds the planet" soundtrack effect, choose most any track from here, loop, pass through some heavy reverb and phaser or flanger for some more effect and go.

Track 8 "Synth Bombs" three very low frequency noises, followed by "Mysterious Pads", 7 deep swirling eeries sounds, not as good as those on the first volume but a useful addition.

Tracks 10 & 11 are space drones, 8 samples, quite excellent for that "lost in space" feel. Track 12 "Digital Synth Loop" follows in the same vein, again very good. These samples are a little bit more anonymous, they would blend in better with other sounds rather better than the samples found so far here.

Track 13 "Ambient Synth Pads" 7 samples, somewhat higher in pitch than the drone sounds but similar in effect.

Tracks 14 & 15 are bell atmospheres and arpeggios, range from tinkly bell effects and deep drones. Some of which left any semblane of what you might think of as bell sound long ago, the sample "Bellish Arpeggio - Low" is quite excellent, not quite sure how I might use it, but looped and effected it would be an excellent underpin of an up tempo track.

Tracks 16 & 17 are glass loops and effects - higher pitched sounds, not terribly pleasing to the ear, not quite up to the standard of some of the earlier offerings, certainly not unusable though.

Tracks 18-20, back to the "bell" sounds again, 10 samples of drones, atmospheres and trees. The drones are fairl non descript but the atmospheres are excellent, long samples that create an eerie soundscape. The tree sounds sound a little like a child playing around with a wind chime, interesting.

Track 21 "Mysterious Glassy Amospheres" more of the mystery pads, the last of which is excellent a low drone, repeating evolving bell type sound, virtually a ready made track just add spot effects so to speak, not original but if your looking for something quick for a multimedia or soundtrack project then here you go.

Track 22 has some good, if overlong, analogue wind samples.

Tracks 23-27 are analogue FX 24 samples of oscillators, burbles, ring modulations and noise effects. Some live up to their name "horrible ring mod sweeps" is about right, real headache inducers !. I liked the "phased out train" sound, just the thing to underpin a track aka Bianca de Gaia's "Last Train..."

Tracks 28 & 29 are 5 fairly non-descript bass and drone sounds.Whilst track 30 "analog synth rhythms offers 4 kraftwerk type simple rhythms.

Tracks 31 & 32 are arpeggio and tone fx, again a little kraftwerk like, sine waves and random blips, sounding very raw compared to the rich sounds of many of the other samples on the CD's, but if your looking for that kind of effect then they are here

Tracks 33 & 34 8 samples of "alarms" are pretty dire, not your normal whoop-whoop-whoop alarms but searing, resonant repeating sounds. Different I guess.


 

 

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