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Chemical Beats Page
3/4

The second CD-ROM and the second half of the
Audio CD is dedicated to individual loop components, individual hits and some
assorted pads & stab sounds. I'll go through the audio section here and
then go on to mention what you get extra in the CD-ROM version.
All of the loops in the second section match
the 11 BPM's of the main loops section, and start off with 22 Tabla loops
and 22 Tambourine loops, though these loops bear little resemblance
in the main to the instruments they were sourced from. Distorted and mutated
say the liner notes and I would agree, heavily effected, there are some nice
breathing type effects, though I wonder if some of the more extreme effects
are that usable musically, but no doubt will suit someone !
Next up are a few pad sounds, 12 to
be precise, either wonderfully evocative ethereal floaty evolving pads, or
powerful "pads" that'll blow your speakers, wonderful for bashing
out power chords. Wish there were more as these guys can create a stunning
synth sound, but this is mainly a percussive CD so...
The remainder of the CD is then filled up with
individual sounds, either components of the earlier loops or new ones, there
is quite a collection, 32 assorted stabs, 20 bass sounds, though
most are more like pads than basses, but not bad, 36 weird and wonderful kick
drums, same can be said of the 36 snare drums and even more so of the
75 hi hat sounds. Finally rounds out with 18 rides, 22 crashes
and 40 toms, and track 99 is a 1kHZ digital test tone. Useful if your
looking for some slightly unusual percussion sounds, as usual there is a ton
of processing done in places to distort a once mundane hi hat, for example,
in to a zippy scratch.
If you wanted another reason to buy the CD-ROM
version though, here you get an extra 11 tambourine loops, a whole collection
of over 100 short mangled and distorted breaks and loops, again matched to
the BPM's of the main collection, some chopped radio effects, which are interesting,
some synth loops, guitar loops and more percussive hits too. Suffice to say
all an extra bonus to what is already a very comprehensive collection.

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