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Experience the essence, the pulse, the tension, the energy, the life…experience Hypnotic Techno by 5Pin Media!

Since its origins Techno has always been about the interaction between human and sound making machine, an energy that flows back and forth until human and machine merge to create a raw primeval sound.

Boasting 560 loops split evenly between 132bpm and 135bpm, 200 One-Shots and 60 Sampler Instruments in 6 major sampler formats plus Apple and Acidized WAV loop formats on offer, Hypnotic Techno aims to cover your creative needs both now and into the future.

Download the Free Taster available on the Hypnotic Techno product page!

5Pin Media presents Project – Minimal, the fourth installment in their 5Pin Media Project series.

Featuring 15 groove based projects, 240 one-shots, 15 percussion loops, 50 bonus chord stabs and 188 MIDI patterns for both Ableton Live 10 and Maschine 2. Minimal is ready out the box to get you building the foundation for your next minimal groove complete with low end attitude.

Spin up the demos and experience the minimal vibe!

Check out our other Project releases:

5Pin Project – Downtempo

5Pin Project – Minimal Techno

5Pin Project – Deep Tech House

Adventures In Electronica draws inspiration from artists such as Fourtet, Bicep, Maribou State, Boards of Canada, Catching Flies, Bearcubs, The Orb, Mount Kimbie and Com Truise to name a few.

Adventures in Electronica is a sonic kaleidoscope that will spark inspiration and add an extra edge no matter what genre or style you produce.

Give the full demo a listen (there are so many twists and turns so please take the time to listen from start to finish) and download the free taster loops for a test drive of what lies inside. All music loops, music one-shots and midi files include musical key info for quick and easy tuning.

Professionally produced loops and one-shots combined with the flexibility of MIDI lies at the heart of this collection, giving you, the producer, the freedom to take your productions in whichever creative direction you choose.

Check out the Adventures In Electronica video.

Detroit Dub Techno has everything you need to create that classic Detroit sound, to classic dub techno, all the way to modern dub techno and minimal techno and lo-fi house.

With expansive strings and lush pads to booming chords and homemade drum sounds, this sample collection is perfect for those who love colourful fall days, winters in the city, and industrial decay.

5Pin Media proudly announces “Shades of Techno – Moog Little/Slim Phatty Soundbank”, debuting their new series. Soundbank will be bringing musicians and producers the best in up to date sounds for popular modern hardware synths spanning various genres and styles.

Shades of Techno Soundbank comprises 100 Techno/Electronica Presets for Moog Little and Slim Phatty crafted by elite sound designer and audio engineer Adam Pietruszko.

The soundbank contains 100 presets compatible with Moog Little Phatty Tribute/Stage I and II, Slim Phatty synthesizers. The presets are provided both as a whole soundbank, as well as individual patches, all in .syx format. You’ll need a MIDI interface and a SysEx application to load the bank into your instrument.

5Pin Media Soundbank – Crafted by true masters of their machines especially for you to unlock the true sonic potential of your Hardware Synth and focus on making great music.

Please Note:

All sounds in the demos, apart from drums, are from this product, no other samples were used. EQ, compression, delay and reverb were applied.

Disclaimer:

 Little Phatty® and Slim Phatty® are registered trademarks of Moog Music Inc. 5Pin Media is not associated with Moog Music Inc. This soundbank was neither produced nor endorsed by Moog Music Inc.

With the emergence of minimal techno into the mainstream airwaves, more and more producers are making the move to the pulsing stripped down sound. And with this switch, more and more producers are going to need quick stimulation and filler bits to help craft their dancefloor edge. That’s where the folks with 5Pin Media come in.

Inspired by the sounds of such landmark minimalists as Hawtin, Minilouge, Slam, Bushwacka and many others, this sample pack delivers quality content engineered with the highest quality in professional sound design. Containing over 182 loops in WAV, REX and Acidized formats, these supercharged bits are ready to be added to your mix in an instant, or to be further edited to customize the loop for your particular groove.

Intentionally left processed just slightly, these loops aren’t drenched in reverb or smothered with delay, leaving plenty of space for your DAW and mental projection to work their magic. If just raw loops are a bit to “preset” for you, worry not as the release contains 250+ drum hits, pre-mapped sampler patches (yes whatever soft sampler you use is covered), 16 drum groove templates and over 500 MIDI files.

So, if you can’t seem to make that bassline groove like you want it to, load up a MIDI file and apply your special patch and the low-slung pulsing bass you crave is rapidly nestled in your mix. With the special addition of these MIDI files in this sample pack, it really helps your creative genius get started, and with the arsenal of unique gear and software suites various producers are bound to have, the sonic possibilities are infinite.

Whether it is clicky percussive bits, noise-derived high-hats or staccato synth hits you are after, look no further as this package proves once again that less is more!

5Pin Media wants to offer something special: unique and professional sounds, alongside with midi files that give you the basics for groovy rhythm and melodies. So far, this is nothing new: midi collections are present everywhere nowadays – This test will tell…

Define the expectations…

Tribal music is a widely present genre; still, talking about the electronic dance music scene, other styles are definitely more popular – an issue you also come across when searching for good tribal samples. There are a few collections out there (e. g. Vipzone) offering some nice loops where you simply need to throw on a kick and you’re done – but once you want to get really creative, the products already available may not be enough.

Not surprisingly, they tried to take care of this: “Tribal Percussion” is a huge 1.9 GB collection. You have to choose hard amongst loads of single samples (kicks, effects, percussion, cymbals…), multi-sampled instruments (african drums, cajons, djembes…), a variety of loops thereof – and finally midis that spice up your track’s groove or at least offer some creative input.

Numb3ers…

Okay, let’s start with numbers all over the place: what do you get?

Midi: 22 groove templates, 521 loops for tribal drums – get creative mixing, cutting, realigning them!
Single samples: 1223 files to choose from – you better reserve some time for that
Multi samples: 27 instruments from african drums to udus – all you need is the feeling to play them right
Loops (126 bpm): 750 single-instrument and mixed-instruments files to quickly arrange the basic groove of your track or to simply add more top or bottom to your drumming
Convenience first…

Is there something that makes this collection special? YES. For all who are new to the music production business, the 5pin guys took care of a detailed and easy-to-understand manual that helps you to install and use the patches with your sequencer and/or sampler of choice. Nicely, sampler files for Battery 3, Kontakt 3, Reason plus a Rex version are attached. All samples, midis and other file types are sorted carefully into folders which makes browsing for the right sound quite easy. Furthermore, all samples having a certain pitch provide this in their respective filename – nice!

Let’s groove…

To be honest, we prefer using loops in productions, as it speeds everything up. Furthermore, you can cut them, reverse them or do other crazy things to them and get a whole chain of effects quickly – this is the reason why we’ll focus on the loop part. But don’t you worry – you’ll also get information about “the rest”

Well, as mentioned in the beginning, other products out there are more or less complex mixtures of tribal drums which simply need the kick of your choice and then walk the groove through the whole track. This is of course very fast and easy – and Tribal Percussion offers these kind of loops as well. Still, you might want to work a bit more on your own – maybe not arranging single samples all over the place, but at least having single instrument loops at your fingertips. And guess what? That’s also included – in fact it’s the major part of the loop section: you can either use little loop kits which keep you flexible in terms of arrangement but are already selected for sounds that harmonize with each other – or you are completely free to combine out of several hundred single instrument loops.

It could be just pure fun to play around with those loop samples, maybe adding some crazy vocal atmos to spice up the production even more – if there wasn’t a very annoying issue: except for the complex loops (remember, the ones that only need a kick on top), none seems to be well-cut. Dragging any of these loops into Cubase 5 (set to 126 bpm, as the sample pack states), they don’t cover a whole 2 or 4 bars, but end earlier. Hence, analyzing each loop in a separate audio editor shows clearly that loop length is perfect – and Cubase SX3 or Ableton Live as a comparison don’t see this problem. Something must be wrong with the tempo readout of Cubase 5, suggesting this is a Cubase 5 specific bug and cannot be blamed on 5pin. Anyway, a workaround for all Cubase 5 users: drag the loop into a sampler. We used Kontakt for this – and then it worked nicely.

Programming own grooves from the scratch can be hard work: you have to find samples that fit to each other, you have to carefully arrange each element in the stereo field, add some effects and much more. However, real groove needs one important thing: swing and shuffle. It’s a little magic function many sequencers offer – but you have to know how to use it the right way. You may try hard and see what comes out – our you just start with cool basic groove midis this sample pack delivers. Besides, midis come in handy as you can quickly cut, edit and rearrange them and thereby get lots of different patterns – and then you can try manifold samples on those midis. That’s really some help in case you’re desperately searching for a good starting point.

Sound quality please…

Let’s take care of the well-educated ears of music producers – what sound quality delivers this sample pack? Well, we’re glad this part is quickly done: the sound is truely nice. Smooth compression and crisp samples. That’s it. Nothing to complain. Vocals are artificially bitcrushed to a certain extend which fits perfectly to the Tribal genre and harmonizes with the drum samples.

Ready?

Maybe you already got your impression by reading – but now it’s time for sound. All you hear is the pure, unmodified sample pack content with a slight limiter on it.

Tribal Percussion

Summary

Loving Tribal, you can’t be wrong choosing this product. To our knowledge there is no other collection out there thoughtfully covering many producers’ needs regarding this music genre – and no sample pack supports beginners of music production the way this product does. By the way, there is a dedicated Ableton Live version available. Still, one bad impression stays for Cubase 5 users: the lack of loops ready for drag’n’drop into the sequencer. However, this does not seem to be the fault of 5pin Media – we’re especially excited what 5pin Media will offer in the future.

More information:  (44.95 GBP)

Sound Quality – 90%
Content – 100%
Value for Money – 90%
Summary: Loving Tribal, you can’t be wrong choosing this product. To our knowledge there is no other collection out there thoughtfully covering many producers’ needs regarding this music genre – and no sample pack supports beginners of music production the way this product does.

94%

Recommended!

Read full review here: http://www.audio-desk.com/5pin-media-tribal-percussion-review/

This Refill soundbank is designed to inject new sounds into the Propellerhead Reason 6-plus software. Simply called Reason DnB Combinators, this pack from 5Pin Media explores the dark side of the drum and bass genre.

It features 66 Combinator patches, 65 MIDI files and 65 song templates that you can mold and shape and play around with. The Combinator patches are powerful, sound great and were programmed with expertise – just as I expected.

The assignable knob in Combinator was mapped for sound shaping capabilities (modulation). Great for players who actually tweak while playing at the same time.

The 65 song templates are there to inspire you should you be stuck in a rut or all out of ideas. Overall, this soundware has a dark feel that can also be used for dubstep, dark ambient and experimental music.