Sample Magic releases 'Berlin Techno Tracks' and 'Ableton Analogue Drum Racks' sample packs

Sample Magic have two new releases: Berlin Techno Tracks and Ableton Analogue Drum Racks.

Berlin Techno Tracks (£19.90) features "pummelling stripped-back grooves, cavernous dub chords, industrial synths and functional FX".

Berlin Techno Tracks delivers five full-track projects and 15 production kits optimised for Ableton and Maschine. Ranging from utilitarian and spartan through to moody and atmospheric, each of the five projects comes with a 16-pad one-shot kit, synth sampler instruments, full track arrangement, MIDI, FX programming and automation, allowing you to deconstruct and re-configure the tracks with total ease.

In addition, there's also 15 carefully constructed production kits designed to create new tracks from scratch. Totalling 16 one-shots per kit, each one comes loaded with powerful drums (kick, snare/claps, percussion, hats), dark synth shots, throbbing bass shots and electronic FX, each kit is finely-honed sound palette primed for full-track production. Each kit also comes with 3 custom MIDI grooves to showcase the kit and kick-start your creativity.

Whether you're an Ableton Live or Maschine user, these projects and kits have been crafted to make maximum use of their native effects and functionality to deliver club-ready inspiration alongside instant plug-and-play usability.

Download Contains: 240 x 24-bit WAV One-shots, 5 x Maschine Projects, 5 x Ableton Projects, 15 x Group Kits for Maschine 2, 15 x Ableton Drum Racks, 60 x MIDI files.

Ableton Analogue Drum Racks (£19.90) for Ableton Live 9 is "an essential beat maker's arsenal packed with 160 all-analogue sourced drum hits and 10 custom macro-mapped drum kits alongside 200 slick drum grooves to jump-start your creativity".

Designed as a go-to tool for all your synth drum needs, all of the drum hits have been sculpted from a host of hardware classics including the Arp 2600, Moog Minitaur, EMS VCS3, Roland SH-101 and Juno-60 - then additionally processed through a high-end chain including the Roland RE201 Space Echo.

You'll find 8 top-level macros on each kit for creative drum mix processing as well as 8 sample-level macros for fine-tuning and tweaking of individual drum hits for maximum beat control.

What's inside:

Kits 1-7 Global macros:

• Robot - A combination of delay, flanger and beat-repeater that creates glitched robot builds and fills, with metallic overtones at higher values.
• Chorus - Thicken things up with a wide-style chorus effect. Use with Chorus macro.
• Feed - Control the decay and speed of the Chorus effect.
• Flanger - A time-based flanger to create a dynamic sweeping effect.
• Distort - Inject anything from subtle lo-fi warmth to full-on distorted dirt.
• Reverb - A tight drum plate reverb for subtle ambience.
• Decay - Automate the reverb decay for increased space, fills or transitions. Use with Reverb macro.
• Roll - Create tempo-synced rolls and fills up with a 127-step beat-repeater.

Kits 8-10 Global macros:

• Global Pitch - Tunes all pitched percussion sounds up or down 128 semitones.
• Global Filter - Top-level drum mix low pass filter. Great for classic filter house vibes.
• Reverb - A beat-friendly "oil drum" style plate ambience.
• Delay - Classic tempo-synced delay effect.
• Beat Repeat - Create tempo-synced rolls and fills with a 127-step beat-repeater.
• Ring Mod Depth - Retro ring modulator dry/wet control. Use to create pitch-specific modulation effects.
• Ring Mod Freq - Control the frequency of the ring modulator for precise FX manipulation. Use with Ring Mod Depth macro.
• Bitcrush - Top-level drum mix down-sampling effect from 1- to 16-bits for seriously lo-fi grooves.

Kits 1-10 - Sample-level macros:

• Volume - Set your kit dynamic balance with this bi-polar macro.
• Pitch - Tune your samples to the root key of your track.
• Pan - Pan individual samples across the mix spectrum.
• Filter Freq - Utilise a 12 and 24 LP filter to cut unwanted high-frequencies from the hit.
• Sample Start - Full control over sample start points. Useful for tweaking the attack of individual hits.
• Decay - Control the decay aspect of the individual sample's ADSR envelope.
• Release - Control the release aspect of the individual sample's ADSR envelope.
• Filter Res - Tweak the resonance of your sampler filter. Use with Filter Freq macro.

Download Contains: 10 x Ableton Drum Racks, 200 x MIDI drum clips, 160 x 24-bit WAV loops, 1 x Ableton Demo Project (Ableton Live 9 Suite).