Mini Reviews
Logic Mix Essential Channel Strips Vol. 3
Publisher Loopmasters
Price £19.95
Contact info@loopmasters.com
Features
• New channel strips for Logic Pro X
• Uses Logic’s built-in instruments and FX
• 76 drum, vocal, instrument, FX, bus and master chains
• 5 genre project templates
• Created by Certified Logic Trainer Colin C
Logic expert Colin C returns with another pack of instrument, bus, track and output strips for Logic Pro X. There are 76 channel strips for drum hit and loop processing, synth, bass, vocals, and special FX, plus several settings to beef up your master channel. Colin C’s first Mix Essentials pack featured more useful utility strips, but Vol. 3 has more creative and out-there FX, with long delays and reverse reverbs. It’s fun to run different sounds through to see what comes out. There are five project templates in different styles, but while these are a nice addition, they’re fully stacked with tracks and plug-ins and may be confusing to newcomers. But it’s a good way to get inspired in just how far you can push Logic’s built-in plug-ins for sound-design purposes.
MTF Verdict
Some interesting, creative channel strips that make good use of a wide range of Logic’s plug-ins and some good, if a little over complex, mix templates.
7/10
Disintegrate Cinematic Ambient Loops
Publisher Mode Audio
Price £18
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Features
• Cinematic synths, drones and beats
• 630MB-worth of 24-bit audio
• 144 music loops, 95 MIDI loops
• 47 drum samples, 110 synth and bass tails
• 12 Live projects, 70 to 120BPM 9/10
Disintegrate is a new sample library from Mode Audio with 630MB-worth of dark and beautiful cinematic synth loops and hits. The loops folder contains super-fat analogue bass loops at the sweet spot of just breaking up, swirling pads and synths, fragmenting drones, crunchy electronic drum and percussion rhythms and some unique-sounding cinematic synth SFX and textures. You also get a decent folder of 47 processed drum hits, and 110 synth and bass tail samples, which can be added to the loops to give a natural decay, or loaded into a sampler to create new, playable instruments. On top of this, you also get 95 drum, bass and synth MIDI loops to play with, and 12 Ableton Live projects with the samples laid out into tracks. It’s an excellent package, with top-notch sound design throughout.
MTF Verdict
An inspiring package of haunting analogue loops, with expert use of processing and saturation to give life and grit to the sounds. 9/10
Live Deep Jazz Vocals With Gia
Publisher Loopmasters
Price £29.95 (£14.95 for just dry vocals)
Contact info@loopmasters.com
