Au5 Elemental Sample Pack | $7.99/mo https://splice.com

Splice is the most exciting digital sample library concept to hit the market. For a single monthly subscription charge the online site offers access to over one million samples, project files from Dance music icons like Tiesto, plug-ins, tutorials, and a desktop app for syncing your work. Part of that bumper crop of content is Splice’s own Elemental Sample Pack. For this cutting-edge Dubstep collection they’ve let New Jersey’s Au5 (known for his releases through Skrillex and collabos with BT) man the controls. On his Elemental Sample Pack he brings the same degree of musicality he’s famed for, as well as his diversity, as he navigates the styles and textures of many a sub-genre to inform his own Dubstep sound palette. Here his drum hits are punchy and polished, his bass loops are growling and anchoring, and his pads dreamy enough without being airy fairy. Add to that a wealth of wobbles, plucks, leads, lazers, sirens, FX and synth lines a plenty, and you have all the elements to make your own Dubstep classic. Roy Spencer

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