2 classic 80s packs!
The Mighty Vault didn’t exist back in the 80s – it would have been the size of a small town. Anyway, here are a couple of classic packs with an 80s vibe…
We’ve done surprisingly few 80s sample packs over the years so we’re including the one classic pack we have done – the rather great
80s Heat. Then there’s Power Synths, which is full of 80s synths all stacked up! Well they did like BIG sounds back then. So it’s full of synths and arps you could find back then (and of course now, such is the cyclic(k) nature of music production). Enjoy!
First up, we go back to August 2015 with 80s Heat which was produced by both Groove Criminals and Cyclick. We gave Rob from Cyclick a buzz from the (very large) carphone…
“It’s time to go back to an era of unapologetic machismo, when Reagan and Thatcher made real the inhuman ideals of Milton Friedman, and vinyl pressings got so thin you could split hairs with
Def Leppard’s Hysteria,” says Robbie. “This sample pack comprises loops and lines across five tempos (85, 95, 110, 120 and 130bpm), guitar powerchords hits, two drums kits, and a few multisampled instruments programmed into SFZ format”
“Guitar is covered with the RawkGuitar and TeleHero lines and there are some classic riff basics. Synth connoisseurs will like the Oberheim-type bass (OB Bass), the VictorPad (Tyrell N6), and
CopMono (from Arturia’s ARP 2600 emulation), with accompaniment from a hype 80s orchestral synth sound (80s Orch).
“The Power Chord Hits folder contains two lots of rock power chords. The Loops ‘n’ Lines folders contain drum loops from the two kits and I’ve thrown in the hits too.”
Our second pack comes by way of both Groove Criminals and Cyclick Samples again. Rob from Cyclick said: “What is more powerful than a powerful synth? More powerful synths stacked up! Synthesisers were born into a world of multitrack recording, and despite individually sounding magnificent (well, some), there is nothing quite like the sound of stacked up synthesisers playing almost the same thing; those differences in pitch, timing and timbre adding to the sense of magnitude and weight. So, for this relatively simple sample set we have a set of stacked up synths creating chord hits (one shots) and arpeggiated lines/loops. Layering these samples further and processing them heavily is definitely encouraged.”
You can find more info and all of these samples in the Free Samples folder on the DVD or at filesilo.co. uk under issue 301.
INCLUDES…
1,600 classic samples including power chord hits, drum kits, multisamples (which can be used in any SFZ player), Loops n Lines, drum hits and chords.