Soundware round-up
Industrial Strength
The Braindrillerz – Frenchcore £22
It’s all kicking off with Italian producer Sebastian Sereno’s billy-bonkers 360MB library of ear-shredding (very) hard dance samples. It mostly comprises one-shots, but many are ‘extended’ through sequencing and modulation. The 65 drum loops (175-216bpm), meanwhile, are chaotic in organisation, mixing stems and full loops, but absolutely bangin’; and the 76 individual drum hits are adventurous in their sound design. It’s not great value, but it’s not often that sounds this hard make it into the soundware realm.
8/100
Sample Tools by Cr2
Future Wave £16
Cr2’s latest is billed as a crossover between future bass and chilled house, but the emphasis is tilted somewhat towards the first of those, particularly in the ten stemmed drum loops (84
