Smart Loops Releases SL Tight Kit Sample Set

Smart Loops has released SL Tight Kit, one of the company's new SL Sample Sets for Mac and PC software samplers.

Launched this year, SL Sample Sets provide musicians and producers with the pro-quality drum sounds for Mac and PC-based recordings. These live drum samples are available as downloads from the Smart Loops web site, for use with Steinberg HALion, Cakewalk Dimension Pro, Rapture, Project5, SONAR, Reason NN-XT, Native Instruments KONTAKT & Battery, and many other DXi/VST software samplers. SL Sample Sets also work with any SoundFont 2.0 compatible sound cards, including the Creative Labs SB Live and SB Audigy cards.

In addition to SL Tight Kit, Smart Loops has released four other SL Sample Sets so far this year: SL Acoustic Kit, SL Trap Kit, SL Thunder Kit, and SL Groovy Kit. Smart Loops plans to release more SL Sample Sets throughout the year.

SL Tight Kit provides two sample sets for the price of one: the first is a full drum kit, fully EQ'd and compressed, providing a dry, "tight" studio sound; the second set is the same Tight Kit with EQ and compression, but also includes the sampled room mics, providing that extra big, "John Bonham" sound.

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Highlights

• Formats: SoundFont (SF2 2.4), SFZ, WAV
• Media: Download
• SFZ Multi-sample Mappings: 14 including Complete Kit Dry, Complete Kit with Room Mics, Kicks Dry, Kicks with Room Mics, Snares Dry, Snares with Room Mics, All Cymbals, Crash Cymbals, Hi-Hats, Ride Cymbals, more
• SoundFont Files: SoundFont format is provided in 2 SoundFont version 2.4 files. 1 with dry mappings and 1 with room mappings
• Compatible Samplers: Audigy, Dimension Pro, EXS24, FL Studio, GarageBand, GigaSampler, GigaStudio, HALion, KONTAKT, Metro, Reason NN-XT, SB Live!, SFZ Player, VSampler and any other sampler that can load or import 24-bit SoundFont (SF2) or .WAV files
• Unique Samples: 345
• Drums: Tight Kit including 2 Kicks (10 velocity layers each), 2 Snares (40 velocity layers each), 12 Toms (10 velocity layers each), and more
• Cymbals: Hi-Hat, 2 Crash Cymbals, Ride Cymbal, 2 China Cymbals, 2 Splash Cymbals, and Cymbal Chokes

Pricing and Availability
SL Tight Kit and other SL Sample Sets are now available as downloads from Smart Loops for an introductory price of $39 each, or $29 each when purchasing two or more together. For more information and to audition mp3 demos of all SL Sample Sets, visit www.smartloops.com/products/samplesets.

Mac and PC musicians can download free sample sets for DXi and VSTi samplers, and over 100 free audio loops in ACID, REX2, and Apple Loops formats from Smart Loops at www.smartloops.com/Free.

For more information, visit their web site at www.smartloops.com.