Artist Series araabMUZIK

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RAW CRATEZ Akai Professional & Rawcutz are proud to bring you the latest in our MPC Expansion Series sound packs. Building upon their highly acclaimed RAWCUTZ Expansion Raw Cratez brings the real essence of this genre inside your MPC. RAWCUTZ are responsible for some of the most prolific sample content available. This Expansion features loosely quantized rhythms, Melodic Keys, Real authentic basslines, soulful chops & stabs, and some of the best sampled drum hits delivering inspiration on all levels, all royalty free and ready to drop into your MPC. This collection was built to inspire and provide building blocks to manipulate, twist and chop to create your own, fresh sound whilst providing access to the sounds of equipment that’s either hard to find, prohibitively expensive or hard to keep working! Raw Cratez gives you instant access to Crunchy Snares, Jazzy Chords and Musical Melodies grouped over 20 inspirational kits of 16 fresh and original samples. Influences in the pack range from the heavy beats of Cypress Hill, with the jazzy instruments of Blue Note, Orbesque atmospherics and husky haunting melodies – all with the trademark RawCutz “pre-worn” sonic treatments. If you are making Deep Golden era Hip Hop, House, Warped beats, Progressive Drum and Bass or Ambient music – you will find inspirational sounds within seconds in this collection of samples created by the original Raw Cutz producer. Includes 1.6 GB of the highest quality one shot sounds and Stabs including Rhodes, Bass, Strings, Vinyl, Keys and more. As usual, Akai, alongside Rawcutz provides you with the best and most uniquely authentic sound set available. Each kit provides you with an excellent selection of samples and patterns that have been expertly programmed to instantly inspire you, no matter what music making mood you’re in.

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World Grammy Nominated music producer and the original King of Finger Drumming…. AraabMUZIK delivers a whole new dimension to beat production with the official VOL 2. Inside this Expansion are 24 exclusive kits and projects only available for MPC, putting your beats into overdrive. This hard-hitting pack takes production to a whole new level bringing the sound of the New York streets to your pads and keys! Each kit was produced from the ground up, delivering pure musical inspiration blended with slick melodic loops, deep soulful chord, Lo-Fi Guitars, Deep 808’s, classic HipHop vinyl melodies to rich vocal textures. Now let’s talk about drums………. If you think you have enough drum samples, then think again!!! The one-shot samples inside Vol 2 will put your drums to the front of the speakers, just how records are mixed in 2022. Included are a whole new collection of Kicks, Snares, Claps to crisp percussion giving you Punch, Warmth and energy processed at the highest grade. With over 300 professionally crafted samples, araabMUZIK Vol 2 will be the go to sample pack in your collection allowing you to keep pushing the envelopes in your production. Araab’s music production credits and collaborations have been dominating the globle with anthems such as Cold Summer with Fabolous to Jay Electronica and production credits with Alicia Keys alongside swizzbeatz! Inside araabMUZIK Vol 2 Includes over 300 Hard Hitting Kicks and Snares, Crisp Claps, Melodic Loops, Classic HipHop Loops, Vocal Chops, 808’s, Percussion, Snaps, SFX, Drops, AND MUCH MORE. 24 MPC Producer Kits 24 MPC Projects 24 Midi Sequences The Sounds 20 x Kicks 24 x Claps 103 x Hats / Cymbals 11 x Bass, 808 33 x SFX 55 x Music Loops 58 x Percussion Hits 20 x Rims 33 x Snares 15 x Hits 24 x Vocal Textures     Show less

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Akai Professional & MSXII Sound Design are proud to bring you the follow up to the acclaimed MPC Expansion Soul Provider (Vol 2). Soul Provider 2 blends the golden era hip hop vibe with a modern twist. The sound pallet and live instrumentation was processed with various vintage samplers & outboard gear, resampled, and then flipped and formatted to create the classically authentic sound you’ve come to love from MSXII Sound Design. The textures once again feel as if they were lifted from vinyl with just the right amount of “dust” & character you’ll be looking for! The drums are punchy and dirty! Mello chords, vocals, and various chops are all fused together with the most soulful processing you’ll find in the MPC line up! All customer tailored to sit perfectly within the mix and much more. This sound pack will get your ideas going immediately! Soul Provider Vol. 2 comes directly ready to load into Standalone or Software Modes of your MPC. MSXII has taken advantage of the new plugin suite shipping with MPC 2.4+, so you’ll enjoy literally tons of brand new presets that showcase the sound design aspect of the expansion. Properly filtered bass lines, snappy EQ’s on snares, and punchy & vintage sounding kick drums come all courtesy of the brand new AIR plugins now shipping with the stock MPC line up! Use these presets as a learning guide & create your own, new textures if you’d like! MSXII Sound Design and Akai Pro once again deliver on the grooves & sounds that have stood the test of time and defined an entire genre of music. Soul Provider Vol. 2 delivers once again for the MPC user that needs inspiration now! Each kit provides you with an excellent selection of samples and patterns that have been expertly programmed to inspire you no matter what music making mood you’re in.

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Pad Thai Deluxe features the cream of the crop taken from Marco Polo's highly acclaimed and internationally known" Pad Thai" drum kit series. Known for having some of the hardest and dustiest drums in the game, Marco Polo has spent years digging for records and applying that same approach to assembling his drum kits. Marco has produced for some of the greats in Hip Hop such as Rakim, Scarface, Masta Ace, Pharoahe Monch, Westode Gunn & Talib Kweli too name a few. This is essentially Pad thai on steroids! 24 brand new fully composed beats/pgms including musical, bass and drum elements to get your beats knocking with minimal effort. A mixture of laid back vibes to the dirt and grit of Brooklyn, New York where Marco calls home. Use the presents and demos to catch your own vibe or guide you on a new musical journey. These sounds are ready to rock RAW with minimal processing. Punch, thump and dirt is the name of the game here. Whether it's one shots or chopped original breakbeats. This kit has you covered for the inspiration to produce any modern or old school Hip Hop vibe. Be sure to check out Marco Polo's YouTube series "MP On The MP" season 1 for a deeper look into using pad thai in his production process! MP has taken his MPC 2000 Xl workflow/approach to new levels in the modern Akai world and we're excited for you to hear this brand new kit that will definitely change the game.