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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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Back again with a vengeance and this time even harder! Volume 2 picks up where volume 1 left off and goes even deeper into custom breakbeats perfect for your next production regardless of style. 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, Westside Gunn & Talib Kweli, to name a few. This is essentially Pad thai on s whole new level with 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 change the game."

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“Fire up this funk!” Divided Souls Entertainment holds no punches with this latest pack entitled Funk-O-Rama. Bringing you 40 kits rooted in that classic late-70s/early 80s Funk, this time out they invited some of their funky friends to give you exclusive sounds found NOWHERE else! First up, multi-instrumentalist and master percussionist, Carl “Butch” Smalls, who played with Parliament, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, The Dramatics, and more, brings his percussion talents that were so prevalent and integral on classic Death Row Records’ releases from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, and Tha Dogg Pound to name but a few. The shakers, vibraslaps, and congas come alive for the end user, allowing them the opportunity to use vintage instruments played by a musician with one of kind resume. How can you have an expansion pack covering this Funk era without some talk box? Next up, SlimWav (Diddy, Mary J. Blige, Justin Bieber, Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller, and more) delivers some expert vocals via this instrument, allowing the end user to season up their productions with some hard-to-find funked out vocals. He REALLY opens up, gets busy, and rounds out the kit with excellent vocal fills and phrasings. Lastly, be sure to check the 24 Keygroups that we carefully processed using outboard analog gear: SSL Fusion and Eventide H7600. These synths, leads, and basses provide a unique vibe as this marks the first time we’ve processed outboard synths like this. Experience Funk-O-Rama as you embark on a journey capturing the best of the past with an eye on the now! Some of the outboard gear used: Avalon U5 DI and Preamp Neve 511 Mic Preamp dbx 560A Compressor/Limiter SSL Fusion Stereo Outboard Processor Eventide H7600 Multi-effects Processor Roland JU-06 Yamaha DX

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Akai Professional & 12 Bit Soul have teamed up to deliver the MPC Expansion DEFinitive 90s R&B . 90s R&B represents the rapid rise from genre music to mainstream cultural and commercial dominance over this transformative decade. Forever intertwined with the sounds of Rap/Hip-Hop, there isn’t one pervasive sound that defined the era, but more so an emphasis on eclectic style blending. A rapid parallel evolution in artistry and music technology ensued in a short period of time, propelling us on a journey from the organic dusty breaks of Golden Era Hip-Hop to New Jack Swing to iconoclasts like Sade coupled with the meteoric rise of the Dirty South, retrofitted Neo Soul stylings, and the arrival of the Shiny Suit Era, where Hip-Hop moguls and superstar divas were born. This expansion captures that moment in time as R&B continued its progression alongside Hip-Hop. - 1.59 GB of high quality sounds. -40 kits featuring 100+ 90s inspired composition loops and well over 500 one-shots sampling sounds and gear of that era: horns, piano, organ, keys, strings, synths, live bass, guitar, and dusty vinyl & crisp digital drums to represent the fast-evolving sound of the decade. All sounds created and processed with our extensive collection of analog and digital gear, including popular instruments and samplers from the 90s era. -25 Keygroups sampling from analog and digital keyboards, rack gear and synths: fat basses, electric pianos, pads, leads and more.