World & Ethnic Samples news

Wave Alchemy released African Rhythms, a sample library offering "authentic African percussion ensembles."

Bolder Sounds has announced the release of its new Handbells sample library, featuring a 3 octave set of handbells recorded in 9 articulations totaling 1.2 gigabytes.

Tiki Records has split up the 'Traditional Hawaiian Percussion Vol.1' into separate downloads.

Tribal Progressions takes you on a journey, cutting through Progressive, dicing with Techno, and flirting with Minimal, Prime Loops says.

This production tool is focused on 32 live-recorded Construction Kits from the Caribbean.

This collection is presented as "classic sounds of Brazilian bossa nova and samba fused with a modern style and contemporary feel."

Loopmasters presents several new "globally inspired" beats.

The sample library includes "hundreds of live performance samples of 10 rare ethnic instruments including hooks, riffs, and licks specially designed for modern urban and pop music production."

This is the second volume in the Global Beatworks World Percussion Series.

Big Fish says traditional Indian rhythms and today's Hip Hop, Pop and R&B tracks don't typically work well together; this is where Bollyhood Beats comes in.

This is the first volume in the Global Beatworks World Percussion Series.

Native Instruments introduced North India, a new sound library designed to "capture and recreate the charismatic tones of classical North Indian music with unparalleled authenticity."

Goldenchild has released a new "dhol" loops collection.

This pack is composed of 197 hot and percussive drumloops as well as drums hits.

Soniccouture has announced the availability of its Balinese Gamelan for Kontakt in two new, smaller products.

Precisionsound has announced the release of 2 new libraries, Tibetan Bowl and Marching Glockenspiel.

Indian Dance Classics features 750+ loops in 1.7Gb of samples with tempos ranging from 86bpm to 200bpm recorded on location in India, according to Zero-G.

Sounds And Effects announces that the 3rd in it's series of ethnic drums and percussive sounds for Akai's MPC 'Asia and Pacific Drum and Percussion for MPC' is now available.

Philtre Labs released the follow-up to their worldwide hit 'Bollywood Grooves', Bollywood Elements.

Sounds And Effects announced that the second in its new series of ethnic drum packs for the Akai Music Production Centers-MPC has been released.

Sounds And Effects announced that the African MPC Drum Pack 1 has been released for the Akai Music Production Centers MPC 500/1000/2500/4000.

Purusha Dharma - India Classical Male Voice is a new collection of authentic Carnatic "Gayaki" vocals sung by Sampagodu S. Vighnaraja.

Producer Pack announce the release of a new Latin House Sample Pack from New York born, Latin American record producer/ musician Ray Diaz..

Soniccouture has announced the release of GuZheng - Chinese Zither, a new sample library for Kontakt, EXS24 and Live.

EdgeSounds Releases Native Russian Vol. 2 Sound Sample Library.