Reasonfreaks review Electro Breaks
The Loopmasters tenth release, Electro Breaks, takes the producer through some warpy soundscapes enabling Reason users to significantly enhance their electro tunes. This is a solid CD and as we have come to expect from Loopmasters, delivers in quality, and would keep many a producer happy for quite a while.
The CD comes in the usual formats – Rex Loops, NN-XT patches, WAV loops and one-shot samples, includes a second CD of WAV samples for easy auditioning. Sounds are mostly stereo, high quality and meticulously organized and labeled. In fact, their organization of folders has become quite a strength, and makes finding sounds fairly easy (Not like my own personal refill library).
Tech Specs: 2 CD(Audio/Data) Package for PC/Mac featuring over 1200 copyright free electro breaks samples, 800 Wav files, 365 Rex2 Samples, and 50 NNXT/Halion/Kontakt/EXS24 Patches.
Main folders are : Bass sounds and loops, Drums kits and loops, Instrument sounds and loops, Stabs & SFX, and Vibes and atmos.
Bass sounds include some live sounding bass guitars, but mainly Bass synths with a sharp edge sound. Rex Loops start from 130BPM and it would have been an added bonus to have some slower loops.
The drum section is a big plus. You will undoubtedly enjoy these kits and loops – starting from 120BPM – and are indeed inspirational, as marketed. A definite hard underground feel yet many of the loops include a melodic touch, which also adds some atmosphere. For those interested in just the sounds, the kit folder shouldn’t disappoint either.
I wasn’t swept away by the instruments folder, but with the sheer amount of samples it’s always going to be a case of pick and choose. What it does have though, is a cool FX folder (WAV) that has enough sounds to keep anyone on the Starship Enterprise for a long time. Bleep Bleep! Lastly, the Vibes and Atmoshere have some extremely cool VOX files. Be sure to check them out!
Overall, this disc would benefit any producers who are looking for some great twisted textures and sound elements in their Electro, Breakbeat, Trance, or even House recordings. 4/5
