US Mag reviews of Lounge and Chillout
Lounge and Chillout review by Remix.info
This installment of Loopmasters' Origin Series is an eclectic rest stop at your favorite chillout room. Lounge/Chillout packs just over 500 MB of “session” material onto a value-priced multiformat PC/Mac disc. You get folders of fretless bass loops, drum loops and instrument sequences, each containing subfolders of interchangeable material ranging from 70 to 120 bpm in 5 bpm increments. Other folders include Drum Kits (10 kits as WAV and Redrum files), Percussion (dozens of one-shot WAVs of bougaraboos, cabassas, congas, darbukas, djembes, hoshos, tambourines), FX & Atmospheres, and Pads. There’s even a folder dedicated to a multisample of a beautiful double bass.
Alas, the library holds it's own as an impeccably recorded inspirational journey with loads of happy surprises along the way.
The drum loops are outstanding, tight and original, as well as tempo-grouped into families of compatible variations and mixes (kit, percussion, fills, full mix, sound effects/filtered variations and so forth), and the Redrum kits are wonderful gems brimming with character and luster. My favorites, though, have to be the instrument sequences, which are jam-packed with strangely cohesive material like tasty-to-spacey synth leads, bouncing filtered hook lines bordering on trance, clean-to-crusty electric pianos, fluttering flutes, dusty twang guitars, peculiarly loungey Jean Michel Jarre–styled synth stabs and more! - recommended.
EQ Mag review Lounge/Chillout
Krogh, John
Lounge/Chillout promises to be your 1-stop shop for loops, 1-shots, and multisampled patches in the style of Morcheeba, Zero-7, Aim, and Kruder & Dorfmeister. For the uninitiated, we're talking about down- and mid-tempo "lounge" music that incorporates live playing and sampled riffs. Indeed, this title is packed with lots of tightly recorded and expertly played percussion and drum loops ranging from 70-120 bpm. There's no shortage of style-appropriate synth pads and arpeggios complete with filter sweeps and bpm-synced delays, '60s-sounding electric guitar, phased Rhodes riffs, and ambient effects - all REX'd and ready to be looped. The synth material is mostly "static" (i.e., stays on one harmonic center), so I was able to rework many of these loops in a number of ways.
This library is larger (600+MB) than most Reason-oriented collections, and offers the material in both REX2 and WAV formats. This is a good thing because it opens up Lounge/Chillout to non-Reason users too.
Keyboard Mag review Lounge/Chillout
This installment of Loopmasters' Origin Series is an eclectic rest stop at your favorite chillout room. Lounge/Chillout packs just over 500 MB of "session" material onto a value-priced multiformat Mac/PC disc. You get folders of fretless bass loops, drum loops and instrument sequences, each containing subfolders of interchangeable material ranging from 70 to 120 bpm in 5 bpm increments. Other folders include Drum Kits (10 kits as WAV and Redrum files), Percussion, FX & Atmospheres, and Pads.
The library holds its own as an impeccably recorded inspirational journey with loads of happy surprises along the way. The drum loops are outstanding, tight and original, as well as tempo-grouped into families of compatible variations and mixes, and the Redrum kits are wonderful gems brimming with character and luster. My favorites, though, have to be the instrument sequences, which are jam-packed with strangely cohesive material like tasty-to-spacey synth leads, bouncing filtered hook lines, clean-to-crusty electric pianos, fluttering flutes, Jean Michel Jarre - style synth stabs and more.
