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Beats From The East (WAV, ACID, Kontakt, EXS24, REX, Reason NN-XT, Apple Loops)
Price	$69.99

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Description

Beats From The East is a huge state-of-the-art beats library containing over 1,150 loops in 24 bit audio with over 2.5 gigabytes of content. It covers all the genres from HipHop & RnB to Techno & House and also more experimental beats. More than half of the collection features the use of ethnic percussive instruments (tabla, dholak, kanjira, ghatam, yak bera, geta bera, thammattama, udakki, raban, clay pots, bamboos, conga, djembe, darbuka etc).

This enormous beats collection has been a 7 year long project of the south asian beats guru and No.1 hit producer Eranga Jayawansa using the latest technology combined with authentic ethnic percussion to give the beats extra individuality and spice. The beats and breaks have been mixed and cut to perfection to ensure that they can be used in any modern music production.

The library features nu skool and old skool hip hop, rnb, crunk, trip hop and electro pop, tribal house, electro house, progressive, dnb, trance, techno and IDM and many of the beats can be used in multiple genres and offer fantastic bang for the buck for any urban or dance producer.

All the beats have been created in Stylus Rex2, Acidized Wav and Apple Loop formats and are compatible with all major music software applications.

All the samples have been pre-cleared and are 100% original and royalty-free for your musical use without any additional licensing fees!

Beats From The East Demo track 1 (mp3)

Beats From The East Demo track 2 (mp3)

Beats From The East Demo beats (mp3)

Includes:
* 1152 Acidized WAV files
* 1152 AIFF Apple Loops
* 1156 Stylus compatible REX2 files
* 47 EXS24 Instruments
* 47 Kontakt Instruments
* 47 Reason NN-XT Instruments

For more detailed info on the contents of BEATS FROM THE EAST, click HERE for a complete list of contents and descriptions (PDF)

NOTE: This library has been compressed to segmented .RAR format for the download. After purchase you will download 11 separate rar files, each being 500MB in size, except part 11 which is 173 MB. After downloading all 11 files, make sure they are all in the same folder, then double click ONLY the FIRST file and ALL of the RAR files will expand automatically to produce the complete library in one folder containing all samples / all formats.
Note also that you must have a full version of Kontakt to use the Kontakt files within this sample library.

Our UK distributor TIME+SPACE caught up with the library's producer Eranga Jayawansa to get the lowdown on the creation of Beats from the East. Here's what he said:

Hi Eranga, please could you tell us about your musical background?
I started off as a DJ moved on to audio engineering, sound design & finally into music production.

You started the recordings for Beats from the East 7 years ago, why did it take so long to produce?
The project started when I was in Los Angeles experimenting with sound design and production. Beat making was what I was most passionate about then. I was also inspired by the ethnic percussive sounds I’ve heard in my native country and I wanted to use those sounds with the modern electronic beats to create something unique. I decided to go back home to start recording for the project. When I started working with local artists on production and got involved heavily after a while, I started to produce more Hip Hop and Rnb music, because it was more popular. The beats project not only delayed because of that but also changed direction.

Did you always intend for the library to be so unique in the sense that it combines ethnic percussion with the latest technology?
Percussion always adds something extra which always complements well with the electronic sounds. Since we had access to the best studios and percussionists in Sri Lanka it was a pleasure to experiment and add the percussion to most of the beats I have made.

Could you tell us more about this technology you used?
I’ve used everything from common 808 and 909s to rare sound FX programs such as Symbolic Sound Kyma. I was also much fascinated with stutter edits back then. There are many examples of hihats broken into 128ths to 256ths in the early examples. Also a few examples of complex algorithms like additive re synthesis from kyma where the frequency of the percussion has morphed to something like a voice etc or a complex Reaktor patch can be evident. As I evolved into doing much more musical and commercial work I stopped concentrating on excessive editing and FX. When doing the Hip Hop Rnb samples I was focusing on more conventional things such as recording / mixing etc. It was important to use good quality preamps / interfaces and processing gear and a few good drum machines to get quality sounds.

Were there any challenges that you faced during the recordings?
Most of the Hip Hop and RnB beats were tested mixed with music and vocals later to make sure the beats sound good not only on its own. EQing Compression and mixing wasn’t as fun as making the beats. Since I was doing lots of production work at the time so most beats had to be used for production with music anyway. The timing was also important. Sometimes kicks need to hit a few milliseconds earlier than the bass or the snare timing needs a bit of offset to allow space to the rest of the sounds in a track. Also the tuning of the kick drums was something I was serious about, it was quite a challenge sometimes because the beat can sound really good on its own but right after adding some music and some bass it could sound horribly wrong.
Also recording dual surfaced percussive instruments was always a challenge. when recording something like a tabla you need 2 mics to capture the sound qualities of the 2 surfaces. This sometimes also meant they needed to be recorded into individual tracks and later edited.

What are the highlights of the library for you?
The highlight of the library is definitely the Hip Hop and RnB beats collections. These were done in the latter stage of the project. With my experience working as a producer/engineer with many local Hip Hop and RnB artists I wanted to make sure these beats sounded well enough to any producer who is looking for a quality beat to fit right into their final mix or for a songwriter who is looking for a good beat to be inspired to start writing.

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