After 6+ months of work, I’ve finally finished my new sample library, Groove Bias: Vintage Drum Sounds - and it is now officially available through Impact Soundworks! You can pick it up in Kontakt/EXS-24/HALion for just $99 or in Reason’s NN-XT format for $89. Just visit the Impact Soundworks store or the product page for purchase links!

Haven’t heard of Groove Bias yet? It’s a 4gb collection of old-school drum sounds, recorded using all-analog gear, vintage mics, busted consoles and, of course, TAPE. It took three separate studios to record the 3,500+ samples of 24/96 content, which comprise three custom acoustic drum kits and a set of assorted percussive instruments. Here’s a video of the library in action, courtesy of Brandon Bush:

All formats of Groove Bias are unlocked for your editing and re-mapping pleasure, and with 5-10 round robins and 5-16 velocities per switchable kit component, you’ve got a lot to play with!

You can find more audio demos and detailed product information at the product page. I’ve been having a blast with this library for months now, so I’m happy it’s now open to everybody else.

A hint of what’s to come next week!

“Spies Like Us” - Keyboard Drums Jam performed by Brandon Bush, uploaded by Andrew Aversa on Vimeo.

Read more right here.

I’m proud to announce that the sampling project I have been working on with my good friend & business partner Will Roget, II is finally complete! Entitled Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India, this Kontakt-format sample collection contains over 2.7gb of the most detailed sitar, tampura, tabla and baya samples ever released. Our goal was to really focus on extensively sampling a select number of instruments, doing lots of articulations, velocities, round robins, multiple mic positions - the type of depth you would normally expect from a piano or violin library.

Sitar Nation was released through our company, Impact Soundworks, and it is now available for download at a price of $119. You can listen to demos at the product page as well as read much more about the samples and what was recorded. I’m very happy to have been part of this project and since its release a little over a week ago, it has been doing very well. Whether you’re a professional composer, producer, or hobbyist, I think you’ll really enjoy these sounds, which not only include traditional timbres, but highly processed and scripted patches as well.

The Dance & Electronic Sounds (Volume 1) 64-preset bank for the Zebra 2 software synthesizer is now available for $15! Visit the Store section of the site to pick it up.

Also check out the thread on KVR Audio for demos and other details. For convenience, I’ll be making a page shortly devoted to presets and other sounds.

Happy New Year everyone! I’ve been busy lately with lots of different projects, and a lot of them are nearing completion. One thing I’ve been excited about is a collection of signature dance, trance, and electronica sounds I’ve designed for the Zebra 2 soft synthesizer. This is a fantastic VST/AU that is really powerful and can produce just about any sound you can think of… most of my other synths are gathering dust now! The bank of 64 patches covers a wide range of VERY playable and usable sounds. There’s no filler in here… I wanted something where every preset is usable with very little tweaking, like most modern hardware synths. You’ll be able to pick it up for no more than $15 within the next few weeks.

I’ve also got a new site in the works that should be done around the time my third album is complete (which isn’t far off). Plus, several other exciting things that y’all will be hearing about sometime in the not too distant future. Of course, if you want a sneak peek, you can always sign up for the mailing list (see the contact section for details).