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2 welcome to welcome to... / 3 the collection /SM 36 samplemagic.com In many ways Ambient & Chill is the natural successor to our Chillwave collection. Mining the same rich seams of underground electronica, chillout and downtempo, Ambient & Chill blazes a new trail, eschewing the eighties influences of Chillwave in favour of more fragile, esoteric and organic flavours. Created with an abundance of live instrumentation, vintage hardware and lo-fi production techniques, the final result is one of electro-organic bliss. The beats are as varied as the collection s title suggests. Lazy and loose four-to-the-floor workouts rub shoulders with more unconventional rhythms inspired by the broken beats of classic hip hop and post-dubstep electronica. Crafted from a rich palette of orginal live breaks, organic percussion, analogue drum machine sequencing and found-sound samples, the drums have been downsampled, diced and distressed to capture the all-important lo-fi aesthetic. Melodic inspiration permeates throughout. Twilight synths rub shoulders with lilting keys that shine with woozy, late summer sunshine whilst fireside guitars muse on indie-rock sensibilities. Yet more melodic magic can be found in the inspiration kits folder. Here you ll find 17 song-starting folders containing the broken-out stems of complete melodic motifs. Use them as they are to get your creative juices flowing or treat them as sampler fodder to re-build at will. All kits are key- and tempo-labeled to make it easy to mix and match loops across kits to open up hundreds of unique arrangements. One-shot lovers are well catered for too. We ve bundled in 70+ chord shots and 240+ drum hits which are ready to load into your sampler of choice. Kits for Kontakt, Battery, EXS24, NN-XT and Ableton Drum Racks are bundled as standard. As ever, each and every hit has been carefully honed and processed, with 12-bit downsampling and cassette deck re-taping aplenty. We ve rounded things off with a folder of found-sound ambiences, including rural field recordings, urban soundscapes and a selection of keylabeled pads and textures to underpin the dense, drifting and dreamy atmosphere that defines the collection. The Producers

the Ambient kit list / 5 & Chill studio Roland TR 707 Linn Drum LM1 Akai MPC 60 Akai MPC 1000 Akai X7000 Ensoniq Mirage-DSK Korg DW-8000 Roland Juno 106 Dave Smith Poly Evolver Nord Lead 2 Dynadio

3 the Ambient kit list / 5 & Chill studio Roland TR 707 Linn Drum LM1 Akai MPC 60 Akai MPC 1000 Akai X7000 Ensoniq Mirage-DSK Korg DW-8000 Roland Juno 106 Dave Smith Poly Evolver Nord Lead 2 Dynadio BM7a MOTU MIDI Express 128 Korg Kontrol 49 Fender Telecaster Ibanez Artcore VOX AC30 Marshall MG100 Ampeg B2RE Rode NT-5s Zoom H4N Custom built Hydrophones 1971 Yamaha FG-160 Fender Telecaster SSL Duende

4 making more pro tips / 6 of the sounds Get real Leave the studio and find some real instruments to record. Head to a local church, music shop or school and grab even the roughest recordings of the upright or grand piano, for example. Record single shots and import them into a sampler. Instantly you ve got some real and lo-fi keys with all the added control of your sampler. Rough it up Running sounds through tape, tape simulating plugins or any sort of bit/ sample reduction plugin can help you achieve the trademark lo-fi sound. Don t be afraid to push your tools to the max to get rough and grainy sounds heavy processing on music buses or even the master bus can yield great results. Reverb Reverb is a staple tool in the ambient producer s arsenal. Lush reverbs with lots of tail add depth, texture and movement to sounds. Play with the room sizes, diffusion and post reverb filters or EQ to sculpt the sound to stop it bleeding throughout the mix. Reverb can also be added to the master bus to give it extra depth. To give reverb movement, automate wet/dry balances and tail length. Keep it simple No matter how complex an arrangement, the rule less is more is pivotal in much ambient production. Carefully select the sounds you use. Spend time considering the character, tone and feel of each element and what it brings to the mix. If the raw sounds are right then you can keep arrangements simple to let them shine. Lose the start Cutting samples up and re-arranging them is a great creative technique to put your own stamp on a sample. But another, perhaps simpler, idea can be to place the start of the sample on a 16th or 8th beat other than the 1st of the bar. This is particularly effective with rhythmic samples such as hi-hats, tops and percussion loops throwing up completely new grooves in an instant. It s a swing thing Be bold with swing settings, pushing them as far up as 65%. For fills, automate swing values to keep the listener on their toes. The combination of a regular high swing setting as well as swing variation/s topped off with a kick driving the sidechain of a drum bus compressor can yield highly effective sucking and pumping results in beats.

5 accessing folder setup / 8 the files Ambient & Chill credits / 9 created by ambient & chill drum loops 70bpm 80bpm guitar loops 70bpm 80bpm perc & shaker loops 70bpm 80bpm synth & key loops 70bpm 80bpm Collection created by Israel Medina and Oliver Curry Demos by The Producers Sample Magic online Free sounds, special offers, newsletter, downloads and our online store at: samplemagic.com Sample Magic network > twitter.com/samplemagic > facebook.com/samplemagic > youtube.com/user/samplemagic Other Sample Magic releases you might like: Chillwave Sunset Sessions Sunrise Sessions Chillout Keys Sylenth Chillwave Patches Midi Elements: Chillwave Soundtrack & Chill Layers & Textures Drum Hits 2 Vintage Vocals - Twisted Religion Artwork by IWANT Design Limited music loops 70bpm 80bpm inspiration loops ambience & found sound chords drum hits kick snare claps hats (open and closed) percussion pads & soundscapes

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