'Experimental Dubstep Vol 3' marks the third installment of this exciting new series from Producer Loops. Jeff Rhodes, creator of 'Ambient Glitch', 'Dance Glitch', and co-creator of the 'World Tek' series, delivers FIVE outstanding Construction Kits packed full of immovable basses, irresistible grooves, and synths stacked chest high.

Jeff wanted to create some compelling set pieces for your audio movies to take place in. A sense of place and space, somewhere things happen, grow, and change unexpectedly over time. while also leaving room for musicians to add their own heroes and villians, and decide the ultimate course of events.

With a unique and quirky vibe, 'Experimental Dubstep Vol 3' takes that familiar half time groove and infuses it with experimental processing, abstract melodies and dizzying electronic ambience - perfect for all of you mad-dub-scientists out there!

All loops are recorded at 140 BPM in this unmissable volume, so you can mix and match between the kits and use them in many other styles of music.

The Production Process:

Jeff Rhodes, producer of 'Experimental Dubstep Vol 3', describes the production process - "I've always liked mixing things up, and anything as heavy and sci-fi sounding as Dubstep was just naturally going to find it's way into my head.

By the time I got into really investigating Dubstep, it had evolved into such a powerful sound that it was impossible to ignore and I had to get my hands on it. I wanted to use the momentum of all the wobble basses, tweak the videogame synth sounds, ride the triplet hi-hat rhythms, and nail down the tight kick & snare beat that drives this energetic new music.

The goal was to get into the sound of it, but to still keep a little bit of that outsider style going on. The touch of industrial music influence I tried to add was what I feel makes it all fall into place in these kits.

I found myself reaching for the compressor a lot, as well as all manner of distortions and bit crushers to shape the sound. And the FX breaks were like an all expenses paid vacation! What more can I say about getting to make such chaotic soundscapes in the middle of a track?

It's not often that a person gets to throw out the rulebook and still succeed, but Dubstep seems to be a place you can do that, and everyone is invited. I hope you dig what you hear and find some cool new ways to make it part of your music."

All Kits are provided in a uniform tempo ensuring that they slot together effortlessly and are available as ACIDized WAV, Apple Loops, REX and Reason ReFill.

Credits:

Special thanks to Horatiu-Cristian Petrila for the demo work, and all the extra help along the way.

Product Specifications:

• 5 Construction Kits
• ACIDized WAV Files
• Apple Loops/AIFF Files
• REX2 Loops
• Reason ReFill
• Loops sync to BPM
• PC/Mac Compatible
• Royalty-Free (No Exceptions)

Price and Availability:

'Experimental Dubstep Vol 3' is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £19.95 / 24,96 EUR / $25.84 USD. More information is available at: http://www.producerloops.com

If anyone reading this has time, consider taking a listen to the demo that KvR local 3ee did for this set. It's a cool kind of a 'megamix' type of deal - it morphs through all the kits, and hits the high-lites in 2 1/2 minutes.

Weekend *bump* in case anyone missed it.

The production process text is interesting, I'd like to know more thought!

Congrats for the new product!

Thanks.

If you had a specific question I'd be happy to try and answer it. You know, without giving away too many *secrets* of course ha-ha. But seriously, I use the same host/softsynths as anyone really, including some of the presets I made for Zebra (Zebrasonix, Rate Of Motion, and Projektor) along with some other ones, including 3ee's 'Winter' bank for Zebra - http://3ee-sounddesign.blogspot.com/ And a lot of the one-shots used in the beats/percussion for the Experimental Dubstep series came from the same batch(es) that are available in Darc Skreen 1 & 2. /overt self promotion.

Did you use any hardware? I'm pretty out dated software wise, I don't own any computer powerfull enough to run the new synths that seems so popular these days (Diva for instance, Punch..). I use mostly hardware & feels that high end analog like the DSi (Dave Smiths Instruments) really ad something to the sound, I guess you can get that same kind of sound with current VSTs?

No hardware synths or effects were used, and just for the local KvR haters - FL Studio was used ha-ha (not that you are one of them, but you know, every so often someone wants to put it down, or call it a toy or something). I tried the Diva demo out, and wasn't all that impressed with the sound, considering the insane cpu usage on my computer (my poor aging dualcore). I don't think I've even heard of 'Punch'. I mostly use Zebra, and a couple of others here and there for sounds Zebra can't do, or that I don't have patches for.

I can't say for sure, but I'd be surprised if any of those loop sets that include midi were made using any hardware synths, cause how'd they get the midi rendered out then ? I guess they could go back and replay it or try and get it from Melodyne or something, but I'm pretty skeptical of that. Since I've tried to get midi from audio files in Melodyne, and it almost never works in any usable/exact way (even with monophonic stuff).

If anything, I feel like I can get close_enough_to an analog sound with filters and e.q. when it's needed. Now if I was recording a live band or something, that would be different, in that I would probably want to try and get the synth/keyboard parts recorded live, maybe even through an amp. But for electronic music made in the studio, these days, I see no point in hardware unless that's just someone's personal preference and that's just how they want to work etc., in which case - grab the credit card and get it set up ha-ha

Ok, that's cool. I'm a FL Studio user too! Due to the limited strenght of my cpu, I use hardware controlled by FL Studio. I program the MIDI in FL & record the produced loops with Edison set to "record on play". I then record multiple takes, keep the best (the one that loop seamlessly), trim cut the loop & saves it in 32 bits.

Thanks for sharing your production methods!

You're welcome of course. I have used Acid in the past as well, but I never got the midi recording to work worth a darn, so I just use it to put together demos after-the-fact sometimes now. It's still a great way to lay something down, just because it's so easy to use and all. Other than that, I never really 'made friends' with Ableton Live. It has some great features, and is probably the best in a lot of ways, especially for electronic and loop-based musicians. But it just never felt *natural* to me, and the editing seemed like a hassle. Ultimately, I guess I just didn't need what it has that FL Studio doesn't, and so the extra effort to do my usual easy stuff, made it not worth it. But again, Ableton Live is amazing at a lot of stuff, some things that I'd be surprised if any other program can do really.

I also tried recording some arp stuff into Edison to capture the midi, but the timing was always off or something....Perhaps it's a Zebra timing problem though, I don't know, I just know it never worked for me.

Other than all that, I would encourage you to keep looking for some lower cpu softsynths that you like. I was able to get a recent copy of that CM magazine with the lite edition of Dune, and if you bump the voices down a bit, it can sound really good (mostly VA/subtractive type sounds from the built in patches) for quite a low cpu "price". Also, you might try Rez3, from Ugo. It seems to be pretty mellow on the cpu, and between those 3 soundbanks he sells for it, wow, you'd be covered for years/albums and then some ha-ha.

Still no mention in the KvR news about ED3....Pretty hit & miss these days I guess ha-ha.

It looks like ED3 has debuted on the -Dubstep- chart at #17, and ED2 is up around #13.

I was kind of surprised that they didn't mention it, but maybe it was in the newsletter - the Producer Loops site got new servers a couple weeks ago, and the pages load muuuuccchhhh faster now. Like normal speed+, compared to geocities speed like they used to (at least for me using IE) so that's gonna make shopping there a lot more pleasurable for everyone.

After a week out, ED3 has risen to #14 on the -Dubstep- chart, currently one spot below ED2 which is at #13 today. Thanks for the support, and I hope that if you haven't had a chance to check them out yet, that you might soon. The demos are short and to the point, and KvR local musician/sound designer 3ee did them, do not miss.

If anyone else had any questions about the production process, I don't mind trying to answer. It's not like I'm some know it all amazing producer or anything, but sometimes people are just curious or whatever. I still hear stuff pretty often and *wonder* how some artist/band got a certain sound, or how they did a track, or if they use any of the synths/fx I have etc.

Speaking of that, if you're reading this and you're into mellow/progressive dance type tracks (deep house ?), go check out -> http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=354528 And maybe we should all be asking ATS about some production tips eh.

Weekend *bump*. And if you're a fan, don't forget that 'Breaking Bad' returns tonight (Sunday on AMC).