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Zero-G - Sounds of the 70s

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Software: Sounds of the 70s
Developer: Zero-G
Primary Type: Sound Module
Price (MSRP): $299.95
Instrument(s): VSTDirectXAudio Unit
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Windows 1.0 Released
Mac OS X 1.0 Released

Copy Protection: Challenge / Response
Average User Rating: Average rating - 3.000

Compatibility Unknown
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Sounds of the 70s

Sounds of the 70s delivers the undiluted heart of soul, disco, funk, and punk: recreated, sampled, and reborn. It features construction kits, grooves, hits and instruments, written and produced by Mike Wilkie and Matthew Corbett for Zero-G. All the rhythm material has further been lovingly sliced and diced to form a flexible production powerhouse based on the Native Instruments Intakt plug-in engine.

Library Content:

  • Huge library of totally original but totally authentic 70s-style instrument and percussion performances, arranged in construction kits together with their broken-out grooves and tool kits.
  • Over 1.4 Gigabytes of samples.

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Zero-G Sounds of the 70s released 8th October 2004

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By Syncopator
On 9th September 2005
Version: 1.0.3

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Honestly, this is one of the worst libraries I've ever purchased. I am consistently disappointed with these Zero-G titles. In my opinion they are nowhere near up to EastWest's standards, but EastWest is not creating them; they're just distributing them (AFAIKT).

Sot70s is a hodge podge of poorly recorded and poorly edited samples, organized into "construction kits" and "toolkits" which offer additional samples organized by category. All of the samples are essentially loops which have been sliced for use in the Intakt player. I bought this library because I have to create some disco and 70s-style tracks for a big project, and as I listened to kit after kit, I found practically nothing I could ever use.

The fidelity is poor, and there's generally a "sloppy" character to many of the loops. The loops sound ameteurish and have far too much processing. then, when several of these processed loops are combined, you get a phasey "soup," which I find flat-out unusable.

I should have learned my lesson with "Nu Jointz." Sot70s is similarly sloppy and contains almost nothing usable, IMO, for serious music production. Both are like "toy" or "kiddie" versions of what they should have been. A random collection of bad loops thrown together to form a library.

Needless to say, depending upon your needs, YMMV. But I personally give Sot70s a grade of F-minus.

No more Zero-G for me.
 
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