KVR Audio

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:43 pm

Watch the teaser video:

In the teaser video, I used Presonus Studio One, Vegas Pro 10 and Reaper to create various grooves by dragging and dropping different Groove Blox onto the timeline. Groove Blox DOES NOT come with a DAW. You use a DAW to create your grooves with Groove Blox.

Groove Blox is a groove construction kit in the form of a sampleset that allows anyone with any kind of hardware to create slick, current and kick ass grooves with a minimum of effort and a very high quality result!

Groove Blox comes with 350 loops (in wave format - 16 bit, 44.1khz stereo) in five categories. When I created Groove Blox, I decided to go minimal on size so that it would work not only with all PCs and Mac computers and laptops, but older computers as well. In fact, Groove Blox is so compact, it works GREAT with iPads, iPhones, Android phones and tablets and any other device that allows the loading of wave files.

The entire collection compresses down to only 214MB! That means you can store it on your phone, tablet or laptop and not waste a ton of valuable space. It also means it takes almost nothing to download.

The entire point of Groove Blox is to have a library of high quality grooves, drum beats and percussive elements that take up a minimal amount of space and yet can be used to create a nearly infinite number of drum tracks. Nearly all Groove Blox can be used with each other. Massive effort went into making sure that nearly all Blox work with each other, but some minor tweaking may be necessary here and there.

Creating grooves takes minutes and even seconds with Groove Blox. Just grab one or more grooves and drag and drop them onto your tracks.

Put Groove Blox on a thumb stick or micro sd card and load it into your Android phone or tablet or fire them up with iTunes and sync them with your iPhone or iPad. Since they are simply wav files, they will load into many virtual instruments and all DAWs and sequencers. You can use them with Klang Drum Machine with ease - just load any groove into any of the eight available layers, set them to loop, assign them a specific key and then fire them off on the keyboard. They work great with Wusik, Alchemy and tons of other synths. They also work effortlessly in Studio One Pro, Sonar, Cubase, Reaper and all other DAWs and sequencers that can load wav files.

Listen to some audio demos:

This is the main teaser demo:
PC and Android:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _Demo1.ogg

IOS and Mac:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _Demo1.aif

This demo uses 14 groove blox and brings them in and out one by one:
PC and Android:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _Demo2.ogg

IOS and Mac:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _Demo2.aif

The following demos show off some of the 26 sets. Each set is comprised
of 4 groove blox. Simply put, they were chosen because they sound good
together and allow you to drag and drop a complete groove with no other
decision making if you wish. Of course, you can add to them, use other
grooves, etc.

PC and Android:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set1.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set2.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set5.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set10.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set11.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set14.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set20.ogg

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set26.ogg

IOS and Mac:
http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set1.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set2.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... x_set5.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set10.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set11.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set14.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set20.aif

http://www.mfelkerco.com/music/groovebl ... _set26.aif

I have successfully used Groove Blox with Audio Evolution for Android, Meteor and other DAWs for the iPad. It is a BLAST to use Groove Blox on my tablets - and they play fast and render fast.

If you act NOW, you can take advantage of the New Product Special - save $10 off the retail price which will go into effect Monday, April 2, 2012.

You can purchase by going to this link: http://www.supersynths.com/groove_blox.html

Alternately, you can send $30 to mike@world-class-multimedia.com and I will send you the download links as soon as humanly possible!

Mike

RPH · Post by **RPH** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:11 pm

Hi,

You make it sound like it's a DAW with a samplepack, but it's just a samplepack.
The video shows you placing loops into other DAWs, copying them or deleting, anyone looking for samples already know how to place samples in their favorite DAW. Just let us listen to some demoloops we can expect in the pack, skip the rest. Give relevant technical info.

Cheers,
Rob.

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:22 pm

None of th demos work on my iPad 2, hmm.

J.C · Post by **J.C** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:10 pm

It doesn't smell good at all...

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:16 pm

Your selling in a mobile apps forum but have a flash site., hmmm

darsho · Post by **darsho** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:25 pm

somehow the box.net files won't play, dunno why. (using Win7 with Chrome). Usually box.net files play fine.

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:43 pm

topaz wrote:None of th demos work on my iPad 2, hmm.

Those are just standard mp3 files. I can link to them here instead of box files - just wanted an easy way for everyone to hear them.

Mike

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:44 pm

J.C wrote:It doesn't smell good at all...

How so? I am a LONG TIME KVR developer - what smells?

Mike

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:45 pm

topaz wrote:Your selling in a mobile apps forum but have a flash site., hmmm

My site is not a flash site - it's an HTML site with a few flash videos on it.

Yes, android can play flash. Too bad apple went the other way.

On the other hand, the main teaser is a youtube video so anyone, including apple, can play it.

Mike

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:46 pm

darsho wrote:somehow the box.net files won't play, dunno why. (using Win7 with Chrome). Usually box.net files play fine.

Absolutely weird. Should play fine. They are mp3 files recorded at 192 khz for high quality, but well below the threshold that some players won't play (256 is too high, for example).

Mike

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:55 pm

I added a link to mp3 demos on one of my servers (check the original message at the top for the link) - hopefully these will work for you.

These are simple mp3 demos made in Presonus Studio Pro (as wave files) and then converted to mp3 files using Goldwave.

They SHOULD work just fine.

Mike

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:18 pm

You guys are correct. I just tried them on my tablet and they do not work. I will fix them and re-upload when I get back to the studio.

Mike

Keebo · Post by **Keebo** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:29 am

I don't know how much this smells but I did enjoy listening to your sound files though it is not my normal realm of genre. Thank you for posting as I always like to hear other peoples work. Great job.

I am an old fogey trying to learn how to incorporate new fangled loops into my repertoire. I am a hobbyist songwriter/guitarist with a small recording studio using mainly Sonar, Reaper, BIAB and quite a few VST/VSTi's including my favorites Alchemy and Z3TA+2. These last two have exceptional possibilities but I have not delved very deeply into them yet. Sonar comes with quite a few loops and such that I have listened to but not used except for the odd test to see what all of the fuss was about.

I recently bought an iPod Touch and purchased an Akai SynthStation 25 keyboard and many of the musician type apps to compose away from my DAW and thoroughly enjoy it. Other than the screen being too small to see all of the details (perhaps an iPad is on the horizon). Seems like a lot of apps are geared towards the newer sound genre and I am OK with that.

Not sure where all of this is going (blame it on the vodka) but I wanted to let you know I appreciate your efforts and contributions to this ever evolving medium of music.

Good luck on your endeavors.

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:56 am

Thank you Keebo.

Wise words.

I re-did the links above - should work now. If they do not work on tablets, I do not know what to tell you. They work on every Desktop and Laptop I have.

Mike

J.C · Post by **J.C** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:12 am

I'll give it a try this evening.

Then I'll tell you how it smells...

Groove Blox - Groove loops for all DAWS - even mobile ones