Activa Trance Essentials Volume 2

For a limited time, purchasers of this product will receive Activa Trance Essentials Volume 1 free as a bonus!

Produced in collaboration with established trance producer Rob Stevenson (Activa), we are proud to present Activa Trance Essentials 2!

Since 2004, Rob ‘Activa’ Stevenson has forged a career as one of the hardest working producers in the trance genre, with a number of aliases and styles, releasing on the biggest labels in the world including Paul van Dyk’s mighty Vandit Records, Black Hole, Armada, and Anjunabeats, before finding a home at UK independent, Discover Records where he released the critically acclaimed album This World in 2009 and its follow-up To The Point in 2011.

Activa Trance Essentials 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to Activa Trance Essentials, one of the most successful products within the Freshly Squeezed Samples product catalogue. However the time it’s bigger and better than before, containing a brand new collection of inspirational bassline loops, bass hits and multi-samples, construction kits and MIDI kits, percussion loops, drum hits, FX, synth loops and hits, remix kits, and–new to the Activa catalog–Sylenth1 presets. Get ready for another high quality library of sounds to inspire you!

If you are after the clean, pumping trance sound of producers like Activa, Simon Patterson, John O’Callaghan, Giuseppe Ottaviani, and alike, this sample pack is a must-have being suitable for progressive, uplifting and psy-trance producers alike.

Sample Pack Content

First off we have a complete and comprehensive sample pack containing thousands of drum one shots (kicks, open hats, closed hats, snares, cymbals, percussion hits, etc.), hundreds of percussion top loops, a highly comprehensive FX section (all neatly categorized, named and labelled), actual ‘usable’ melodic and bass line loops (in most cases each with associated MIDI files), hundreds of synth, bass and stab one shots, synth presets and much more.

Every sample is clearly named and numbered with appropriate BPM and key labelling information appended to each filename. Along with this, all files are carefully categorized into a well thought out folder structure in classic Freshly Squeezed Samples style, so it’s both quick and easy to find the sound you are looking for in during those late night studio sessions.

Here is a detailed breakdown of the sample pack contents.

Drum One Shots

All drum one shot samples are engineered to pristine quality and diverse enough to use across a wide range of electronic dance music genres.

• 100x Claps
• 75x Closed Hats
• 40x Crash Cymbals
• 40x Crash FX
• 95x Kicks
• 75x Open Hats
• 175x Percussion Hits
• 32x Ride Cymbals
• 50x Shakers
• 75x Snares

Drum Loops

Activa is known for his exceptionally clean and usable percussion loops and the contents of this pack is no exception – each loop is locked to 136 BPM, making the loops usable within 134, 136 and 138 tempo ranges and suitable for all sub genres of trance (and dance music in general).

• 171x Fully Unique Percussion Top Loops
• 50x Snare Rolls

FX

Rob is well known for his innovative, creative manipulation of audio and the FX section is arguably a complete sample library in its own right. All the FX are broken down into easy to navigate sub folders for quickly finding the transition or one shot you need to spice up your track.

• 24x Explosions
• 100x FX Loops (all BPM labelled)
• 150x FX One Shots
• 100x Percussion FX
• 32x Reverb Kicks
• 45x Reverse FX
• 35x Tonal Reverse FX
• 200x Vocal Cuts

Synth Loops, One Shots & Stabs

Stuck for inspiration? Dig into Rob’s synth loops to instantly get your creative juices flowing. The synth loops are locked to 136 BPM with each ‘loop’ being fully unique. A large majority of these melodies are fundamentally "Song starters” with some truly creative melody writing showcased in each one.

• 150x Synth Loops - BPM and key labelled + MIDI files (where appropriate)
• 183x Synth Hits - provided in both wet and dry variants with key and BPM labelling

Basslines

A cutting bassline is crucial for your tracks success, and this section of the sample pack truly showcases Rob’s ability to sculpt and compose bass sequences that truly rock your low, mid and top end.

• 64x Sub Bassline Loops - All BPM and keyed + associated MIDI Files
• 40 Multisampled Sub Basses - Each containing 7 keyed samples per folder.
• 270x Top Bassline Hits – fully unique and usable bass hits
• 77x Top Bassline Loops - BPM + Key labelled + MIDI files (including dry and wet versions)

Construction Kits

Secondly we have 10 complete, truly usable construction kits each containing the individual stems and associated MIDI files for each melodic element. Each construction kit has its own distinct mood, but thanks to the intuitive file naming, you can quick and easily swap out loops, samples and MIDIs and try out thousands of potential combinations. Each construction kit is key and BPM labelled for ease of use.

Additionally, we have 5 complete melodic MIDI construction kits and 4 bonus remix kits.

The remix kits each contain stems and MIDI files (where relevant) for the following well known Activa releases:

• Activa - Fall To Me
• Activa - Magnetic
• Activa - Sniper
• Solar Movement – Echowave

Sylenth1 Soundbank

The third part of the sample pack is the Activa Sylenth1 sound bank containing 20 categorized, usable presets.

These are patches exported directly from the work on the sample pack and Rob’s own existing projects, so you are getting the genuine "bread and butter” sounds he uses daily in the studio. All sounds are named and organized in traditional Freshly Squeezed Samples fashion.

Preset Library

• 5 BASS presets.
• 5 PLUCK presets.
• 5 SEQ presets.
• 5 SYNTH presets.

Sample Library Properties

• 100% Royalty Free.
• Produced an engineering veteran with over 15+ years combined experience.
• 3120+ named samples, sorted into well-defined categories.
• 15 complete construction kits – including MIDI files and audio (where appropriate).
• 4 Bonus Remix Kits from well known Activa productions.
• 20 named and categorized Sylenth1 preset.
• All samples are rooted, volume normalized and labelled.
• Chart and club proven samples - ready to use out the box.
• Road tested by the leading producers in the industry.
• 240+ inspirational MIDI Files
• Technically 3 products in one – comprehensive sample library, construction kit pack & Sound Bank.
• In short, the way a sample library should be!

Product Compatibility

This product includes a combination of WAV files, MIDI files and synthesizer presets (sound banks). All the files are compatible with Image-Line Fruity Loops, Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Steinberg Cubase and any digital audio workstation (DAW) that supports WAV and MIDI files.

The included sound bank requires Sylenth1 2.221 to function correctly.

Technical Specification

• Availability: Instant Download
• Format(s): WAV, MID, FXB
• Type: Sample Library
• Size (Compressed): 4.3 GB
• Label: Freshly Squeezed Samples
• Product Series: Artist Series

With this, you've got yourself the ultimate package of high quality, highly popular and fully club oriented samples!

Disclaimer

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