New Orleans: The Delta Grooves

Sample CD

Numerical Sound is pleased to announce the release of New Orleans; The Delta Grooves, a 2-CD sampling set that showcases New Orleans funk rhythms. Inspired by the exception acoustic performances of New Orlean's musicians Robin D. Rorie and Dennis Shaikewitz, Ernest Cholakis of Numerical Sound has produced a sampling package that offers several exceptional features available to users for the first time.

The first most notable feature is Electro-Acoustic Modeling (E.A.M.), a cousin to Cholakis' DNA Groove Templates, which makes drum loops available for the first time that have been actually modeled on a human performance - in this case the drummer Dennis Shaikewitz. Several very interesting loops have been broken down into compartmentalized and user friendly elements. This opens up a new world of possibilities for the user who is given access to the "skeletal" bones of the rhythms and allowed to manipulate the elements of musical phrases.

This offers an entirely new level of flexibility, accuracy and clarity. For example, all the kick, snare, and tom toms samples have 32 velocity levels and the hi hat and ride cymbal have 8 velocity levels. Each track has a partial set of the appropriate drum samples in the upper register of the each keyboard patch. The user can play along in real time with either the acoustic or electo-acoustic loops which are triggered from the lower register the same keyboard patch.

The second notable feature of this set is its size and comprehensiveness. New Orleans; The Delta Grooves contains over 1.3 Gigabytes of sampling material. This package gives the user 250 acoustic loops all between 4-8 bars in length at tempo's ranging from 72-120 BPM of drums, bass & drums, bass, guitar & percussion loops. Also included are 485 E.A.M. loops, 1336 drum samples in either 8 or 32 velocity levels and 170 bass riffs, slides, harmonics as well as 210 perfectly looped individual electro-acoustic Fender bass tones organized in 6 velocity levels.

The third equally important feature of this set is its exceptional sound quality. Each E.A.M. loop has absolutely No Room Ambience. Each loop's sound quality is beyond the capabilities of any real world microphone in terms of signal to noise ratio.

Recorded in New Orleans the overall sound is an acoustic sampling CD that is clean, warm and transparent.

Price: $99 US for Audio Version, $150 US for Mac and PC versions, GigaSampler CD Rom Versions $199 US

The Musician who performed on the New Orleans; The Delta Grooves

Dennis (Shake) Shaikewitz studied with Ellis Marsalis and has played with Wynton and Bradford Marsalis. Shaikewitz, a native of New Orleans, studied at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts) and is a working musician who has played and performed live for over 20 years.

Robin D. Rorie is a producer and session player who plays bass and various other percussion instruments. He lives just outside of New Orleans and has been groovin on the scene for over 13 years.

Recorded in New Orleans the overall sound is an acoustic sampling CD that is clean, warm and transparent.

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