Equipped Music's Three chunky new sound libraries-each weighs in a whopping 4GB-will appeal to fans of everyone from Jazzanova to Miguel Migs to Masters At Work, careful blends of enduring club styles recorded in gorgeous 24-bit WAV and REx2 formats, and instantly convertible to Spectrasonics' SAGE Xpander format for use in Stylus RMX. While RMX and Reason (WAV samples are easily convertible to Reason Refills) are the ideal candidates for using this material, it's appropriate for virtually any program that offers time-stretching capabilities or Rewire.



Breakbeat Jazz gives a nod to crate-digging hip-hop iconcasts from Cut Chemist to DJ Shadow, with 5949 samples, including multitrack drum-loops and plenty of jazzbo bass and electric pianos; Longin' House kicks it with Latin percussion, vibey keys and killer vinyl textures, some 8180 samples in all Nu Jazz Funk will fill out the dance card of those down with bossa flavors, Afro-Cuban percussion and samba-approved groove, with a total of 6377 WAV and REX2 Samples.



Arranged into interlocking "kits," these DVDs offer a huge number of possibilities to work with, and with each loop separated out into individual parts, you can treat these loops like real multi-channel performances, for the kind of mix control not possible with preset stereo drum loops. Whether you use them in Reason, RMX, Live, Logic or the DAW of your choice, you'll not find many sample sets with this level of completeness.