Loopmasters is an English sound design record label based in

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. Loopmasters is mainly known for releasing and publishing sample packs on the pro-audio market and cooperating with software and hardware vendors including

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and

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. Since 2008 Loopmasters also functions as an online store for music composers, and computer-based DAWs like

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, Apple Logic, Propellerheads

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. The record label is known for releasing samples of performers, producers and DJs such as

Deadmau5 Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (stylized as deadmau5; pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He mainly produces progressive house music, though he also produces ...

, Rezone,

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, Full Cycle,

Mad Professor Mad Professor (born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, 1955, Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese-born British dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music ...

Meat Katie Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is an English electronic musician. He creates music making hybrid sounds by combining several genres of music; tech-funk, techno, tribal, hip hop, breakbeat and house A house is a single-unit reside ...

, Histibe,

Todd Terry Todd Norton Terry (born April 18, 1967) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer in the genre of house music. Musical career Todd Terry was influential in moving House music beyond the early Chicago house sound of 1984–86. He crossed ...

, Ray Keith,

DJ Pierre Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known by his stage name DJ Pierre, is an American DJ and performer of house music based in Chicago. He helped to develop the house music subgenre of acid house, as member of Phuture, whose 1987 EP ''Acid Tracks'', ...

etc. The scope of musical genres released under Loopmasters cover multiple

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niches like

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as well as single-instrument sample libraries consisting of Loops and Sampler Presets. Loopmasters also serves as a portal for commercially dubbed "The Sample Boutique", which sells sample packs online. The portal also offers other sound design labels and the catalogue of titles is growing at a weekly rate. During the Synthplex 2019 exhibition, 1010 Music announced a new product in collaboration with Loopmasters as well as SoundTrack Loops , Blackbox. Loopmasters provided a part of the sound samples available in Blackbox, which is a desktop sampler. In January 2017, Loopmasters announced the launch of a new music program, ‘Loopcloud, a sample library manager, in which music can be produced using already existing sample sounds and loops. On 27 September 2018 Loopmasters released a third edition of Loopcloud. On 11 April 2019 Loopcloud 4.0 was released along with a Loop Editor, a feature that facilitates loop makers.

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External links

www.loopmasters.comloopcloud-play-update
English record labels Record labels based in Brighton, East Sussex