Ben Aylon • One Man Tribe is offering the Massive Cinematic Africa drum and percussion pack for free in an exclusive Black Friday offer for Bedroom Producers Blog readers.
The royalty-free pack includes 70 loops and 64 one-shots. The freebie is available now and will close on December 6, 2024.
Over the same period, Ben Aylon is also offering his entire catalog of 33 packs for $19.99, which is a 67% off deal.
The full catalogue is an 8 GB offering that jams in 2,473 loops and 1,424 one-shots.
The Massive Cinematic Africa pack includes drums and percussion from different cultures, combining to provide rich textures and a broad frequency range.
Each sample has more than 100 drums playing simultaneously, providing the titular massive sound.
The pack features massive rhythms, elastic phrases and one-shots which combine to create a wet, cinematic sound.
Ben Aylon also included dry versions of each sample, allowing you to add verb and atmosphere to your personal taste.
The pack was performed and produced by Ben Aylon, who notes that the primary influence for the pack is Senegalese Wolof drumming master, Doudou Ndiaye Rose.
You can see the Rose family at work in a video produced for the Black Friday freebie, which is exclusively available for viewing via BPB.
In the video, Ben Aylon shows and explains the process behind creating the pack.
If you’d like to hear more, you can suss out individual samples via the 12 audio demos embedded on the product page linked below.
The pack has a lot of unique character, and I could really see how it could be used to add some mojo and special sauce to a track with the traditional drum sounds on offer.
In addition to adding a new layer to an existing arrangement, it’s easy to hear how you could use the loops as inspiration to kick off a new track.
If you like how Massive Cinematic Africa sounds, head onto the product page, where you can pick up the pack by completing the website checkout process.
Once you hit ‘add to cart,’ you’ll be prompted to provide an email address (signing up for the mailing list is optional) and shipping address.
After you provide that, you’ll be able to download the pack in a 234 MB Zip file via one click, straight from the cart page.
Check out the deal: Massive Cinematic Africa (BPB Black Friday Special – FREE until December 6th)
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12 Comments
Georg
onThank you!
Pieter
onnice
Mike B
onI love the way this guy’s percussion samples sound. Definitely getting this.
shane
onwent for the full 8GB pack.. lots of one shots too so should be good in Atlas and XO
shane
onActually a bit annoyed.. almost half the files seem to have file names too long and wouldn’t unzip with the windows extractor .. managed to with winRAR but still a good portion of the files wont load in ableton or show up in Abletons browser.. i tried to shorten a file name to see if that worked but it kept reverting back to the original file name.. anyone got any ideas ?
Jaded
onThe path name is probably too long (folders inside folders inside folders make for a big file path name) try reducing it by making the samples be closer to the root (example C:\ Sample Library ) or something like this that will probably fix it
Numanoid
onThe problem is that on Windows you can’t extract a zip/rar folder that contains too many characters.
After many years of trying, I have not successes using an app like for example 7zip to do that inside the folder before extracting, but I will be happy to be contradicted on that.
I have had several problems with this over the years. It is a problem on Windows, not a problem on Mac.
Numanoid
onNot having a Mac computer, I solved it by extracting the file on a computer I have installed with Linux Mint. Then transferring that extracted folder back to my Windows computer.
Jaded
onYou could just put the zip file temporarily on the root of C, and if that’s not enough then also renaming the zip to something like “1”. Both those things reduce the path size. It might be an easy fix, if it still doesn’t happen then yeah no hope.
ol dirtybasstard
onI’ve just extracted it with 7zip on a windows 11 laptop in 2 clicks without any problems…
Raven
onoooh thanks a mill for this everyone involved!
Kim
onJust one question: Does it shock my listeners into awe?