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  • Excite Audio partners with Mura Masa on new Bloom virtual instrument – packed with “everything you need to make a fully fledged song”Excite Audio has partnered with Grammy-winning producer Mura Masa on the latest addition to its Bloom series of virtual instruments.
    The all-new Bloom Mura Masa – which joins 11 existing Bloom plugins spanning vocal choirs, drums, synths and more – captures the essence of Mura Masa’s sound, allowing producers to harness his thumping bass lines and euphoric, rave-ready synth sounds. The instrument even features a whole slew of presets designed by Mura Masa himself, with a total of 250 to utilise and expand upon.

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    While Mura Masa’s sound is etched into the core of Bloom Mura Masa, the key point of reference is the producer’s 2024 record, Curve 1. The record pushed Mura Masa’s sound to the next level, fleshing out new worlds of UK garage and intense hardcore dance anthems – and now you can capture those same sensations.

    Like Excite Audio’s existing Bloom plugins, Bloom Mura Masa features an easy-to-grasp, minimalist user interface, and packs in sounds including “gritty bass hits, warped percussion, intimate textures, euphoric synth stabs” and more, all hand-picked directly from Mura Masa’s personal session archives. You can also combine one-shots and loops into phrases that are perfectly in sync with your project. There are also three versatile effects plus four macro controls, Terminal, Peek, Angle and Sides.
    In addition, alongside the 250 presets included, producers can import their own samples to further personalise the instrument.
    Each texture, guitar or effect from the library can also be tweaked, with options to experiment with stereo width, phased reverb, gritty distortion and expressive delay.
    “This plugin is packed full of sounds taken directly from my sessions and heavily inspired by my club night ‘Curve Club’, which we took all over Europe and the US,” says Mura Masa.
    “Excite Audio and I have done a lot of the work for you. It’s packed full of presets that I’ve made myself – sequences, drum loops, melodies, chords, bass lines – everything you would need to make a fully fledged song.”
    Bloom Mura Masa is out now, at an introductory price of  £39/$39. After 30 November, this will rise to £59/$59. Learn more at Excite Audio.

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    Inspired by the sound captured on 2024's Curve 1, Bloom Mura Masa is the perfect opportunity to play with the producer's rave-ready palette.