Waltham, Massachustts is the home of Smartloops, a provider of professional audio loops and web-based recording services. Smartloops stuff lurks beneath mixes by artists as diverse as Jay-Z to Barbara Streisand. You're next. The loop publisher recently announced the release of Pro Drum Works Volume 2, a pile of over 3 GB of unique grooves and fills with a shuffle feel - organized sanely and applicable to a wide range of styles and sample formats. Volume 1 focused on mainline drumming styles, Volume 2 is "the largets collection of shuffle-feel drum grooves available today." Here's the whole skinny Smartloops:

Like the best selling Pro Drum Works Volume One, every drum groove is performed and recorded live by a professional session drummer; and each unique groove is performed on three separate drum kits — Acoustic, Thunder and Trap.

Volume Two loops are designed to work interchangeably with Volume One loops, allowing you to mix and match straight feel and shuffle-feel grooves to create millions of realistic, professional-quality drum tracks. The Shuffle Feel

Shuffle-feel grooves are widely used in Rock, Country, Blues, Gospel, R&B, Jazz, and other music, providing that essential swing feel that defines so many well-known songs in these genres. The Shuffle Rhythm is based on the cymbal pattern playing continuous dotted eighth and sixteenth notes, which gives the beat a swing/bouncy feel.

Highlights

• Extensive drum loop library with hundreds of variations
• Over 3,000 unique grooves and fills, performed on three different drum kits, for a total of over 9,000 loops
• Includes 3 complete Drum Kits: Acoustic Kit, Thunder Kit, and Trap Kit
• Quickly create drum tracks for studio sessions, radio and TV spots, CDs, or any other recording project
• Use grooves as is, or mix and match to create an unlimited number of possible drum tracks
• Includes loops for pickups, intros, fills, verses, choruses, bridge sections, and endings
• 270 Individual hits and one-shots, including all drums and cymbals at multiple velocities.
• All crash cymbals separate from grooves and fills so you can add them only where you need them
• All drum loops performed live by Smart Loops founder and Pearl Drums artist Frank Basile
• Loops optimized for time-stretching between a 75-150 bpm tempo range