SOUND ON SOUND
Cinematic Samples take a refreshingly simple approach to the Hollywood orchestral sound.
B5 utilises clever synthesis tricks to overcome the ‘sample stacking’ phase-cancellation artifacts typically associated with sample-based virtual organs.
Created in collaboration with the makers of LA Scoring Strings, NI’s new Symphony Series instrument puts a 60-piece string ensemble at your disposal.
Conceived as an affordable alternative to the Ondes Martenot, the Ondioline was invented by Frenchman Georges Jenny in 1940. Soniccouture’s Kontakt recreation stays true to the simplicity of the original, modelling its features and behaviour as closely as possible...
These files accompany the Sample Shop sample library reviews in the March 2016 issue of SOS.
The first of a new series of sample libraries from NI serves up a lot of brass for your money.
This fastidiously sampled instrument could be the only Rhodes you’ll ever need.
Audio files to accompany the article.
Billed as ‘The Jazzy Film Scoring Library’, Swing focuses on the Big Band sound.
The fifth of MusicLab’s ‘Real’ virtual guitar instruments, RealEight is modelled on an eight-string guitar, currently popular for metal, prog metal, epic rock and all things dark and demonic.