Sample Libraries

Expressive E have launched their Summer Offer sale, with discounts of up to 55% now applied across their software range until 23 July 2026.

Handcrafted Audio's latest hybrid instrument ‘reworks’ a marimba and vibraphone, combining nearly 30,000 acoustic samples with an array of synthesis tools.

The latest Originals offerings deliver everything from delicate, breath-textured brass and woodwinds to a virtuosic solo cello and an otherworldly instrument built from chromatically tuned glass rods. 

The latest addition to VSL’s ever-expanding sample library collection introduces three new Single Pack instruments to the Synchron Brass series, along with a new bundle that brings together all of their muted brass offerings. 

Bringing together an array of “microtonal, stammering, stuttering, strangulated tones”, Brackish Pads is said to be best suited to heartbreaking, tragic and profound music. 

The Crow Hill Company's latest release promises to represent “a new attitude towards controlling sound to fit your music”.

Detroit Drums includes two vintage kits, offers per-drum tuning and dampening, and includes an authentic-sounding 1960s-era virtual mixer with a wealth of vintage-inspired processing and effects built in. 

Synchron Solo Violin 1 (sordino) and Synchron Solo Cello (sordino) were both recorded on the large Stage A of Vienna Synchron Stage, and are said to capture the distinct, ‘silky’ character of muted string playing in extraordinary detail.

Following on from their partnership announcement at NAMM 2026, Spitfire Audio and Akai Pro have announced the release of two new sample libraries that can be run entirely on MPC hardware. 

The new Essentials version of LUX Orchestral Strings sits between the free Elements and full library offerings, delivering a keenly priced, scaled-back version aimed at the most common composition tasks.

Combining foley, nature and field recordings with analogue synthesis, the new sample-based instrument delivers what the company have coined a “modern botanica sound palette”.