Doug Rogers is President of EastWest, the Soundsonline website and owner of EastWest Studios. Here he chats to Sam Inglis about what it takes to develop their award-winning sample library releases.
Spitfire's latest release captures the sound of a Steinway Model D grand piano in Maida Vale Studio One, and has been designed to blend seamlessly with the BBCSO library as well as functioning as a new, standalone instument.
The fourth iteration of GForce's acclaimed Mellotron emulation boasts a redesigned interface along with an extensive 3.5GB sound library containing over 200 tape banks and more than 800 presets.
Minimal Audio's new cloud-based platform provides access to the samples found in their Sound Packs, and will eventually be expanded to an all-in-one service that includes all of their sounds, instruments and effects.
The third instalment of EastWest's Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra captures the sound of a collection of historical woodwind instruments designed to suit fantasy film, TV and video game scores.
To celebrate the 12th anniversary of the first release in their Albion sample library series, Spitfire Audio have decided to relaunch the original three titles.
Library dedicated to tempo-synced musical transitions
SHIFT: Hybrid Scoring Transitions offers composers and sound designers a collection of tempo-synced transitions designed to seamlessly blend between different cues or sections of music.
The latest addition to Spitfire's new Abbey Road Orchestra offers a detailed collection of percussion instruments that range from traditional to rather unusual.
Ostinato library gains new patterns and functionality
The latest addition to Kirk Hunter Studio's Kinetic series offers all of the content of the previous Kinetic Woodwinds library, but introduces a range of additional patterns, GUI enhancements and improved CPU performance.
The latest sample library from Emergence Audio promises to push the limits of traditional sound design by pairing a collection of double bass samples with a set of synth-style programming options.
Sonora Cinematic's latest software instrument captures the sound of a baby grand piano, and adds some cassette tape effects created with a Tascam Portastudio.
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. The instrument allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. If you have a passion for composing for film/TV contexts, or for more experimental song‑based production, then Void & Vista Strands may be worth auditioning.
EZ/Superior Drummer expansions captured at Sunset Sound
The latest expansions for Toontrack's virtual drum instruments capture a total of seven drum kits in Studio 2 and 3 of the legendary Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.