Sample Libraries

Vienna Symphonic Library's Solo Strings II adopts the same template as their Appassionata Strings II and Chamber Strings II (...

There can be few corners of the globe whose native music remains unexplored by a sample library, but (having missed Volume 1...

Complete Classical Collection is quite a claim. Can orchestral sampling pioneer Peter Siedlaczeks latest library make good on it?

There are lots of strange noises you can make with acoustic instruments beyond playing them normally, and Ultimate Sound Bank...

Big Fish Audio have already established a reputation for South American music sample libraries with their two 'Roots of South...

Dan Dean's original Solo Strings library comprised violin, viola, and cello, beautifully recorded in 24‑bit stereo and...

With Bollywood now a massive force in the world movie market, India‑based Philtre Labs have followed up last year's release of...

No‑one can accuse Sample Magic of scrimping on the sub-bass in their Minimal Techno loop and one-shot library: it lumbers...

Vocal Foundry is Zero‑G's follow up to Vocal Forge, and it offers similar content: a series of vocal construction kits, each...

This latest Sonivox title for Native Instruments' Kontakt soft sampler is a distinctly left-field library based around lots of...

Regular readers will know that I'm partial to convolution in all its aspects, and have even given seminars exploring some of...

Joining the arsenal of EZX expanders for Toontracks' EZ Drummer is Funkmasters, a slightly different offering that's split...

The inaugural product from Imperfect Samples is a sampled piano with a difference...

Drum & bass wasn't designed for human drummers but has still attracted the attention of a few die-hard technicians whose superhuman dexterity is surpassed only by their lung capacity.

You'd have to be bloody serious about Taiko to want 2.3GB of multisamples, but the instrument's ubiquity in high‑octane film and TV scores has led Nine Volt Audio to take it very seriously indeed.

Following their excellent esoteric tuned‑percussion releases Hang Drum and Balinese Gamelan, Soniccouture stay off the beaten...

If you want great drum sounds but don't need to tweak every bolt in the kit, Toontrack's EZ Drummer provides a very natural‑...

Divinity World Percussion captures the enthusiasm of half a dozen talented world musicians playing a wide variety of...

Housed on a single DVD, US sample-house Big Fish Audio's Hip Hop Mood Swings contains 40 hip-hop (in case you hadn't guessed)...

Interesting old keyboards are becoming ever-more expensive and difficult to find. MOTUs solution to this is Electric Keys — samples of all of the desirable retro instruments you could want, for less money than a second-hand Vox Jaguar!

Sample Logic's Synergy is an epic 18GB collection of over 1200 instruments, tempo‑sync'ed loops, and multis, powered by NI's...