Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Produced with Sonuscore’s expertise in multi‑layered performance engines, as seen in products such as The Orchestra, The Score, Elysion or EastWest’s Orchestrator.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. State Machine’s designers suggest that Slow Drift's focus is on ethereal textures, though in reality it offers up a wide selection of preset styles, much as a hardware synth might do.
The latest library to join VSL’s Synchron range captures an extensive collection of percussion instruments from West Africa, the Middle East and Brazil.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. If you are a media composer working within the broad field of modern drama, action, horror or sci‑fi, Infinity Vol 1 offers a palette of sounds that might well appeal.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Nordic Spheres is inspired by the frozen lands of Iceland and combines carefully curated samples, categorised as Tonal, Non‑tonal and Percussive.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. MagicDrum 2 is a multi‑sampled steel tongue drum with on‑board sound‑shaping and processing that brings it into line with other recent Quiet Music offerings.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Firestarter provides a modestly-priced collection of trailer‑friendly sound effects all served up in a well‑organised set of categories and in a 48kHz/24‑bit WAV format.
Promising to be their most nuanced string offering to date, EastWest's new library captures a 21-piece chamber ensemble and employs much closer mic positions than their previous offerings.