Sample Libraries

The first of a new series of sample libraries from NI serves up a lot of brass for your money.

Native Instruments’ Session Horns Pro combines high-quality samples with some useful arrangement tools.

NI's latest library aims to keep you on the edge of your seat with its range of cinematic tension-builders.

By the look of it, a great deal of time and effort has gone into designing NI's Kinetic Metal interface to ensure that it functions as a very flexible sample-manipulation tool.

Anyone who has used one of Native Instruments' Abbey Road drum instruments will be aware that they are a mixture of old and...

NI’s Session Horns forsakes the cinematic to focus on a real-world brass section that’s well suited to pop and rock music.

Huge, elaborate orchestral sample libraries are all the rage right now, but for more modest requirements and lower budgets, Session Strings Pro could be just the ticket.

Looking for the essence of the 70s sound? Vintage drum kits recorded at the worlds most famous studio might be a good place to start...

Native Instruments bring you the classic drum sounds of Abbey Road, lovingly sampled at the studio itself.

Native Instruments' Kontakt has become one of the most popular software samplers since its release in 2002, and the new version, with its many excellent new features, should keep it near the top of the heap.