Sample Libraries

Sample library creators are always trying to come up with fresh ideas for products, and this is possibly why Sample Logic...

Cinematic Motion is a multi–format collection of loops for the budding composer of high-octane drama, whether for the...

Indelibly associated with magic, sugar plum fairies and, inevitably, Harry Potter, the celesta (or celeste) is a keyboard--operated idiophone resembling a small upright piano.

Not many people know this, but ‘Euphone’ is the generic name for an 18th-century instrument consisting of resonant...

In June 2013 we looked at Project Alpha, a sound-design toolkit for cinematic music projects, produced by sound designers...

Unsurprisingly, Big Fish Audio’s Pure Rock Hits 2 is a follow-up to their earlier Pure Rock Hits library (reviewed by...

A follow up to Dark Ambient - Volume 2, now even darker!

Sonokinetic go epic with a grandiose 12/8-time orchestral phrase library.

Ukuleles galore!

Spitfire Audio enter deep symphonic waters with their latest string library.

Created for Zero-G by producer and composer Si Begg, Extreme Environments is primarily a Kontakt instrument for soundscapes,...

Two reviews for the price of one here; Ueberschall’s Brasil Nova Primeiro and Brasil Nova Segundo.

Every dog, so the saying goes, has its day. It's also true for keyboards. We all know apocryphal stories of Mellotrons that...

The Attic is a Kontakt instrument from Soniccouture crammed with the sort of dusty old gear many of us would love under our...

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A new strings library sees a major European symphonic sampling project move one step closer to completion.

Archtop's sample collection is based on just one instrument, namely a customised Sadowsky Jim Hall hollow‑body arch‑top guitar with dual pickups.

From Rhythmic Robot, the instrument that goes 'boing'. I'm trying to think who else would collect 38MB of samples of a 1920s laboratory tuning fork?