Sample Libraries

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These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the September 2015 issue.

Founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra is world-renowned for its musical achievements, but what you may not know is that it also has an impressive web site which provides many tools that may be of interest to recording musicians.

Oracle is billed as a “modern sound design” library of large-scale elements to pump up your TV, film and game scores.

It’s Dangerous Drums is a sample pack released by German EDM DJ/producer Marco Scherer, and based on the sound of acoustic drums “morphed with synthetic drums.

Fancy a little Smack? Then think again, because Smack is a rather neat virtual instrument sample library .

For this library, sound designer Aneek Thapar has put together a collection of acoustic instrument samples and made them deviate from the norm by using such things as convolution processing, formant shifting and pitch morphing.