Sample Libraries

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. If you have a passion for composing for film/TV contexts, or for more experimental song‑based production, then Void & Vista Strands may be worth auditioning.

Fracture Sounds serve up a trio of intimate piano sample libraries: Woodchester Piano, Midnight Grand and Glacier Keys.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Vintage Country is a collection of both playable instruments and performance loops designed to capture the authentic sound used in, well, vintage country recordings.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sound Dust’s Felt Dulcitone is a rather oddball instrument created by abusing a dulcitone portable keyboard.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This library is a collection of drum samples from seven‑time Grammy‑winning recording/mixing engineer John ‘Yosh’ Jaszcz, whose credits include George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. A huge 362GB collection of complex, playable, largely chromatic long drones created by Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten.

Spitfire’s new symphonic double‑bill combines two complete orchestras and a host of extras.

Chris Hein’s OCTA instrument is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Heavyocity’s Avant Modern Keys samples a classic Mark II electric piano.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Toska is a collection of carefully crafted evolving atmosphere and textural sounds that will let music producers or film composers evoke moods of melancholy.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Sample Logic's new library, Genesis — Pads In Motion, is likely to appeal to film or TV composers.

Rating ***** 5/5 Stars. Harmonic Bloom uses a series of eight keyboard tracking filters based on the harmonic series in order to extract musical sounds from harmonically rich or noise‑like sound sources.

Rating: 4/5 Stars. A Copenhagen WWII bunker came to be a home from home for violist/composer Nikolaj Moeller Nielsen.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Play a chord and Pathfinder Violin will react to the notes that you play, corresponding to selected patterns or shapes.

Rating: 5/5 Stars. There can be few instruments with a simpler interface than Sound Dust’s Drift 001, but then that was the design ethos behind its creation.

Rating: 4/5 Stars. Built in collaboration with Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music collective, Fractured Strings is a compelling library full of personality.

EastWest give the classic string machine sound a modern twist.

Rating: 4/5 Stars. Fluffy Audio’s Simple Opera Singer may provide a compelling alto and soprano solution for your next musical needs.

Rating: 5/5 Stars. The latest release in Heavyocity's Mosaic Series, how does Mosaic Pads measure up?

Rating: 4/5 Stars. Bloom offers a combination of natural sounds, modular synths and classic vintage gear, such as a Serge system and a Roland Jupiter‑8.

If you are working in genres such as lounge, hip‑hop, downtempo or lo‑fi, Tympo's  ‘performative drum instrument’ will be right up your street.