Sample Libraries

Multi-format 'mood'-themed collection

Sometimes you yearn for new sounds that haven't been heard before. Resonance: Emotional Mallets most definitely falls into this category, starting life as 14 unique instruments constructed from materials including glass, metal, stone and wood.

Multi-format

Elastik-based library

I must confess that country music is one of my guilty pleasures. For all the clichés about good 'ole boys, beer-drinking Rednecks and perpetual heartbreak, the genre is often a masterclass in songwriting and musicianship.

The Logan String Melody and the later Melody II are justifiably revered string machines.

Ever since Toontrack launched EZ Drummer as the lightweight counterpart to Superior, they've been adding expander kits to it to cover just about any commercial style.

For this collection, Bulgarian producer Ivan Shopov teamed up with sound designer and producer Airbag Killex.

Ambient Dubstep is part of Loopmasters' rapidly expanding artist series of sample libraries. Put together by Bristol-based producer Phaeleh, this pack is available to download in various formats.

This new library from Big Fish Audio provides 40 loop-based construction kits targeted at mainstream chart rock genres.

When Toontrack's Superior Drummer 2.0 was first released, the only significant criticism that could be made was that it was...

V-Metal ultra-detailed, sampled virtual electric guitar instrument.

A large new violin library for Kontakt turns legato sampling into an art form.

Kontakt 4

Multi-format

Looking to create something new and fresh, Samplephonics approached the composer George Baldwin to create a library of high-...

As their name suggests, Twisted Tools specialise in sample packs with plenty of attitude, and this one is no exception....

Americana is an addition to the Toontrack expansion library portfolio for EZ Drummer and is best described as an American-sounding range of drum kits recorded 'honestly'...

You can forgive a funk band just about anything if they've got a shit-hot bass player, and in that respect Chris Pedley, bassist and co-founder of the Baker Brothers, is easily the biggest reason for spending money on this new downloadable loop library.

Desert Winds focuses on just four wind instruments, but does so in magnificent detail, each featuring up to six different natural legato types.

Film trailer/TV composer Dan Graham has created several sound libraries featuring small groups of players from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra