Sample Libraries

Cinematic ‘Big Boomers’ are eagerly embraced by almost every field of commercial music these days and to service...

Whether you are a media composer or simply a music producer who likes to integrate world and ethnic flavours into your musical mix, Sample Logic’s Bohemian might well be of interest.

Modwheel are a small New Zealand-based company set up by composers Steve Roche and David Donaldson as a way of marketing their quirky Kontakt instrument designs.

Toontrack’s Dream Pop EZX expansion pack for EZdrummer is most definitely not just another acoustic drum kit...

Spitfire consolidate their symphonic brass into a single bumper package.

Orchestral Tools expand their series with a quartet of solo strings and a pair of intimately-recorded soloists.

It’s becoming unusual to find a sample library these days that is presented simply as a collection of high quality 96kHz/24-bit WAV files...

It’s the feel and syncopation of the performers that make this collection of Brazilian percussion grooves what it is.

This library is built around 100 rhythmic ‘themes’ where each theme is, essentially, a set of audio loops that form something akin to a ‘cinematic drum cue construction kit’.

Attack EP88 is an elaborate, 47,000-sample presentation of a vintage 88-key Rhodes Mark I prepared with a brass tack on the surface of each hammer, guaranteeing a Rhodes attack like no other.

Spitfire Audio delve deep into a legendary film composer’s favourite piano.

Cinematic Samples take a refreshingly simple approach to the Hollywood orchestral sound.

A Noah Bell is a type of Indian bell, traditionally sold by monasteries as a way of generating income. It’s usually necessary to assemble differing-sized bells into a set so that together they form a musical scale, and that’s what Soundiron have done to create this virtual instrument.

This latest  Drumdrops library of virtual drum instruments is the first to feature a newly-designed interface, with sounds of a 1966 Ludwig Hollywood kit, recorded by producer Phill Brown.

It will come as no surprise that Morphestra 2 is an evolution of a previous product. In this case, it is actually two products: Morphestra and Morphestra Generations.

Orchestral Tools go up to 11 with a large-scale symphonic library inspired by a sci-fi masterpiece.

Chris Hein’s popular horn, wind, guitar and bass collections are some of the most deeply sampled products on the market and show a remarkable eye for musical detail. The veteran producer has now released Chris Hein Solo Violin...

If you are seeking material to give your next score a genuine flavour of the music from countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey or Iran, then this library may well be a relatively inexpensive place to start.

This is a Kontakt instrument with a difference, built from samples of a one-off electro-acoustic instrument — a box with several guitar strings and a contact mic attached...

Sonokinetic’s Sotto takes a different approach to orchestral sampling.

Early last year the Viennese company supplemented their Choir with a much-requested library of solo voices, which we examine here along with other VSL releases.