Sample Libraries

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Mountain Girl brings the haunting sound of Balkan vocal styles to composers everywhere.

Want your spine chilled and your nerves jangled? Sonokinetic are on the case.

Spitfire's latest Albion library heads north in search of new scoring directions.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Deeply sampled percussion nestles in a fiendishly clever Kontakt engine that allows the user to design their own percussion ensembles down to the finest detail.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Stratus centres around a collection of phrases, polyrhythmic patterns and textures performed by a pair of Yamaha Disklavier felt-dampened, self-playing upright pianos.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. From a damaged, poorly-maintained Soviet-era monosynth that suffers from crackles, frequency drift and other problems, RR saw an opportunity to create an unusual polysynth...

Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 set the bar for acoustic drum samples. Their Rooms Of Hansa expansion has raised it.

BFA's Momentum combines samples and loop manipulation with an irresistible price tag.

The latest entry in Project SAM's Symphobia series promises heart-stopping thrills, terrifying sci-fi action and nerve-jangling horror.

Is it a drum loop player? Is it a drum sampler? Auddict try to do both, and more...

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Gold 2 is stocked with samples for creating 'epic' vocal parts plus a substantial collection of synth, pad, sound effects and drum options amongst its sonic arsenal.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Heavyocity have combined traditional woodwind scoring with extensive sound-design capabilities, allowing you to go from 'standard' to 'sci-fi' within a few clicks.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This sonic toolkit for the creation of New Age and meditation music ships with over 14GB of sample content.

Rating: *** 3.5/5 Stars. Suit73 employs the company's Spectral Modelling technique to analyse the original Rhodes Suitcase sound and recreate the same timbral components by stacking sine waves together.