Sample Libraries

RealiTone offer several specialist sample-based virtual instruments and the latest release — Screaming Trumpet — is no...

This excellent library features a deeply sampled solo violin expressively played by the maestro himself.

The Bulgarian choir specialists go epic with a trilogy of choir libraries.

Zero-G’s new library makes it easy to add a touch of Middle Eastern flavour to your productions.

With a title like Heavy Industry, it will perhaps come as no surprise if Zero-G’s latest offering is intended to take the user into the sonic realms of the urban, industrialised world.

Gothic Instruments continue to expand the collection of libraries (‘modules’ in GI-speak) based around their Kontakt-based Dronar...

According to urban legend, an Irish theatre manager once bet his mates that he could add a new word to the English language...

This module follows the structure and feature sets of the other Dronar modules. Each Cinematic Atmospheres preset is therefore based upon blending up to four underlying sound elements...

Expeditions uses the powerful (and very deep) Kontakt-based front-end that provides loop playback, manipulation, a range of creative effects with sequencing options, and is designed to inspire hi-tech music tracks/cues.

Caspian: Thematic Orchestral Brass comprises three .NKI patches: Six French Horns, Three Bass Trombones and Three Trumpets, performed by the Czechoslovakia-based Capellen Orchestra.

Both volumes in the bundle provide a selection of multi-sampled, multi-articulation, virtual brass instruments that are playable in exactly the same way as a conventional orchestral sample library is but are much more suited to soul, funk and pop.

Cinematic Studio turn their sampling expertise towards a quartet of solo strings.

Cinematique Instruments have released a small number of titles based upon the Ensemblia engine, and featuring different niche sound sets, and their latest is Ensemblia 2 Percussion.

Motors is a collection of rhythmic pulse sounds with tools to blend two of these — plus a whole range of sound modulation and effects options — to create all sorts of rhythmic beds.

This exquisitely touch-sensitive virtual instrument comprises over 11,000 samples of what many consider to be the ultimate Rhodes electric piano: the Mark I Suitcase model.

Sample Logic’s latest release, while appealing to media composers, is perhaps more firmly situated on the sound design side of that line.

As a source of very playable — and suitably thunderous — orchestral toms, Cinematic Thunder provides plenty of bang for a relatively modest buck.