Sample Libraries

Grindhouse provides a collection of playable instruments that aim to capture the musical essence of some of the more popular sub-genres of the B movie/exploitation film soundtrack.

Ethno World is advertised as being the ultimate sample library for ethnic instruments and voices from all over the world...

RealiTone Fingerpick provides the user with a fingerpicked acoustic guitar within a compact Kontakt-based virtual instrument.

Timphonia is fairly conventional, focusing on the kind of timpani instruments that are typically used by classical orchestras. Nevertheless, the library does include some quite experimental patches...

As the title suggests, all the sound sources are guitar-based, but their treatment here is very much aimed at providing a further palette of pad, ambience and soundscape-style sounds...

Bringing together the samples from their previous three Thunder libraries, X3M adds some 6GB of new sample content and adds a new Kontakt front-end...

This latest Expansion for Toontrack’s EZdrummer was recorded by Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio and, through the kit pieces and the tunings used, offers something of his signature sound in bottled form.

Sonokinetic have been carving out a niche for themselves in phrase-based orchestral libraries, and with their latest offering, Maximo, that niche just got a whole lot bigger!

Tucked away behind the unassuming title is a sample-based drum instrument that manages to deliver something rather special...

Ethera is meant to sound ethereal, and it can’t be denied that Clara Sorace, whose vocal performances were sampled to create this 3.4GB Kontakt library, definitely leans more towards Enya than Aretha...

It has to be said that musicians are not short of choice when it come to vowel-based choir sounds. Vir2’s latest addition to this broad and well-stocked selection box is Aeris Hybrid Choir Designer, a Kontakt-based sample library.

DrumCore users have been waiting a very long time for a new version, but version 4 is finally here — and available for both Mac and PC.

This sample-based virtual instrument designed for Kontakt features the voices of the award winning Uganda-based Aba Taano choir, a group of four male and two female singers...

This compact 2.23GB library gets its big, ultra-dynamic sound from jumbo-sized sections of 10 French horns and 10 trombones recorded in a large concert hall...

This collection of over 11GB of 24-bit WAV files was created by utilising the presets inside Gothic Instruments’ Sculptor Massive Whooshes Kontakt instrument and then saving the results as separate audio file sets.

Whilst playing Theremin+ certainly isn’t the same experience as performing with the real thing, but for recording purposes its 106 24-bit PCM WAV samples should function as a convincing substitute.

Orchestral Tools complete their symphonic series with a major brass library.

This latest incarnation of a long-running library introduces new instruments, articulations and enhancements.