Sample Libraries

The first of a new series of sample libraries from NI serves up a lot of brass for your money.

The libraries in this series forego the construction-kit approach of the genre–based Elastik collections and, instead, are built on a series of solo instrument phrases/licks that you can piece together to form a complete performance.

548 royalty–free breakbeats, recorded to sound as if they are the solo drum mixes from old vinyl records. 

All of Output’s products so far have been an attempt to break new ground in the world of sample processing. Their first...

These files accompany the Sample Shop sample library reviews in the March 2016 issue of SOS.

Three more eccentric releases from Modwheel’s Creative Differences series.

BFA are now back with a further dollop of ‘vintage’ and this time it’s the rhythm section that is the target.

Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2 offers five complete drum kits formed from 17 snares, nine kicks, 31 cymbals and five hi-hats.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the February 2016 issue.

Shreddage might sound like a Heston Blumenthal recipe involving Shredded Wheat and cabbage, but it’s actually a Kontakt-based sample engine from Impact Soundworks.

The medieval crusades were a long-running series of military campaigns that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean region...

While I’m not 100 percent sure I could define exactly what distinguishes intelligent dance music (IDM) from some other forms of electronic music production, Zero-G’s Cinematic IDM library provides over 3GB of sample material aimed at that genre.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the January 2016 issue of SOS.

Sonokinetic’s Tutti Vox is a choral sample library, but it’s not like other choral sample libraries...

Sample Logic’s Cinematic Guitars Infinity proves to be a lot more than the sum of its parts.

Orbit is a Kontakt 5 instrument designed to be a source of evolving or pulsing textures. Unusually, you access it via...

Fuse is a Kontakt instrument that serves as a music ‘workstation’, but with a distinctly urban slant.

These files accompany the Sample Library articles in the December 2015 issue of SOS.