Sample Libraries

With so much choice on offer, picking the right brass library for your music can be tricky. Our comprehensive product guide shines a spotlight on the current contenders.

Billed as ‘The Jazzy Film Scoring Library’, Swing focuses on the Big Band sound.

Sample Magic have been making sample libraries for many years, but this virtual drum machine and synthesizer combination is their first instrument.

Audio files to accompany the article.

What exactly is a harp guitar? It’s a new one on me, but its history and background is intriguing.

Sonokinetic’s vigorous orchestral phrase library piles on the cinematic drama in 4/4 time.

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The soundware label of James Wiltshire of the Freemasons, F9 Audio are promising a new range of soundware called Drumtrax.

Back in 1977, Scottish company GR International, designed and manufactured a rhythm machine called the Powerhouse. Thirty-eight years later, owner of two Powerhouse machines, Dan Radclyffe, renovated his tapes and hardware and sampled all eight original cartridges to make this 64–loop library.

Zero–G have given us bangs, crashes and wallops with Impact Designer, and created a sense of speed with Whoosh Designer. To round off the collection is Rise Designer: Cinematic Build Creator.

These files accompany the Sample Shop article in the October 2015 issue of SOS.

Analogue Witchcraft is an intriguing title, but the product’s creator, Paul Rez, was perhaps trying to evoke a sense of magic and mystery.

Need a professional drummer in your studio? How about auditioning EastWest’s ProDrummer for the job?

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the September 2015 issue.

Founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra is world-renowned for its musical achievements, but what you may not know is that it also has an impressive web site which provides many tools that may be of interest to recording musicians.

Oracle is billed as a “modern sound design” library of large-scale elements to pump up your TV, film and game scores.

It’s Dangerous Drums is a sample pack released by German EDM DJ/producer Marco Scherer, and based on the sound of acoustic drums “morphed with synthetic drums.

Fancy a little Smack? Then think again, because Smack is a rather neat virtual instrument sample library .

For this library, sound designer Aneek Thapar has put together a collection of acoustic instrument samples and made them deviate from the norm by using such things as convolution processing, formant shifting and pitch morphing.

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