Sample Libraries

Ambient White is a Kontakt 5 instrument with a laid-back, meditational essence.

One of rock music’s most celebrated recording venues wasn’t a studio but a house in Hampshire, and no music has been recorded there for almost 40 years — until now...

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Native Instruments’ Session Horns Pro combines high-quality samples with some useful arrangement tools.

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

More collections of drums, guitars and basses in the Indie genre.

Vocal choirs can be very powerful and emotive, but most of us do not have the resources to use a real one in our compositions so Olympus Elements is an affordable alternative.

Guitar Sessions features 25 construction kits containing all the guitar performances you need to construct a full-song arrangement.

Sample Magic have plundered their back catalogue and bounced everything they selected from it onto tape and vinyl!

The aim of this particular instrument from Drumdrops is to approximate the sound of the late-‘60s and early-‘70s...

Scream contains vocal samples from six different singers — two male and four female.

Getting their dark dirt on are the Loopmasters with this set of Neuro drum & bass samples.

The Ultimate Bundle is a collection of 20 Sounds Of Revolution (SOR) sample libraries, all of which are the work of German sound designer Oliver Schmitt.

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

Loopmasters have teamed up with the Dubstep Onslaught label for this self–titled set of bass-heavy dubstep samples.

How many of us have been put off from sampling a fantastic drum break on an old record because of the difficulties and cost.

Zero-G have given us bangs, crashes and wallops in thunderous variety with their recent Impact Designer library for Kontakt but now we get Whoosh!

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the March 2015 issue of SOS

Something remarkable can sometimes happen when vocal samples are used in a track.

The final instalment of an ambitious orchestral sampling project sees the completion of EastWest’s five-year master plan.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the February 2015 issue of SOS