Sample Libraries

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

Library of radio–friendly rock instruments!

TSOP’s first product is a Kontakt instrument called B11X, which was created by sampling every key and sound generator of a rare Polish synthesizer made in the 1980s.

You get two for the price of one with this review, with two closely related sample libraries from Ueberschall.

With The Hammersmith, a conventionally played acoustic grand piano, Soniccouture have released one of their most mainstream and potentially important libraries yet.

Spitfire Audio’s BML range packages a full orchestral library into 20 individual modules.

The quality and variety of orchestral string libraries continues to grow. Which one best suits your needs?

Unless you are using pre–recorded loops, there is still the rather significant task of building convincing performances and arrangements. Ensemblia attempts to give the user a helping hand.

Bloody Nightmare, as its name suggests, is a collection of over 550 horror–type noises aimed at sound designers who need to create chills and scares.

When composer and instrument maker Steve Roche finishes a tin of biscuits, instead of throwing the container into the recycling bin he transforms it into a guitar.

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...

Listen to examples.

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.