Sample Libraries

Created for Zero-G by producer and composer Si Begg, Extreme Environments is primarily a Kontakt instrument for soundscapes,...

Two reviews for the price of one here; Ueberschall’s Brasil Nova Primeiro and Brasil Nova Segundo.

Every dog, so the saying goes, has its day. It's also true for keyboards. We all know apocryphal stories of Mellotrons that...

The Attic is a Kontakt instrument from Soniccouture crammed with the sort of dusty old gear many of us would love under our...

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Archtop's sample collection is based on just one instrument, namely a customised Sadowsky Jim Hall hollow‑body arch‑top guitar with dual pickups.

From Rhythmic Robot, the instrument that goes 'boing'. I'm trying to think who else would collect 38MB of samples of a 1920s laboratory tuning fork?

So far in the pages of SOS we have looked at two Drumdrops products — the Vintage 1963 Premier kit and the Rogers Big R Dub...

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As its title suggests, Upright Bass offers around 1GB of solo upright bass loops — just over 400 in total — covering a range...

A new strings library sees a major European symphonic sampling project move one step closer to completion.

NI's latest library aims to keep you on the edge of your seat with its range of cinematic tension-builders.

Altus, Cantus and Shevannai are three voice‑based sample libraries in Kontakt format. Created by Eduardo Tarilonte, who...

In the making of their latest library, Toll, Sonokinetic travelled to a number of European countries (and the splendidly named...

The purpose of Lost Tapes is to provide copyright‑free sample material that sounds very similar to many much‑sampled...

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It won't write a Katie Price novel for you, but Ghostwriter is just the ticket for high-quality, Porcupine Tree-style quirkiness.

iZotope's Break Tweaker software gives you microscopic control over your beats and much more besides.

Electro-house is probably one of the broader house/dance sub‑genres and this download pack by Platinum AudioLab aims to plug...

Qanûn is part of Sonokinetic's range of Arabic sampled instruments, which also includes Ney and Kemence.