Sample Libraries

Described as 'Natural Chillout Music', Ueberschall's Nightshift features 18 song-construction kits aimed at smooth, laid‑back...

Rumble Marching & Cinematic Drums is a collaborative project between Sample Logic and System Blue, capturing a certain...

Spitfire celebrate this sceptred isle with a suitably grand orchestral library.

Ueberschall's Ambient Lines is another in their series of Elastik‑based sample libraries.

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It's not often that packaging sleeve notes are underwhelming — they tend towards excessive hype — but those of Deep House don'...

My first Ethno World 5 observation was "blimey, an actual manual!”. Having a pile of virtual instruments squatting in my...

Back in SOS October 2008, we raved about the 'high‑quality sonic weirdness' of Heavyocity's original flagship product, Evolve...

A capacious new European library takes the strain out of programming orchestral string runs.

Much like the previous offering from Sonokinetic (Tigris & Euphrates), this collection of samples focuses on what is...

According to Soundorder's publicity, the sample content of Electronic Drums has been taken from Battery Sample Sets ...

Some developers produce epic libraries; others specialise in smaller, single‑instrument releases. Tonehammer seem to excel at...

This library's content is available in Acid, WAV, Apple Loops, REX and RMX formats and amounts to 3967 samples (1290 WAVs) for...

A huge ethnic percussion library from down under circles the globe and arrives on hard drive.

Produced by Funk/Soul productions for Big Fish Audio, Ambient Skyline provides a hefty collection of loops and one‑shot...

If there's one thing the world isn't short of, it's drum sample libraries, and with huge and expandable instruments from the...

Detroit and Motown: two names that both evoke a rich musical heritage and still continue to provide a major...

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Choral libraries featuring only children’s choirs are unusual — yet the atmospheres and textures they provide have many uses.

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This is a companion volume to the Dark Skies: Cinematic Ambiences collection that was reviewed in the May 2010 edition of SOS...