Sample Libraries

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...

What has Electro got to offer? Well, as the Sample Magic web site puts it, "dripping‑wet Italo madness”, "manga‑tweaked tube...

The sequel to Quantum Leap's heavy rock library ramps up the decibel levels.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from a sample library entitled Soulful Pop as, while it is a musical genre that can include...

Supreme Styles, based around Ueberschall's Elastik loop player, covers a range of modern urban styles, with a fair amount of...

This new ethnic percussion library features 12 themed folders, each containing loops designed to be layered together and...

Matt Stedeford and his team at Imperfect Samples have created their own niche in the overcrowded and highly competitive piano...

This 3.2GB Elastik-format library is split into two parts: part A contains 10 construction kits, while part B offers some additional instrument and drum loops.

Best Service's Studio Box Mark II pulls together the content from a number of earlier titles (RedBox, BlueBox and...

The Austrian sample maestros go multitrack with four new brass ensembles.

The kalimba (aka 'thumb piano') has long been a featured sound on keyboard workstations. Also known as the sanza...

It's a hard noise to verbalise, but it sounds like this: gu‑gu‑gu‑gu‑GRNZZZZ. Yes, folks, it's the unmistakable...

World Impact: Global Percussion (12.2GB) contains around 270 percussion instruments from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe...