Sample Libraries

I've been impressed by SonicCouture's previous Abstrakt Breaks loop libraries, so was interested to hear how things had...

As the title suggests, the musical target of Chillers Joint is downtempo soul, funk, hip-hop, trip-hop and related styles....

The new piano from VSL takes dynamic sampling to a higher level. Could this be the ultimate sampled grand?

XLN Audio's very fine Addictive Drums is a virtual drum instrument for Mac and PC that strikes a useful balance between the...

When I compared Toontrack's Superior Drummer 2 with FXpansion's BDF2, my one quibble was its relatively small number of...

Dutch samplists SAM have updated their four popular brass titles (SAM Horns, Trombones, Trumpets and Solo Sessions), and re‑...

The 1.5GB Sampled Landscape library is divided into three folders: Drones, Instruments, and Landscapes. The 15 Drones aren't...

The Chinese gu zheng has been kicking around since 200 BC, making it one of the few historical musical artifacts to predate...

Is it just me, or are 'Bollywood' sample libraries taking over the world? Hot on the heels of Philtre Labs' Bollywood Elements...

A star Hollywood orchestral library gets an extreme make-over.

Dancehall Vibes Volume 1 provides 30 loop‑based construction kits, plus a small collection of vinyl scratches. I auditioned...

Vienna Symphonic Library's Solo Strings II adopts the same template as their Appassionata Strings II and Chamber Strings II (...

There can be few corners of the globe whose native music remains unexplored by a sample library, but (having missed Volume 1...

Complete Classical Collection is quite a claim. Can orchestral sampling pioneer Peter Siedlaczeks latest library make good on it?

There are lots of strange noises you can make with acoustic instruments beyond playing them normally, and Ultimate Sound Bank...

Big Fish Audio have already established a reputation for South American music sample libraries with their two 'Roots of South...

Dan Dean's original Solo Strings library comprised violin, viola, and cello, beautifully recorded in 24‑bit stereo and...

With Bollywood now a massive force in the world movie market, India‑based Philtre Labs have followed up last year's release of...

No‑one can accuse Sample Magic of scrimping on the sub-bass in their Minimal Techno loop and one-shot library: it lumbers...

Vocal Foundry is Zero‑G's follow up to Vocal Forge, and it offers similar content: a series of vocal construction kits, each...

This latest Sonivox title for Native Instruments' Kontakt soft sampler is a distinctly left-field library based around lots of...