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Adding strings to an arrangement is a great way to inject motion into your music.
In this final part of the series, we show how well-chosen instrument combinations and effects will bring your orchestral arrangements to life.
This often-overlooked orchestral family holds the key to a wide range of exciting tonal colours.
A glorious suite of extras bolsters the core orchestral sound.
Dave Stewart concludes his January 2000 investigation into the world of orchestral sampling with a roundup of over 40 orchestral sample CDs.
Familiarity with a few common articulations is the key to successful MIDI string arranging.
Expeditions uses the powerful (and very deep) Kontakt-based front-end that provides loop playback, manipulation, a range of creative effects with sequencing options, and is designed to inspire hi-tech music tracks/cues.
Creative woodwind writing is the orchestral arranger’s secret weapon.
This compact 2.23GB library gets its big, ultra-dynamic sound from jumbo-sized sections of 10 French horns and 10 trombones recorded in a large concert hall...
Eleven years is a long time in software, so the new version of SampleTank ought to be pretty impressive.
Award-winning sample library company Sample Logic, in association with Kirk Hunter Studios, is proud to announce...
It will come as no surprise that Morphestra 2 is an evolution of a previous product. In this case, it is actually two products: Morphestra and Morphestra Generations.
Overall Comments: Of all the Japanese companies, Roland seem to have invested the most energy in building a...
Reviews/appraisals of the latest sample CDs:Luscious Grooves 5* MULTI-FORMAT; Electro Magnetic Pulse 4* AUDIO+WAV+REX; SAM Solo Sessions 4* MULTI-FORMAT; Saophones 1 5* GIGASTUDIO/EXS24 MKII.
Peter Siedlaczek's Advanced Orchestra was the must-have orchestral library for several years and set new standards for the...
We continue exploring what your sampler's synth engine can do to liven up bland self-sampled sounds, and explain the concepts of layering and multitimbrality.
As we saw last month, sampling is really just a form of digital recording, but to use short recordings to emulate real instruments, you soon need to understand new concepts like multisampling, looping, and velocity switching. We explain all...
We asked our regular sample CD reviewers to tell us which CD gems they'd like to be stranded with on a desert island (with mains power and a sampler, naturally). Paul White, Paul Farrer & Wilf Smarties plunder the Sample Shop archives for sampling treasure...
These days, few hi-tech musicians would consider their studio complete without some kind of sampler. Paul White goes through the basics of these invaluable studio tools, for the benefit of anyone who has yet to sample one...
Having come a long way from its humble beginnings in the early n-n-n-n-nineteen eighties, sampling is now an integral part of music making. Paul White explains what samplers do and how they can be used.