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Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. This library is Christian Henson’s attempt to combine the Yorkshire brass tradition with the sound of his favourite film noir soundtracks.
Steinberg’s Dorico inches ever closer to full DAW status...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This hybrid/organic strings toolkit is a follow‑up to the company’s excellent Sunset Strings.
Orchestral Tools get up close and personal with some intimate soundscapes.
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. The instrument allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. Built in collaboration with Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music collective, Fractured Strings is a compelling library full of personality.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. Fluffy Audio’s Simple Opera Singer may provide a compelling alto and soprano solution for your next musical needs.
Steinberg’s scoring suite just keeps getting better!
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Looking for great layering options or want to create an orchestral mix using instruments which are different and folk‑like? Solstice delivers a surprising array of choices...
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. The Cinesamples approach to granular synthesis is based on a library of samples taken from recordings of violinist Michael Levine, which are divided into textures, pulses, pads, one‑shots and sound design patches.
Felt Instruments’ Blisko Collection offers a unique blend of sound and motion.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library features a rich close‑miked viola with the same depth of colour, wealth of articulations, and seamless ornamental transitions found in previous Emotional releases.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This compelling massive multi-instrument library combines the sound of Mongolian and Chinese ethnic instruments into a collection of 50 instruments and 100+ individual patches.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Mountain Girl brings the haunting sound of Balkan vocal styles to composers everywhere.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Heavyocity have combined traditional woodwind scoring with extensive sound-design capabilities, allowing you to go from 'standard' to 'sci-fi' within a few clicks.
Rating: ***** 4/5 Stars. This company has been filling various sonic gaps with their innovative and affordable electronic, acoustic and hybrid instruments. Now they've added the evocative and useful Duduk.
Steinberg's innovative notation package reaches version 3 — and maturity?
EastWest's Hollywood Pop Brass does exactly what it says on the tin.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. World-renowned and Grammy-nominated cellist Tina Guo returns to Cinesamples to create a valuable update to her industry-defining virtual instrument.
EastWest set themselves a technical challenge and a half with this solo operatic vocal instrument.