Sample Libraries

The latest arrival to The Crow Hill Company's revolving selection of free instruments has been “built around the idea that music doesn’t have to begin with formal training, specialist instruments or expensive tools”.

Recorded during the sessions for the developer's Panorama Acoustic Kontakt library, Pure Nylon delivers the same warm tone and musical detail, but reimagined for Soundbox’s MPE-capable platform.

Established in December 2025 with the aim of creating interactive, “vibe-driven” plug-ins, the company already have two products available: Cloud Guitar and Aurora, both of which have been developed with a focus on emotional experience. 

The first formal collaboration between the two brands will see a selection of the UK-based sampling experts’ virtual instruments made available within Akai’s MPC ecosystem.

In celebration of their fifth anniversary, The Very Loud Indeed Co. have announced a sale across their range of cinematic scoring and sound-design tools. 

Described as “a musician by your side”, the latest addition to the Celemony line-up brings together a huge collection of musical phrases played by some of the world’s top session players, all of which can be adapted to play in any song, regardless of its chord sequence, tempo or groove.

Nostalgia Reborn brings together more than 4500 samples drawn from over four decades of electronic instruments, delivering an all-in-one genre-spanning collection that promises to fit into just about any modern production.

Electric Keys - Tines has been designed to provide users with a definitive collection of classic sounds, and promises to deliver the bell-like tones and gritty bark that defined a generation of R&B, funk and classic rock tracks.

VSL have recently introduced four new Single Packs for their acclaimed Synchron Special Brass sample library series, further expanding the palette of brass instruments recorded in the large Stage A of their Vienna Synchron Stage.

Designed with “dystopian sound design” in mind, the latest addition to Zero-G’s growing collection of Kontakt instruments promises to deliver a world of “gritty textures, corrupted atmospheres, brooding pulses and fractured tonal elements.”

Refraction has been built using high-quality samples of a premium upright piano, but rather than aiming to recreate the acoustic instrument, it instead uses the recordings to craft an array of evolving pads and hybrid acoustic-electronic soundscapes. 

BOOM Library’s latest release brings together a collection of sounds captured across two expeditions to the wetlands of Florida over a three year period.