Sample Libraries

Fledgling company Output claim that Rev is the world’s first collection of reverse instruments, loops, rises, pads, pulses and swells.

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The cinematic supremo enlists the best of British in a grand percussive collaboration.

Drumdrops 1970s Rogers Big R Dub Kit Kontakt Instrument

By the look of it, a great deal of time and effort has gone into designing NI's Kinetic Metal interface to ensure that it functions as a very flexible sample-manipulation tool.

One-shots, transitions, drops, sweeps and swooshes are all types of effects that add those last finishing touches to a track.

Action Cuts is the latest addition to Ueberschall's Elastik-based 'Inspire' series of sample libraries.

Heavyocity’s latest contender delivers a winning one-two combination.

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As any parent with very young children knows, toys can be very noisy things, in a crude, lo-fi kind of a way. Toys In...

Modern House Beats is a slightly different take on the usual downloadable sample packs I'm asked to review, as it is as...

Clavinets are a bit like Marmite. We love to own them, to play them, and to listen to them, but we hate storing them and...

Toontrack seem to be going through a bit of a metal phase at the moment with their latest EZ Drummer expansion kit being...

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Drumasonic's reasonably priced drum instrument proves that luxury does sometimes come cheap.

Over the last few years, Kong Audio have built up an impressive collection of sampled traditional Chinese instruments, which covers strings, woodwind, drums and percussion.

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Anyone who has used one of Native Instruments' Abbey Road drum instruments will be aware that they are a mixture of old and...

For some listeners the cool, drifty, slightly detached sound of the vibraphone will forever be associated with great jazz...

Sonokinetic's latest orchestral venture features a flexible collection of tempo-sync'ed section phrases.

Rock Classics is a further release in Ueberschall's Elastik-based loop library series.