Sample Libraries

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Released in 1997, the hugely successful Buena Vista Social Club album is possibly the best example of what most of us non‑...

If you want the sound of a top‑notch acoustic drum kit but don't have the drummer, kit and studio environment within which to record it, virtual drum instruments such as Toontrack's EZdrummer or Superior Drummer provide a cost-effective alternative.

Rhythmic Robot continue to produce Kontakt instruments with a decidedly old‑school feel and tone, the latest described as a 'Source Variable Drum Synthesizer'.

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Cyberstorm has been produced by Frédéric Devanlay who was also responsible for Zero-G's Deep Impact and Perception Cinemascapes.

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.