Sample Libraries

BFA are now back with a further dollop of ‘vintage’ and this time it’s the rhythm section that is the target.

Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2 offers five complete drum kits formed from 17 snares, nine kicks, 31 cymbals and five hi-hats.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the February 2016 issue.

Shreddage might sound like a Heston Blumenthal recipe involving Shredded Wheat and cabbage, but it’s actually a Kontakt-based sample engine from Impact Soundworks.

The medieval crusades were a long-running series of military campaigns that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean region...

While I’m not 100 percent sure I could define exactly what distinguishes intelligent dance music (IDM) from some other forms of electronic music production, Zero-G’s Cinematic IDM library provides over 3GB of sample material aimed at that genre.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the January 2016 issue of SOS.

Sonokinetic’s Tutti Vox is a choral sample library, but it’s not like other choral sample libraries...

Sample Logic’s Cinematic Guitars Infinity proves to be a lot more than the sum of its parts.

Orbit is a Kontakt 5 instrument designed to be a source of evolving or pulsing textures. Unusually, you access it via...

Fuse is a Kontakt instrument that serves as a music ‘workstation’, but with a distinctly urban slant.

These files accompany the Sample Library articles in the December 2015 issue of SOS.

With so much choice on offer, picking the right brass library for your music can be tricky. Our comprehensive product guide shines a spotlight on the current contenders.

Billed as ‘The Jazzy Film Scoring Library’, Swing focuses on the Big Band sound.

Sample Magic have been making sample libraries for many years, but this virtual drum machine and synthesizer combination is their first instrument.

Audio files to accompany the article.

What exactly is a harp guitar? It’s a new one on me, but its history and background is intriguing.

Sonokinetic’s vigorous orchestral phrase library piles on the cinematic drama in 4/4 time.

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