Sample Libraries

Spitfire Audio’s BML range packages a full orchestral library into 20 individual modules.

The quality and variety of orchestral string libraries continues to grow. Which one best suits your needs?

Unless you are using pre–recorded loops, there is still the rather significant task of building convincing performances and arrangements. Ensemblia attempts to give the user a helping hand.

Bloody Nightmare, as its name suggests, is a collection of over 550 horror–type noises aimed at sound designers who need to create chills and scares.

When composer and instrument maker Steve Roche finishes a tin of biscuits, instead of throwing the container into the recycling bin he transforms it into a guitar.

Ambient White is a Kontakt 5 instrument with a laid-back, meditational essence.

One of rock music’s most celebrated recording venues wasn’t a studio but a house in Hampshire, and no music has been recorded there for almost 40 years — until now...

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Native Instruments’ Session Horns Pro combines high-quality samples with some useful arrangement tools.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the May 2015 issue.

More collections of drums, guitars and basses in the Indie genre.

Vocal choirs can be very powerful and emotive, but most of us do not have the resources to use a real one in our compositions so Olympus Elements is an affordable alternative.

Guitar Sessions features 25 construction kits containing all the guitar performances you need to construct a full-song arrangement.

Sample Magic have plundered their back catalogue and bounced everything they selected from it onto tape and vinyl!

The aim of this particular instrument from Drumdrops is to approximate the sound of the late-‘60s and early-‘70s...

Scream contains vocal samples from six different singers — two male and four female.

Getting their dark dirt on are the Loopmasters with this set of Neuro drum & bass samples.

The Ultimate Bundle is a collection of 20 Sounds Of Revolution (SOR) sample libraries, all of which are the work of German sound designer Oliver Schmitt.

These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the April 2015 issue.

Loopmasters have teamed up with the Dubstep Onslaught label for this self–titled set of bass-heavy dubstep samples.

How many of us have been put off from sampling a fantastic drum break on an old record because of the difficulties and cost.