In this video review, Meena Shamaly takes a look at the latest offering to the Plectra Series from Impact Soundworks – Plectra 4: Turkish Oud. The first video is the full review of the sample library, and the second video is the track Meena wrote to demonstrate its capabilities. Below

Meena Shamaly takes a look at Stormdrum 3 – the latest edition of the Stormdrum percussion series and the  first East West sample library to use Play 4. The video review is 2 hours in length and you can be watched below: Stormdrum 3 is the first virtual instrument to include

Oftentimes in guitar-based sample libraries and virtual instruments, harmonics seem to be included either as an afterthought, or “just for the sake of completeness”. Rodney Gates, founder of SoundCues, has tackled this head on by creating a Kontakt sample collection dedicated solely to detailed reproductions of acoustic, electric, and bass

Meena Shamaly takes an in-depth look at “The Lucky Harp” from Bad Cat Samples – a beautiful harp sample library for Kontakt 5.3 and above. “The Lucky Harp” is a meticulously recorded, and incredibly deeply sampled Celtic Harp instrument. Offering 6 Velocities Layers, and 6 Round Robins giving 36 unique samples

Meena Shamaly took a look at “SOLSTICE: Blue” – the new synth/soundscape pad library for Kontakt by Zapzorn.

“Celestia“ by Impact Soundworks is a sound design sample library for Kontakt 5 which focuses on the lighter end of the sound design spectrum with “atmospheric pads, ambient textures, heavenly bells, airy choirs, soft plucks, cosmic effects, and much more.” Below are the features of Celestia as listed on the

Meena Shamaly takes an in-depth look at the “Performachord” sample library by Bad Cat Samples who have brought us other incredible libraries like the Music Box and Indi Glock. From the Bad Cat Samples website: “The Performachord” is a reed based instrument thats somewhat of a cross between an accordion, and an

This week Meena Shamaly looked at the new sample library by Vir 2 called “Cinematic Thunder: Epic Orchestral Toms“. Cinematic Thunder is an orchestral tom library containing four master patches: Solo Sticks Solo Mallets Group Hits Group Random. The master patches are the natural sound as they were recorded each with