Dream Audio Tools are known for developing small budget libraries with high value. The minimalistic GUI design focuses on the main parameters of the library, without distracting from your work as composer. As those Italian developers never seem to sleep, I got the opportunity to take a closer look at their

Cinematique Instruments have been known for creating high intuitive and creative instruments, many of which could help design and score a complete track. After the huge success of the Ensemblia Family, Cinematique Instruments continued their work and released a new creative music tool called Marble. In this review, we take a

Although SoundCues have already released a few sample libraries, it is the first time I have personally heard of them. The company was founded by lifelong musician and video game sound designer Rodney Gates, whose aim is to create sample-based virtual instruments that have, thus far, lacked a lot of representation

Cinematique Instruments from Cologne/Germany is well known for its odd, rare, and unique sounding sample libraries. They first caught my attention with their minimalistic library Sägezahn, released a few years ago. Since then, their product portfolio  has grown constantly, and today I am happy to have a closer look at Ensemblia. What

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

If there’s one thing that we composers always like more of, it’s percussion. Impact Soundworks have delivered some great libraries of both acoustic and electronic drums in the past and now they tackle ethnic percussion. This should be no surprise to those who are aware of Andrew Aversa and his

Daniel James of HybridTwo has kindly done a really in-depth over of Spitfire’s third offering in their Albion range called Iceni. From the Spitfire website – “Iceni is an investigation into low end, thundering enormity, horrifying rasp and obliterating distortion”. The video is pretty long at 1 and 1/2 hours,