We all know this scenario: working against a deadline and the score does not work as we want it to. The strings of one sample library don’t match the brass of another, or the percussion has more reverb baked in the samples than the rest of our virtual orchestra, and

Particular Sound was founded by the sound designers Ingo Nasse and Frank Neumann back in 2002. After years working for companies like Yamaha Europe, Waldorf Music, LinPlug Virtual Instruments, reFX, Ableton AG, MOTU, Sugar Bytes, Sonic Charge, and others, they both decided to release their own sample libraries. Their latest

As we continue to see more and more from Italian developer Dream Audio Tools, we have a closer look at Indie Ukulele and Indie Mandolin in this review. Both products follow a similar path to most Dream Audio Tools products, which means that they consist of strummed triads, sustained tones, and effects, helping

Gravity – Time to Get Pulled In? GRAVITY is a new hybrid cinematic Kontakt 5 player library. Developed by Heavyocity’s award-winning team of professional composers and sound designers (Interstellar, Gone Girl, Godzilla), GRAVITY delivers a stunning sound and visual aesthetic, with over 12GB of production-ready textures, pads, risers, impacts and

Since releasing REV last year, Output have become a well known name in the sample library realm. REV took a popular effect (reversing) and turned it on its head by building a fully fledged sample library based on that idea. Having created a name for themselves by not making “standard” sample

This is my synthesiser. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Although modified from the 1st verse of the “Rifleman’s Creed”, this could also be true for software synthesisers nowadays. Since the early days of virtual synthesisers like Steinberg’s ‘Model E’, emagic’s ‘ES1’, or Native Instrument’s ‘Pro-52’ back

Not long ago, I reviewed the small but effective library Percussion Hits by Spaectrum Arts, a new, up and coming sample developer from France. Today, we have an in-depth look at their latest library, The Container, with 20k+ samples of a massive 220 lbs plain metal container, and a very promising looking

Arturia: V Collection 4 – A great package of legendary synths and kits When you talk about the real classic synths, organs and keyboards, and the musical history that we have with analog sound synthesis, you can’t avoid mentioning all the Moogs, Roland’s JP-8, Yamaha’s CS-80, the Prophet, and other such synthesizer