We met the Crypto Cypher in my last review about Tabla Tarrang and Solo Tabla. As Crypto Cypher specialise in traditional Indian instruments, they continue their manifesto with Solo Dholak and Dholak Loops. What is Solo Dholak? The Dholak instrument has two sides. The bigger side produces bass sounds and the smaller

Crypto Cipher was founded in 2010 by Sumit Kumar, an electronic music composer and sample library developer living in New Dehli. The company offers affordable, authentic sounding, and high-quality sample instruments for Kontakt. In this review, we check out two of their tabla-centric offerings, Tabla Tarang and Solo Tabla. What is Tabla Tarang & Solo

When it comes to serious scoring tools, there is one company you can’t go past: Orchestral Tools. Berlin Strings and Berlin Woodwinds are only two of their fabulous products we have reviewed in the recent past. With the release of Metropolis Ark 1 – The Monumental Orchestra, the German based company “marks the

M-Audio is one of the most well known brands in the music industry. I am sure that everyone of us has had at least one of their products in their studio, (some possibly under their old brand name, Midiman, founded in 1988). Since then, the music industry and the needs of modern

BabylonWaves, a company founded and run by composers, has heard the prayers of many Logic Pro users, and has developed what could very well be the Logic equivalent to Cubase’s VST Expression Map. As a composer, my daily work involves large templates with numerous multi-timbral MIDI tracks, hosting instruments by

XILS-lab is a music software company based in Grenoble, France, and they are well known for their software synthesisers like XILS, PolyKB II and

Rob Papen is a well known synth guru, and propably someone who has greatly influenced the sound preset market. There are tons of preset packs for all kinds of synthesizers out there that have been designed by him. Several years ago, he started developing software synthesisers and effects, and today

Impact Soundworks has become a well known factor in sample content industry. One of their latest releases is ReForged – an ultra-expressive and deep collection of cinematic metallic sound design for impacts, textures, atmospheres, loops, beds, tonal elements, and beyond, for Native Instruments Kontakt. So let’s have a look on