The man bites dog story of a string orchestra emulating synthesizers… Spitfire Audio is as widely known for its superbly detailed orchestral libraries as it is...
We prefer that the species continue, but this developer seems confident that they have the drum library to render all others extinct Snark aside, sample library...
It’s a 1938 salon organ, recorded in VSL’s scoring stage Okay, we admit it: we had to look up what a salon organ is. (It’s a...
Tracktion Corporation releases Novum, a next-generation granular synthesiser sampler plugin from Dawesome. Novum is a creative sampler plugin which elegantly combines spectral, granular and subtractive synthesis. Similar...
Play a chord and hear a full orchestration in real time?! EastWest’s Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition is the latest iteration of their fabulous sampled orchestra library....
It’s a new kind of steel pan, plus some warped pad variations Handpan is a kind of steel drum (which one is supposed to call steel...
Abe Jr.’s drums at your disposal Spitfire’s Originals is a bite-sized sample library series, this time tapping (sorry) wonderful drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. It was recorded...
Riffs, loops, melodies, amp simulations… We’ll just turn over our computer keyboards to NI and let them tell us all about it: Berlin, February 16, 2022 – Native...
Filter and search all your one-shots and loops by instrument, BPM, key, and sound (brightness, saturation, and dynamics) For the sample-minded among us, we present Waves’...
They were Apple Silicon native before, but users can now upgrade to the latest macOS (or a new Mac) in good conscience The headline says it...
In which Nick Batzdorf wags his middle finger at windmills after three successive sample library installations go awry Are you old enough to remember how much...
Did you know that Chinese orchestras can be bigger in scale than Western symphony orchestras? China Ensemble is a “modernized traditional Chinese orchestra,” and Sound Magic...
Reason is an indisputably great program. But is the latest upgrade a must-have or just a misnamed decimal point upgrade? Jim Aikin tells all – in...
Is this what pianos would sound like today if 17th century keyboards had taken a different evolutionary path? We’ll let Impact Soundworks describe their new sample...
In which we discover how credible this instrument, MIDI keyboard, and stereo sound system is for serious musical applications. Synth and Software’s Nick Batzdorf holds its...
