Sample Libraries

If you're trying to capture the perfect musical mood for that suspenseful scene in your film, Ueberschall is here to help with ScoreFX. This soundbank is a useful tool for anyone scoring anything from film to video game music.  

Tech Producer DSP is growing larger with the release of XPander packs left and right. Cluster Sound Vocal Defrag is the latest, offering a range of vocal lines manipulated into instrumentation.  

Ableton has been hard at work on the Orchestral Instrument Collection. Now that gathering top quality players to play their orchestral instruments from natural positions has been recorded, Ableton is sharing their hard work with the public.  

Peace Love Productions proudly presents Electro Rock, a loop collection combining live drums and electric guitar with your favorite electronic elements. It looks like it's time for me to head up to the attic and dust off my old glow sticks AND my giant foam rock horns hand.  

In the 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski, Maude Lebowski recommends that The Dude visit a doctor, citing that said doctor is "very thorough." So is the Prominy SC Electric Guitar collection, which does an uncomfortably thorough job of sampling the strat, even boring several new outputs into the guitar.  

Realsamples announces Dutch Harpsichord -- Edition Beurmann. This time, realsamples travels back to 1628 where a Ruckers family Flemish harpsichord takes center stage.  

Inspiration Sounds has hustled out another set of slammin' drum loops with Pure Live Breaks Volume 1. If you come across anything purer, you must be in Colombia.  

J. Irving-Giles rolls up his sleeves to dominate EASTWEST PLAY-powered virtual instrument users in the "Score This Movie" contest. Watch out, challengers. He's throwing 'bows this time.  

Ever stretching the boundaries of post-modern meta-referentiality, IK Multimedia introduces SampleTron, a virtual instrument with realistic samples of sampling instruments like the Mellotron, which was the world's first sampling keyboard. Look for SampleSampleTronTron in twenty or so years, providing realistic samples of the sample collection that sampled the world's first sampling keyboard.  

Zero-G and Xfonic have paired up to put together two DVDs worth of samples, loops and construction kits. Urban Ammunition is primed to reload any hip hop / R&B singer  

Coming straight out of Germany, Ueberschall Urbanic Producer Pack has all the materials any Hip Hop or RnB producer will need to construct premium beats. Akon-style fictional criminal record not included.  

In the War on Terror, one major threat to America has gone generally undetected: FXpansion. This music software development company isn't fooling anyone with its new BFD BOMB expansion pack. Freedom isn't free, FXpansion, and neither is professional boot removal.  

Kanji Kinetic is a name not many may be familiar with, but with his new EP dropping just in time for summer, he will soon be a power to be reckoned with. Drawing from influences as diverse as drum and bass, old-school rave, Grime, and dubstep, Kanji conjures up unique beats crafted with the help of Apple Logic 8.  

Cluster Sound has decided that Tech Producer DSP needed to beef up from 12.8 GB to 18 GB. Rather than going 1990's Jose Canseco, they're just releasing XPander Packs. Their first two are now available.  

Despite the popularity of Native Instruments' KONTAKT, many users ignore the full functionality of the program. Soniccouture's Scriptorium aims to make users aware of some of the in depth manipulations you can make to your KONTAKT sounds.  

Peace Love Productions is back again, and this time, they brought Afro Cuban Rhythms. The loop production company while take care of all your Rhumba and Son needs.  

Ueberschall's new library, Reggae Fundamentals, aims to bring part of Jamaica into your computer. What part of Jamaica?

Right near da beach . . . BOYEE!

 

Big Fish Audio's Nu Metal City 2 might be a decent sample library, but you wouldn't want to live there . . . not with all the ruffian residents and their backyard wrestling tournaments.  

Puremagnetik releases Purple Kit, a sample library of multisampled drums from a custom built drum kit. To keep things consistent and avoid confusion, the hand-built kit was, in fact, purple.  

With Nine Volt Audio's Action Drums: Taiko Edition, the thunderous power of Japanese taiko drums is in your hands. Now I can finally custom arrange a new soundtrack to Gone in 60 Seconds with big, concert hall drums, like it was meant to be heard.  

Q: How do you make a Berndt piano?

A: You set it on fire!

 

Precisionsound recalls Ikutaro Kakehashi's pre-Roland Ace Tone with a new sample library featuring tones from the ACE 3000 -- one of the last pieces released under the Ace Tone name.  

BandmateLoops was at Musikmesse 2008 with their latest release, Deep Frets -- Session Rock Guitar, as the main attraction. With 193 loops catered towards modern rock, anyone needing some sampled guitar is in luck.  

Peace Love Productions spreads the joy of loops across the world with House DJ Tools. Their latest release features almost a quarter ton of complete loops for House and Electro DJs.  

The Vienna Symphonic Library is so powerful, it's like having terribly embarrassing photos of and/or dirt on each and every member of the Vienna Philharmonic, enabling you to command every nuanced movement. Except now with Special Edition Plus, its like also knowing how to blackmail their family members! Wow!  

Loopmasters presents Harley & Muscle Deep House Producer, a roster of deep house loops and grooves to add to your arsenal.  

Jayzen's Carvin Bass Virtual Instrument is a sample library recorded for GigaStudio on a Carvin "Bunny Brunel" 5-string electric bass. All notes and sounds were recorded in both rhythm and lead pickup configurations through a custom designed preamp.  

Galbanum continues on with the Abstraction series with Abstraction 02. This sample set features 512 loops and 1,024 individual drum hits for a very flexible sound set that comes in handy for electronic musicians.  

We love freeware. We especially love freeware that delivers what it promises to do. The new SuperDrum FX may not be a KONTAKT or Battery Drum Kit, but it's darn good for being a freeware application for windows that's designed for use with e-drums.  

Singing Bowls produce a tone that has long been used by Tibetan spiritualists in accessing a serene mental state, which is all well and good, save that fact that getting the bowls to make that tone can be the single most frustrating endeavor one might undertake. Pressing a key on a MIDI controller sounds much more therapeutic, doesn't it?