Sample Libraries

Berlin-based producer Stewart Walker turned around 2,600 exclusive minimal- and techno-genre samples for the new Future Loops Stewart Walker Minimal Sessions, available now.  

Finish up your late-night production sessions on a high note, with new Zenhiser sample packs Late Night Techno Grooves and Pure Minitech Basslines. Zenhiser puts forth its best offering of underground techno, through samples designed expressly to inspire you in the wee morning hours.  

Ueberschall welcomes you to Planet Trance, where it's trance all day, every day. The new soundbank for the Elastik Player features 3.3 GB of trance harmonies, melodies, and atmospheric pads in styles ranging from that of the mid 1990s to the present.  

For Reason users whose tracks and projects are too clean to retain any soul, Propellerhead Software is offering the Reason Soul School ReFill sample library as an easy way to put the soul back in.  

Sound effects, glitch hits, atmospheric sweeps, and odd retro noises were sampled from the ARP Odyssey analog synthesizer to create the new Wave Alchemy Odyssey FX sample pack. What's more, this pack of 70 royalty-free samples can be yours for free.  

Meant to deliver accelerated corrosion and / or corruption to your metalcore, industrial, techno, nu metal, and hard rock tracks, the Producer Loops Accelerator 2 sound collection offers all the dark, driven guitar riffs, sub basses, drums, and synthetic sounds you could want.  

The latest loop library from TeamDNR, Cinematic Loops, offers film music-ready grooves and styles in full versions, versions without bass, and in construction kits.  

PowerFX Funktronica offers everything you would expect from the so-named loop library: guitar, bass, percussion, and synth loops / construction kits in funky, retro-styles.  

For the Studio Guitars: The Michael Ripoll Project loop library, Big Fish Audio turned to pro guitarist Michael Ripoll for his professional gee-tar techniques. Ripoll recorded exclusive loops and licks for this library, in styles ready for rock, pop, blues, funk, country, or jazz.  

The Atom delivers basses, sequences, gates, arpeggios, and synth sounds directly to Linplug Albino 3. The electro soundbank is available directly from PlugHugger.  

Nearly every type of classic analog drum machine and synth that you could ever want for your studio was sampled for the ToneBuilder Driven Machine Drums electronic drum sample library.  

Add simply explosive kick drums to your techno, house, electro, and similarly styled productions with Simplosive Deep Kicks 2. The sample library packs in 500 kick drum samples in all.  

The new loop library from ProducerLoops, Liquid Drum & Bass, offers up 2 GB-worth of liquid-like washes and pads found in classic drum 'n' bass.  

From the Equinox Sounds Instrumental Hip Hop Collection, you'll get 18 construction kits of downtempo instrumental hip-hop, nu jazz, and lounge-ready loops consisting of myriad bass lines, synth lines, keys, guitars, organs, melodies, and drums.  

FatLoud newsletter subscribers are in for a post-work treat: those who currently subscribe to the company's newsletters can get the new After Hours loop collection for free. The collection includes about 800 MB of loops, in hip-hop, R&B, and urban-styles.  

The rhythmic pulses of West African hand drums and percussion instruments are brought from Senegal to you via the new Wave Alchemy sample library, appropriately named African Rhythms.  

Though the Tone 2 Dance & Trance expansion pack focuses mostly on dance and trance styles, it also delves into the other electronic genres, offering presets ready to be played in your house, ambient, progressive, IDM, pop, and electronica tracks.  

The Hollywoodwinds sample collection from Big Fish Audio and Cinesamples makes film scoring all the easier, with its generous sampling of orchestra woodwind instruments and their various acoustic sound effects.  

Add the lo-fi sounds of a plastic toy keyboard to your Ableton Live setup, with the new Detunized sample pack, DTS008 – The Casiopeia Synthesizer. This pack features the Casio Rapman in all its cheesiness, with the sampled sounds of its junk 1980s drum loops, standard toy keys, and plastic scratching disc.  

The latest soundbank from Ueberschall delves deep into the heart of Berlin's electro and minimal scene, through 75 construction kits of bass, synth, and percussion loops for the Elastik Player.  

SampleOddity has done every metal guitarist a favor by releasing the Thrash: Metal Rhythm Guitar Kontakt library. Now you can play heavy metal at home without the risk of being evicted.  

The Bowed Gamelan sample library doesn't quite contain the gamelan sounds you're used to hearing. Instead of recording the entire ensemble, Soniccouture sampled off just one instrument, the ugal, and created its signature sound by bowing its metal keys with a standard cello bow.  

The latest sample library from Bolder Sounds, Handbells, presents a three-octave set of handbell sounds in more articulations and ways than you ever thought were possible; that is, if you've ever thought of handbells at all.  

Turn off the lights, twist those glow sticks, and get your home studio ready for the enormous Electronisounds Atomic Energy sample library of high-energy electronica sounds. The collection offers more than 1,300 drum loops, bass and synth riffs, effects, pads, one-shots, multisamples, drums, and more.  

This double bass sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt, Apple Logic, and Ableton Live offers multisampled articulations, room blend modes and more, all designed to place you in the upright bass moment, in the dark corner of the stage.  

Acousticsamples wants you to better your taste palette by trying out its new brush drum sample kit, DrumTaste Brush, which features a meaty bassdrum drizzled with hi-tom, low-tom, a piccolo snare, rides, and a hi-hat.  

The fretless zither has been reincarnated into Zitherette, Tonehammer's sampled, plucked version of the curious little stringed instrument. The 8-string, hollow-bodied Zitherette with that dark, harp-like sound is ready to play in Native Instruments Kontakt.  

Cluster Sound's latest sample libraries bring the minimal, Plastikman style to the forefront. With Minimal Darq, Minimal Torsion, and Micromal GBox, you'll have all the tools you need to be the new prince of darqness.  

Scott Tonic took the best of both worlds and smashed them together in the latest Prime Loops collection. You'll get original samplings from the mainstay instruments that comprise dance and house, including Roland drums and classic analog synths.  

Give your standard 4/4 grooves a rhythmic makeover with Beta Monkey Music Odd Time Meltdown II, a new drum and cymbal loop collection featuring grooves in 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, and 7/8 in a wide tempo range.