The Academic Grand is a 1963 Steinway D concert grand which has seen countless recitals and concerts over the years where it served as the University of Arkansas’ primary concert instrument. The piano has been an inspiration to hundreds of students and visitors, and with being well-maintained and cared for, it’s a wonderful instrument with a unique history… Read More »
Pre-dating polyphonic synths by some years, string synthesisers used electronic organ ‘divide-down’ technology to provide a totally polyphonic sawtooth waveform. This was then typically fed through a simple, two stage envelope shaper offering just attack and release and then onto an analogue ‘bucket brigade’ chorus unit to produce the ‘ensemble’ effect. They effectively replaced the noble Mellotron as… Read More »
Ambience Impacts Rhythms (A.I.R) is a collection of elements that has taken over two years of collecting and crafting “only the finest sounds for cutting edge compositions”; it’s focused on blending three essential building blocks into one library – Ambience, Impacts, and Rhythms. Powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player it is available for Mac OS X and Windows… Read More »
Soniccouture has announced the release of Bowed Piano – a unique new sampled instrument for EXS24 and Kontakt. First suggested by the composer Curtis Curtis-Smith in 1972, the Bowed Piano technique uses flexible bows made from monofilament nylon fishing-line which are then coated in rosin. The nylon is threaded under the strings, and the performer can coax a… Read More »
The Elements EXP is a Kontakt Player-based sample library that provides the “6 Elements of music”: Ambience (456 patches) Bass (122 patches) Harmony (138 patches) Impacts (391 patches) Melody (354 patches) Rhythm (227 patches) The Elements EXP is a collection that aims to transform your work, pushing the envelope beyond today’s standard of music and sound design. Since… Read More »
A collection of high-energy, cinematic drum and rhythm beds expertly played by top-notch percussionists and organized into 40 construction kits (more than two and a half gigabytes of WAV files). Each kit features multiple loops and extended performances, employing an array of percussive instruments from Japanese taikos to ethnic drums, orchestral percussion, massive toms, field snares, metals, effect… Read More »
The Guzheng is a traditional Chinese instrument dating from the Qin dynasty (c. 200 BC to the rest of us). It is the ancestor of the Japanese Koto as well as several other zither-like instruments found across east Asia.The SC Guzheng has been extensively recorded in 24 bit 44.1khz stereo. Three articulations were sampled: right hand (finger picks),… Read More »
BASiS features a comprehensively sampled collection of acoustic, upright, electric, and synth basses, BASiS offers incredible attention to detail in the depth and breadth of the basses: 24-bit sampling, DI and amp blending control, multiple velocity layers, seamless humanizing, custom legato and vibrato tools, release layers, harmonics, hammer-ons, pulloffs, slides, slaps, rakes, falls, and more. BASiS includes more… Read More »
Heavyocity’s first release, EVOLVE, supercharges creativity while streamlining productivity for modern composers and sound designers. With an emphasis on the dramatic, EVOLVE doesn’t contain the typical instruments and sounds that form the foundation of most composers setups. Instead, it accentuates them with a powerful combination of diverse rhythmic percussion and evocative tonalities in ways that have never been… Read More »
Awesome SFX in absolute high quality. Various fx edited, tuned and packed in 23 nki. Added some scripting and some nice UI. Includes 23 nki patches in 6 categories – Ambient, Dance, Reverse, Various, Vintage, Vocal for NI Kontakt. Contents: Ambient – Crowd – Traffic – Water Dance – Dance Fx – Dance Rising Fx Fast – Dance… Read More »
A beautifully sampled set of ethereal copper Wind Chimes. All 6 chimes are sampled in 3 articulations – with a rubber mallet, a wood “beater” and wood stick hits. Also included are Wind Chime atmospheric samples, some of which were processed with Granular Synthesis for an other-worldly quality. Programming includes velocity cross faded articulations, layered pads and flexible… Read More »
Stratos Drones & Atmospheres features over 4.1 gigabytes (in WAV file format) of evolving drones and dark atmospheres. It is organized into 50 construction kits in five categories: Mysterious, Ominous, Ethereal, Sombre, and Experimental. Each construction kit contains a complete soundscape consisting of both synthetic and organic layers, allowing you to re-mix the component pieces as desired. All… Read More »
ProjectSAM’s acclaimed True Strike series holds the percussion libraries of choice for film, tv and game composers requiring cinematic, powerful percussion samples. True Strike 2, the second volume in the series, offers over 30 world and 28 effects percussion instruments covering everything to lay down the percussion track for your next chase sequence, horror scene or ethnic flavored… Read More »
Audio Library from Sonart Audio present Jazz Deluxe Collection JAZZ GUITARS High-quality and professional samples for Acoustic and Electric Guitar . Featuring over 115,150 samples at 24bit resolution & 1400 Patches! Guitars: Acoustic Guitar: 01. Acoustic Guitar 02. Classical Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar: 01. Jazz Guitar 02. Electro Stratocaster
Prominy Sound Solution has released a library of samples Prominy LPC Electric Distortion in formate GigaStudio 3.0 / 2.0, reproducing the sound of the legendary Gibson Les Paul guitar, totaling about 30 gigabytes. Sampling was carried out over three months with the help of top-class guitarists. For the recording system was used Digidesign ProTools HD. Distorted notes were… Read More »
‘Thunder’ is a Kontakt-based sample library, capturing the dry and punchy sound of eight percussionists playing on a wide assortment of large, Cinematic percussion. Eight of Bulgaria’s finest percussionists, musicians from the Sofia Session Orchestra were recorded in a small, dry and punchy room with two mic positions (close and room) built into an intuitive mic mixer. The… Read More »
Fanfare features a broad array of marching brass instruments recorded both on the scoring stage and on the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium (home of the Buffalo Bills). The indoor recordings were done at close, mid, and far microphone placements, while the outdoor recordings were captured by Grammy Award winner Frank Dorritie using state of the art stadium… Read More »
ROGUE is a simple yet very effective fff-dynamic solo trumpet library, played by master trumpeter Peter Makedonski, first chair of Sofia Session Orchestra and Bulgarian Radio Orchestra. ROGUE fills a gap in the market of orchestral instruments as a dry, flexible and screaming trumpet, capable of accenting and boosting orchestral arrangements (as well as jazz material, where the… Read More »
Orchestral String Arpeggios is the second product under Dynamic Sound Sampling’s “Orchestral String” line. The library consists of 58 violin (1st and 2nd) & viola 16th/8th triplet arpeggio loops. The library uses a pseudo-round-robin technique by having each round-robin change to a different start time in the loop, this way you can go between two arpeggios (or more)… Read More »
“To get convincing Native American flute melodies, you don’t even have to use the keyswitches, mod wheel, or pitch wheel. By simply varying your playing velocity, you can put together beautiful sounding melodic lines that sound like a recording of someone playing an actual Native American flute. The flutes of MesaWinds are truly a joy to play. When… Read More »
