Sound Libraries Reviews & Features

Native Instruments Releases Free Battery 3 Library Add-On 

Native Instruments is offering a free library add-on with three artist drumkits for Battery 3....

PowerFX Releases New Titles 

Sweden-based PowerFX has released new sound collections from Loopmasters: Electro-House and Elektro House Producer....

EastWest Ships Quantum Leap Gypsy and Ministry of Rock 

EastWest is now shipping Quantum Leap Gypsy and Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock....

Vienna Instruments Special Brass Now Shipping 

Vienna Symphonic Library is shipping its latest Vienna Instruments collection, Special Brass....

Smart Loops Releases New SL MultiTracks Drum Loop Libraries 

Smart Loops has released three new libraries as part of its SL MultiTracks drum loop series: 6-8 Medium Rock 1, Medium-Fast Bossa Nova 1, and Medium Straight Country Rock 1....

Kid Nepro Adds Triton Producers Mix and Simmons Drum Kit 

Kid Nepro's downloadable WAV file database now includes the Triton Producers Mix and the Simmons Drum Kit....

Sonivox Ships Fable Sounds Broadway Big Band 

Broadway Big Band is a 100 GB collection of brass, woodwind, and rhythm-section instruments sampled in a variety of articulations and Velocity layers....

Sonivox Announces New LoopLine Series Collections 

In May 2007, Sonivox will expand its LoopLine Series with three new collections (Mac/Win; $99.95 each): Brushed Beats, Chocolate Sticks Vol. 1, and Melted Hits. Each LoopLine collection features drum loops and one-shot hits in Acid/WAV, AppleLoop, AIFF, and REX2 formats....

PROPELLERHEAD SOFTWARE Reason Pianos 

By Len Sasso

Reason Pianos is a sampled-piano refill for Propellerhead Reason. Two concert grands and an upright have been meticulously sampled for this relatively compact 16- and 24-bit library....

WARPIV TECHNOLOGIES Screaming Trumpet 

By Marty Cutler

The WarpIV Screaming Trumpet sample library features trumpeter Wayne Bergeron and is available as WAV files and in the Tascam GigaStudio 2 and 3, Native Instruments Kontakt 2, Propellerhead Reason NN-XT, and Apple Logic EXS24 mk II formats...

Soniccouture Releases Synthi AKS for EXS24 

Soniccouture has released Synthi AKS for EXS24, a 24-bit, 1 GB library that explores the sound of the vintage EMS Synthi AKS....

Vienna Symphonic Library Ships Vienna Special Edition 

The Vienna Special Edition is an all-in-one orchestral instrument collection with 80 GB of 24-bit, 44.1 kHz samples....

ModernBeats Introduces Urban Guitar Loops Library 

Covering a variety of styles from modern hip hop to urban to pop, Urban Guitar Loops features over 350 Acidized WAV loops compatible with all major software and hardware samplers....

Toontrack Music Announces Nashville EZX Expansion Pack 

The Nashville EZX ($119), featuring Harry Stinson and engineer Chuck Ainlay, is the fourth EZdrummer expansion pack from Toontrack Music....

Precisionsound Announces Retro Gadgets Toy-Instrument Library 

You can now incorporate the sound of your old Casio VL-1 in your favorite DAW, thanks to Precisionsound's new Retro Gadgets, First Chapter library....

EastWest Introduces Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock 

This 18 GB collection of rock guitars, basses and drums (including the actual kit used to record Metallica's "Black" album), was recorded in EastWest Studio 2 (formerly Cello Studios) in Hollywood, with all programming reverse-engineered from the performances....

Ueberschall Releases Two New Libraries 

Scoretrax and Liquid Trumpet are the two newest libraries from Ueberschall....

Notion Music Ships New Sound Kits 

Notion Music is now shipping Sessions: Rhythm Section as well as Expanded Mallets 1 Sound Expansion Kit. The company also announces Solo Strings 1, its newest sound kit library for Notion products....

Garritan Announces Gofriller Solo Cello, Concert & Marching Band Library, and More 

Garritan announced a handful of new products at the NAMM Show this past week: the Gofriller Solo Cello, the Concert & Marching Band Library, and the Personal Orchestra Soundware Library for Mackie Tracktion 3. ...

Puremagnetik Releases String Machines 

String Machines is the latest sound-library micropack from Puremagnetik. With more than 250 MB of sounds for Ableton Sampler, Native Instruments Kontakt, and Apple EXS, String Machines recaptures the sounds of the Roland VP-330 and RS-09, the ARP Solina String Ensemble, and the Crumar Orchestrator....